Detailed Course Outline
1 : Getting Started with a Nutanix Cluster
- Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure
- Understand Nutanix Cloud Solution Packages
- Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services
- Get Started with Prism Central and Prism Element
- Understand when to use Prism Central and when to use Prism Element
2 : Securing a Nutanix Cluster
- Understand Nutanix’s approach to security
- Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users, and RBAC
- Understand Policies in Flow Network Security
- Use Prism Element to configure Data-at-Rest Encryption
4: Managing Images
- Understand the image service
- Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images
5: Creating Virtual Machines
- Use Prism Central to create VMs
- Use Prism Central’s self-service capabilities to create VM templates
- Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools
6: Managing Virtual Machines
- 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
7. Protecting VMs and Their Data
- Understand data protection terms and concepts
- Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities
- Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and DR
- Use Prism Central to create protection policies with Leap
8: Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage
- Understand AOS Distributed 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
- Use various capacity optimization features
9: Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move
- Understand, install, and upgrade Nutanix Move
- Use Move to migrate VMs
- Download Move logs
10: Monitoring Cluster Performance
- Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central
- Create sessions, charts, and reports
- Create custom dashboards in Prism Central
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 logs
12: Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues
- Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central
- Identify problematic or inefficient VMs
- Potential methods of remediating problematic VMs
13: Performing Cluster Maintenance
- Performing health checks
- Using maintenance mode
- Starting and stopping nodes and clusters
- Adding nodes to or removing nodes from clusters
14: Upgrading Licenses, Software, and Firmware
- Understanding LCM and the LCM workflow
- Performing an upgrade using LCM
- Licensing a cluster and managing licenses