The document details Nutanix's data protection strategies, including features like snapshots, replication, and disaster recovery that enhance reliability and performance. It discusses Nutanix's architecture which supports flexible scaling, high availability, and robust data management capabilities. Additionally, it highlights the integration with cloud services for efficient backup and recovery solutions.

1. Uw werkplek- en datacenterspecialist
Ontwerpen • Implementeren • Optimaliseren

2. Nutanix in de praktijk:
Dataprotectie strategieën

4. Presenter Name
Date
Nutanix in de praktijk:
Dataprotectie strategieën
Bert van der Lingen
SE / presales consultant
Exclusive-Networks

5. agenda
 Nutanix hoog over
 Beschikbaarheid binnen cluster
 Back-up
 First line of defence: snapshots
 Cloud
 Ander cluster
 Uitwijk:
 Replicatie
 Metro

6. What slows down IT
1. Inherent Complexity
2. Forklift scale-up to grow
3. Battle Bottlenecks

7. Traditional Infrastructure
Web-scale Converged Infrastructure
 Compute  Storage  Virtualization
Simpel, snel en schaalbaar

8. Nutanix Distributed Architecture
VMVM VM
Storage
Capacity
Storage
Control
Compute
X86 Node
VMVM VM
Storage
Capacity
Storage
Control
Compute
X86 Node
VMVM VM
Storage
Capacity
Storage
Control
Compute
X86 Node
Best Performance
• Convergence eliminates
bottlenecks
• Linear performance at scale
Optimal Scalability
• Scale one node at a time
• Cluster expansion with
zero downtime
Highly Reliable
• No single point of failure
• Self healing

9. Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform
Any app, any size, any hypervisor
Enterprise Storage
Snapshots, clones,
replication, compression,
thin provisioning ,
deduplication
Data Management
Data locality, tiering,
balancing, tunable
resilience
Hypervisor Agnostic
vSphere, KVM,
Hyper-V

10. 15
Node
• Industry standard x86 server
• Intel Processors
• Intel SSD / Seagate HDD
• Intel 10GB Ethernet
• Standard Microsoft Hyper-V,
Vmware ESX or KVM.
Compute/Storage Nodes

11. voorbeeld: Nutanix NX3060-G4
# Nodes:
4
CPU Capacity
2 x 8, 10 or 12 core Haswell
Memory Capacity (GB)
128/192/256 (16)
256/384/512 (32)
Disk capacity:
SSD: 2x
480GB/800GB/1.2TBGB/1.6TB
HDD: 4x 1TB/2TB
Networking
2 x 10GbE (4x option)
2 x 1GbE
1 x IPMI (10/100 Mbs)
SSD
HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
SSD
SSD
HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
SSD
SSD
HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
SSD
SSD
HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
SSD

12. Beschikbaarheid binnen cluster
• RAID is dead!
• Instelbare redundantie
• HA
• Datapad redundantie

13. RAID?

15. Tunable Redundancy
Software-defined
RF-3 offers protection against two
simultaneous disk, node and NIC failures
Switch between RF-2 and RF-3
Replication set at the container level
Configure different levels of fault
tolerance for different applications in the
same cluster dynamically

16. Redundancy Factor – RF3 example

17. Data Path Redundancy
Software-defined
Automatic failover to another CVM in the
cluster in the event of failure
Transparent to hypervisor and VMs
Continue to access data even with CVM
failures for always-on operation

18.  V1: Intelligent placement of replicas to
protect against failure of block
 Requires minimum of 3 blocks for block
awareness
Place data intelligently to across
availability domain boundaries
Availability Domains (Block Awareness)

19. Block Awareness

20. Data Path Redundancy

21. High Availability

22. Dataprotectie 2.0
• RPO / RTO
• Snapshots
• Replicatie
• Metro availability
• cloud

23. Nutanix: Solution for all SLAs
RTORPO
Nutanix
Feature
Minutes Minutes Time Stream
Hours Hours Cloud Connect
Zero Minutes Metro Availability
Minutes Minutes Remote
Replication
Minor
incidents
Major
incidents

24. Off-site Tape Backup
Primary Cluster On-Site Backup
$$$$ $$
Disaster Recovery
x Snapshots, replication, backup at
LUN/volume granularity
x Trade-offs between cost/complexity and
SLAs (RPO/RTO)
x Expensive to deploy and test
Complex multi-vendor solution for
backup and DR puts data at risk
and drives up costs
Uitdagingen Traditionele back-up en uitwijk
Backup Software

25. Integrated Backup and DR with Nutanix
VMCaliber EVERYTHING
Local snapshots with Time Stream
Backup to Amazon S3
Integration with VSS and SRM
Quick restore and state recovery
WAN-optimized replication for DR
Works with ESXi and Hyper-V
vdisk Local Snapshots
Remote Snapshots
DR Cluster
Primary Cluster
Local Off-Cluster
backups
On-Site Secondary
Public
Cloud
Schedule, manage and use local
and remote snapshots and
replication for backup and
disaster recovery from Prism
Third party sw

26. Native VMCaliber
snapshots
Support for VMware API for Array Integration
(VAAI) primitives
Array-based
quick-clones for
efficient
provisioning
Full VMware integration
Support for View Composer for Array Integration
(VCAI) standards
Offloads the virtualization tier to increase
performance of common operations
Software-defined Snapshots/Clones
VMCaliber with no LUNs or Volumes
No LUNs or
Volumes

27. VMCaliber Backup and Recovery
NOS provides native backup and replication capabilities.
These capabilities can be employed in two use cases:
• Nutanix Time Stream (converged) backup
• Snapshots are stored on the same cluster as the source VM
• Site-to-site replication
• Snapshots are replicated asynchronously from one cluster to another

28. Protection Domains / Consistency
Groups
Protection Domain (PD)
A group of VMs and/or files to be replicated together on a desired schedule.
Consistency Group (CG)
VMs and/or files which are part of a Protection Domain which need to be snapshotted
in a crash consistent manner. This ensures that when VMs/files are recovered they
come up in a consistent state. A protection domain can have multiple consistency
groups.

29. Benefits of Nutanix Time
Stream
NX-3050
NX-3050
NX-6020
NX-6020
Remote Replication for DR
Nutanix Clusters
 Heterogeneous clusters to enable more on-cluster backups – no tradeoffs
 Integrated workflows for local backups and replication for DR
 Snapshots get balanced across all nodes

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31. Replicatie topologieën

32. Flexible n-way protection
Simultaneous bi-directional replication between sites
N-waymaster-mastermodel
VM-centric workflows
Granular VMCaliber snapshots and policies
Better than LUN or file systembased
Data protection
VM and application level crash consistency
Flexible protection domains for VM grouping and policies
Integrated Native Disaster Recovery
VMCaliber Snapshots

33. Metro Availability
In het verleden:
FlexPod bijvoorbeeld..

34. Introducing Nutanix Metro Availability
Geographic distributed High Availability – covers the entire infrastructure stack
 Covers entire infrastructure stack
 Leverage existing network
 Deploy in minutes through Nutanix Prism with minimal change management
 Mix and match models to workloads
Customer
Network

35. Metro Availability Clusters
 Lowers overall CAPEX
 Simple to
Deploy/Maintain
 Works across
heterogeneous platforms
Benefits
Pricing and Packaging

36. Cloud Connect

37. Nutanix Cloud Connect
Datacenter Cloud
 Backup and recovery of VMs from Nutanix cluster to the public cloud (AWS in 4.1)
 Leverage distributed and highly available infrastructure of AWS
 Fully integrated management experience
 WAN optimized
 Geen uitwijk maar back-up
 Microsoft Azure op roadmap

38. Introducing Nutanix Metro Availability
SCALE OUT
SCALE OUT
 Stretch clusters across different geo locations (5 ms RTT latency)
 Infra availability; not just storage
 Leverage existing network
 Deploy in minutes
 Minimal change management
 Mix models (e.g. NX-6000 with 3000)

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