Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform Administration (GK9915)

1: Getting Started with a Nutanix cluster

• • 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

Hands-on-Labs (1)

• • 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

2: Configuring Cluster Networking

• • 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

Hands-on Labs (2)

• • Creating unmanaged and managed networks
• • Exploring the AHV network configuration
• • Viewing virtual switches from Prism Element

3: Managing Images

• • Understand the image service
• • Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images

Hands-on Labs (3)

• • Uploading and importing images to Prism Central
• • Configuring an image placement policy

4: Creating VMs

• • 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

Hands-on Labs (4)

• • 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

5: Managing VMs

• • 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

Hands-on Labs (5)

• • 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

6: Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage

• • 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

Hands-on Labs (6)

• • 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

7: Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

• • 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 disaster recovery
• • Use Nutanix disaster recovery to create protection policies and recovery plans
• • Backup and restore Prism Central

Hands-on Labs (7)

• • 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

8: Securing a Nutanix Cluster

• • Understand the Nutanix approach to security
• • 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

Hands-on-Labs (8)

• • Exploring the Security dashboard
• • Adding a local user
• • Adding Active Directory authentication
• • Configuring Role Mapping
• • Verifying a new user account
• • Cluster lockdown

9: Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move

• • Understand, install and upgrade Nutanix Move
• • Use Move to migrate VMs
• • Download Move logs

Hands-on Labs (9)

• • Preparing a VM for migration
• • Deploying a Move VM
• • Configuring Move and a migration plan

10: Monitoring Cluster Performance

• • 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

Hands-on Labs (10)

• • Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard
• • Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central
• • Creating and managing reports

11: Monitoring Cluster Health

• • 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

Hands-on Labs (11)

• • Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks
• • Collecting logs for Support
• • Verifying cluster health

12: Maintaining and Upgrading a Cluster

• • 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

Hands-on Labs (12)

• • Using node maintenance mode
• • Performing upgrades with LCM (with and without internet access)

13: Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues

• • 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

Hands-on Labs

• • Working with Alerts
• • Exploring Events