Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform Administration (GK9915)

Module 1: Getting Started with a Nutanix Cluster

• • Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure
• • 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 when to use Prism Element

Module 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

Module 3: Managing Images

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

Module 4: Creating Virtual Machines

• • Use Prism Central to create VMs
• • Use Prism Central's self-service capabilities to create VM templates
• • Use Projects in Prism Central
• • Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools

Module 5: Managing Virtual Machines

• • 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 9: Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move

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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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