Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform Administration 5.0

Each participant will leave with a recognised certificate

Module 1: Introduction to Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform

• Define the Nutanix product family: Nutanix Acropolis and Nutanix Prism.

• Define the App Mobility Fabric (AMF) architecture

• Explain the functionality of Prism Element and Prism Central and how they differ from one another

• State where to find information on the hardware platform specifications and product mixing restrictions

• Identify the foundational unit for the Nutanix cluster

• Define a Nutanix block

• List and define the components of a Nutanix cluster within the hypervisor client

• Describe the types of AOS licenses

Module 2: Administering the Nutanix Cluster

• Discuss requirements for installing a Nutanix block, including power and networking

• List the considerations for mounting a Nutanix block in a rack

Module 3: Configuring the Cluster

• Configure a Nutanix cluster, including name servers, network connections, filesystem whitelists, NTP and SMTP Servers, and SNMP

• Change Prism language settings

• Describe the mechanisms Nutanix provides to maintain cluster security

• Configure user authentication methods

• Install an SSL Certificate

• Control cluster access using key-based SSH access

• Explain how data-at-rest encryption secures data stored on disk

• Prepare for and configure data-at-rest encryption for drives in a Nutanix cluster

Module 4: User Interfaces

• List the four Nutanix user interfaces you can use to manage your cluster

• Register a cluster with Prism Central and use the console to manage the cluster

• State the purpose of the Acropolis self-service portal

• Assign IP addresses to all cluster components

• Create a cluster

• Install a Nutanix Platform License on a cluster

Module 5: Health Monitoring and Alerts

• Explain how to monitor the health of a Nutanix cluster.

• Describe the Health dashboard and its major components.

• Configure a health check.

• Explain how to monitor alerts and events.

• Configure the alert email settings for a cluster Register a cluster with Prism Central and use the console to manage the cluster

Module 6: Health Monitoring and Alerts

• Discuss Open vSwitch.

• Discuss the default network factory configuration.

• List best practices for configuring network.

• View network configuration.

• Discuss virtual network segmentation.

Module 7: VM Management

• Create an image using the Nutanix Image Service

• Create a VM (Windows and AHV)

• Install Nutanix guest tools

• Perform a self-service restore from Nutanix data protection snapshots.

• Manage a VM (AHV)

• Customize VMs using Cloud-Init and SysPrep

• Define MapReduce Tiering

• Define live migration

• Define High Availability

• Define Data Path Redundancy

Module 8: Distributed Storage Fabric

• Explain how Nutanix manages storage

• List and explain some of the various storage components, including Storage Tiers, Storage Pools, Containers, Volume Groups, vDisks, and data stores

• Navigate the Storage Dashboard

• Discuss how deduplication allows for sharing of guest VM data in storage tiers

• Explain how erasure coding works to increase cluster capacity

• Create a storage pool

• Create a storage container

• Perform an in-place hypervisor conversion

• Define hypervisor integration

• Explain how vLANs work

Module 9: AHV Workload Migration

• List prerequisites for Windows VM migration

• Migrate Windows VM from ESXi to AHV cluster

• List prerequisites for Linux VM migration

• Migrate Linux VM from ESXi to AHV cluster

Module 10: Services

• Define Acropolis Block Services

• Define block relationships

• List steps to enable ABS

• Define Acropolis File Services

• Discuss Quotas, Notifications, and Policies

• Discuss AFS Load Balancing

Module 11: Business Continuity

• List failure scenarios.

• Discuss redundancy factor

• Discuss protection strategies

Module 12: Data Protection

• Create a remote site.

• Create and modify a protection domain.

• Discuss the protection domain failover process.

• Explain the cloud connect feature.

• List best practices and guidelines for configuring data protection.

• List limitations f