Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA)|System Source

If you already have experience with administering a Nutanix environment, this course will extend, deepen, and broaden your knowledge as you grow in your career as a Nutanix administrator.Designed with Prism Central as the focal point, this course illustrates the breadth and depth of Nutanixs centralized management capabilities, and allows you to explore the wide variety of features that are available in this one, single web console.ECA is divided into four major sections:


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Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central

Create sessions, charts, and reports
Create custom dashboards in Prism Central
Lab: Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard
Lab: Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central
Lab: Creating and managing reports
Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element
Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism
Use Nutanix Cluster Check
Collect logs
Lab: Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks
Lab: Collecting logs for Support
Lab: Creating and managing reports
Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central
Identify problematic or inefficient VMs
Potential methods of remediating problematic VMs
Lab: Working with Alerts
Lab: Exploring Events
Performing health checks
Using maintenance mode
Starting and stopping nodes and clusters
Adding nodes to or removing nodes from clusters
Lab: Verifying cluster health
Lab: Putting a node into maintenance mode & removing it
Understanding LCM and the LCM workflow
Performing an upgrade using LCM
Licensing a cluster and managing licenses
Lab: Use Life Cycle Manager to upgrade NCC
Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure
Lab: Prism Central initial configuration
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
Lab: Connecting to and exploring the Prism Web Console
Lab: Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server
Lab: Configuring Active Directory authentication
Lab: Exploring Prism Central
Understand Nutanixs 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
Lab: Adding a local user
Lab: Verifying a new user account
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
Lab: Creating unmanaged and managed networks
Lab: Exploring the AHV network configuration
Lab: Managing virtual switches and uplinks
Lab: Viewing virtual switches from the Prism Web Console
Understand the image service
Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images
Lab: Uploading and importing images to Prism Central
Lab: Configuring an image placement policy
Use Prism Central to create VMs
Use Prism Centrals self-service capabilities to create VM templates
Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools
Lab: Creating Windows and Linux VMs
Lab: Installing Windows and Linux operating systems
Lab: Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux
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
Lab: Updating a VM
Lab: Creating a template and a clone
Lab: Exporting a VM as an OVA
Lab: Creating and running a playbook
Lab: Creating a storage policy
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
Lab: Creating protection domains and local VM restore
Lab: Creating containers for replication
Lab: Configuring remote sites and creating protection domains
Lab: Performing VM migration and migrating back to primary
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
Lab: Exploring the Storage dashboard
Lab: Creating containers with and without compression
Lab: Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container
Lab: Migrating vdisks between storage containers
Understand, install, and upgrade Nutanix Move
Use Move to migrate VMs
Download Move logs
Lab: Preparing a VM for migration
Lab: Deploying a Move VM
Lab: Configuring Move and a migration plan

Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central

Create sessions, charts, and reports
Create custom dashboards in Prism Central
Lab: Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard
Lab: Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central
Lab: Creating and managing reports
Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element
Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism
Use Nutanix Cluster Check
Collect logs
Lab: Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks
Lab: Collecting logs for Support
Lab: Creating and managing reports
Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central
Identify problematic or inefficient VMs
Potential methods of remediating problematic VMs
Lab: Working with Alerts
Lab: Exploring Events
Performing health checks
Using maintenance mode
Starting and stopping nodes and clusters
Adding nodes to or removing nodes from clusters
Lab: Verifying cluster health
Lab: Putting a node into maintenance mode & removing it
Understanding LCM and the LCM workflow
Performing an upgrade using LCM
Licensing a cluster and managing licenses
Lab: Use Life Cycle Manager to upgrade NCC
Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure
Lab: Prism Central initial configuration
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
Lab: Connecting to and exploring the Prism Web Console
Lab: Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server
Lab: Configuring Active Directory authentication
Lab: Exploring Prism Central
Understand Nutanixs 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
Lab: Adding a local user
Lab: Verifying a new user account
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
Lab: Creating unmanaged and managed networks
Lab: Exploring the AHV network configuration
Lab: Managing virtual switches and uplinks
Lab: Viewing virtual switches from the Prism Web Console
Understand the image service
Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images
Lab: Uploading and importing images to Prism Central
Lab: Configuring an image placement policy
Use Prism Central to create VMs
Use Prism Centrals self-service capabilities to create VM templates
Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools
Lab: Creating Windows and Linux VMs
Lab: Installing Windows and Linux operating systems
Lab: Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux
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
Lab: Updating a VM
Lab: Creating a template and a clone
Lab: Exporting a VM as an OVA
Lab: Creating and running a playbook
Lab: Creating a storage policy
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
Lab: Creating protection domains and local VM restore
Lab: Creating containers for replication
Lab: Configuring remote sites and creating protection domains
Lab: Performing VM migration and migrating back to primary
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
Lab: Exploring the Storage dashboard
Lab: Creating containers with and without compression
Lab: Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container
Lab: Migrating vdisks between storage containers
Understand, install, and upgrade Nutanix Move
Use Move to migrate VMs
Download Move logs
Lab: Preparing a VM for migration
Lab: Deploying a Move VM
Lab: Configuring Move and a migration plan

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Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA)

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