Kurskode: NMCAA

varighet: 2 Dag(er)

Sted: Virtual, Instructor Led Training
Katergori: Nutanix

Course Overview

This 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:

  • โ€ข How to perform codeless task automation using X-Play and its actions gallery, plays, and playbooks
  • โ€ข What Nutanix Calm is, how to install and configure it, and how to use the Marketplace to launch blueprints and runbooks
  • โ€ข How to create single- and multi-VM blueprints, and how to publish them to the Marketplace for consumption
  • โ€ข How to manage an application
  • โ€ข How to identify issues with Nutanix Calm and X-Play

1: IT Operations Automation Using X-Play

  • โ€ข IT automation with Nutanix
  • โ€ข Task automation using X-Play

Hands-on Labs

  • โ€ข Prism Element and Prism Central Setup
  • โ€ข Creating a Manually Triggered Playbook 
  • โ€ข Creating an Alert Triggered Playbook 

2: Application Automation Using Nutanix Calm 

  • โ€ข Introduction to Nutanix Calm
  • โ€ข Nutanix Calm Deployment Models
  • โ€ข Installing and Configuring Nutanix Calm
  • โ€ข Working with the Calm Marketplace
  • โ€ข Nutanix Calm Plug-ins

Hands-on Labs

  • โ€ข Enabling Calm 
  • โ€ข Creating a Calm Project 

3: Working with Blueprints and Runbooks

  • โ€ข Introduction to Calm Blueprints
  • โ€ข Creating a Single-VM Blueprint
  • โ€ข Creating a Multi-VM Blueprint
  • โ€ข Publishing and Launching a Blueprint
  • โ€ข Using the Marketplace Manager
  • โ€ข Managing Applications
  • โ€ข Working with Endpoints and Runbooks

Hands-on Labs: Single VM Blueprints 

  • โ€ข Creating a Single VM Blueprint 
  • โ€ข Downloading and Launching a Blueprint 
  • โ€ข Publishing a Single VM Blueprint to the Marketplace 
  • โ€ข Launching a Blueprint from the Marketplace
  • โ€ข Unpublishing and Deleting a Blueprint
  • โ€ข Importing a Blueprint 

Hands-on Labs: Multi VM Blueprints and Runbooks 

  • โ€ข Creating a Multi-VM Blueprint
  • โ€ข Creating Services
  • โ€ข Adding Dependencies
  • โ€ข Configuring Day 2 Operations
  • โ€ข Launching the Full LAMP Stack
  • โ€ข Configuring Endpoints
  • โ€ข Configuring and Executing a Runbook

4: Advanced Calm Actions and Blueprint Management

  • โ€ข Macros
  • โ€ข Scripts
  • โ€ข The Library
  • โ€ข Categories

5: Identifying Issues with Calm and X-Play

  • โ€ข Identifying Causes of Deployment Failure
  • โ€ข Validating Playbook Configurations
  • โ€ข Log Collection

Hands-on Labs

  • โ€ข Import a Problem Blueprint
  • โ€ข Troubleshoot a Problem Blueprint

This advanced course requires you to possess a basic Nutanix system administration skill set which includes:

  • โ€ข Familiarity with traditional virtualization storage architectures
  • โ€ข Hands-on experience with the Prism and Command-line interfaces
  • โ€ข An understanding of Nutanix core concepts and definitions.

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.

 

- IT 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

Kontakt oss: Kurs@sgpartner.no

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