NX-NMCAA
NX-NMCAA
Nutanix Enterprise Multicloud Administration
Price:
Duration:
USD 2,200 excl. VAT
2 Days
Who Should Attend
IT administrators who manage Nutanix clusters and want a deep dive into multicloud automation using Nutanix Calm
Anyone pursuing the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) certification
Course Content
This course teaches you the skills needed to install, configure, operate, and manage Nutanix X-Play and Nutanix Calm.
In this course, you will explore a number of subjects including:
How to perform codeless task automation using X-Play and its actions gallery, plays, and playbooks
What Nutanix Calm is, how to install and configure it, and how to use the Marketplace to launch blueprints and runbooks
How to create single- and multi-VM blueprints, and how to publish them to the Marketplace for consumption
How to manage an application and how to identify issues with Nutanix Calm and X-Play
Prerequisites
This advanced course requires you to possess a basic Nutanix system administration skill set which includes:
- Familiarity with traditional virtualization storage architectures
- Hands-on experience with the Prism and Command-line interfaces
- An understanding of Nutanix core concepts and definitions, which can be found here
These skills can be acquired by attending one of our basic admin courses (Enterprise Cloud Administration), or through on-the-job experience working on a Nutanix system for at least 6 months.
Course Outline
1: IT Operations Automation Using X-Play
IT automation with Nutanix
Task automation using X-Play
2: Application Automation Using Nutanix Calm
Introduction to Nutanix Calm
Installing Nutanix Calm
Configuring Nutanix Calm
Marketplace Usage
Nutanix Calm Plug-ins
3: Working with Blueprints and Runbooks
Introduction to Calm Blueprints
Creating a Single-VM Blueprint
Creating a Multi-VM Blueprint
Publishing and Launching a Blueprint
Working with Endpoints and Runbooks
4: Advanced Calm Actions and Blueprint Management
Managing an Application
Advanced Calm Actions
Macros
Categories
Advanced Application Actions
5: Identifying Issues with Calm and X-Play
Identifying Deployment Failure Causes
Validating Playbook Configurations
Log Collection
Further information
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