• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

This course teaches you the administrative skills needed to install, configure, manage, and upgrade three different Nutanix storage solution products:

• Nutanix Files - As part of this module, you will set up and manage Nutanix Files, a software-defined, scale-out file storage solution that provides a repository for unstructured data, such as home directories and departmental shares.

• Nutanix Volumes - You will learn how Nutanix Volumes provides file storage for your physical workloads, with the same simplicity as virtualized workloads, consolidating infrastructure into a single unified platform.

• Nutanix Objects - Nutanix Objects allows you to build a simple, secure, and scale-out stack. We show you how easy it is to spin up the Nutanix Objects service in a few simple steps.

Audience profile

  • Customers and systems operators that want to learn how to manage file, block, and object storage using Nutanix Files, Nutanix Volumes, and Nutanix Objects.
  • IT administrators and business leaders who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter and want a detailed deep dive into Nutanix storage administration.
  • Anyone pursuing Nutanix Certified Professional – Unified Storage (NCP-US) certification.

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Course details

1: Installing and Configuring Nutanix Files
• Introduction to Nutanix Files
• Architecting and Sizing Nutanix Files Environments
• Installing Nutanix Files
• The File Server Dashboard
• Configuring Nutanix Files

2: Managing, Upgrading, and Monitoring Nutanix Files
• Managing Nutanix Files
• Using Files Analytics
• Monitoring Performance and Usage
• Upgrading Nutanix Files

3: Analyzing and Optimizing Nutanix Files
• Understanding the Nutanix Files High Availability Process
• Troubleshooting Nutanix Files Issues

4: Installing and Configuring Nutanix Volumes
• Understanding When to Use Nutanix Volumes
• Architecting and Sizing Nutanix Volumes Environments
• Deploying Nutanix Volumes
• Configuring Nutanix Volume

5: Managing, Upgrading, and Monitoring Nutanix Volumes
• Failover and Failback Processes
• Understanding Storage Management and Using the Storage Dashboard
• Modifying a Volume Group

6: Analyzing and Optimizing Nutanix Volumes
• Firewall Settings
• IQNs/Allowlists
• iSCSI Timeout Sessions
• Troubleshooting Capacity

7: Deploying and Configuring Nutanix Objects
• Introduction to Nutanix Objects
• Enabling Nutanix Objects
• Architecting and Sizing Nutanix Objects

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Prerequisites

  • This course requires basic system administration knowledge, acquired through training or hands-on experience.
  • You should be familiar with Nutanix storage concepts, be able to create a VM through the Nutanix web console (Prism), and know how to run commands from the command line interface (CLI).
  • If you do not have these skills, we recommend taking the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF) class first.

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