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It’s time for free Nutanix exams again. You can use this promo code, KCNZTWMSTY, to get a 100% discount on one of the exams: NCA or any NCP.
The code is valid until June 28, but you can schedule your exam date for later, until July 31. Register today and take your exam when it is convenient.
Check out this page for the certification information. And let me remind you that on my blog I have a few preparation guides, including
NCA 6.5 exam and NCP-MCI 6.5 exam.
A bunch of links with announcements happened during the first day at Nutanix .NEXT 2024 in Barcelona.
Nutanix and Dell Technologies Collaborate on New Joint Solutions for Hybrid Multicloud
Nutanix and NVIDIA Team Up to Accelerate Enterprise AI
Nutanix Accelerates Hypervisor Innovation to Drive Enterprise Modernization
GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 is Here With Four Ways to Get Started with GenAI
Empowering Sustainability with a Modernized Infrastructure
Accelerate your Gen AI journey with Nutanix Unified Storage
Nutanix Widens Coverage for Cloud Native Users With Expanded Project Beacon
Nutanix and EDB Partner to Deliver a Modern Data Platform
On May 21, Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1.2 has been released.
This update contains important security bug fixes for the Enterprise Manager, including CVE-2024-29849 with a score of 9.8 and CVE-2024-29850 with a score of 8.8.
Please note, that CVE-2024-29849 allows an unauthenticated attacker to log in to the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager web interface as any user. So, consider to update ASAP.
In addition to the security bug fixes, there are many new improvements and features. I won’t post all of them here, but a few are interesting for me:
Improved VMware NBD (Network Transport Mode) transport mode performance by up to 2x;
AlmaLinux 9.3 and Rocky 9.3 are supported for use as Linux-based backup repositories and backup proxies;
VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 and 10.4.1.1 support;
Veeam Agent for Linux 6.1.2.1781 – AlmaLinux 9.3 & 9.4, RHEL 9.4, Rocky 9.3 & 9.4, and Ubuntu 24.04 Linux distributions support.
In total, there are about 100 improvements and fixes. So even if you don’t use the Enterprise Manager, consider installing this update to add support for new systems’ versions and bug fixes.
Previously, I wrote about deploying Kubernetes clusters using the Nutanix Kubernetes Engine.
The next few articles will cover the day-two operations that make managing Kubernetes clusters easier.
Today we will look at how to expand a Kubernetes cluster or how to shrink it using NKE.
Continue reading “Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE): Day-two operations. Scaling up and Shrinking Kubernetes Clusters.”
Nutanix Kubernetes Engine, or NKE (formerly Karbon), is a solution to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters in a Nutanix infrastructure.
With NKE, we can deploy Kubernetes clusters, upgrade them, add or remove workers, configure RBAC based on Prism Central, and more in a pretty simple way.
The purpose of this article is to provide a walkthrough on how to prepare a Nutanix cluster for use with NKE and how to deploy a Kubernetes cluster.
Continue reading “Deploying Kubernetes clusters using Nutanix Kubernetes Engine on Nutanix Community Edition”
Nutanix Community Edition 2.0 is compatible with the commercial version of Prism Central (PC), and we can use the 1-click Internet Method to deploy the PC, which significantly simplifies the deployment procedure.
For those who don’t know, Prism Central provides the ability to manage multiple Nutanix clusters from a single pane of glass, as well as additional features for managing, monitoring, reporting, and access control that are not available from the Prism Element interface. Also, Prism Central is required for deploying services like Nutanix Kubernetes Engine, Objects, Flow, and so on.
The purpose of this article is to provide a walkthrough on using 1-Click PC deployment.
Continue reading “Deploying Prism Central on Nutanix Community Edition 2.0 using the 1-Click Internet Method”
Veeam workers are the VMs running in the Nutanix cluster used in large environments to speed up the backup and restore processes.
Veeam Backup and Replication manages those VMs. During backup or restore procedures, VMs are powered on to process the data, and when backup or restore is finished, they are powered off.
We can consider workers as temporary proxies, working only during backup or restore procedures.
In this article, we will look at how to add workers to the backup infrastructure and how it works.
Continue reading “Using Workers in Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV”
In 2022, I had the opportunity to take the Nutanix Certified Expert — Multicloud Infrastructure (NCX-MCI) certification exam, and in this article, I would like to talk a little about the certification and give some tips for preparation.
Notice: This is a translated version of my original post, written in 2022 after I passed this exam. Since then, a few things have changed, but the overall process is still the same.
Continue reading “A few tips for preparing for the Nutanix Certified Expert — Multicloud Infrastructure exam”
As I wrote a few months ago, Nutanix released a new training and certification related to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) – Nutanix Certified Professional – Cloud Integration.
It contains two free online courses:
Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS Administration (NC2A-AWS) – Configuring and administrating NC2 in the AWS environment;
Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure Administration (NC2A-Azure) – Configuring and administrating NC2 in the Microsoft Azure environment.
And two exams:
Nutanix Certified Professional – Cloud Integration – AWS (NCP-CI-AWS) 6.7;
Nutanix Certified Professional – Cloud Integration – Azure (NCP-CI-Azure) 6.7.
Both exams are exiting the beta stage and will be available from April 30.
And the good news! Until April 19, two 100% discounts are available:
NCP-CI-AWS 6.7 exam discount code: NXFRCIAWS67;
NCP-CI-Azure 6.7 exam discount code: NXFRCIAZ67.
To get Nutanix Certified Professional – Cloud Integration 6 status, and badge, you don’t need to take both exams, but just one of them. So, schedule an exam today using a discount code and take an exam after April 30.
It’s not a common situation, but it does happen sometimes, especially in test clusters.
To change the admin password we need to connect to the CVM, for example, using the nutanix user, and reset the password:
$ ncli user reset-password user-name=admin password=MyStrong@Passw0rd
Password of user 'admin' reset successfully
Please login again with new credentials.The password should be strong and between 8 and 255 characters. It should differ by at least 4 characters from previous password and it should not be from last 5 passwords.
Now you can connect to Prism and use the password you just set.