Blueprint NCA 7.5

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S1 · Recognize Nutanix Solutions and Tools

1.1 Recognize Nutanix solutions, use cases, and features of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) technologies

• Identify supported hypervisors for NCI ○◐●
• Describe the core components included in NCI ○◐●
• Identify core component-related configurations ○◐●
• Identify common deployment scenarios of NCI ○◐●
• Align an NCI component with its use case ○◐●

1.2 Recognize Nutanix solutions, use cases, and features of non-Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) technologies

• Identify Nutanix Unified Storage use cases and features ○◐●
• Identify Nutanix Database Automation use cases and features ○◐●
• Identify Nutanix Cloud Manager use cases and features ○◐●
• Identify Nutanix Kubernetes Platform use cases and features ○◐●
• Identify Nutanix Enterprise AI use cases and features ○◐●
• Identify End-User Computing use cases and features ○◐●

1.3 Recognize the use cases and features of Nutanix tools

• Identify Move use cases and features ○◐●
• Identify NGT use cases and features ○◐●
• Identify Foundation/Foundation Central use cases and features ○◐●
• Identify Witness Service/VM use cases and features ○◐●
• Identify Self-Service Restore use cases and features ○◐●
• Identify X-Ray use cases and features ○◐●
• Identify Collector use cases and features ○◐●

S2 · Describe Nutanix Platform Administration

2.1 Describe VM tasks

• Deploy, update, and configure a VM ○◐●
• Configure storage for VMs ○◐●
• Configure network attributes ○◐●
• Assign categories ○◐●
• Change vDisk Placement ○◐●
• Take a snapshot ○◐●

2.2 Identify virtual networking tasks

• Create subnet ○◐●
• Identify types of networking ○◐●
• Create vSwitch ○◐●
• Describe network visualizer ○◐●
• Monitor physical switches ○◐●

2.3 Discuss storage operations

• Identify storage optimizations ○◐●
• Identify redundancy requirements ○◐●
• Identify the different storage types ○◐●

2.4 Describe licensing tasks

• Identify current license state ○◐●
• Assign, reclaim, and unassign licenses ○◐●
• Inspect available licenses ○◐●
• Verify licensing expiration ○◐●
• Identify correct license by use case ○◐●

S3 · Describe Cluster Configuration and Maintenance

3.1 Describe valid cluster options

• Verify DNS, SMTP, SNMP, and/or NTP configurations ○◐●
• Discuss the cluster fault tolerance levels ○◐●
• Validate Prism Central settings ○◐●
• Identify security options ○◐●

3.2 Identify hardware maintenance tasks

• Place a node into or out of maintenance mode ○◐●
• Identify the node types for expansion ○◐●
• Identify expansion capabilities within a node ○◐●
• Identify use cases for OOB management ○◐●

3.3 Identify software maintenance tasks

• Describe the process for performing an upgrade ○◐●
• Perform LCM inventory ○◐●
• Differentiate between dark sites and non-dark sites ○◐●
• Describe software compatibility matrix ○◐●
• Identify common software maintenance tasks ○◐●

S4 · Demonstrate and Understand of Platform Health and Monitoring

4.1 Perform and interpret a health check

• Perform log collections ○◐●
• Perform NCC Checks ○◐●
• Determine the cluster status ○◐●
• Demonstrate understanding of the difference in Metric and Entity Charts ○◐●

4.2 Review and interpret alerts and events

• Verify Pulse Status ○◐●
• Describe the benefits of Pulse ○◐●
• Determine use cases for Custom Alert Policies ○◐●
• Distinguish Alert Severity ○◐●
• Given an alert, determine impact and plan a resolution ○◐●

4.3 Leverage support functions

• Describe how to create a support case ○◐●
• Identify the required documentation for support cases ○◐●
• Identify the various Documentation types ○◐●
• Leverage Insights for predictive health and support automation ○◐●

4.4 Review and interpret workload performance

• Based on Prism analytics/metrics, recognize potential oversubscription or contention issues, such as: CPU contention, CPU ready, Memory constraints, I/O latency ○◐●