Module 1: 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

Module 2: 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

Module 3. 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 4: Managing Images

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

Module 5: 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 

Module 6: 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 7. 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

Module 8: 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

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
• Create custom dashboards in Prism Central 

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 logs

Module 12: 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

Module 13: Performing Cluster Maintenance

• Performing health checks
• Using maintenance mode
• Starting and stopping nodes and clusters
• Adding nodes to or removing nodes from clusters

Module 14: Upgrading Licenses, Software, and Firmware

• Understanding LCM and the LCM workflow
• Performing an upgrade using LCM
• Licensing a cluster and managing licenses

Lab Outline:

Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:

• 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
• Adding a local user
• Verifying a new user account
• Creating unmanaged and managed networks
• Exploring the AHV network configuration
• Managing virtual switches and uplinks 
• Viewing virtual switches from the Prism Web Console
• Uploading and importing images to Prism Central
• Configuring an image placement policy
• Creating Windows and Linux VMs
• Installing Windows and Linux operating systems
• Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux
• Updating a VM
• Creating a template and a clone
• Exporting a VM as an OVA
• Creating and running a playbook
• Creating a storage policy
• 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 primar
• Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container 
• Exploring the Storage dashboard
• Creating containers with and without compression
• Migrating vdisks between storage containers
• Preparing a VM for migration
• Deploying a Move VM
• Configuring Move and a migration plan
• Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard
• Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central
• Creating and managing reports
• Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks
• Collecting logs for Support
• Working with Alerts
• Exploring Events
• Verifying cluster health
• Putting a node into maintenance mode & removing it
• Use Life Cycle Manager to upgrade NCC

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

• 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