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
Hands-on-Labs
- Connecting to and exploring the Prism Web Console
- Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server
- Configuring Active Directory authentication
- Exploring Prism Central
- Prism Central initial configuration
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
Hands-on-Labs
- Adding a local user
- Verifying a new user account
3: 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
- Managing virtual switches and uplinks
- Viewing virtual switches from the Prism Web Console
4: 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
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
Hands-on Labs
- Creating Windows and Linux VMs
- Installing Windows and Linux operating systems
- Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux
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
Hands-on Labs
- Updating a VM
- Creating a template and a clone
- Exporting a VM as an OVA
- Creating and running a playbook
- Creating a storage policy
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
Hands-on Labs
- 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: 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
Hands-on Labs
- Exploring the Storage dashboard
- Creating containers with and without compression
- Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container
- Migrating vdisks between storage containers
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
- Create custom dashboards in Prism Central
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 logs
Hands-on Labs
- Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks
- Collecting logs for Support
- Creating and managing reports
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
Hands-on Labs
- Working with Alerts
- Exploring Events
13: Performing Cluster Maintenance
- Performing health checks
- Using maintenance mode
- Starting and stopping nodes and clusters
- Adding nodes to or removing nodes from clusters
Hands-on Labs
- Verifying cluster health
- Putting a node into maintenance mode & removing it
14: Upgrading Licenses, Software, and Firmware
- Understanding LCM and the LCM workflow
- Performing an upgrade using LCM
- Licensing a cluster and managing licenses
Hands-on Labs
- Use Life Cycle Manager to upgrade NCC