Nutanix - Advanced Administration & Performance Management (AAPMX) - Lab Topology

1: Exploring Nutanix Storage Features

• Creating a Storage Container
• Updating Reported Capacity

2: Creating a Highly Available, Performant, and Resilient Storage Layer

• Observing Nutanix Cloning Efficiency
• Reserving Rebuild Capacity in AHV
• Observing the Rebuild Process
• Disabling Rebuild Capacity Reservation
• Creating a Storage Container with Deduplication Enabled
• Reviewing Deduplication Savings
• Enabling Replication Factor 1 and Creating a Storage Container

3: Optimizing Physical and Virtual Networks in AOS

• Managing Virtual Switches and Uplinks
• Viewing Virtual Switches from Prism Element
• Configuring CVM Network Segmentation
• Configuring QoS Traffic Marking

4: Optimizing Overlay Networks Using Flow Networking

• Enabling Flow Networking
• Creating an External Subnet
• Creating a VPC
• Creating VMs using the Overlay Subnets
• Configuring Local and Remote Gateways
• Establishing a VPN Connection
• Verifying VPN Connectivity

5: Optimizing VM Performance

• Creating VMs with the REST API
• Configuring VirtIO Multi-Queue
• Configuring Volumes Block Storage

6: Analyzing Nutanix Cluster Security Options

• Configuring Cluster Lockdown
• Replacing Default SSL Certificates
• Configuring Syslog Integration
• Managing User Permissions

7: Microsegmentation with Flow Network Security

• Enabling Flow Microsegmentation
• Creating Categories
• Creating VMs and Assigning Categories
• Configuring Isolation and Application Security Policies

8: Microsegmentation with Flow Network Security

• Creating a Prism Central Performance Monitoring Dashboard
• Creating Charts to Analyze Metrics Using Prism Central
• Creating Charts to Analyze Entities Using Prism Element

9: Business Continuity

• Configuring Self Service Restore

10: Implementing Disaster Recovery

• Enabling Nutanix Leap
• Configuring an Availability Zone
• Configuring a Protection Policy
• Creating Production and Test VLANs
• Preparing VMs for Nutanix Leap
• Configuring a Recovery Plan
• Performing Test and Planned Failover