Simplified Database Operations for any Cloud

On public, private, or hybrid clouds, Era enables database management on your terms. By providing simple, fast, consistent management from a single control plane, Era dramatically improves uptime, reduces tedious manual operations, and increases cost efficiency. The future of one-click simplicity across clouds and clusters is here. It’s a new Era.

Era provides the efficiency, agility, cost-effectiveness, and scalability of the cloud, no matter how you choose to deploy your databases.

Overview

This course teaches you the skills needed to install, configure, and operate Nutanix Era for the purpose of managing databases. The installation and management of databases themselves is not part of this course.

Skills Covered

In this course, you will explore a number of subjects including:

  • The what, the how, the why, and the benefits of database-as-a-service (DBaaS)
  • Important Nutanix Era terms and concepts, like copy data management, time machine, provisioning profiles and data access
    management
  • Implementing role-based access control (RBAC), including working with built-in and custom roles, and managing users and groups
  • Adding multiple clusters to Nutanix Era, working with Nutanix Guest
  • Tools, and registering a Nutanix cluster with Era
  • Monitoring and investigating issues with Nutanix Era, including alert policies, notifications, and log collection
  • Operations involved in protecting and restoring databases, including creating snapshots, cloning databases, log catch-up operations, refreshing clones, and restoring source databases

Prerequisites

This advanced course requires you to possess a basic Nutanix system administration skill set which includes:

  • familiarity with traditional virtualization storage architectures
  • hands-on experience with the Prism and Command-line interfaces.

These skills can be acquired by attending one of our basic admin courses (Enterprise Cloud Administration), or through on-the-job experience by working on a Nutanix system for at least 6 months.

Target Audience

  • IT administrators who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter and want a detailed deep dive into database administration using Nutanix Era
  • Anyone pursuing the Nutanix Certified Professional – Database Automation (NCP-DB) certification

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to Database Automation

  • Understanding Database-as-a-Service
  • Understanding Nutanix Era Terminology and Concepts
  • The Nutanix Solution for Database-as-a-Service

Module 2: Configuring and Operating Nutanix Era

  • Understanding the Era Workflow
  • Installing and Configuring Nutanix Era
  • Nutanix Era High Availability
  • Registering an Existing Database
  • Creating Profiles
  • Provisioning a New Database
  • Patching a Database

Module 3: Administering, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Nutanix Era

  • Administering Nutanix Era
    o Implementing Role-based Access Control and Managing Users
    o Adding Nutanix Clusters to Era
    o Upgrading Nutanix Era
  • Monitoring Nutanix Era
    o Understanding the Era Dashboard
    o Using Tags for Database Inventory Management
  • Working with Alerts
  • Investigating Issues with Nutanix Era

Module 4: Protecting and Restoring Databases (Time Machine Operations)

  • Era Time Machine
  • Managing SLAs Schedules
  • Prerequisites for Snapshot Creation, Replication, and Deletion
  • Cloning Databases
  • Database Log Management
  • Refreshing Clones
  • Restoring Source Databases

Dates & Locations

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June 22, 2026 - June 23, 2026

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December 17, 2026 - December 18, 2026

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Exam & Certification

Nutanix Certified Professional – Database Automation (NCP-DB).

Training & Certification Guide

The Nutanix Certified Professional – Database Automation certification validates a candidate’s skills and abilities to deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot database workloads using Nutanix Era.

Successful candidates ideally have 1-2 years of Nutanix database management experience, while also having at least 6 months of Nutanix Era experience. Candidates should be capable of successfully provisioning, patching, protecting, and cloning Nutanix Era-managed databases.

  • Number of Questions: 75
  • Question Format: Multiple Choice
  • Time Limit: 120 minutes
  • Language: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
  • Pricing: USD199 per attempt

SECTION 1 – DESCRIBE NUTANIX ERA CONCEPTS

  • Define database terminology
  • Describe Era features and benefits

SECTION 2 – DEPLOY AND CONFIGURE A NUTANIX ERA SOLUTION

  • Deploy an Era VM
  • Configure an Era instance

SECTION 3 – MONITOR AND REPORT ON AN NUTANIX ERA IMPLEMENTATION

  • Monitor alerts
  • Monitor storage usage
  • Report on database inventory

SECTION 4 – OPERATE AND MAINTAIN A NUTANIX ERA ENVIRONMENT

  • Apply procedural concepts to register database server VMs and databases
  • Apply procedural concepts to provision databases
  • Apply procedural concepts to test and publish database patches
  • Describe steps to apply database patches
  • Upgrade databases
  • Given a scenario, troubleshoot Era operations

SECTION 5 – PROTECT A NUTANIX ERA IMPLEMENTATION USING TIME MACHINE

  • Create, delete, and modify SLA retention policies
  • Given business requirements, perform a database clone
  • Apply procedural concepts to restore source databases
  • Refresh clones
  • Apply policies to back up databases

SECTION 6 – ADMINISTER A NUTANIX ERA CLUSTER ENVIRONMENT

  • Manage Era profiles
  • Perform Era software updates
  • Apply procedural concepts to add Nutanix clusters to Era
  • Manage networks in Era
  • Manage RBAC controls
  • Identify how to use Era APIs and CLI

Once you earn NCP-DB certification you join an exclusive community of Nutanix certified personnel, and earn more tangible benefits as well:

  • Use of the NCP-DB logo
  • NCP-DB Digital Badge from Credly
  • Access to the Nutanix Certification store
  • Discounts on Nutanix events
  • Early access to educational programs

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