If you already have experience administering a Nutanix environment, this course will extend, deepen and broaden your knowledge as you grow in your career as a Nutanix administrator.

In Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA), you’ll focus on Prism Central.

This course provides a comprehensive look at Nutanix centralized management capabilities and allows you to explore the wide variety of features that are available in this web console.

ECA covers four key areas:

Core Nutanix Concepts:　Gain a deep understanding of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the various Nutanix cloud solution packages. Learn the basics of cluster configuration and the components for creating and managing VMs – namely, networks and images.

VM Management:　Explore how to create and manage VMs, work with projects, protect VMs and their data, apply storage optimization features at the VM level, and migrate your workloads to a Nutanix environment.

Monitoring and Troubleshooting:　Learn about alerts, events, log collection, reporting, and how to use various features in Prism Central to identify, analyze and remediate performance issues.

Maintenance and Upgrades:　Learn how to set up a cluster for maintenance activities – such as starting and stopping nodes and clusters – and how to upgrade installed software and firmware with just a few clicks.

Administrators, engineers and others who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter　

Managers and technical staff seeking information to drive purchase decisions

Anyone seeking the Nutanix Certified Professional-Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification

1-2 years of holistic IT infrastructure experience

1: Getting Started with a Nutanix cluster

Understand three-tier and HCI　

Understand the Nutanix product portfolio

Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services

Get started with Prism Central and Prism Element

Understand when to use Prism Central and Prism Element
Hands-on-Labs

Connecting to and exploring Prism Element

Adding data services IP, an NTP server, and a name server in Prism Element

Connecting to, exploring and configuring Prism Central
2: Configuring Cluster Networking

Understand AHV networking terminology

Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks

Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer

Create and update subnets and virtual switches

Understand subnet extension and network segmentation
Hands-on Labs

Creating unmanaged and managed networks

Exploring the AHV network configuration

Viewing virtual switches from Prism Element
3: Managing Images

Understand the image service

Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images
Hands-on Labs

Uploading and importing images to Prism Central

Configuring an image placement policy
4: Creating VMs

Use Prism Central to create VMs

Use Prism Central self-service capabilities to create VM templates

Use Projects in Prism Central

Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools
Hands-on Labs

Creating Windows and Linux VMs

Installing Windows and Linux operating systems

Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows and Linux

Creating a project

Exploring the Self-Service dashboard in Prism Central
5: Managing VMs

Update, clone, customize, export, and apply placement rules to VMs

Create and apply storage policies to VMs

Create playbooks to automate common VM administrative tasks
Hands-on Labs

Updating a VM

Assigning categories to a VM

Creating a snapshot and restoring a VM

Creating a template and a clone

Exporting a VM as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) file

Creating and running a playbook
6: Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage

Understand AOS storage

Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, and snapshots

Understand fault tolerance and failure handling mechanisms

Create and update storage containers

Create and update volume groups

Use various capacity optimization features
Hands-on Labs

Exploring the Storage dashboard

Creating containers with and without compression

Comparing data in a compressed vs uncompressed container

Configuring volume groups

Migrating vdisks between storage containers
7: Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Understand data protection terms and concepts

Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities

Create snapshots and recovery points

Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and disaster recovery

Use Nutanix disaster recovery to create protection policies and recovery plans

Backup and restore Prism Central
Hands-on Labs

Backing up and restoring Prism Central

Configuring Self-Service Restore

Creating protection domains and local VM restore

Creating containers for replication

Configuring remote sites and creating protection domains

Performing VM migration and migrating back to primary
8: Securing a Nutanix Cluster

Understand the Nutanix approach to security

Use the Security dashboard in Prism Central

Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users and RBAC

Implement hardening features for AHV and the CVM

Understand policies in Flow Network Security

Understand data-at-rest encryption
Hands-on-Labs

Exploring the Security dashboard

Adding a local user

Adding Active Directory authentication

Configuring Role Mapping

Verifying a new user account

Cluster lockdown
9: Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move

Understand, install and upgrade Nutanix Move

Use Move to migrate VMs

Download Move logs
Hands-on Labs

Preparing a VM for migration

Deploying a Move VM

Configuring Move and a migration plan
10: Monitoring Cluster Performance

Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central

Create sessions, charts and reports

View and manage project resource utilization

Create custom dashboards in Prism Central

Resource planning and capacity runway
Hands-on Labs

Creating a Prism Central performance monitoring dashboard

Creating charts to analyze metrics using Prism Central

Creating and managing reports
11: Monitoring Cluster Health

Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element

Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism

Use Nutanix Cluster Check

Collect and forward logs
Hands-on Labs

Using Nutanix Cluster Check health checks

Collecting logs for Support

Verifying cluster health
12: Maintaining and Upgrading a Cluster

Perform a health check

Use node-maintenance mode

Understand hardware upgrade and replacement tasks

Start and stop nodes and clusters

Add and remove nodes

Understand and explore Life Cycle Manager (LCM)

Use LCM to perform inventory and upgrades
Hands-on Labs

Using node maintenance mode

Performing upgrades with LCM (with and without internet access)
13: Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues

Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central

Troubleshoot issues with protection policies, LCM, security, and performance

Identify problematic or inefficient VMs

Explore potential methods of remediating problematic VMs
Hands-on Labs

Working with Alerts

Exploring Events

Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI)

NCP-MCI certification holders have demonstrated the skills and knowledge to manage Nutanix AOS nodes, blocks, and clusters in the datacenter. Earning it validates your ability to deploy, administer, and troubleshoot Nutanix AOS, proving your mastery of key concepts from VM management to lifecycle operations.

Please note: The course material is intended to cover 70-80% of the knowledge on the exam, with the rest of your exam prep coming from independent study and/or experience.