Getting Started

Welcome to the Nutanix Calm Labs! This workbook accompanies an instructor-led session that introduces Nutanix Calm and many common management tasks. Each section has a lesson and an exercise to give you hands-on practice. The instructor explains the exercises and answers any additional questions that you may have.

What’s New

  • Workshop updated for the following software versions:
    • AOS & PC 5.10
  • Optional Lab Updates:

Agenda

  • Nutanix Calm
    • What Is Calm
    • Selling Calm
  • Nutanix Calm Labs
    • Calm: Projects
    • Calm: MySQL Blueprint
    • Calm: 3-Tier Web-App Blueprint
    • Calm: Windows Blueprint
    • Calm: Marketplace
  • Optional Labs
    • Calm: Enable
    • Calm: SSH Key Creation

Introductions

  • Name
  • Familiarity with Nutanix

Initial Setup

  • Take note of the Passwords being used.
  • Log into your virtual desktops (connection info below)

Environment Details

Nutanix Workshops are intended to be run in the Nutanix Hosted POC environment. Your cluster will be provisioned with all necessary images, networks, and VMs required to complete the exercises.

Networking

Hosted POC clusters follow a standard naming convention:

  • Cluster Name - POCXYZ
  • Subnet - 10.**21**.XYZ.0
  • Cluster IP - 10.**21**.XYZ.37

If provisioned from the marketing pool:

  • Cluster Name - MKTXYZ
  • Subnet - 10.**20**.XYZ.0
  • Cluster IP - 10.**20**.XYZ.37

For example:

  • Cluster Name - POC055
  • Subnet - 10.21.55.0
  • Cluster IP - 10.21.55.37

Throughout the Workshop there are multiple instances where you will need to substitute XYZ with the correct octet for your subnet, for example:

IP Address Description
10.21.XYZ.37 Nutanix Cluster Virtual IP
10.21.XYZ.39 PC VM IP, Prism Central
10.21.XYZ.40 DC VM IP, NTNXLAB.local Domain Controller

Each cluster is configured with 2 VLANs which can be used for VMs:

Network Name Address VLAN DHCP Scope
Primary 10.21.XYZ.1/25 0 10.21.XYZ.50-10.21.XYZ.124
Secondary 10.21.XYZ.129/25 XYZ1 10.21.XYZ.132-10.21.XYZ.253

Credentials

Note

The <Cluster Password> is unique to each cluster and will be provided by the leader of the Workshop.

Credential Username Password
Prism Element admin <Cluster Password>
Prism Central admin <Cluster Password>
Controller VM nutanix <Cluster Password>
Prism Central VM nutanix <Cluster Password>

Each cluster has a dedicated domain controller VM, DC, responsible for providing AD services for the NTNXLAB.local domain. The domain is populated with the following Users and Groups:

Group Username(s) Password
Administrators Administrator nutanix/4u
SSP Admins adminuser01-adminuser25 nutanix/4u
SSP Developers devuser01-devuser25 nutanix/4u
SSP Power Users poweruser01-poweruser25 nutanix/4u
SSP Basic Users basicuser01-basicuser25 nutanix/4u

Access Instructions

The Nutanix Hosted POC environment can be accessed a number of different ways:

Citrix XenDesktop

https://citrixready.nutanix.com - Accessible via the Citrix Receiver client or HTML5

Nutanix Employees - Use your NUTANIXDC credentials

Non-Employees - Username: POCxxx-User01 (up to POCxxx-User20), Password: <Provided by Instructor>

Employee Pulse Secure VPN

https://sslvpn.nutanix.com - Use your CORP credentials

Non-Employee Pulse Secure VPN

https://lab-vpn.nutanix.com - Username: POCxxx-User01 (up to POCxxx-User20), Password: <Provided by Instructor>

Under Client Application Sessions, click Start to the right of Pulse Secure to download the client.

Install and open Pulse Secure.

Add a connection:

  • Type - Policy Secure (UAC) or Connection Server
  • Name - HPOC VPN
  • Server URL - lab-vpn.nutanix.com