ECANXNutanixNX-ECA6.10<p>At the end of this course, you will be able to : </p> <ul> <li>Gain a deep understanding of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the various Nutanix cloud solution packages. Learn the basics of cluster configuration and the components for creating and managing VMs &ndash; namely, networks and images.</li><li>Explore how to create and manage VMs, work with projects, protect VMs and their data, apply storage optimization features at the VM level, and migrate your workloads to a Nutanix environment.</li><li>Understand alerts, events, log collection, reporting, and how to use various features in Prism Central to identify, analyze and remediate performance issues.</li><li>Understand how to set up a cluster for maintenance activities &ndash; such as starting and stopping nodes and clusters &ndash; and how to upgrade installed software and firmware with just a few clicks.</li></ul><p>Experience with administering a Nutanix environment</p><ul> <li>Administrators, engineers, and others who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter</li><li>Managers and technical staff seeking information to drive purchase decisions</li><li>Anyone seeking the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification</li></ul><h5>1: Getting Started with a Nutanix cluster</h5><ul> <li>Understand three-tier and HCI</li><li>Understand the Nutanix product portfolio</li><li>Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services</li><li>Get started with Prism Central and Prism Element</li><li>Understand when to use Prism Central and Prism Element</li><li><em>Hands-on-Labs</em> <ul> <li>Connecting to and exploring Prism Element</li><li>Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server in Prism Element</li><li>Connecting to, exploring and configuring Prism Central</li></ul></li></ul><h5>2: Configuring Cluster Networking</h5><ul> <li>Understand AHV networking terminology</li><li>Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks</li><li>Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer</li><li>Create and update subnets and virtual switches</li><li>Understand subnet extension and network segmentation</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Creating unmanaged and managed networks</li><li>Exploring the AHV network configuration</li><li>Viewing virtual switches from Prism Element</li></ul></li></ul><h5>3: Managing Images</h5><ul> <li>Understand the image service</li><li>Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Uploading and importing images to Prism Central</li><li>Configuring an image placement policy</li></ul></li></ul><h5>4: Creating VMs</h5><ul> <li>Use Prism Central to create VMs</li><li>Use Prism Central self-service capabilities to create VM templates</li><li>Use Projects in Prism Central</li><li>Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Creating Windows and Linux VMs</li><li>Installing Windows and Linux operating systems</li><li>Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux</li><li>Creating a project</li><li>Exploring the Self-Service dashboard in Prism Central</li></ul></li></ul><h5>5: Managing VMs</h5><ul> <li>Update, clone, customize, export, and apply placement rules to VMs</li><li>Create and apply storage policies to VMs</li><li>Create playbooks to automate common VM administrative tasks</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Updating a VM</li><li>Assigning categories to a VM</li><li>Creating a snapshot and restoring a VM</li><li>Creating a template and a clone</li><li>Exporting a VM as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) file</li><li>Creating and running a playbook</li></ul></li></ul><h5>6: Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage</h5><ul> <li>Understand AOS storage</li><li>Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, and snapshots</li><li>Understand fault tolerance and failure handling mechanisms</li><li>Create and update storage containers</li><li>Create and update volume groups</li><li>Use various capacity optimization features</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Exploring the Storage dashboard</li><li>Creating containers with and without compression</li><li>Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container</li><li>Configuring volume groups</li><li>Migrating vdisks between storage containers</li></ul></li></ul><h5>7: Data Protection and Disaster Recovery</h5><ul> <li>Understand data protection terms and concepts</li><li>Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities</li><li>Create snapshots and recovery points</li><li>Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and disaster recovery</li><li>Use Nutanix disaster recovery to create protection policies and recovery plans</li><li>Backup and restore Prism Central</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Backing up and restoring Prism Central</li><li>Configuring Self-Service Restore</li><li>Creating protection domains and local VM restore</li><li>Creating containers for replication</li><li>Configuring remote sites and creating protection domains</li><li>Performing VM migration and migrating back to primary</li></ul></li></ul><h5>8: Securing a Nutanix Cluster</h5><ul> <li>Understand the Nutanix approach to security</li><li>Use the Security dashboard in Prism Central</li><li>Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users and RBAC</li><li>Implement hardening features for AHV and the CVM</li><li>Understand policies in Flow Network Security</li><li>Understand data-at-rest encryption</li><li><em>Hands-on-Labs</em> <ul> <li>Exploring the Security dashboard</li><li>Adding a local user</li><li>Adding Active Directory authentication</li><li>Configuring Role Mapping</li><li>Verifying a new user account</li><li>Cluster lockdown</li></ul></li></ul><h5>9: Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move</h5><ul> <li>Understand, install and upgrade Nutanix Move</li><li>Use Move to migrate VMs</li><li>Download Move logs</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Preparing a VM for migration</li><li>Deploying a Move VM</li><li>Configuring Move and a migration plan</li></ul></li></ul><h5>10: Monitoring Cluster Performance</h5><ul> <li>Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central</li><li>Create sessions, charts and reports</li><li>View and manage project resource utilization</li><li>Create custom dashboards in Prism Central</li><li>Resource planning and capacity runway</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard</li><li>Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central</li><li>Creating and managing reports</li></ul></li></ul><h5>11: Monitoring Cluster Health</h5><ul> <li>Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element</li><li>Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism</li><li>Use Nutanix Cluster Check</li><li>Collect and forward logs</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks</li><li>Collecting logs for Support</li><li>Verifying cluster health</li></ul></li></ul><h5>12: Maintaining and Upgrading a Cluster</h5><ul> <li>Perform a health check</li><li>Use node-maintenance mode</li><li>Understand hardware upgrade and replacement tasks</li><li>Start and stop nodes and clusters</li><li>Add and remove nodes</li><li>Understand and explore Life Cycle Manager (LCM)</li><li>Use LCM to perform inventory and upgrades</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Using node maintenance mode</li><li>Performing upgrades with LCM (with and without internet access)</li></ul></li></ul><h5>13: Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues</h5><ul> <li>Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central</li><li>Troubleshoot issues with protection policies, LCM, security, and performance</li><li>Identify problematic or inefficient VMs</li><li>Explore potential methods of remediating problematic VMs</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Working with Alerts</li><li>Exploring Events</li></ul></li></ul><h5>1: Getting Started with a Nutanix cluster</h5><ul> <li>Understand three-tier and HCI</li><li>Understand the Nutanix product portfolio</li><li>Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services</li><li>Get started with Prism Central and Prism Element</li><li>Understand when to use Prism Central and Prism Element</li><li><em>Hands-on-Labs</em> <ul> <li>Connecting to and exploring Prism Element</li><li>Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server in Prism Element</li><li>Connecting to, exploring and configuring Prism Central</li></ul></li></ul><h5>2: Configuring Cluster Networking</h5><ul> <li>Understand AHV networking terminology</li><li>Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks</li><li>Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer</li><li>Create and update subnets and virtual switches</li><li>Understand subnet extension and network segmentation</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Creating unmanaged and managed networks</li><li>Exploring the AHV network configuration</li><li>Viewing virtual switches from Prism Element</li></ul></li></ul><h5>3: Managing Images</h5><ul> <li>Understand the image service</li><li>Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Uploading and importing images to Prism Central</li><li>Configuring an image placement policy</li></ul></li></ul><h5>4: Creating VMs</h5><ul> <li>Use Prism Central to create VMs</li><li>Use Prism Central self-service capabilities to create VM templates</li><li>Use Projects in Prism Central</li><li>Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Creating Windows and Linux VMs</li><li>Installing Windows and Linux operating systems</li><li>Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux</li><li>Creating a project</li><li>Exploring the Self-Service dashboard in Prism Central</li></ul></li></ul><h5>5: Managing VMs</h5><ul> <li>Update, clone, customize, export, and apply placement rules to VMs</li><li>Create and apply storage policies to VMs</li><li>Create playbooks to automate common VM administrative tasks</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Updating a VM</li><li>Assigning categories to a VM</li><li>Creating a snapshot and restoring a VM</li><li>Creating a template and a clone</li><li>Exporting a VM as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) file</li><li>Creating and running a playbook</li></ul></li></ul><h5>6: Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage</h5><ul> <li>Understand AOS storage</li><li>Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, and snapshots</li><li>Understand fault tolerance and failure handling mechanisms</li><li>Create and update storage containers</li><li>Create and update volume groups</li><li>Use various capacity optimization features</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Exploring the Storage dashboard</li><li>Creating containers with and without compression</li><li>Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container</li><li>Configuring volume groups</li><li>Migrating vdisks between storage containers</li></ul></li></ul><h5>7: Data Protection and Disaster Recovery</h5><ul> <li>Understand data protection terms and concepts</li><li>Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities</li><li>Create snapshots and recovery points</li><li>Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and disaster recovery</li><li>Use Nutanix disaster recovery to create protection policies and recovery plans</li><li>Backup and restore Prism Central</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Backing up and restoring Prism Central</li><li>Configuring Self-Service Restore</li><li>Creating protection domains and local VM restore</li><li>Creating containers for replication</li><li>Configuring remote sites and creating protection domains</li><li>Performing VM migration and migrating back to primary</li></ul></li></ul><h5>8: Securing a Nutanix Cluster</h5><ul> <li>Understand the Nutanix approach to security</li><li>Use the Security dashboard in Prism Central</li><li>Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users and RBAC</li><li>Implement hardening features for AHV and the CVM</li><li>Understand policies in Flow Network Security</li><li>Understand data-at-rest encryption</li><li><em>Hands-on-Labs</em> <ul> <li>Exploring the Security dashboard</li><li>Adding a local user</li><li>Adding Active Directory authentication</li><li>Configuring Role Mapping</li><li>Verifying a new user account</li><li>Cluster lockdown</li></ul></li></ul><h5>9: Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move</h5><ul> <li>Understand, install and upgrade Nutanix Move</li><li>Use Move to migrate VMs</li><li>Download Move logs</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Preparing a VM for migration</li><li>Deploying a Move VM</li><li>Configuring Move and a migration plan</li></ul></li></ul><h5>10: Monitoring Cluster Performance</h5><ul> <li>Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central</li><li>Create sessions, charts and reports</li><li>View and manage project resource utilization</li><li>Create custom dashboards in Prism Central</li><li>Resource planning and capacity runway</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard</li><li>Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central</li><li>Creating and managing reports</li></ul></li></ul><h5>11: Monitoring Cluster Health</h5><ul> <li>Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element</li><li>Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism</li><li>Use Nutanix Cluster Check</li><li>Collect and forward logs</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks</li><li>Collecting logs for Support</li><li>Verifying cluster health</li></ul></li></ul><h5>12: Maintaining and Upgrading a Cluster</h5><ul> <li>Perform a health check</li><li>Use node-maintenance mode</li><li>Understand hardware upgrade and replacement tasks</li><li>Start and stop nodes and clusters</li><li>Add and remove nodes</li><li>Understand and explore Life Cycle Manager (LCM)</li><li>Use LCM to perform inventory and upgrades</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Using node maintenance mode</li><li>Performing upgrades with LCM (with and without internet access)</li></ul></li></ul><h5>13: Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues</h5><ul> <li>Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central</li><li>Troubleshoot issues with protection policies, LCM, security, and performance</li><li>Identify problematic or inefficient VMs</li><li>Explore potential methods of remediating problematic VMs</li><li><em>Hands-on Labs</em> <ul> <li>Working with Alerts</li><li>Exploring Events</li></ul></li></ul>At the end of this course, you will be able to : - Gain a deep understanding of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the various Nutanix cloud solution packages. Learn the basics of cluster configuration and the components for creating and managing VMs – namely, networks and images. - Explore how to create and manage VMs, work with projects, protect VMs and their data, apply storage optimization features at the VM level, and migrate your workloads to a Nutanix environment. - Understand alerts, events, log collection, reporting, and how to use various features in Prism Central to identify, analyze and remediate performance issues. - Understand how to set up a cluster for maintenance activities – such as starting and stopping nodes and clusters – and how to upgrade installed software and firmware with just a few clicks.Experience with administering a Nutanix environment- Administrators, engineers, and others who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter - Managers and technical staff seeking information to drive purchase decisions - Anyone seeking the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification1: Getting Started with a Nutanix cluster - Understand three-tier and HCI - Understand the Nutanix product portfolio - Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services - Get started with Prism Central and Prism Element - Understand when to use Prism Central and Prism Element - Hands-on-Labs - Connecting to and exploring Prism Element - Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server in Prism Element - Connecting to, exploring and configuring Prism Central 2: Configuring Cluster Networking - Understand AHV networking terminology - Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks - Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer - Create and update subnets and virtual switches - Understand subnet extension and network segmentation - Hands-on Labs - Creating unmanaged and managed networks - Exploring the AHV network configuration - Viewing virtual switches from Prism Element 3: Managing Images - Understand the image service - Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images - Hands-on Labs - Uploading and importing images to Prism Central - Configuring an image placement policy 4: Creating VMs - Use Prism Central to create VMs - Use Prism Central self-service capabilities to create VM templates - Use Projects in Prism Central - Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools - Hands-on Labs - Creating Windows and Linux VMs - Installing Windows and Linux operating systems - Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux - Creating a project - Exploring the Self-Service dashboard in Prism Central 5: Managing VMs - Update, clone, customize, export, and apply placement rules to VMs - Create and apply storage policies to VMs - Create playbooks to automate common VM administrative tasks - Hands-on Labs - Updating a VM - Assigning categories to a VM - Creating a snapshot and restoring a VM - Creating a template and a clone - Exporting a VM as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) file - Creating and running a playbook 6: Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage - Understand AOS storage - Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, and snapshots - Understand fault tolerance and failure handling mechanisms - Create and update storage containers - Create and update volume groups - Use various capacity optimization features - Hands-on Labs - Exploring the Storage dashboard - Creating containers with and without compression - Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container - Configuring volume groups - Migrating vdisks between storage containers 7: Data Protection and Disaster Recovery - Understand data protection terms and concepts - Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities - Create snapshots and recovery points - Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and disaster recovery - Use Nutanix disaster recovery to create protection policies and recovery plans - Backup and restore Prism Central - Hands-on Labs - Backing up and restoring Prism Central - Configuring Self-Service Restore - Creating protection domains and local VM restore - Creating containers for replication - Configuring remote sites and creating protection domains - Performing VM migration and migrating back to primary 8: Securing a Nutanix Cluster - Understand the Nutanix approach to security - Use the Security dashboard in Prism Central - Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users and RBAC - Implement hardening features for AHV and the CVM - Understand policies in Flow Network Security - Understand data-at-rest encryption - Hands-on-Labs - Exploring the Security dashboard - Adding a local user - Adding Active Directory authentication - Configuring Role Mapping - Verifying a new user account - Cluster lockdown 9: Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move - Understand, install and upgrade Nutanix Move - Use Move to migrate VMs - Download Move logs - Hands-on Labs - Preparing a VM for migration - Deploying a Move VM - Configuring Move and a migration plan 10: Monitoring Cluster Performance - Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central - Create sessions, charts and reports - View and manage project resource utilization - Create custom dashboards in Prism Central - Resource planning and capacity runway - Hands-on Labs - Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard - Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central - Creating and managing reports 11: Monitoring Cluster Health - Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element - Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism - Use Nutanix Cluster Check - Collect and forward logs - Hands-on Labs - Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks - Collecting logs for Support - Verifying cluster health 12: Maintaining and Upgrading a Cluster - Perform a health check - Use node-maintenance mode - Understand hardware upgrade and replacement tasks - Start and stop nodes and clusters - Add and remove nodes - Understand and explore Life Cycle Manager (LCM) - Use LCM to perform inventory and upgrades - Hands-on Labs - Using node maintenance mode - Performing upgrades with LCM (with and without internet access) 13: Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues - Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central - Troubleshoot issues with protection policies, LCM, security, and performance - Identify problematic or inefficient VMs - Explore potential methods of remediating problematic VMs - Hands-on Labs - Working with Alerts - Exploring Events1: Getting Started with a Nutanix cluster - Understand three-tier and HCI - Understand the Nutanix product portfolio - Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services - Get started with Prism Central and Prism Element - Understand when to use Prism Central and Prism Element - Hands-on-Labs - Connecting to and exploring Prism Element - Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server in Prism Element - Connecting to, exploring and configuring Prism Central 2: Configuring Cluster Networking - Understand AHV networking terminology - Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks - Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer - Create and update subnets and virtual switches - Understand subnet extension and network segmentation - Hands-on Labs - Creating unmanaged and managed networks - Exploring the AHV network configuration - Viewing virtual switches from Prism Element 3: Managing Images - Understand the image service - Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images - Hands-on Labs - Uploading and importing images to Prism Central - Configuring an image placement policy 4: Creating VMs - Use Prism Central to create VMs - Use Prism Central self-service capabilities to create VM templates - Use Projects in Prism Central - Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools - Hands-on Labs - Creating Windows and Linux VMs - Installing Windows and Linux operating systems - Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux - Creating a project - Exploring the Self-Service dashboard in Prism Central 5: Managing VMs - Update, clone, customize, export, and apply placement rules to VMs - Create and apply storage policies to VMs - Create playbooks to automate common VM administrative tasks - Hands-on Labs - Updating a VM - Assigning categories to a VM - Creating a snapshot and restoring a VM - Creating a template and a clone - Exporting a VM as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) file - Creating and running a playbook 6: Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage - Understand AOS storage - Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, and snapshots - Understand fault tolerance and failure handling mechanisms - Create and update storage containers - Create and update volume groups - Use various capacity optimization features - Hands-on Labs - Exploring the Storage dashboard - Creating containers with and without compression - Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container - Configuring volume groups - Migrating vdisks between storage containers 7: Data Protection and Disaster Recovery - Understand data protection terms and concepts - Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities - Create snapshots and recovery points - Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and disaster recovery - Use Nutanix disaster recovery to create protection policies and recovery plans - Backup and restore Prism Central - Hands-on Labs - Backing up and restoring Prism Central - Configuring Self-Service Restore - Creating protection domains and local VM restore - Creating containers for replication - Configuring remote sites and creating protection domains - Performing VM migration and migrating back to primary 8: Securing a Nutanix Cluster - Understand the Nutanix approach to security - Use the Security dashboard in Prism Central - Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users and RBAC - Implement hardening features for AHV and the CVM - Understand policies in Flow Network Security - Understand data-at-rest encryption - Hands-on-Labs - Exploring the Security dashboard - Adding a local user - Adding Active Directory authentication - Configuring Role Mapping - Verifying a new user account - Cluster lockdown 9: Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move - Understand, install and upgrade Nutanix Move - Use Move to migrate VMs - Download Move logs - Hands-on Labs - Preparing a VM for migration - Deploying a Move VM - Configuring Move and a migration plan 10: Monitoring Cluster Performance - Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central - Create sessions, charts and reports - View and manage project resource utilization - Create custom dashboards in Prism Central - Resource planning and capacity runway - Hands-on Labs - Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard - Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central - Creating and managing reports 11: Monitoring Cluster Health - Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element - Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism - Use Nutanix Cluster Check - Collect and forward logs - Hands-on Labs - Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks - Collecting logs for Support - Verifying cluster health 12: Maintaining and Upgrading a Cluster - Perform a health check - Use node-maintenance mode - Understand hardware upgrade and replacement tasks - Start and stop nodes and clusters - Add and remove nodes - Understand and explore Life Cycle Manager (LCM) - Use LCM to perform inventory and upgrades - Hands-on Labs - Using node maintenance mode - Performing upgrades with LCM (with and without internet access) 13: Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues - Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central - Troubleshoot issues with protection policies, LCM, security, and performance - Identify problematic or inefficient VMs - Explore potential methods of remediating problematic VMs - Hands-on Labs - Working with Alerts - Exploring Events4 days3800.003800.003600.003590.003800.005100.005100.003800.00