Course Overview
TOPThis course teaches you the skills needed to install, configure, operate, and manage Nutanix X-Play and Nutanix Calm (renamed to Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Self-Service).
In this course, you will explore a number of subjects including:
In this course, you will explore a number of subjects including:
Scheduled Classes
TOPWhat You'll Learn
TOPOutline
TOPIT automation with Nutanix
- Task automation using X-Play
- Lab: Prism Element and Prism Central Setup
- Lab: Creating a Manually Triggered Playbook
- Lab: Creating an Alert Triggered Playbook
- Introduction to Nutanix Calm
- Nutanix Calm Deployment Models
- Installing and Configuring Nutanix Calm
- Working with the Calm Marketplace
- Nutanix Calm Plug-ins
- Lab: Enabling Calm
- Lab: Creating a Calm Project
- Introduction to Calm Blueprints
- Lab: Publishing a Single VM Blueprint to the Marketplace
- Lab: Launching a Blueprint from the Marketplace
- Lab: Unpublishing and Deleting a Blueprint
- Lab: Importing a Blueprint
- Creating a Single-VM Blueprint
- Creating a Multi-VM Blueprint
- Publishing and Launching a Blueprint
- Using the Marketplace Manager
- Managing Applications
- Working with Endpoints and Runbooks
- Lab: Creating a Single VM Blueprint
- Lab: Downloading and Launching a Blueprint
- Macros
- Scripts
- The Library
- Categories
- Identifying Causes of Deployment Failure
- Validating Playbook Configurations
- Log Collection
- Lab: Import a Problem Blueprint
- Lab: Troubleshoot a Problem Blueprint
Prerequisites
TOPFamiliarity with traditional virtualization storage architectures
- Hands-on experience with the Prism and Command-line interfaces
- An understanding of Nutanix core concepts and definitions, which can be found here
- These skills can be acquired by attending one of our basic admin courses (Enterprise Cloud Administration), or through on-the-job experience working on a Nutanix system for at least 6 months.
- This advanced course requires you to possess a basic Nutanix system administration skill set which includes:
Who Should Attend
TOPIT administrators who manage Nutanix clusters and want a detailed deep dive into multicloud automation using Nutanix Calm
- Anyone pursuing the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) certification
