Nutanix NCA case studies
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The Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) is an entry-level credential for IT professionals who work with or alongside Nutanix enterprise cloud infrastructure. It is aimed at administrators, support engineers, and presales or operations staff who need a working vocabulary for the platform rather than deep implementation expertise. The Nutanix NCA case studies are 5 cases and about 4,239 words.
1Maintenance Mode on a Nearly Full Six-Node Cluster
A six-node AHV cluster runs a single storage container with RF2. Each node contributes 8 TB of raw capacity, so usable capacity is roughly 24 TB, and the container is 80% full with 19.2 TB of VM data.
821 words, about 4 min2Adding a Tagged VLAN to a Production AHV Cluster
A four-node AHV cluster connects each host with two 10 GbE interfaces in an active-backup bond. The top-of-rack ports are configured as access ports in VLAN 10, and every CVM and VM sits on the default VLAN-backed network.
834 words, about 4 min3RPO Promises Versus Protection Domain Reality
A production five-node cluster protects 140 VMs in a single protection domain. The schedule takes a local snapshot every 30 minutes, retains 8 snapshots, and replicates asynchronously to a three-node DR cluster every 4 hours.
859 words, about 4 min4Alert Noise on a Cluster With a Real Problem
Prism Central shows a five-node cluster with a 'CVM NIC link down' alert on host 3 that clears and re-raises roughly every 45 minutes, a 'Data resiliency reduced' alert that raised and cleared twice overnight, and a failing NCC check for CVM disk health. Six weeks ago the previous administrator muted all alerts for this cluster with a 90-day silence rule and turned off email notification.
860 words, about 4 min5Least Privilege for a Third-Party Backup Vendor
A Prism Central instance manages three registered clusters for a hospital. Today all three clusters share the same 40 local user accounts and one AD group mapped to a cluster-wide Super Admin role.
865 words, about 4 min