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What’s new at Nutanix University? Free NCA 6.10 and NCP-MCI 6.10 beta exams opportunities

Great news from Nutanix University!

Two new beta exams are available for scheduling:
Nutanix Certified Associate 6.10 (NCA 6.10) Beta exam. Blueprint guide;
Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI 6.10) Beta exam. Blueprint guide.

Both exams are based on the recently released 6.10 LTS version of AOS.

If you don’t know, Nutanix offers beta exams for free, and the first 250 participants can take the exam at no charge! Just use those discounts during checkout:
NCA 6.10 Beta Exam Discount Code: NCA610BETA
NCP-MCI 6.10 Beta Exam Discount Code: NCPMCI610BETA

The main difference between a beta exam and a regular one is that the beta exam is larger. It includes more questions and you need more time to complete it. The time limit for NCA 6.10 beta is 120 minutes and for NCP-MCI 6.10 beta is 180 minutes.

The deadline is November 3, and this is the last day to test.

Also, one thing to mention, is that you will not get your results immediately! Usually, it can take two or even three months after the deadline, so be patient.

Recommended free online courses for preparing:
Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF) and Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA).

Let me remind you that on this blog I have two prep guides for both NCA and NCP exams:
Preparing for the Nutanix Certified Associate 6.5 Exam
Preparing for the Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud Infrastructure 6.5 Exam

Both guides are based on version 6.5, but if you use the same documentation and courses based on the new version, you will be fine.

Using Nutanix Prism Central Categories with Veeam Backup 12.2

Categories (in other systems they can be called labels or tags) are used to group entities based on a key-value pairing. For example, we can group a set of VMs and mark them as production environments and apply some policies, while another part of VMs will be marked as tests with a different type of policy applied.

With the release of Veeam Backup 12.2 and the added Prism Central integration, VBR is now aware of Prism Central Categories and can back up all VMs under the specified category in a backup job.

In this article, we will look at how to create a category in Prism Central, how to attach it to the VM, and, sure, how to use VBR with categories.

Veeam Backup 12.2 and Nutanix Prism Central integration

With the release of 12.2, Veeam introduced a new long-awaited feature: Nutanix Prism Central integration, which simplifies the management of large Nutanix clusters, managed by Prism Central instance.

In this article, we will look at how to connect the VBR Server to the Prism Central Instance and perform backup and recovery tasks.

Deploying Prism Central on Nutanix Community Edition 2.1 using offline bundle

Sometimes deploying Prism Central using an Internet connection is not an option, or a specific version may not be available. In this case, we can download PC deployment files from the Support Portal and deploy it using the Prism Central 1-click deploy from Prism Element method.

In this article, we will look at how to deploy a PC using an offline bundle.

Deploying the Proxmox Virtual Environment 8 on VMware vSphere for lab purposes

When I look at the virtualization platform, I look not only at the functionality but also at the ecosystem, including backups. When Veeam released version 12.2, where Proxmox support was added, I decided that it was time to learn this platform for a bit.

Previously I didn’t have experience with PVE, and this post is my journey on deploying this virtualization platform for lab purposes.

I considered writing a series of posts but later decided to put all the content into one large post.

In this post, I will cover how to deploy PVE nodes, create a 3-node cluster, connect shared storage, create a VM, and enable high availability.