Nutanix – Advanced Administration & Performance Management (AAPMX) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

1: Exploring Nutanix Storage Features

  • Understanding Nutanix AOS Services and AOS Storage Services
  • Exploring Storage Components
  • AOS Storage Data Pathing

2: Creating a Highly Available, Performant, and Resilient Storage Layer

  • Creating Highly Available, Resilient Infrastructure
  • Storage Optimization and Data Efficiency
  • Optimizing and Planning for New Workloads
  • Storage Best Practices for Application Workloads

3: Optimizing Physical and Virtual Networks in AOS

  • Optimizing Physical & Virtual Networks
  • Best Practices

4: Optimizing Overlay Networks Using Flow Networking

  • Optimizing Physical & Virtual Networks
  • Implementing Flow Networking
  • Implementing VPCs
  • Overlay Network Use Cases

5: Optimizing VM Performance

  • Sizing the CVM & Prism Central
  • Alternate Methods of Provisioning User VMs
  • Working with GPUs in AHV
  • Improving VM Storage and Network Performance

6: Analyzing Nutanix Cluster Security Options

  • Nutanix Security Technologies
  • User Authentication and Permissions
  • Hardening AHV and the CVM
  • Using Flow Network Security & Flow Security Central
  • Data Encryption with Nutanix
  • Managing Log Files

7: Microsegmentation with Flow Network Security

  • Flow Policy Constructs
  • Security Policy Models and Types
  • Enabling Microsegmentation
  • Creating and Applying Policies

8: Microsegmentation with Flow Network Security

  • Evaluating Cluster Health
  • Network Packet Capture and Inspection
  • Acropolis Service Failures
  • Ensuring Efficient Physical Resource Consumption with Machine Learning
  • Application Monitoring and Discovery
  • Monitoring Performance

9: Business Continuity

  • Assessing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
  • High Availability and Data Protection
  • Third Party Backup Integrations
  • Best Practices

10: Implementing Disaster Recovery

  • Replicating Data with AOS
  • Disaster Recovery Orchestration
  • Disaster Recovery with Protection Domains
  • Getting Started with Nutanix Leap
  • Protecting Against Ransomware