Nutanix Backup and DR

Comprehensive Backup and DR Solution

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Nutanix Local Snapshots (Time Stream)

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

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

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

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

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

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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