• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

This course teaches you the skills needed to install, configure, operate, and manage Nutanix Era. In this course, you will explore a number of subjects including:

• The what, the how, the why, and the benefits of database-as-a-service (DBaaS)

• Important Nutanix Era terms and concepts, like copy data management, time machine, provisioning profiles and data access management

• Implementing role-based access control (RBAC), including working with built-in and custom roles, and managing users and groups

• Adding multiple clusters to Nutanix Era, working with Nutanix Guest Tools, and registering a Nutanix cluster with Era

• Monitoring and investigating issues with Nutanix Era, including alert policies, notifications, and log collection

• Operations involved in protecting and restoring databases, including creating snapshots, cloning databases, log catch-up operations, refreshing clones, and restoring source databases

Audience profile

  • IT administrators who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter and want a detailed deep dive into database administration using Nutanix Era
  • Anyone pursuing the Nutanix Certified Professional - Database (NCP-DB) certification

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Course details

1: Introduction to Database Automation
• Understanding Database-as-a-Service
• Understanding Nutanix Era Terminology and Concepts
• The Nutanix Solution for Database-as-a-Service

2: Configuring and Operating Nutanix Era
• Understanding the Era Workflow
• Installing and Configuring Nutanix Era
• Nutanix Era High Availability
• Registering an Existing Database
• Creating Profiles
• Provisioning a New Database
• Patching a Database

3: Administering, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Nutanix Era
• Administering Nutanix Era o Implementing Role-based Access Control and Managing Users
      o Adding Nutanix Clusters to Era
      o Upgrading Nutanix Era
• Monitoring Nutanix Era
      o Understanding the Era Dashboard
      o Using Tags for Database Inventory Management
• Working with Alerts
• Investigating Issues with Nutanix Era

4: Protecting and Restoring Databases (Time Machine Operations)
• Era Time Machine
• Managing SLAs Schedules
• Prerequisites for Snapshot Creation, Replication, and Deletion
• Cloning Databases
• Database Log Management
• Refreshing Clones
• Restoring Source Databases

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Prerequisites

N/A

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