• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

This course teaches you the skills needed to install, configure, operate, and manage Nutanix X-Play and Nutanix Calm.

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 and how to identify issues with Nutanix Calm and X-Play

Audience profile

• IT administrators who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter and want a detailed deep dive into multicloud automation using Nutanix Calm.

• Anyone pursuing the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) certification.

 

Show More Show Less

Course details

1. IT Operations Automation Using X-Play
  • IT automation with Nutanix
  • Task automation using X-Play

2. Application Automation Using Nutanix Calm
  • Introduction to Nutanix Calm
  • Installing Nutanix Calm
  • Configuring Nutanix Calm
  • Marketplace Usage
  • Nutanix Calm Plug-ins

3. Working with Blueprints and Runbooks
  • Introduction to Calm Blueprints
  • Creating a Single-VM Blueprint
  • Creating a Multi-VM Blueprint
  • Publishing and Launching a Blueprint
  • Working with Endpoints and Runbooks

4. Advanced Calm Actions and Blueprint Management
  • Managing an Application
  • Advanced Calm Actions
        o Macros
        o Categories
        o Advanced Application Actions

5. Identifying Issues with Calm and X-Play
  • Identifying Deployment Failure Causes
  • Validating Playbook Configurations
  • Log Collection

Show More Show Less

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

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.

Show More Show Less

Our Technology Partners

Spectrum Networks is the Authorised Learning Partner for some of the leaders in IT technology for Digital Transformation