Nutanix – Enterprise Cloud Platform Administration (ECA) – Contenuti

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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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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