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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.

Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE): Day-two operations. How to get a Kubeconfig file?

The Kubeconfig file contains information needed to connect to the Kubernetes cluster. In this article, we will look at how to get a Kubeconfig file to connect to the NKE-deployed Kubernetes clusters.

Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE): Day-two operations. Enabling Advanced Kubernetes Management

Advanced Kubernetes Management is a feature of the NKE that provides extra visibility for Kubernetes clusters in the Prism Central interface. It allows you to get information about deployed resources in clusters in a pretty simple manner.

In this article, we will look at how to enable and use the Advanced Kubernetes Management feature.

Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE): Day-two operations. Updating Kubernetes and OS image versions.

This is the third article in the NKE series. Before, I wrote about how to deploy Kubernetes clusters using NKE and how to add or remove workers.

In this article, we will cover update procedures and look at how easily we can update the host OS version and Kubernetes using NKE.

Free Nutanix NCA or NCP exam until June 28

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.