Základní info
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
- IT administrators who manage Nutanix clusters and want a deep dive into multicloud automation using Nutanix Calm
- Anyone pursuing the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) certification
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
Ideally, participants have completed the course Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA) 6.10 (EDU-C-ADM610-NTC) or have equivalent knowledge.
Course Outline
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
- Macros
- Categories
- Advanced Application Actions
5: Identifying Issues with Calm and X-Play
- Identifying Deployment Failure Causes
- Validating Playbook Configurations
- Log Collection
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