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Nutanix Backup and DR
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Comprehensive Backup and DR Solution
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Nutanix Local Snapshots (Time Stream)
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Use Cases

- Protection against Guest OS corruption
- Snapshot VM environments
- Self-Service File Level Restore

Key Points

- VM granularity
- No performance impact
- Lower $ / GB with storage heavy/only nodes

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Nutanix Cloud Connect
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What is it

- Hybrid cloud solution from Nutanix
- Integration with Azure and AWS

Use Cases

- Archiving
- Backup

Key Points

- Easy to setup and manage
- WAN optimized replication
- Interop with Nutanix DR portfolio

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Asynchronous Replication
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Use Cases

- Protection against VM corruption/deletion
- Protection against complete site failure(s)

Points of differentiation

- Multiple DR topologies
- Multiple retention policies
- WAN optimized replication
- Rest API driven(customer DR runbooks)
- VM and application level consistency

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Metro Availability and Sync Replication
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Use Cases

- Protection against complete site failure(s)
- No data loss in case of a site failure

Key Points

- Easy to setup and manage
- Interop with a-sync replication(3rd site)
- Witness Option
- Rest API driven (customer DR runbooks)

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Cross-Hypervisor Backup and DR
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Value Proposition and Benefits

- Enjoy hypervisor choice while using integrated backup and DR
- All the benefits of Nutanix async remote replication technologies
- Automatic migration of configuration and VM conversion

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Self-Service File Restore
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What is it?

- Item level recovery of independent files from VM Snapshots
- Eliminates the need to recover entire VM

Points of differentiation

- Self-service recovery without Admin intervention
- Easy to setup and manage
- Viable backup solution for mid sized customers and Tier-2 workloads

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