Purpose

The infrastructure for Nutanix Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) supports a tenant cluster and a production virtual private cloud (VPC) for each customer. Customers generally have production VMs running in their on-premises cluster, which is connected to the DRaaS VPC using an IPsec tunnel. This is used by the DRaaS workflow to replicate on-premises production data.

During a disaster recovery situation or while running disaster recovery tests, VMs will failover from on-premises to the DRaaS cluster. When this occurs, all VMs in one subnet of an on-premises network (e.g., 192.168.10.0/24) usually failover to DRaaS. If the customer chooses to preserve the IP, VMs in DRaaS come up with the same IPs as on-premises (e.g., 192.168.10.0/24 network).

In this type of disaster recovery situation, customers can choose which critical VMs are replicated to DRaaS. But in those cases, on-premises VMs cannot communicate with VMs in DRaaS. 

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Harvey Green
Co-host: Jirah Cox

Introduced with the Nutanix Files™ release 3.8, Smart DR brought share-level replication between active file server instances for disaster recovery. If you’re not yet familiar with Smart DR, you can get an overview of the feature and its benefits here. Shortly after its initial release, Nutanix introduced 1-minute replication interval support with the Files 3.8.1 release. 

The recent Files release 4.0 further enhances Smart DR with scalability improvements and self-service restore (SSR) integration

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Co-host: Jirah Cox

The Nutanix Files™storage solution introduces new enhancements in its newest 4.0 release that improve client performance, enhance file server compute efficiency, and deliver a consistent experience in mixed environments.  We’ve also done some scalability testing we’re excited to share.

• Improving Synchronous Random Write Performance
• CPU Scheduling with NFS
• Flow Control with Nutanix Volumes
• Pushing the Performance Envelope

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I want to start this post with a quote by an Infrastructure Engineer from a food and beverage company that we received a few days ago, “As always, very impressed with Support. We rarely need them, but the team was great helping us through this one and their help was much appreciated.” Feedback is a gift as it helps us understand what we are doing well but also where we need to improve. I see feedback like this everyday and it reiterates why Nutanix Support is known throughout the industry for delivering world-class support.

Year over year we continue to execute not because we have done it before but because we are never satisfied. We are very proud of the accomplishments we have made as we strive to continuously learn, innovate and improve. This requires us to listen to what our customers as well as employees are saying.

That’s why I’m excited to announce that for nine consecutive years we have received the NorthFace ScoreBoard (NFSB) Service Award for 2021, with the special Summit classification that recognizes exceptional organizations who have earned the award for seven or more years in a row.  Every year, the NFSB Service Award recognizes companies who provide superior customer service as voted by their customers. The award uses the image of Mount Everest to symbolize exceeding customer expectations.

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Co-host: Harvey Green
Co-host: Jirah Cox

新年快樂! Wishing those who celebrate a prosperous and healthy Year of the Tiger! With new year celebrations, comes resolve. Usually everyone does this one January 1, but it’s never too late to celebrate the new year and make a new resolve. 2022 is in full swing and that means understanding your database challenges and simplifying that complexity should be at the top of your priority list. Let’s make this a New Year’s Resolution for IT to deliver. Nutanix has partnered with HPE to power up your databases for impactful business performance through the powerful combination of Nutanix Era® database manager on HPE’s Greenlake® offering. Database management can be just as tedious as your server sprawl. That’s why management of costs to align with actual usage and supporting rapid deployment is critical. This has become essential for enterprises and even large international retailers, especially as they journey between holiday sales and new product launches a new year can bring.

It can be done! A Nutanix customer, an international retailer, not only survived, but thrived when harnessing HPE GreenLake with Nutanix Era for database management to simplify their database administration, enable rapid deployment, and move to a true consumption-based cost model. HPE GreenLake in combination with Nutanix Era helped this retailer deliver the outcomes that their business demanded.

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Co-host: Harvey Green
Co-host: Jirah Cox

Fast and flexible access to IT infrastructure has become a critical success factor for modern business. Nutanix and Equinix have joined up to help enterprise IT teams reduce time to market for new applications and services. Equinix Metal™ enables as-a-service infrastructure deployment globally and rapid scalability for hyperconverged infrastructure using the Nutanix® Cloud Platform, enabling you to shift CapEx to OpEx while reducing hardware spending on key workloads and enhancing your ability to reach the users, partners, and clouds that matter most to your business.

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Co-host: Jirah Cox

Hyperconverged storage is a part of hyperconverged infrastructure that brings cloud architecture to IT datacenters and powers modern enterprise applications without the need for dedicated storage arrays and storage teams. It uses distributed storage algorithms to keep data protected, available, and secure at all times. Compared to traditional infrastructure, hyperconverged storage makes it easier for IT admins to manage storage resources and lower total cost of ownership, securing better pricing on storage than from public cloud service providers.

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Co-host: Jirah Cox

This week Nutanix announced the general availability release of our AOS™ 6.1 infrastructure software, delivering to customers higher performance, simpler management, enhanced orchestration capabilities, and more. The new functionality enhances the value of our customers’ HCI deployments and further simplifies deployment and provisioning, and customers can easily upgrade to this new version to benefit from these new capabilities.  

An increasing number of IT organizations are standardizing on Nutanix® HCI to power the applications and services that run their businesses. We have been working closely with our customers to guide product development efforts and have simultaneously invested in our vision to lead the next era in IT by bringing powerful yet simple hybrid cloud infrastructure to organizations everywhere. Let’s take a closer look at the most impactful new functionality delivered with this release.

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Co-host: Jirah Cox

Cybersecurity attacks are becoming progressively complex with an increase in Cloud, Digitization, and Work-from-Anywhere practices.  State, Local, and Education (SLED) organizations must begin improving their security posture and aligning to a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). Since organizations  are required to move away from  perimeter-based security solutions, they will need to modernize their IT operations, increase agility, and work to implement network, application, user and data-based security to support mission success based on Zero Trust. 

This is where Nutanix comes in, helping you protect your SLED organization’s public information from cyber threats. Over time, Nutanix has honed in on the core concepts of security while improving data resiliency strategies. We have elevated our presence in the security space by releasing new solutions with a proactive security focus.

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Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, and Citrix Systems, Inc. formed a strategic partnership to help you build a simple, secure, and performant infrastructure for a digital learning environment. From K-12 to research universities, running Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops on the Nutanix® Cloud Platform simplifies solutions, enhances security, and delivers excellent student and staff experience.

There are 3 major benefits of building a Nutanix + Citrix technology stack at your institutions.

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