This 3-day course will help you understand and learn how to implement and operate Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix. This course also provides an overview and hands-on activities necessary to successfully migrate Hyperflex workloads into Cisco Nutanix infrastructure and optimize infrastructure communication.
This course qualifies for 24 Cisco Continuing Education (CE) Credits
CLC Value: 30Prerequisites:
The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:
- Data center experience
- Operating systems and virtualization experience
- Basic knowledge of servers and storage
- Familiarity with Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS)
- Familiarity with traditional virtualization storage architectures
- Basic knowledge of Nutanix data center administration techniques
Course Objectives:
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Describe the UCS C-Series M6/M7 servers
- Understand Cisco UCS Management in Cisco Intersight
- Understand Nutanix on UCS Deployment
- Understand Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer for Nutanix
- Describe Nutanix on UCS Cluster Monitoring
- Implement Nutanix on UCS Splunk Integration
- Understand Hyperflex Migration Scenarios
Duration: 3 Days (Live Online)
Duration: 3 Days (Live Online)Course Outline:
The following topics will be covered:
- Cisco Intersight Foundations
- Cisco UCS Solutions with Intersight
- Implementing Nutanix on Cisco UCS Standalone Mode Configuration (C-Series Servers Only)
- Implementing Nutanix on Cisco UCS Domain Mode Configuration (C-Series Servers)
- Describing Nutanix on UCS Installation Best Practices
- Designing Cisco UCS LAN and SAN Connectivity
- Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer
- Managing Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix
- Describing Hyperflex Workloads Migration Use Cases
- Migrating from Cisco Hyperflex to Nutanix
- Nutanix on UCS Monitoring with Intersight
- Nutanix on UCS Integration with Splunk
Lab Outline:
Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:
- Exploring Cisco Intersight Interface
- Initial Cisco UCS Configuration
- Deploying Nutanix on UCS with ESXi
- Initial Nutanix Cluster Configuration for ESXi
- Deploying Nutanix on UCS with AHV
- Initial Nutanix Cluster Configuration for AHV
- Nutanix Guest VM Networking for ESXi
- Nutanix Guest VM Networking for AHV
- Install Nutanix Prism Central
- Nutanix on UCS Cluster Expansion
- Nutanix on UCS Lifecycle Manager
- Hyperflex Migration Workloads to Nutanix on UCS
- Monitoring Nutanix on UCS with Splunk
- Monitoring Nutanix on UCS with Intersight Workload Optimizer
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Cloud Infrastructure architects
- Technical Solutions architects
- Network Administrator
- System Operators
- Data Center Administrators