Nutanix NCP-US case studies
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The Nutanix Certified Professional - Unified Storage (NCP-US) is a professional-level certification for administrators and engineers who design, deploy, and operate Nutanix's software-defined storage stack across Files, Objects, and Volumes. It suits storage admins moving off traditional NAS/SAN, virtualization engineers who own datastore capacity, and cloud or platform engineers responsible for S3-compatible object storage and iSCSI block consumption. The Nutanix NCP-US case studies are 5 cases and about 2,839 words.
1Files scale-out versus a second file server for SMB metadata pressure
A university department runs Nutanix Files on a six-node AHV cluster. The file server was deployed with three FSVMs and hosts two SMB shares: \ (40 TB, 1,500 users, access-based enumeration enabled) and \ (20 TB, 1,500 home directories).
634 words, about 3 min2Objects retention, legal hold, and a shared S3 access key
A healthcare claims processor must retain 180 TB of scanned claim images for seven years. The application writes about 30 million objects averaging 4 MB through the S3 API.
585 words, about 3 min3Volumes iSCSI path loss after a ToR firmware upgrade
A three-node Nutanix cluster provides block storage to two external ESXi 7 hosts through Nutanix Volumes. Each ESXi host has two 25 GbE NICs connected to separate top-of-rack switches.
562 words, about 3 min4Protection domain design for a 15-minute RPO and SQL consistency
A financial services company runs an eight-node AHV cluster at its primary site and a DR cluster 600 km away. Protection domain PD-FIN protects 120 VMs, including a three-node SQL Server Always On cluster and 40 general application servers.
524 words, about 3 min5SMB permissions after AD migration and shared S3 credentials
A law firm runs Nutanix Files for 900 users across 12 departments. The file server is integrated with Active Directory and uses a single service account.
534 words, about 3 min