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This Nanodegree programme, developed in collaboration with Nutanix experts, a pioneer in the cutting-edge field of hyperconverged infrastructure software, takes cloud technology and data-center professionals on an in-depth journey into the design, deployment, and management of infrastructure and applications on the Hybrid Cloud. Learn the concepts you'll need to transform how your IT teams manage applications and provide business support.
Syllabus:
Course 1: Modern Private Cloud Infrastructure
Introduction to Nutanix Hybrid Cloud
- Describe the engineer’s role in Service Level Agreements related to cloud applications
Journey to the Modern Hybrid Cloud
- Determine the different models to support various Cloud initiatives MID-COURSE PROJECT Introduction to Nutanix HCI
- Use the Prism interface to configure the software components of a hybrid cloud cluster
Hybrid Cloud Security
- Apply security standard and best practices to secure your hybrid cloud
Networking
- Discuss the differences between physical and virtual networking
- Work with VLANs and the components of AHV networking
Managing Virtual Machines in the Hybrid Cloud
- Work with disc images to create and manage virtual machines
- Learn about the concept of High VM Availability
Data Protection
- Learn about the complexities of data protection in a hybrid cloud world
- Apply data protection best practices, including backup
Project 1: Private Cloud Web Application Infrastructure
In this project, you will design a private cloud solution for your company's key revenue generator, an e-commerce web application, using Nutanix's integrated lab environment. Your solution will necessitate the deployment and protection of a web application across a private cloud web server VM, application VM, and database server VM.
Course 2: On-Premises Private Cloud Automation
Multiple Cluster and Workload Resources
- Manage categories, images and create custom roles using Prism Central and Prism Self Service
Calm Automation for Application Lifecycle Management
- Publish blueprints to the marketplace for customer selfservice, on-demand application workloads.
- Complete a deployment, audit, and deprovision for VM laas
Creating and Publishing a Single VM Blueprint
- Create, manage and publish your own application blueprints
Creating and Publishing a MultiVM Blueprint
- Perform blueprint lifecycle management tasks
- Configure a Nutanix environment and create a multi-VM Calm blueprint
Calm Automation for a 3-tier Web Application
- Use Calm to create a web server application
- Utilize Advanced Calm Actions
Project 2: Private Cloud SaaS- ThreeTier Web Application
Your company's Vice President of Software Engineering has asked you to create a blueprint for deploying a three-tier web application on the private cloud, complete with a load balancer, web server, and database VM. You must ensure that the deployment is working properly and that each VM is configured with the appropriate resources and tasks. Your developers will need to be able to deploy new environments, scale in and scale out the web tier, and backup the database at any time.
Course 3: Public and Hybrid Cloud Management
Strategies for Hybrid Cloud Design
- Evaluate infrastructure providers and tools to move workloads between clouds
- Remove single points of failure
- Accomplish agility using push button environments, configuration management, and automation across deployments
Working with a Public Cloud Infrastructure Provider
- Introduce Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud
- Configure security features that VPC, IAM, SSH key pairs and security groups
- Configure AWS as a provider in a Calm project environment MID-COURSE PROJECT Implementing Hybrid Cloud Scalability and Deployment Choice
- Extend blueprints into the hybrid cloud
- Scale your application using application profiles
Hybrid Cloud Governance
- Configure cost policies
- Implement private cloud cost metering
- Use chargeback mechanism to drive financial accountability
Project 3: Hybrid Cloud SaaS- Three-Tier Web Application
Building on your previous work, you will now extend the model of your e-commerce company's basic web application to a hybrid cloud deployment to maximise high availability and scalable performance. You will also be tasked with developing small and medium deployment scenarios.
