Nutanix Multicloud Automation Administration (NMCAA)

This course teaches you the skills needed to install, configure, operate, and manage Nutanix X-Play and Nutanix Calm (renamed to Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Self-Service).

Who Can Benefit

• IT administrators who manage Nutanix clusters and want a detailed deep dive into multicloud automation using Nutanix Calm
• Anyone pursuing the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) certification

Skills Gained

• In this course, you will explore a number of subjects including:
• How to perform codeless task automation using X-Play and its actions gallery, plays, and playbooks
• What Nutanix Calm is, how to install and configure it, and how to use the Marketplace to launch blueprints and runbooks
• How to create single- and multi-VM blueprints, and how to publish them to the Marketplace for consumption
• How to manage an application
• How to identify issues with Nutanix Calm and X-Play

Prerequisites

• This advanced course requires you to possess a basic Nutanix system administration skill set which includes:
• Familiarity with traditional virtualization storage architectures
• Hands-on experience with the Prism and Command-line interfaces
• An understanding of Nutanix core concepts and definitions, which can be found here
• These skills can be acquired by attending one of our basic admin courses (Enterprise Cloud Administration), or through on-the-job experience working on a Nutanix system for at least 6 months.

Course Content

IT Operations Automation Using X-Play

• IT automation with Nutanix
• Task automation using X-Play

• Hands-on Labs
• Prism Element and Prism Central Setup
• Creating a Manually Triggered Playbook
• Creating an Alert Triggered Playbook

Application Automation Using Nutanix Calm

• Introduction to Nutanix Calm
• Nutanix Calm Deployment Models
• Installing and Configuring Nutanix Calm
• Working with the Calm Marketplace
• Nutanix Calm Plug-ins

• Hands-on Labs
• Enabling Calm
• Creating a Calm Project

Working with Blueprints and Runbooks

• Introduction to Calm Blueprints
• Creating a Single-VM Blueprint
• Creating a Multi-VM Blueprint
• Publishing and Launching a Blueprint
• Using the Marketplace Manager
• Managing Applications
• Working with Endpoints and Runbooks

• Hands-on Labs: Single VM Blueprints
• Creating a Single VM Blueprint
• Downloading and Launching a Blueprint
• Publishing a Single VM Blueprint to the Marketplace
• Launching a Blueprint from the Marketplace
• Unpublishing and Deleting a Blueprint
• Importing a Blueprint

• Hands-on Labs: Multi VM Blueprints and Runbooks
• Creating a Multi-VM Blueprint
• Creating Services
• Adding Dependencies
• Configuring Day 2 Operations
• Launching the Full LAMP Stack
• Configuring Endpoints
• Configuring and Executing a Runbook

Advanced Calm Actions and Blueprint Management

• Macros
• Scripts
• The Library
• Categories

Identifying Issues with Calm and X-Play

• Identifying Causes of Deployment Failure
• Validating Playbook Configurations
• Log Collection

• Hands-on Labs
• Import a Problem Blueprint
• Troubleshoot a Problem Blueprint