Advanced operations and monitoring on a competing platform
VMware's advanced operations credential is the nearest cross-vendor counterpart for senior engineers who optimize and monitor a private cloud rather than design it.
Who it suits
Suits experienced infrastructure engineers who already operate large private clouds and want an advanced credential on another major platform, preferring a written format to a live lab.
Key differences
- Its focus is observability, capacity planning, optimization, and fleet-level management on VMware Cloud Foundation, mirroring the optimization and monitoring themes of the Nutanix lab.
- It is taken as a proctored written exam with varied item types, while the Nutanix master credential is assessed in a live lab environment, so it measures knowledge of procedures rather than live execution.
- It is built around VMware's tooling, so you gain breadth on a rival stack but lose the Nutanix-specific storage and continuity depth.
- Level
- Expert
- Assessment
- Written
- Study time
- 180-340h
- Listed from
- $250