Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA)|System Source

If you already have experience administering a Nutanix environment, this course will extend, deepen and broaden your knowledge as you grow in your career as a Nutanix administrator.

In Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA), youll focus on Prism Central. This course provides a comprehensive look at Nutanix centralized management capabilities and allows you to explore the wide variety of features that are available in this web console.

ECA covers four key areas:


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Updating a VM

Assigning categories to a VM
Creating a snapshot and restoring a VM
Creating a template and a clone
Exporting a VM as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) file
Creating and running a playbook
Understand AOS 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
Create and update volume groups
Use various capacity optimization features
Exploring the Storage dashboard
Creating containers with and without compression
Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container
Configuring volume groups
Migrating vdisks between storage containers
Understand data protection terms and concepts
Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities
Create snapshots and recovery points
Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and DR
Use Nutanix Disaster Recovery to create protection policies and recovery plans
Backup and restore Prism Central
Backing up and restoring Prism Central
Configuring Self Service Restore
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
Use the Security Dashboard in Prism Central
Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users, and RBAC
Implement hardening features for AHV and the CVM
Understand policies in Flow Network Security
Understand Data-at-Rest Encryption
Exploring the Security Dashboard
Adding a local user
Adding Active Directory Authentication
Configuring Role Mapping
Verifying a new user account
Cluster lockdown
Understand, install, and upgrade Nutanix Move
Use Move to migrate VMs
Download Move logs
Preparing a VM for migration
Deploying a Move VM
Configuring Move and a migration plan
Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central
Create sessions, charts, and reports
View and manage project resource utilization
Create custom dashboards in Prism Central
Resource planning and capacity runway
Understand three-tier and HCI
Understand the Nutanix product portfolio
Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services
Get started with Prism Central and Prism Element
Understand when to use Prism Central and Prism Element
Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard
Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central
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 and forward logs
Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks
Collecting logs for Support
Verifying cluster health
Perform a health check
Use node maintenance mode
Understand hardware upgrade and replacement tasks
Start and stop nodes and clusters
Add and remove nodes
Understanding and exploring Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
Using LCM to perform inventory and upgrades
Using node maintenance mode
Performing upgrades with LCM (with and without internet access)
Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central
Troubleshoot issues with protection policies, LCM, security, and performance
Identify problematic or inefficient VMs
Explore potential methods of remediating problematic VMs
Working with Alerts
Exploring Events
Connecting to and exploring Prism Element
Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server in Prism Element
Connecting to, exploring, and configuring Prism Central
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
Creating unmanaged and managed networks
Exploring the AHV network configuration
Viewing virtual switches from Prism Element
Understand the image service
Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images
Uploading and importing images to Prism Central
Configuring an image placement policy
Use Prism Central to create VMs
Use Projects in Prism Central
Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools
Creating Windows and Linux VMs
Installing Windows and Linux operating systems
Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux
Creating a Project
Exploring the Self Service Dashboard in Prism Central
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

Administrators, engineers and others who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter

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Anyone seeking the Nutanix Certified Professional-Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA)

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