Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF)

Unlock the power of Nutanix Hybrid Cloud with our essential fundamentals course, designed specifically for IT professionals and network operation specialists eager to master Prism Central's management capabilities and optimize your cloud infrastructure.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand hyperconverged infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud solutions.

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Implement and manage Nutanix clusters using Prism Central and Prism Element.

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Monitor and manage VMs, storage, and network configurations.

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Utilize Life Cycle Manager for effective software version control.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 2 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Network operations personnel
  • Security operations center staff
  • IT professionals
  • Cloud infrastructure managers

Description

Course Overview If you are relatively new to Nutanix and want a feature-focused introduction to Prism Central and its various capabilities, this course is your starting point. NHCF explores the breadth and depth of Nutanix’s centralized management capabilities, and allows you to explore the wide variety of features available in Prism Central. Focused on getting you working with and exploring the Nutanix platform as quickly as possible, the course discusses key Nutanix product and cluster related concepts, and immediately moves into setting up a Nutanix cluster from both the perspective of Prism Central and Prism Element. Using Prism Central, you will learn how to monitor cluster health and performance, create and manage VMs, and perform basic management tasks on hardware, storage, and networks. Finally, you will briefly explore lifecycle manager, and how you can monitor installed software versions and keep them up to date with just a few clicks.

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Course Outline

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Introduction

  1. Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)

  2. Understand Nutanix Cloud Solution Packages

  3. Get started with Prism Central and Prism Element

  4. Understand when to use Prism Central and when to use Prism Element

Hardware and Storage Concepts

  1. Understand nodes, blocks, and clusters

  2. Understand AOS Distributed Storage

  3. Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, and snapshots

  4. Use different Prism Central dashboards to monitor cluster hardware and storage

Networking

  1. Understand AHV networking terminology and key concepts such as managed and unmanaged networks

  2. Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks

  3. Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer

Image Management

  1. Understand the image service

  2. Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images

VM Management

  1. Use Prism Central to create, monitor, and perform basic management tasks on VMs

  2. Create and clone VMs, update NIC, and manage Nutanix Guest Tools

  3. Create a snapshot and export VMs as OVA files

Monitoring Cluster Performance and Health

  1. Use Prism Central to create sessions, charts, and reports

  2. Understand and explore alerts and events

  3. Collect logs and use the Nutanix Support Portal

Life Cycle Manager (LCM)

  1. Understand LCM and the LCM workflow

  2. Use the LCM dashboard in Prism Central and Prism Element

  3. Perform an inventory at Connected and Dark Sites

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