Course Summary
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.
1: Introduction
Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
Understand Nutanix Cloud Solution Packages
Get started with Prism Central and Prism Element
Understand when to use Prism Central and when to use Prism Element
2: Hardware and Storage Concepts
Understand nodes, blocks, and clusters
Understand AOS Distributed Storage
Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, and snapshots
Use different Prism Central dashboards to monitor cluster hardware and storage
3: Networking
Understand AHV networking terminology and key concepts such as managed and unmanaged networks
Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks
Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer
4: Image Management
Understand the image service
Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images
5: VM Management
Use Prism Central to create, monitor, and perform basic management tasks on VMs
6: Monitoring Cluster Performance and Health
Use Prism Central to create sessions, charts, and reports
Understand and explore alerts and events
Collect logs
Use the Nutanix Support Portal to create a support case
7: Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
Understand LCM and the LCM workflow
Use the LCM dashboard in Prism Central and Prism Element
Use LCM to perform an inventory
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