NSEA case studies
NSEA · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer Associate (NSEA) is a foundational credential aimed at pre-sales and field systems engineers who design, size, and position Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure. It suits people who translate customer requirements into a validated solution: discovery, sizing, cluster architecture, resiliency choices, and deployment planning. The NSEA case studies are 5 cases and about 3,120 words.
1HCI Go/No-Go for a Hospital Refresh
A regional hospital runs 42 VMs on a five-year-old three-tier stack: two database VMs for the patient portal, 18 application servers, 14 VDI desktops for clinicians, and eight file/print servers. The SAN array is at 78% capacity and shows 18 ms peak write latency during the 07:00–09:00 medication round; the vendor refresh is due in six months.
655 words, about 3 min2RF3, Block Awareness, and a Maintenance Window
An 8-node Nutanix cluster runs 260 VMs for a logistics company. The nodes are spread across two blocks of four, and the cluster is configured with RF3 and block awareness.
588 words, about 3 min3DR Design for a 30-Minute RPO
A software company runs 180 VMs at its primary site and needs a DR capability for a new compliance requirement. The current protection is a nightly backup to a tape library, with a 24-hour RPO and no tested restore.
618 words, about 3 min4AHV Networking with Active/Standby Switch Ports
A media company is migrating 90 VMs from ESXi to a four-node AHV cluster. Each node has two 10 GbE ports and one 1 GbE IPMI port.
591 words, about 3 min5Sizing a Three-Year Fixed-Capacity Proposal
A manufacturing customer wants a Nutanix proposal for 150 VMs: 20 ERP application servers, four SQL databases, 90 general VMs, and 10 engineering workstations. Current usable data is 6 TB and the customer expects 30% growth over three years.
668 words, about 3 min