Nutanix HCI Architecture and Operations

Goals

- Gain knowledge of present-day data center technologies through the prism of Nutanix Architecture, pioneering and leading HCI vendor. - WHY ATTEND:- A meaningful, technical course without marketing slides with an emphasis on the technical essence- Review and comparison with alternative solutions - The instructor is a Nutanix consultant, an active Cisco instructor… with of course the VMware background :)- Benefits for upcoming HCI courses („Additional Nutanix services“, „Nutanix Deep-dive“, „HCI battle-out” course)- Good preparation for the NCP exam- Technology partners / System integrators- Any enterprise end-customer who has it’s own data center- Whoever is considering Hyperconverged technology (HCI), looking to move away from 3-tier data center architecture

Contents

- Development history and trends of data center infrastructure development- Hyper-converged architecture essence – simplicity and software defined storage concepts- Core operations of HCI systems: read/write IO path, caching, data distribution and protection, healing,…- Not all HCI systems are born equal: distributed file system, data locality, continuous data and system optimization data, proactive operations, etc.- Enterprise storage services on HCI: compression, duplication, snapshots, …- Basics of system deployment, maintenance and upgrades throughout the entire life cycle- Demonstration of the system operations and hands-on labs

Prerequisites

- Basics knowledge of server virtualisation- Basics knowledge of computer networking- Student profile:- System/Storage/Data Center Engineers- Data center Architects