Nutanix 101

• Nutanix Basics
  • NX Node Naming Convention
  • Cluster & Node architecture
  • I/O CDP
  • Data locality
  • Replication Factors (RF2 & RF3)
  • Storage Pools and Containers
  • Compression / Deduplication / Erasure Coding (EC-X)
  • Data Protection
  • Networking
  • Mixing and matching of nodes
  • Expansion and Reduction
  • Failure scenarios
  • Shadow Clones
  • Data-at-rest-Encryption
  • Prism / Prism Central
  • Nutanix Files
  • Nutanix Volumes
  • Hypervisors

Sizer

• Sizing with Sizer (and without)
  • Data gathering
  • Nutanix Sizer walkthrough
  • Manual Sizing walkthrough
  • Replaying back the solution to the customer

Data Gathering

• Discovery Questions
  • What to look for in Server Virtualisation?
  • What to look for in VDI?
    • Calculating User Density per node
    • Citrix XenApp server density calculation ‘guide’
  • Database servers

Finding Information

• Popular Locations
  • Slack
    • Channels
  • Seismic
  • SharePoints & Sites
  • JIRA
    • Reviewing AOS release info