This 5-day is not just about theoretical insights, It provides VMware to Nutanix practical guidance that prepare teams to successfully design, implement, migrate and operate Nutanix Cloud Platform. This class is particularly beneficial for the Plan stage of a migration journey which requires feature parity considerations and is well suited for complex solutions, including software-defined networking, automation, databases, and end user computing.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand Nutanix virtualization environment
- Explain how to Monitor Nutanix components
- Gain knowledge in navigating storage entity
- Understand the basis of Cisco UCS
- Learn how to implement and maintain Cisco UCS HCI servers
- Understand how to design and deploy Nutanix on UCS HCI servers
- Gain the need skills to utilize Cisco Intersight
- Learn how to centralize installation, management, and monitoring Nutanix on UCS platform
- Know the areas of consideration vital to achieving desired business outcomes
- Understand and know how to resolve challenges that could stall the migration
- Be able to plan and drive an optimized, efficient transition to new technologies and operating models
Course Outline
• Describe Nutanix Solutions
• Operating Nutanix HCI Solutions
• Manage Nutanix HCI Solutions
• Describing Cisco UCS HCI Hardware
• Nutanix on Cisco UCS Intersight Standalone Mode Installation
• Nutanix on Cisco UCS Domain Mode Installation
• Cisco Intersight Optimizer
• First Things First
• Understand the requirements and match them to the solutions
• Define type of migration needed
• Identify available migration methodologies
• Identify the workload type and related best practices
• Analyzing Nutanix Feature Parity
• Analyzing VMware to Nutanix Migration Use Cases
• Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking enablement and discovery session
• Flow Virtual Networking on Prism Central
• Nutanix Networking in-depth
• Nutanix Flow Network Security enablement and discovery session
• Flow Network security on Prism Central
• Cisco ACI and Nutanix AHV Integration
Lab Outline
• Nutanix on UCS Installation with AHV (Instructor Demo)
• Deploy Nutanix Cluster
• Initial Configuring Nutanix Prism Element
• Implementing Nutanix Prism Central
• Migrate workloads from VMware vSphere to Nutanix AHV
• Migrate business-critical applications to Nutanix AHV
• Configure Advanced Flow Virtual Networking Use Case
• Configure policy-based routing
• Migrate from VMware NSX to Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking
• Enable NCI Flow network Security Microsegmentation
• Protecting Microservices Applications
• Protecting and Monitoring VMs with Security Central
· Cloud Infrastructure Architects
· Networks Administrators
· Solutions Designers
· System Integrators
· Technical Solutions Architects
· Cloud Systems Engineers
· Server Administrators