1 - Getting Started with a Nutanix Cluster

• Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure
• Understand Nutanix Cloud Solution Packages
• Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services
• Get Started with Prism Central and Prism Element
• Understand when to use Prism Central and when to use Prism Element

2 - Securing a Nutanix Cluster

• Understand Nutanix's approach to security
• Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users, and RBAC
• Understand Policies in Flow Network Security
• Use Prism Element to configure Data-at-Rest Encryption

3 - Configuring Cluster Networking

• Understand AHV networking terminology
• Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks
• Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer
• Create and update subnets and virtual switches
• Understand subnet extension and network segmentation

4 - Managing Images

• Understand the image service
• Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images

5 - Creating Virtual Machines

• Use Prism Central to create VMs
• Use Prism Central's self-service capabilities to create VM templates
• Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools

6 - Managing Virtual Machines

• Update, clone, customize, export, and apply placement rules to VMs
• Create and apply storage policies to VMs
• Create playbooks to automate common VM administrative tasks

7 - Protecting VMs and Their Data

• Understand data protection terms and concepts
• Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities
• Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and DR
• Use Prism Central to create protection policies with Leap

8 - Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage

• Understand AOS Distributed Storage
• Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, and snapshots
• Understand fault tolerance and failure handling mechanisms
• Create and update storage containers
• Use various capacity optimization features

9 - Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move

• Understand, install, and upgrade Nutanix Move
• Use Move to migrate VMs
• Download Move logs

10 - Monitoring Cluster Performance

• Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central
• Create sessions, charts, and reports
• Create custom dashboards in Prism Central

11 - Monitoring Cluster Health

• Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element
• Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism
• Use Nutanix Cluster Check
• Collect logs.

12 - Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues

• Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central
• Identify problematic or inefficient VMs
• Potential methods of remediating problematic VMs

13 - Performing Cluster Maintenance

• Performing health checks
• Using maintenance mode
• Starting and stopping nodes and clusters
• Adding nodes to or removing nodes from clusters

14 - Upgrading Licenses, Software, and Firmware

• Understanding LCM and the LCM workflow
• Performing an upgrade using LCM
• Licensing a cluster and managing licenses