ECA-Nutanix: Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA)
About this Course
If you already have experience with administering a Nutanix environment, this course will extend, deepen, and broaden your knowledge as you grow in your career as a Nutanix administrator.
Designed with Prism Central as the focal point, this course illustrates the breadth and depth of Nutanix’s centralized management capabilities, and allows you to explore the wide variety of features that are available in this one, single web console.
ECA is divided into four topic areas:
Understanding core Nutanix concepts, such as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the various Nutanix cloud solution packages. Also, the basic configuration of a cluster and the components that are needed to create and manage VMs – namely, networks and images.
Creating and managing VMs, how to protect VMs and their data, how to apply storage optimization features at the VM level, and how to migrate your workloads to a Nutanix environment.
Learn about alerts, events, log collection, reporting, and how to use various features in Prism Central to identify, analyze, and remediate performance issues.
Learn how to set up a cluster for maintenance activities – such as starting and stopping nodes and clusters – and how to manage and upgrade licenses and installed software with just a few clicks.
Audience Profile
Administrators, engineers, and others who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter
Managers and technical staff seeking information to drive purchase decisions
Anyone seeking the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification
At Course Completion
Associated Certifications
Nutanix Certified Professional Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) v6.5
Manufacturer/Vendor
Nutanix
Exam-NCP-MCI
Outline
Course Outline and Hands-on Labs
Getting Started with a Nutanix Cluster
Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure
Understand Nutanix Cloud Solution Packages
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
Hands-on-Labs
Connecting to and exploring the Prism Web Console
Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server
Configuring Active Directory authentication
Exploring Prism Central
Prism Central initial configuration
Securing a Nutanix Cluster
Understand Nutanix’s approach to security
Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users, and RBAC
Understand Policies in Flow Network Security
Use Prism Element to configure Data-at-Rest Encryption
Hands-on-Labs
Adding a local user
Verifying a new user account
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
Managing virtual switches and uplinks
Viewing virtual switches from the Prism Web Console
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
Creating Virtual Machines
Use Prism Central to create VMs
Use Prism Central’s self-service capabilities to create VM templates
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
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
Hands-on Labs
Updating a VM
Creating a template and a clone
Exporting a VM as an OVA
Creating and running a playbook
Creating a storage policy
Protecting VMs and Their Data
Understand data protection terms and concepts
Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities
Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and DR
Use Prism Central to create protection policies with Leap
Hands-on Labs
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
Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage
Understand AOS Distributed 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
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
Migrating vdisks between storage containers
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
Monitoring Cluster Performance
Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central
Create sessions, charts, and reports
Create custom dashboards in Prism Central
Hands-on Labs
Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard
Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central
Creating and managing reports
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 logs
Hands-on Labs
Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks
Collecting logs for Support
Creating and managing reports
Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues
Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central
Identify problematic or inefficient VMs
Potential methods of remediating problematic VMs
Hands-on Labs
Working with Alerts
Exploring Events
Performing Cluster Maintenance
Performing health checks
Using maintenance mode
Starting and stopping nodes and clusters
Adding nodes to or removing nodes from clusters
Hands-on Labs
Verifying cluster health
Putting a node into maintenance mode & removing it
Upgrading Licenses, Software, and Firmware
Understanding LCM and the LCM workflow
Performing an upgrade using LCM
Licensing a cluster and managing licenses
Hands-on Labs
Use Life Cycle Manager to upgrade NCC