Describe and differentiate capabilities of Prism Central with and without Prism Pro

What Prism Pro Is Based on the Prism Central Starter License Added as a per-node license which enables additional features What Prism Pro Is Not An upgrade to an existing product A different product requiring a new license Prism Pro Feature List One-Click Centralized Upgrades allows for fast, simple upgrading of one or multiple clusters,…

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Use Prism Central to identify and fix bottlenecks and anomalies

Anomaly Detection Behavioral analysis functions have been added to existing predictive functions to provide anomaly based alerts and alarms. These are dynamic and change based on ongoing analysis of the environment. Think thresholds but dynamic thresholds based on machine learning and historical analysis. Anomaly detection is valuable as it indicates when KPIs (e.g. CPU utilization)…

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Exploit Machine Learning for entity management and resource optimization

What is X-FIT? X-FIT is a distributed time series analysis and forecasting system that uses an ensemble of models. The models compete in a distributed tournament, where the system performs cross-validation and selects the top models based on the mean absolute scaled error (MASE) on the out-of-sample forecasts during the cross validation. Then the final…

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Plan for future growth using Capacity Runway and What-if Scenarios

Capacity Runway Capacity Runway focuses on consumption from three resource buckets, which include Storage capacity CPU Memory The capacity runway shows the number of days remaining before a resource is consumed. The multi-cluster view is shown as a table and individual cluster is shown as a graph. It uses machine learning algorithms to forecast capacity….

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Implement and administer Prism Self-Service

The Prism Self Service feature allows you to create projects where consumers of IT infrastructure within an enterprise—individual users or teams such as development, test, and DevOps—can provision and manage VMs in a self-service manner, without having to engage IT in day-to-day operations. Prism Self Service Overview Allows end-users to consume infrastructure resources in a…

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Describe and manage role mapping between Prism Element and Prism Central

Configuring Role Mapping on Prism Central will NOT let you log into Prism Element with Active Directory credentials. Configuring role mapping on Prism Central will allow you to launch Prism element from Prism Central; but it will NOT allow direct login. Configure Authentication Source When user authentication is enabled for a directory service, all authorized…

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Describe and differentiate audit events and logs for local and AD/LDAP users

If you have enabled Active Directory authentication to manage roles or access in the Prism web console, the AD users might receive the Authentication Failed error message while logging on to the Prism web console. This article describes ways to troubleshoot such issues and to check what might be wrong in the environment, provided that…

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Unofficial Nutanix NCAP Study Guide

After completing the NCP, the NCAP was the next goal on my list. I began to prepare for this in a similar fashion to how I did with the NCP. The first step was of course, to download the Exam Blueprint. As with the NCP guide, a big credit again goes to Steven Poitras, and…

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