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Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA)

SS Course: 74360

Course Overview

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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:                                                                  

Scheduled Classes

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07/21/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
08/18/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
09/15/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
10/13/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
11/17/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
12/08/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)

What You'll Learn

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    Outline

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    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
    • 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 and forward logs
    • Lab: Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks
    • Lab: Collecting logs for Support
    • Lab: 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
    • Understand and explore Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
    • Use LCM to perform inventory and upgrades
    • Lab: Using node maintenance mode
    • Lab: 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
    • Lab: Working with Alerts
    • Lab: Exploring Events
    • 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
    • Lab: Connecting to and exploring Prism Element
    • Lab: Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server in Prism Element
    • Lab: 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
    • Lab: Creating unmanaged and managed networks
    • Lab: Exploring the AHV network configuration
    • Lab: Viewing virtual switches from Prism Element
    • 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 Central self-service capabilities to create VM templates
    • Use Projects in Prism Central
    • 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
    • Lab: Creating a project
    • Lab: 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
    • Lab: Updating a VM
    • Lab: Assigning categories to a VM
    • Lab: Creating a snapshot and restoring a VM
    • Lab: Creating a template and a clone
    • Lab: Exporting a VM as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) file
    • Lab: Creating and running a playbook
    • Understand AOS storage
    • Lab: Configuring volume groups
    • Lab: Migrating vdisks between storage containers
    • 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
    • Lab: Exploring the Storage dashboard
    • Lab: Creating containers with and without compression
    • Lab: Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container
    • Understand data protection terms and concepts
    • Lab: Creating containers for replication
    • Lab: Configuring remote sites and creating protection domains
    • Lab: Performing VM migration and migrating back to primary
    • Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities
    • Create snapshots and recovery points
    • Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and disaster recovery
    • Use Nutanix disaster recovery to create protection policies and recovery plans
    • Backup and restore Prism Central
    • Lab: Backing up and restoring Prism Central
    • Lab: Configuring Self-Service Restore
    • Lab: Creating protection domains and local VM restore
    • Understand the Nutanix approach to security
    • Lab: Configuring Role Mapping
    • Lab: Verifying a new user account
    • Lab: Cluster lockdown
    • 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
    • Lab: Exploring the Security dashboard
    • Lab: Adding a local user
    • Lab: Adding Active Directory authentication
    • 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

    Prerequisites

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        Related Certifications

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        Who Should Attend

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        Administrators, engineers and others who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter
        • Managers and technical staff seeking information to drive purchase decisions
        • Anyone seeking the Nutanix Certified Professional-Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification

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