Nutanix NCP-CI-AWS case studies
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The Nutanix Certified Professional - Cloud Integration - AWS (NCP-CI-AWS) is a professional-level credential for engineers who run Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Amazon Web Services. It targets administrators, cloud engineers, and consultants who deploy and operate Nutanix software on AWS infrastructure rather than on-premises hardware, and who need to connect the two environments. The Nutanix NCP-CI-AWS case studies are 5 cases and about 2,974 words.
1Seasonal Burst Capacity on NC2 with a Single-AZ Constraint
Northline Retail runs a five-node Nutanix cluster on-premises with 180 VMs. Demand triples for eight weeks each November.
647 words, about 3 min2Hybrid Throughput Collapse Between NC2 and On-Premises NFS
Meridian Health runs an NC2 cluster in a 10.50.0.0/16 VPC and connects to on-premises 172.16.0.0/16 through a Transit Gateway and a 1.25 Gbps Site-to-Site VPN with two tunnels. Nightly backups from 40 NC2 VMs to an on-prem NFS server at 172.16.30.20 average only 180 Mbps and stall every few minutes.
604 words, about 3 min3SAML Users Authenticate but Cannot See the NC2 Cluster
Contoso uses Microsoft Entra ID SAML for Prism Central 2024.1 and Active Directory LDAP for Prism Element. A single NC2 cluster in eu-west-1 is registered to Prism Central.
578 words, about 3 min4LCM Upgrade Blocked by No-Egress Security Policy
Aster Logistics runs a six-node NC2 cluster in us-west-2 with 420 VMs, AOS 6.7, and Prism Central 2024.1. Storage is 70% full; memory pressure alerts fire at 85% every afternoon.
572 words, about 3 min5VMware Migration and 15-Minute RPO on a Fixed Cutover Window
Harbor Freight Systems plans to migrate 150 VMware VMs and 25 TB to a six-node NC2 cluster on AWS. The on-premises site uses 10.10.0.0/16 and has a 200 Mbps Direct Connect with 60 ms round-trip latency; the target VPC is 10.70.0.0/16.
573 words, about 3 min