Build a strong foundation in hybrid cloud and modern infrastructure with Nutanix.

Learn the fundamental concepts of hybrid cloud, hyperconverged infrastructure, virtualization, storage, networking, and cloud operations using Nutanix technologies.

Develop practical knowledge of modern IT infrastructure that helps organizations simplify operations, improve scalability, and support digital transformation initiatives.

  • Why get trained: Gain foundational knowledge of Nutanix hybrid cloud technologies and modern infrastructure concepts that support today’s cloud-first and hybrid IT environments.
  • Why it matters: Organizations are modernizing data centers and adopting hybrid cloud strategies, creating demand for professionals who understand cloud infrastructure, virtualization, automation, and operational efficiency.
  • Who should attend: IT professionals, system administrators, infrastructure engineers, cloud administrators, network engineers, technical support professionals, and individuals beginning their Nutanix certification journey.

Build the foundational skills needed to understand and support modern hybrid cloud environments with Nutanix. HRD Corp Claimable

Overview

This course is designed for Systems Administrators, Data Center Engineers, and Cloud Architects who are ready to master the next generation of invisible infrastructure. Whether you are a veteran moving away from legacy virtualization or an early-career professional aiming to specialize in Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), this curriculum provides the expertise needed to manage the Nutanix Cloud Platform with confidence.

A career as a Nutanix Administrator is more than just maintaining servers; it is about driving business agility. By mastering the ability to simplify complex data center operations, you become a strategic asset who reduces operational overhead and eliminates technical silos. In today’s market, a Nutanix admin is the orchestrator of the software-defined data center, providing the stability and scalability that allow businesses to focus on application innovation rather than hardware firefighting.

Proficiency in the Nutanix ecosystem prepares you for specialized positions such as HCI Architect, Cloud Infrastructure Lead, Storage Specialist, and Platform Engineer. Furthermore, with Nutanix’s increasing focus on AI-ready infrastructure, skilled administrators are now finding opportunities as AI Infrastructure Ops, managing the high-performance clusters required for enterprise-scale machine learning and generative AI applications.

Skills Covered

  • Distinguish between Prism Element and Prism Central within a Nutanix HCI environment
  • Explain AOS storage architecture, resiliency factors, and capacity optimization
  • Configure storage containers and virtual networking within Prism Central
  • Administer the Image Service and use categories to automate infrastructure policies
  • Execute VM lifecycle tasks, including creation, customization, and cloning
  • Analyze cluster performance via analysis sessions, custom charts, and reports
  • Assess system health using Alerts dashboards and Nutanix Cluster Checks (NCC)
  • Perform inventory operations and software updates using Life Cycle Manager (LCM)

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites required to attend this course.

Target Audience

  •  Network and security operations center personnel who want to learn Nutanix fundamentals (Prism, AOS, AHV) virtualization and Cloud-related concepts.
  • Specific job roles that will benefit from the NHCF course:
    o Network Operations Center (NOC) operators
    o Security Operations Center (SOC) operators
    o Data Center Operations (DCO) Technician
    o IT project managers
    o IT staff new to Nutanix
  • Anyone seeking the Nutanix Certified Associated (NCA) certification.

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction

  • Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
  • Understand Nutanix Cloud Solution Packages
  • Get started with Prism Central and Prism Element
  • Understand Nutanix Pulse
  • Understand when to use Prism Central and when to use Prism Element
  • Cluster setup fundamentals
  • Understand cluster-level security settings

Hands-on Labs

  • Accessing and exploring Prism Element and Prism Central
  • Deciding when to use Prism Central versus Prism Element

Module 2: Hardware and Storage Concepts

  • Understand nodes, blocks, and clusters
  • Understand types of physical storage
  • Understand AOS Distributed Storage
  • Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, cluster resiliency, and snapshots
  • Use different Prism Central dashboards to monitor cluster hardware and storage

Hands-on Labs

  • Exploring the hardware and storage containers dashboards
  • Creating a storage container

Module 3: Networking

  • Understand AHV networking terminology and key concepts such as managed and unmanaged networks
  • Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks
  • Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer

Hands-on Labs

  • Viewing network configuration in Prism Central
  • Using the Network Visualizer

Module 4: Image Management

  • Understand the image service
  • Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images

Hands-on Labs

  • Exploring the images dashboard
  • Uploading and importing an image to Prism Central
  • Uploading an image using Prism Element

Module 5: VM Management

  • Use Prism Central to create and monitor VMs
  • Perform basic VM management tasks such as updating, deleting, exporting, and cloning VMs, taking snapshots, and creating VM recovery points
  • Understand categories and affinity policies

Hands-on Labs

  • Exploring the VMs dashboard
  • Creating VMs
  • Creating a VM recovery point
  • Cloning a VM
  • Exporting a VM as an OVA file

Module 6: Backup and Disaster Recovery Fundamentals

  • Understand data protection and data protection strategies
  • Create snapshots and recovery points
  • Use the Data Protection dashboard
  • Create protection domains and remote sites
  • Understand Nutanix Disaster Recovery terms and concepts

Hands-on Labs

  • Creating protection domains and local VM restore
  • Configuring remote sites
  • Creating protection domains using remote sites
  • Performing VM migration

Module 7: Monitoring Cluster Performance and Health

  • Use Prism Central to create sessions, charts, and reports
  • Understand and explore alerts and events
  • Configure alert emails
  • Collect logs
  • Use the Nutanix Support Portal to create a support case

Hands-on Labs

  • Adding built-in charts to the Analysis Dashboard
  • Creating a custom chart
  • Creating a new report
  • Viewing, downloading, and scheduling reports
  • Monitoring cluster health
  • Collecting logs

Module 8: Understanding Licensing and Performing Upgrades

  • Understand License Manager
  • View license details in Prism and on the Nutanix Support & Insights Portal
  • License a cluster
  • Understand Life Cycle Manager (LCM) and the LCM workflow
  • Use the LCM dashboard in Prism Central and Prism Element
  • Use LCM to perform an inventory

Hands-on Labs

  • Exploring the LCM dashboard
  • Performing inventory at a Connected Site and at a Dark Site

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August 26, 2026 - August 27, 2026

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September 14, 2026 - September 15, 2026

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October 1, 2026 - October 2, 2026

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November 16, 2026 - November 17, 2026

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December 7, 2026 - December 8, 2026

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Exam & Certification

Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA).

The Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) 7.5 exam will measure a candidate’s ability to demonstrate awareness of the purpose and use case of Nutanix products and services—as well as navigate the Prism UI, extrapolate information from the UI, and use the UI for basic operational tasks.

Successful candidates have approximately 3-6 months of holistic IT infrastructure experience and equivalent Nutanix experience. Successful candidates are typically new IT employees, IT administrators, Tier 1 support personnel, or students in the STEM field. Finally, the successful candidate will most likely have taken training courses, such as the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF) course.

Training & Certification Guide

IT professionals with a Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) certification have demonstrated that they have the skills to navigate a Nutanix Cluster. Successful candidates ideally have 6-12 months of IT experience and can assist in operating and managing a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud.

  • Number of Questions: 50
  • Question Format: Multiple Choice
  • Time Limit: 90 minutes
  • Language: English
  • Cost: USD99 per attempt

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

  • Use of the NCA logo
  • NCA Digital Badge from Credly/Acclaim
  • Access to the Nutanix Certification store
  • Discounts on Nutanix events
  • Early access to educational programs

Section 1: Describe Lifecycle Management

  • Describe Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM).
  • Monitor LCM software and firmware upgrades.

Section 2: Describe Nutanix Basic Administration

  • Describe how to perform basic virtual machine tasks.
  • Identify cluster-level settings.
  • Determine cluster license levels.

Section 3: Maintain the Environmental Health of a Nutanix Cluster Environment

  • Perform and interpret cluster health checks.
  • Administer alerts, events, and policies.
  • Create and manage support tickets.

Section 4: Describe Cluster Configuration Options

  • Determine and describe redundancy factors and replication factors.
  • Identify storage components.
  • Identify storage optimization features.
  • Identify supported hypervisors.
  • Identify basic AHV networking concepts.
  • Determine use cases for Nutanix products and services.

Frequently Asked Questions

Nutanix Technical Certifications have been designed from the ground up to recognize the real-world skills and knowledge needed to successfully deploy, manage, optimize, and scale a Hybrid Multicloud solution. Earning certifications in these areas validates that you have proven your abilities and are well-equipped to guide your organization along the next phase of their Cloud journey.

The exam cost for NCP and NCM exams is USD $199 per attempt. The NCA exam
costs USD $99 per attempt.

Visit the Nutanix University Learning Platform and choose which certification learning plan you would like to enroll in here. Follow the certification learning plan of your choice and you will find the Exam Blueprint Guide with instructions on how to register for an exam and more.

Yes, when you pass a certification exam, you will receive a digital badge within 7 days to share with your friends and colleagues.

Successful NCA candidates have 6-12 months of IT experience and can assist in operating and managing a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, while successful NCP candidates have approximately 3-6 months experience working with an AOS implementation as well as additional general systems administration experience (typically 1-2 years).

The new Nutanix Certified Expert – Multicloud Infrastructure (NCX-MCI) Certification recognizes Multicloud infrastructure practioners who have mastered the skills and abilities contained in the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Solution Design (ECSD) Boot Camp to teach strategic, enterprise-class design and delivery skills to Multicloud Infrastructure Practitioners.

This course, and the solution design method it teaches, was developed for the NPX Program. It focuses on discovery of business requirements, as well as creating and delivering Cloud-Smart solutions that leverage both the Nutanix stack for Private Cloud and the best offerings from our Public Cloud partners.

The NCX-MCI certification is designed to provide an intermediate step between the NCM-MCI and NPX certifications. NCX-MCI allows ECSD boot camp graduates to validate their advanced design skills and product knowledge by successfully presenting a template-guided solution to a panel of experts. For those who want to go deeper into the core AOS product, and for those who will be engaged in post-sales implementation of G2000-scale solutions (and the documentation required for success) the NPX Program is the next step.

Professional Level Training Courses:

ECA: Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration 6.5

The Enterprise Cloud Administration course enables administrators (system, network, and storage) to successfully configure and manage Nutanix in the datacenter. It covers many of the tasks Nutanix administrators perform through the use of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and command line interfaces (CLIs). It also provides insight into a Nutanix cluster’s failover and self-healing capabilities, offers tips for solving common problems, and provides guidelines for collecting information when interacting with Nutanix Support.

NEUCA: Nutanix End User Computing Administration

The Nutanix End User Computing Administration course teaches you the skills needed to design, install, configure, and manage a VDI solution on Nutanix.

NDMA: Nutanix Database Management & Automation

The Nutanix Database Management & Automation course teaches you the skills needed to install, configure, operate, and manage Nutanix Era.

NMCAA: Nutanix Multicloud Automation Administration

The Nutanix Multicloud Automation Administration (NMCAA) course teaches you the skills needed to install, configure, operate, and manage Nutanix X-Play and Nutanix Calm

Master Level Training Courses:

AAPM: Advanced Administration & Performance Management 5.15

The Advanced Administration & Performance Management course features comprehensive coverage of performance management for Nutanix clusters and details how to optimize performance, fix issues that slow down your system, and improve datacenter performance. You’ll learn through hands-on labs how to monitor system performance and tuning, while also touching on advanced networking and storage to help optimize datacenter administration.

Expert Level Training Courses:

ECSD: Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Solution Design Boot Camp

The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Solution Design vBoot Camp is a 3-day event that prepares you to engage with enterprise customers and design Nutanix Enterprise Cloud solutions that deliver real business value.

This event is for you, if you are an experienced and expert technologist, pre-sales engineer, post-sales consultant, or solution architect who supports the adoption of private and hybrid cloud in the enterprise.

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