• Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure
• Understand Nutanix Cloud Solution Packages
• Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services
• Get Started with Prism Element and Prism Element
• Understand when to use Prism Element and when to use Prism Element

Hands-on-Labs

o Connecting to and exploring the Prism Web Console
o Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server
o Configuring Active Directory authentication
o Exploring Prism Element
o Prism Element initial configuration

• Understand Nutanix’s approach to security
• Use Prism Element to configure authentication, users, and RBAC
• Understand Policies in Flow Network Security
• Use Prism Element to configure Data-at-Rest Encryption

Hands-on-Labs

o Adding a local user
o Verifying a new user account

• Understand AHV networking terminology
• Use Prism Element 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

o Creating unmanaged and managed networks
o Exploring the AHV network configuration
o Managing virtual switches and uplinks
o Viewing virtual switches from the Prism Web Console

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

Hands-on Labs

o Uploading and importing images to Prism Element
o Configuring an image placement policy

• Use Prism Element to create VMs
• Use Prism Element’s self-service capabilities to create VM templates
• Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools

Hands-on Labs

o Creating Windows and Linux VMs
o Installing Windows and Linux operating systems
o Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux

• 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

o Updating a VM
o Creating a template and a clone
o Exporting a VM as an OVA
o Creating and running a playbook
o Creating a storage policy

• 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 Element to create protection policies with Leap

Hands-on Labs

o Creating protection domains and local VM restore
o Creating containers for replication
o Configuring remote sites and creating protection domains
o Performing VM migration and migrating back to primary

• 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

o Exploring the Storage dashboard
o Creating containers with and without compression
o Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container
o Migrating vdisks between storage containers

• Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Element
• Create sessions, charts, and reports
• Create custom dashboards in Prism Element

• Understand health monitoring features in Prism Element and Prism Element
• Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism
• Use Nutanix Cluster Check
• Collect logs

Hands-on Labs

o Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks
o Collecting logs for Support
o Creating and managing reports

• Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Element
• Identify problematic or inefficient VMs
• Potential methods of remediating problematic VMs

Hands-on Labs

o Working with Alerts
o Exploring Events

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

Hands-on Labs

o Verifying cluster health
o Putting a node into maintenance mode & removing it

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

Hands-on Labs

o Use Life Cycle Manager to upgrade NCC