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Great communities are built by people who are willing to share what they know.Throughout 2026, our Nutanix Technology Champions (NTCs) did exactly that publishing technical deep dives, tutorials, lessons learned, opinions, and real-world experiences that helped others learn and get more from Nutanix technologies.Every post represents time spent testing, experimenting, documenting, and giving something back to the community.And once again, our NTC bloggers made choosing this year’s winners incredibly competitive.After reviewing this year’s contributions, we’re excited to recognize our Top NTC Bloggers for 2026! 🏆🥇 1st Place: Julien Dumur Blog: juliendumur.frCommunity: ​@Exe Julien takes the top spot this year after another outstanding year of sharing his knowledge with the community.From hands-on Nutanix tutorials and homelab experiences to upgrades, automation, certifications, and lessons learned in the field, Julien consistently turns real technical experience into practical content

Hello community 👋If your week included a clever workaround, a late-night “aha” moment, or a tab you thought you’d come back to you’re in the right place. The Weekly Download is where we round up the smartest things the community has been shipping, testing, and talking about.From deep technical dives to practical tips you can use immediately, this week’s highlights show what happens when curious people share what they’re learning openly, generously, and without fluff.No algorithms. No noise. Just the good stuff that moved the conversation forward this week.Let’s dig in 👇State of the Lab: my Nutanix homelab before the rebuild 13 Years Later: What Betting on Nutanix Taught Me About Technology Decisions VirtIO Driver Injection in Veeam 13.1 Nutanix AOS 7.6, AHV 11.2 and PC 7.6: upgrade report AOS 7.6 One Repo, Three Macs: Homebrew, GitHub, and Dotfiles Nutanix Communtity Edition | Deploying Prism Central Scale out your Nutanix Cluster  Identifying snapshots in Prism Elements CLI (cvm) 

It’s that time again. 🚀Applications for the 2027 Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) program are officially open!Every year, we recognize a select group of people who do something special: they take what they know and use it to make the entire Nutanix community stronger.They answer questions. They share what they’ve learned. They create content. They speak at events. They connect people. They experiment, teach, challenge assumptions, and help others succeed.And now, we’re looking for the next group of Champions.The Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) program is the premier global program for community recognition at Nutanix.NTC represents the top tier of community recognition at Nutanix—a global community of practitioners, experts, advocates, creators, and leaders who are helping move our technology and our community forward.Being selected as an NTC is recognition of what you’ve contributed.But it’s also a commitment to what comes next.More Than a BadgeYes, being an NTC comes with some pr

The NCP-CN 7.5 exam beta program has reached capacity.Today we are introducing the Nutanix Certified Professional – Cloud Native (NCP-CN) 7.5 Beta exam, designed to validate the skills required to deploy, configure, manage, and operate Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) clusters across modern cloud native environments. The exam measures a candidate's ability to work with Kubernetes-based infrastructure, perform lifecycle management tasks, secure and monitor environments, and manage multi-cluster operations using NKP.The NCP-CN 7.5 Beta exam is intended for professionals with hands-on experience building and managing Kubernetes clusters, working with Linux, and administering cloud native platforms. Successful candidates typically include DevOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers, NKP Administrators, Platform Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, and Solution Architects.  What Skills Are Measured?The NCP-CN 7.5 Beta exam is organized around four key skill domains:Prepare the Environment for an N

👋 Another week, another batch of clever fixes, useful discoveries, and “wait… you can do that?” moments from the Nutanix community.The Weekly Download is your shortcut to the conversations worth catching up on, from technical deep dives and troubleshooting wins to practical tips you can put to work right away.No algorithms. No endless scrolling. Just the good stuff our community was sharing, solving, and figuring out this week.Grab your coffee, open a few tabs, and let’s dig in. 👇PowerShell script to API-Change all Nutanix password インフラ屋とアプリ屋のあいだ: クラスターの耐障害性Cluster Fault Toleranceについて（AOS7.6の仕様変更対応版） Work smart, not hard! インフラ屋とアプリ屋のあいだ: Nutanix+ESXi環境をNutanix+AHVにハイパーバイザーを変更する（その6） インフラ屋とアプリ屋のあいだ: Nutanix+ESXi環境をNutanix+AHVにハイパーバイザーを変更する（その5） インフラ屋とアプリ屋のあいだ: Nutanix+ESXi環境をNutanix+AHVにハイパーバイザーを変更する（その4） インフラ屋とアプリ屋のあいだ: Nutanix+ESXi環境をNutanix+AHVにハイパーバイザーを変更する（その3） インフラ屋とアプリ屋のあいだ: Nutanix+ESXi環境をNutanix+AHVにハイパーバイザーを変更する（その2） インフラ屋とアプリ屋のあいだ: Nutanix+ESXi環境をNutanix+AHVにハイパーバイザーを変更する（そ

As databases become more distributed, business-critical, and automation-driven, organizations need professionals who can deploy, manage, protect, and troubleshoot database environments at scale. The Nutanix Certified Professional – Database Automation (NCP-DB) 7 certification validates the skills required to deploy, administer, optimize, and maintain database workloads using Nutanix Database Service (NDB). Is This Certification Right for You?You'll be a strong fit for the NCP-DB certification if you have 1-2 years of database experience and at least 6 months of hands-on experience with Nutanix Database Service (NDB) running on Nutanix platforms, either on-premises or in the public cloud. Typical candidates include Database Administrators, Database Developers, Automation Engineers, Nutanix partner personnel, and OEM vendors responsible for managing database environments. Completing the Nutanix Database Management & Administration (NDMA) course is recommended, but not required. What

Hey Nutanix fam! 👋⚡Happy Tuesday (or whatever day your admin clock says it is)! Welcome back to The Weekly Download, your curated VIP pass to everything awesome happening in our community this week. From genius troubleshooting tricks to deep-dive guides and "aha!" moments, you all have been busy building, fixing, and innovating.Grab your favorite brew ☕, sit back, and dive into this week’s top highlights powered by you. 👇インフラ屋とアプリ屋のあいだ: Prism Element/Prism Centralのログインを証明書認証にする Nutanix MCP Server: From Infrastructure Automation to Intent-Driven Operations Discovering Nutanix: Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS QuickFix: Install ESXi 9.1 with an Unsupported CPU Upgrade Nutanix Community Edition To The Latest Versions Nutanix Community Edition on 2 Disks Flow Network Security Application Nutanix NDB 2.11 - The New Release Nutanix vs VMware Securing Nutanix API Access: Service Accounts, Keys, and Least Privilege What’s new at Nutanix University? New Beta certification: NCM-MCI 7.5 Filtering,

The NCP-MCA 7.5 and NCP-EUC 7.6 beta exam programs have reached capacity. Ready to expand your Nutanix expertise beyond hybrid multicloud infrastructure management? If you've already earned your Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification, now is the perfect time to deepen your skills with one of two new Specialty Professional certification paths focused on Multicloud Automation and End-User Computing (EUC). New v7 Beta ExamsNutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) 7.5Validate your ability to automate infrastructure and application deployment across multicloud environments using Nutanix technologies such as Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Self-Service and X-Play. The exam covers automation concepts, blueprint creation, runbooks, playbooks, governance, and troubleshooting automated deployments. Successful candidates are typically automation, DevOps, or platform engineers with hands-on experience in multicloud automation.📄 Downl

If you’ve spent any time talking with Service Providers over the past few years, and I certainly have, you’ve heard a similar refrain: “We love the flexibility of Nutanix, but managing dozens or hundreds of customer environments independently? That part… not so much.”And who could blame them? Every SP wants to run a modern cloud practice that scales, differentiates, and prints margin, not one that forces them to duct‑tape management consoles together like a late-night college group project. This is why the Nutanix SP Central solution matters. It’s not just another feature. It’s the answer Service Providers have been asking for, and frankly, the one they’ve deserved for a long time.A New Operating Model for Multi‑Tenant CloudAt its core, SP Central is simple: a secure, highly isolated, unified management plane built specifically for Service Providers, letting them run multiple tenants, clusters, sites, and services from one place. Think of it as the control tower for a multi‑tenant clou

The NCM-MCI 7.5 beta program has reached capacity. Today we are introducing the Nutanix Certified Master – Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) 7.5 Beta exam, designed to validate advanced skills in optimizing, troubleshooting, securing, and managing enterprise environments running on the Nutanix Cloud Platform. As the highest-level certification in the Multicloud Infrastructure track, the exam measures a candidate's ability to solve real-world infrastructure challenges while aligning platform capabilities with business requirements. Unlike traditional certification exams, the NCM-MCI 7.5 Beta consists of 17 hands-on scenarios completed in a live Nutanix multi-cluster environment, giving you the opportunity to demonstrate practical expertise across administration, automation, security, and disaster recovery.  What Skills Are Measured?The NCM-MCI 7.5 Beta exam is organized around five advanced skill domains:Monitoring & Troubleshooting Optimize & Scale Security Design Implementat

It’s your friendly neighborhood Technical Marketing Engineer again, with another exciting new feature from Nutanix. Grab a healthy snack, maybe some carrots, and let’s dive in! Are you thinking…did he say carrots? What? Hold that thought, we’re about to connect those carrots to cluster security, just stick with me.Security is a lot like eating your vegetables. You know they are good for you, but the potato chips calling your name are so tempting and within reach. Compared to finding ways to make vegetables taste good is a struggle, the chips are much easier at least that’s what 7yr old me would say. Regardless, both are good for you, the chips are debatable, maybe it's better to say both can be delicious! Hardening your infrastructure is a vital step in maintaining a robust and resilient environment, but it can be a bit daunting (like finding ways to make vegetables as good as potato chips). We believe that security management should be simple, efficient and empowering for IT teams. Th

This post was authored by Marc Waldrop, Principal Product Manager, Files, Eric Wang, Staff Engineer, Files, Anish Jain, Senior Technical Manager, Business Continuity and Disaster RecoveryWay back in a time long, long ago (okay, not that long ago), we released Nutanix Files Storage version 4.4. With that release, we introduced our first support for Files Storage running in a Metro cluster configuration. At that time, the release only supported Nutanix Files Storage running in a Metro cluster configuration with the VMware ESXi hypervisor. If you are interested -  shameless plug for an earlier blog on this subject - you can read more about that HERE.Being a software-defined data services offering and Nutanix having this other hypervisor, a few people may have heard of named  AHV, we still had a little work to do. So we hammered away on the keyboard, worked day and night, drank endless amounts of soda, and ate more pizza than we are comfortable admitting to. Through lots of hard work and c

Hello community 👋Whether you spent your week cracking a stubborn bug, bookmarking tabs you swear you’ll read later, or having that glorious late-night "aha!" moment, welcome home. You’re in the right place!This is The Weekly Download, where we cut through the noise and highlight the absolute best stuff you have been building, testing, and talking about. No fluff, no algorithm games, just real knowledge dropped by brilliant minds doing real work.Grab your coffee (or your beverage of choice) and let’s dive into this week’s lineup! 👇PC - Epsilon service DOWN | Nutanix ~ 不自量力 の Prism Central Backup with PCBR: A Deep Dive 關於 Kubernetes 的架構選擇 | Nutanix NKP ~ 不自量力 の Nutanix Cloud Platform 実践ガイド 第14章の紹介（登壇資料） - NTNX＞日記 New v4 VM Console API | Nutanix ~ 不自量力 の Nutanix AHV : Deploy Nutanix Guest Tools on Rocky Linux 10 OpenClaw on Nutanix AHV: The Complete Prerequisites Guide Nutanix Tech Connect 2026: My exclusive invitation to the heart of Nutanix HQ Install Claude Code on WSL : The complete

The introductory promotional offer ended on July 10, 2026.We’re excited to announce the availability of version 7.5 for our popular Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) and Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certifications!  NCA Certification OverviewAre you new to Nutanix? Then this certification is for you! The NCA certification exam validates your skills and abilities to navigate the Prism UI, extract information from it, and use the UI to perform basic operational tasks. Successful candidates have approximately 6-12 months of holistic IT infrastructure experience as well as 3-6 months of Nutanix virtualization experience.To prepare for the exam, we recommend you complete the online Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF) course by enrolling in the NHCF Learning Plan. This course explores the features that Prism Central offers for centralized infrastructure monitoring and management. Get started with the Nutanix platform as quickly as possible, and di

This post was authored by Biswajit De - Co-Founder & CTO, CleanStart Security inc As organizations accelerate their cloud-native journey, the attack surface expands exponentially. Container vulnerabilities, supply chain risks, and compliance mandates create a complex security landscape that traditional approaches struggle to address. The integration of the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution with CleanStart's hardened container images aims to offer a compelling solution: A security-first Kubernetes stack that is designed to balance e developer velocity and security..This technical blog explores how these two technologies complement each other to deliver enterprise-grade container security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.The Container Security ChallengeModern enterprises face a three-pronged container security challenge:Image Vulnerabilities: Standard base images from public registries often ship with hundreds of CVEs. A typical Alpine or Debian image may contain m

Check out these Nutanix University videos you may have missed in March! To stay up to date with our latest product demos, how-to videos, and more, make sure to subscribe to our Youtube channel by clicking the “Subscribe” button on the page. March Video Rewind    

Have 15 minutes? You can help shape the future of Multi-Cluster LCM.The Nutanix LCM Design Team is looking for feedback from the people who use Multi-Cluster Lifecycle Manager every day. Whether you've managed dozens of upgrades or you're just getting started, your experience matters.This isn't just another survey.Your feedback will directly influence future UI improvements, workflows, and engineering priorities to make lifecycle management faster, simpler, and more intuitive.Why participate?✅ Help improve the Multi-Cluster LCM experience✅ Share the challenges you face during lifecycle upgrades✅ Influence future product design decisions✅ Responses are confidential and used only for product improvement⏱ Time required: Approximately 15 minutes🔗 Survey LinkWant to make an even bigger impact?At the end of the survey, you'll have the option to volunteer for future deep-dive user research sessions and work directly with the LCM Design Team on upcoming improvements.Your feedback drives bette

Every week, something incredible happens in the Nutanix Community.Someone solves a problem that had another member stuck for days. Someone publishes a how-to that saves hours of troubleshooting. Someone asks a great question that sparks an even better discussion.The Weekly Download brings together the best of those moments so you can catch up in just a few minutes.Whether you're looking for practical tips, technical deep dives, or simply want to see what your fellow community members are building, learning, and sharing, you're in the right place.Let's jump into this week's highlights. 👇What Happens on a Bad Tuesday?  Nutanix Network Segmentation  Nutanix Approval Policies  What’s new at Nutanix University? New certification: NCP-DB 7.5  Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.6 で統合エンドポイントを作成してみる。 - NTNX＞日記<a  Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.6 の Management API で推論エンドポイントを作成してみる。 - NTNX＞日記<a  Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.6 の Management API で Hugging Fase モデルを URL インポートしてみる。 - NTNX＞日記 Configuring Active Direct

Welcome back to the Nutanix Community Podcast—the show where we talk with the people building the technologies that keep modern IT running.Managing databases at scale has never been more challenging. From provisioning and patching to disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, and now AI, database teams are being asked to do more with less.In this episode, Dwayne sits down with Nutanix veteran Jeremy Launier to explore Nutanix Database Service (NDB)—how it automates the operational heavy lifting, empowers developers with self-service, and helps organizations standardize, secure, and scale their database environments. Whether you're a database administrator, platform engineer, infrastructure architect, or just curious about where enterprise databases are headed, there's something here for you.ResourcesNutanix Database Service Test Drive: Nutanix Database Service (NDB) Nutanix Database Platform Bolsters MongoDB Support with New Certified Integration From Timeshares to Terabytes: Westgat

Having your cake and eating it too? Maybe not.For the KubeVirt virtualization environment, you’ll have your cake but you’ll have to wait to eat it or not eat it at all. As usual, there’s many ways to characterize a comparison like this one between KubeVirt and AHV. Our former SVP for Product and Solutions says, “KubeVirt can become quicksand pretty easily.” Lee Caswell has been the master of metaphors for us at Nutanix, so let’s see why.The problem is that KubeVirt-based VMs were designed originally to help developers quickly get a VM up and running from their own self-provisioning environment. They could use them for testing as needed and then potentially pass them over to IT to manage more traditionally when they’re ready to use.Developers use a familiar declarative YAML file that they already use to set up containers to run VMs in Kubernetes (K8s) pods alongside their containers. Additionally, if they want to access an already running, production VM, they could use their CSI drivers

The NCP-DB 7.5 beta program has reached capacity.Today we are introducing the Nutanix Certified Professional – Database Automation (NCP‑DB) 7.5 exam, designed to validate the skills required to deploy, manage, and optimize databases using Nutanix Database Service (NDB). What Skills Are Measured?The NCP‑DB 7.5 exam is built around real-world responsibilities and covers four major skill domains:Deploy and Configure an NDB Solution Monitor Alerts and Storage Usage Operate and Maintain an NDB Environment Administer an NDB EnvironmentFor detailed exam information, review the updated NCP-DB Exam Blueprint Guide. Enrollment in the NCP-DB 7.5 beta program has reach capacity. Watch this blog for the announcement of the live exam. How Should I Prepare for the NCP-DB 7.5 Exam?While training is not mandatory, Nutanix strongly recommends the Nutanix Database Management & Automation (NDMA) course.This course covers:DBaaS concepts and architecture Time Machine and copy data management RBAC and se

Welcome back to The Weekly Download — your weekly dose of what the Nutanix community is learning, building, solving, and sharing.Every week, community members from around the world contribute ideas, answers, blogs, and discoveries that help everyone move a little faster. We pull together some of the highlights so you can catch up on the conversations worth knowing about.Whether you're here to learn something new, solve a problem, or see what fellow practitioners are working on, you're in the right place.Let’s dive in 👇Welcome to the AI Factory: Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) 2.7 Explained  Find Recovery points Cohesity and Nutanix: Prism Element vs Prism Central  Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.6 で Sarashina の推論エンドポイントを起動してみる。 - NTNX＞日記 設定 Prism Central 組態，集中管 Nutanix 超融合叢集 | 網管人 245 期 ~ 不自量力 の  Cisco + Nutanix Foundation How To: Agentic Coding Stack with Nutanix Enterprise AI and Opencode [OSS Agentic Coding Part 3]  Sizing Up Identity Risk with Purple Knight and Forest Druid  What My DNA Taugh

The introductory promotional offer has reached capacity.Hybrid operations, escalating ransomware threats, and tighter recovery expectations mean business continuity is no longer optional. Organizations need professionals who can design, implement, test, and recover complex environments quickly and reliably. The Nutanix Certified Professional – Business Continuity (NCP‑BC) certification validates the skills required to plan, execute, and troubleshoot enterprise‑grade Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions using Nutanix.Is This Certification Right for You?You’ll be a strong fit for the NCP‑BC certification if you have 2–3 years of IT infrastructure experience, at least a year working with Nutanix environments, and hands‑on exposure to disaster recovery or backup solutions. Typical candidates include Systems Administrators, Backup Administrators, Architects, Platform Engineers, and IT Operations professionals responsible for keeping critical applications available.While not r