Information Technology

NECA: Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration

Instructor-Led 15 Agenda

Description

The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA) course enables administrators (system, network, and storage) to successfully configure and manage Nutanix in the datacenter. The course covers many of the tasks Nutanix administrators perform through the use of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and command line interfaces (CLIs). It also provides insight into a Nutanix cluster’s failover and self-healing capabilities, offers tips for solving common problems, and provides guidelines for collecting information when interacting with Nutanix Support

Course Overview

Course Objective

During this program, attendees will: Develop a working knowledge of the Nutanix product family. Understand the requirements and considerations involved in setting up a Nutanix cluster. Familiarize themselves with cluster management and monitoring via the Prism web console. Learn how to create, manage, and migrate VMs, set up data protection services, and plan for business continuity. Understand how to plan and handle upgrades, assess future requirements, and create what-if scenarios to adress scaling for business needs.

Who Should Attend

Administrators, architects, and business leaders who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter Managers and technical staff seeking information to drive purchase decisions Anyone who is seeking the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification

Introduction Lesson Id 1

Introduction

Managing the Nutanix Cluster Lesson Id 2

Managing the Nutanix Cluster

Securing the Nutanix Cluster Lesson Id 3

Securing the Nutanix Cluster

Acropolils Networking Lesson Id 4

Acropolils Networking

VM Management Lesson Id 5

VM Management

Health Monitoring and Alerts Lesson Id 6

Health Monitoring and Alerts

Distributed Storage Fabric Lesson Id 7

Distributed Storage Fabric

AHV Workload Migration Lesson Id 8

AHV Workload Migration

File and Volumes Lesson Id 9

File and Volumes

Understanding Infrastructure Resiliency Lesson Id 10

Understanding Infrastructure Resiliency

Data Protection Lesson Id 11

Data Protection

Prism Central Lesson Id 12

Prism Central

Monitoring the Nutanix Cluster Lesson Id 13

Monitoring the Nutanix Cluster

Cluster Management and Expansion Lesson Id 14

Cluster Management and Expansion

Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) Deployments Lesson Id 15

Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) Deployments

Lesson Id	Title	Description
1	Introduction	The section describes the Nutanix HCI solution, walks you through the components of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, and explains the relationship between physical and logical cluster components.
2	Managing the Nutanix Cluster	In this section, you will use the Prism console to monitor a cluster, configure a cluster using various interfaces, use the REST API Explorer to manage the cluster, and learn how to deploy Nutanix-specific PowerShell cmdlets.
3	Securing the Nutanix Cluster	This section shows how to secure a Nutanix cluster through user authentication, SSL certificate installation, and cluster access control.
4	Acropolils Networking	This section explains how to configure managed and unmanaged Acropolis networks and describes the use of Open vSwitch (OVS) in Acropolis. You will learn how to display and manage network details, differentiate between supported OVS bond modes, and gain insight into default network configuration.
5	VM Management	This section shows you how to upload images, and how to create and manage virtual machines.
6	Health Monitoring and Alerts	In this section, you will use the Health Dashboard to monitor a cluster’s health and performance. You will also use Analysis Dashboard to create charts that you can export with detailed information on a variety of components and metrics.
7	Distributed Storage Fabric	This section discusses creating and configuring storage containers, including the storage optimization features: deduplication, compression, and erasure coding.
8	AHV Workload Migration	Using Nutanix Move, this section shows how to migrate workloads to a cluster running AHV. This is followed by a lab where a VM running on a Nutanix cluster configured with ESXi is migrated to a Nutanix cluster running AHV.
9	File and Volumes	This section gives you detailed information on Nutanix Volumes, which provides highly available, high-performance block storage through a few easy configuration steps. It also discusses Nutanix Files.
10	Understanding Infrastructure Resiliency	This section shows how Nutanix provides comprehensive data protection at all levels of the virtual datacenter: logical and physical.
11	Data Protection	Data can be replicated between Nutanix clusters, synchronously and asynchronously. This section shows how to configure a Protection Domain (PD) and Remote Sites, recover a VM from a PD, and perform a planned failover of a PD.
12	Prism Central	Having discussed and used Prism Element earlier, this section looks at the capabilities of Prism Central. With the added functionality provided by a Pro license, the focus is on features related to monitoring and managing multiple activities across a set of clusters.
13	Monitoring the Nutanix Cluster	This section shows you where to locate and how to interpret cluster-related log files. In addition, you will take a closer look at the Nutanix Support Portal and online help.
14	Cluster Management and Expansion	This section outlines essential life-cycle operations, including starting/stopping a Nutanix cluster, as well as starting/shutting down a node. You will also learn how to expand a cluster, manage licenses, and upgrade the cluster’s software and firmware.
15	Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) Deployments	In this section, you will understand various configurations and requirements specific to a ROBO site. This includes hardware/software, Witness VM, networking, failure and recovery scenarios for two-node clusters, and the seeding process.