Are you an experienced virtualization administrator with hands-on expertise in managing, troubleshooting, and optimizing virtual infrastructure? If you have training or certifications in other virtualization platforms, this accelerated course is designed for you.

Nutanix Quickstart for Virtualization Professionals (NQVP) is an intensive, one-day program that fast-tracks your journey to becoming a certified Nutanix administrator. With focused, practical training across several key areas – configuring and managing virtual infrastructure, disaster recovery, and monitoring & analysis – you’ll gain the skills needed to confidently operate Nutanix environments.

The instructor-led training (ILT) is delivered in a workshop-style format, with a strong emphasis on hands-on labs so you can apply what you’ve learned in the Nutanix environment. If you prefer to learn online, the digital version of this course includes detailed demos that parallel the hands-on activities from the classroom, allowing you to follow along and build your skills.

Through this course, you’ll explore Nutanix storage architecture, networking, security features, task automation, performance and health monitoring, and more – all tailored for professionals transitioning from other virtualization platforms.

Audience

IT professionals who:

• Are transitioning to Nutanix from other virtualization platforms.
• Have hands-on experience managing, troubleshooting, and optimizing virtual environments.
• Have training or certifications in other virtualization platforms

Related Certification

• Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI)

Course Outline

1: Fundamental Nutanix Concepts

2: Securing and Organizing a Nutanix Environment

Hands-on Labs

• Changing default passwords
• Configuring role-based access control
• Configuring secure access to the cluster
• Configuring SSL certificates
• Applying basic hardening
• Configuring categories

3: Configuring Nutanix Networking

Hands-on Labs

• Reviewing post-imaging network configuration
• Creating a virtual network

4: Provisioning and Managing Virtual Infrastructure 

Hands-On Labs 

• Creating a storage container
• Configuring storage policies
• Uploading an image
• Creating and managing virtual machines

5: Automating Tasks with Playbooks

Hands-On Labs 

• Creating a manually triggered playbook
• Creating an alert triggered playbook

6: Monitoring a Nutanix Cluster

Hands-on Labs

• Viewing cluster and VM metrics
• Analyzing performance with the Analysis dashboard
• Generating reports
• Performing a health check with NCC

7: Using Nutanix Disaster Recovery

Hands-on Labs

• Enabling Nutanix Disaster Recovery
• Adding an availability zone
• Creating a protection policy
• Creating a recovery plan
• Performing a planned failover

8: Migrating VMs to Nutanix

Hands-on Labs

• Configuring Move
• Creating an initiating a migration plan
• Performing cutover and validating migration