Two-Day Technical Training on the Nutanix Platform

In April 2026, the ACROPOLIS INTEGRO team delivered a closed two-day technical training on the Nutanix platform for the engineering teams of our customers.

The training was structured not as a product pitch but as a working session — with real-world cases, architectural decisions, and operational nuances that are not found in the official documentation.

What we covered over two days

Day 1 — fundamentals and platform internals:

• HCI theory and differences from classic storage arrays
• AOS internals: CVM, Stargate, Cassandra, metadata
• Data locality as a source of performance
• Prism Element: storage containers, volume groups, hardware layout
• Recommended settings: Rebuild Capacity Reservation, Rack Awareness, Pulse, VIP/DSIP
• RF2 vs RF3, compression, deduplication, erasure coding — when to enable what

Day 2 — operations and automation:

• Prism Central: categories, tags, role model, Authorization Policies
• VM deployment from Cloud Image via cloud-init and sysprep
• Flow Network Security and IP-less microsegmentation
• Protection Policy, Consistency Groups, Near-Sync replication
• Recovery Plan with test network and automatic re-IP
• X-Play — low-code workflow automation
• NDB (Nutanix Database Services) — managing Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, MongoDB
• External Storage (Pure, NetApp, Dell) — when it applies in the region
• Troubleshooting and working with Nutanix Support

Format

A two-day intensive with a step-by-step flow: theory → architecture → hands-on in the UI → operational recommendations. The 45-minute-block format with breaks proved effective — the material is absorbed without overload, leaving room for questions and post-mortems.

Who benefits from this training

• IT teams migrating from VMware to Nutanix or evaluating the platform
• Infrastructure architects designing HCI solutions
• DBAs considering NDB for database consolidation
• Teams implementing disaster recovery and microsegmentation

Outcome for participants

Each participant received a structured memo with core concepts, operational recommendations, and a list of next steps — including the Nutanix NCA certification path and links to Nutanix Bible and Portal.

Next steps

A lab demonstration with hands-on Protection Policy and Recovery Plan setup. Further sessions are planned on NDB, Flow Network Security, and X-Play automation.

Need training for your team?

ACROPOLIS INTEGRO delivers technical training across a portfolio of key vendors: Nutanix, Red Hat, SUSE, Lenovo, Check Point, NVIDIA, Commvault, Cloudflare. The format adapts to the team’s goals — from introductory sessions for management to deep technical intensives for engineers.

Reach out — we’ll align the format and dates with your schedule.