NCM-MCI case studies
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NCM-MCI (Nutanix Certified Master – Multicloud Infrastructure) is an advanced, hands-on credential aimed at engineers who design, deploy, and operate Nutanix environments across on-premises and public cloud. It sits above the associate and professional tiers, so it assumes working fluency with Prism Element and Prism Central, AOS storage behavior, AHV virtualization, and cluster networking rather than teaching those from scratch. The NCM-MCI case studies are 5 cases and about 3,466 words.
1Microsegmentation Rollout for a PCI-Scoped Claims Application
Regional health insurer runs a claims adjudication application on a 4-node AHV cluster managed by Prism Central. The application has three tiers: 26 web VMs on VLAN 120 (10.20.12.0/24), 12 app VMs on VLAN 130 (10.20.13.0/24), and 8 database VMs on VLAN 140 (10.20.14.0/24), including two read replicas.
754 words, about 4 min2Capacity and Protection Decisions for a 4K Media Archive
Post-production studio operates a 6-node AHV cluster with 12 x 3.84 TB SSDs per node, yielding about 276 TB raw capacity. The active container uses RF2 and is 62% full.
746 words, about 4 min3Registering an Acquired Cluster and Scaling Prism Central
A parent company with Prism Central pc.2024.1 managing 8 clusters and 420 VMs acquires a subsidiary that runs a 3-node AHV cluster with AOS 6.5.1, 120 VMs, and no Prism Central. The subsidiary uses VLANs 10, 20, and 30 and has its own IT team that must retain day-to-day VM administration.
700 words, about 4 min4VDI Boot Storm Causing CVM and Host Contention
A 5-node AHV cluster with 2 x 24-core CPUs, 512 GB RAM, 8 x 1.92 TB SSDs, and 25 GbE per node runs 850 non-persistent Citrix desktops. Between 07:00 and 08:00, Prism Central shows storage latency rising from 3 ms to 40-80 ms, CVM CPU at 85-95% on all nodes, host CPU at 70%, and about 90,000 IOPS dominated by 4K random reads.
619 words, about 3 min5Calm Automation and RBAC for an NC2 Burst Environment
A financial services firm runs an 8-node AHV cluster on premises and a 4-node Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) environment in AWS us-east-1 for quarterly batch bursts. Both are registered to one Prism Central.
647 words, about 3 min