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Discussions about how to protect applications with different RPO, RTO and 3rd-party tools

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zizulrahmanTrailblazer
asked in Backup and Recovery

Data Protection between VMware and Acropolis

Hi, Scenario: Currently Client is having Nutanix with VMware as hypervisor and planning to replicate VMs to DR that will running Acropolis. Can Data Protection support it? if Yes: [list=1] [*]How do we do it? [*]What are the requirements?[/list]

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6 years ago
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himngExplorer
posted in Backup and Recovery

Application Consistent snapshot on Nutanix Acropolis

Hi, Our customer would like to utilize the snapshot feature on Nutanix AHV as backup solution. They would like to know if they could create Application Consistent snapshot. I did some research. 1. In the Web Console Guide which mentioned about Application-Consistent Snapshots "This option is available for ESXi only; it is not supported for Hyper-V or AHV. However, athird-party product could be used to invoke VSS when the hypervisor is Hyper-V or AHV." 2. QEMU should have guest agent and which the VirtIO Driver should have included. So, my question is. Can Nutanix AHV support Application Consistent snapshot. Thabnks

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gearmesh
3 years ago
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dmendezVoyager
asked in Backup and Recovery

VSS Failure on VEEAM

Hello everyone, I am wondering if anyone had any insights on how to get a succesful backup with veeam and nutanix and if there is something I am just overlooking. I know I am oversimplifying but I have followed the best practices setup and have checked all of the settings twice but somehow I still get the following error: 12/5/2015 1:30:11 PM :: Unable to allocate processing resources. Error: Provider [{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}] does not support shadow copies of volume [\LSSHARE01LIFE_NTNX01].--tr:Failed to add volumes to the snapshot set.--tr:Failed to perform pre-backup tasks. I could have sworn that if NOS is added to AD then the share can use the VSS. I am frankly not finding any information on this and have gone from logs, to accounts, to verifying the storage. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

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5 years ago
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I_ChristopherScout
posted in Backup and Recovery

UNITRENDS

Is anyone utilizing Unitrends as a backup solution? I was looking at their appliance offering with cloud offloading since they do not charge for recovery. I also have a 3 node Nutanix block running VMWare 6, but still have a few physical servers that will remain physical for a little while longer. Thanks for any feedback.

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Nutanix Employee
5 years ago
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AllBlackAdventurer
asked in Backup and Recovery

Commvault Intellisnap?

Hi Have seen a few articles regarding Commvault Intellisnap support being available but cannot seem to find anything in the available documentation. Does anybody know what the deal is? Cheers

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6 years ago
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zizulrahmanTrailblazer
asked in Backup and Recovery

P2V and V2V to AHV

I'm looking for P2V and V2V migration tool or method. Any recommendation?

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K
4 years ago
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farhanparkarTrailblazer
posted in Backup and Recovery

Nutanix Storage API

Is there any change Nutanix will expose API for Third Party to use Nuatnix Time Stream, and snapshot for Backup Solutions like Netbackup. vF.P

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6 years ago
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farhanparkarTrailblazer
asked in Backup and Recovery

SyncRep for Hyper-V

Hello, In NOS Version 4.1.3 SyncRep for Hyper-V is release, which enables to have stretch cluster on Hyper-V as mentioned in release notes, Is there any configuration guide or document highlighting similar to Metro Availibility Best Practise document but for Hyper-V. Appreciate.. vF.P

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
6 years ago
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alapaquetteVoyager
posted in Backup and Recovery

question about the document BP 2009 metro availability

hi all, there is this best practice [url=http://go.nutanix.com/metro-availability.html]http://go.nutanix.com/metro-availability.html[/url] on the page 24 it says if we want schedule a Planned Failover with vMotion Using vMotion to move virtual machines to the standby site will provide the highest uptimeduring planned failovers. Operationally, the use of vMotion will take more time comparedto a cold migration, as the virtual machine memory state will need to be transferred acrosssites. The planned failover process with vMotion is outlined in Figure 16. (see the following steeps) we want planned failorver on site A to B -1) Vmotion VMs from active to Standby site -2) shutdown VMs agaisnt standby containers site B -3 "disable metroavailability from the site active A -4 promote the Standby containers site B -5 power On VM sites B -6 renable the replication my question is I understand why we need to shutdown the VM (step 2) it's too bad we must diseable metro ava

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
7 years ago
mluksch
mlukschAdventurer
posted in Backup and Recovery

Hyper-V VSS Provider

Hello Community. havent been here, since "next beta" turned to NEXT :o I cant find anything about the VSS Provider backing up VMs running on a Hyper-V Nutanix Cluster. Anyone exerienced want to enlighten me?

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
7 years ago
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danbensonExplorer
posted in Backup and Recovery

File level backup and recovery with Acropolis hypervisor

Does anyone have thoughts on how backup and recovery will work with the Acropolis hypervisor? Our company is definitely interested in moving in this direction, but the simplicity of Veeam B&R has been great, and I do not want to move away from that unless there is a solution that provides all of veeams features.

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3 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in Backup and Recovery

Nutanix + Veeam BPG for Hyper-V

Nutanix Best Practices for Veeam for Microsoft Hyper-V Environments Veeam and Nutanix together can help tackle data protection challenges in virtualized environments. Get it [b][url=http://go.nutanix.com/nutanix-veeam-hyperv-best-practices-guide.html]here[/url][/b]

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aluciani
7 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in Backup and Recovery

Nutanix and Veeam Backup & Replication for vSphere: Best Practices

Nutanix and Veeam Backup & Replication for vSphere: Best Practices Veeam and Nutanix together can help tackle data protection challenges in virtualized environments. This document makes recommendations for the optimization and scaling of Veeam Backup & Replication v7 with Nutanix for VMware vSphere. It shows the scalability of the joint solution and provides configuration information for both Veeam Backup & Replication and Virtual Computing Platform. Get it here  

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aluciani
7 years ago
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piAdventurer
posted in Backup and Recovery

reference architecture for dual site installations for nutanix metro availibilty

Hi, it would be nice to see a metro availbility reference architecture with automated failover support + split brain avoidance for dual site deployments for e.g. with clusterlion . best regards

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
7 years ago
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schubbyVoyager
posted in Backup and Recovery

RPO for DR Replication in HyperV

We are evaluating a Nutanix solution vs a normal 2012R2 HyperV with VNX SAN cluster. As we are a Microsoft shop, we are going with HyperV to reduce licenses. We have an HO and a DR site for Disaster Recovery. Our normal HyperV design involves having a HyperV cluster in each site with HyperV REPLICA to replicate data to the DR site. We have calculated this to give us an RPO of 30 seconds (HyperV Replica can even go to 5sec RPO) and an RTO of 15mins. Does Nutanix have any replication methodology that can give us a similar RPO? It looks like the RTO can be reached, but the RPO is at least 5mins and can't go below. Note that we have to use a HyperV engine and not VMWare. If this cannot be done with Nutanix replication, will Nutanix support a HyperV REPLICA between the 2 sites?

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7 years ago
DaemonBehr
DaemonBehrAdventurer
posted in Backup and Recovery

Replication to secondary on-site datastore

We have a single 3 node 1350 with starter licensing running VMware vSphere. Is it possible to configure replication to another non-NDFS datastore with any available built in tools or processes? What would be the best method that does not incur additional costs. In this sort of instance, would vSphere replication make sense backup to another datastore?

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Nutanix Employee
7 years ago
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BobJamesAdventurer
posted in Backup and Recovery

Protection Domain VM limit

I heard a rumor that for 4.1.1.3 the Protection Domain limit will be 100 machines per Protection domain. Any truth to that rumor?

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amunoztico
4 years ago
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wicheinVoyager
posted in Backup and Recovery

Nutanix Time Stream and Veeam

Hi there, I plan to backup our VDI on Nutanix cluster, I see Nutanix Veeam integration. Anyone who has implemented this ? TIA,

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5 years ago
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ramiAdventurer
posted in Backup and Recovery

Backup for VM's on Nutanix

Hi , Does Nutanix has it's own backup software to take scheduled backup for production VM's created on ESXI hosts ? or I need to use third party backup solution like Veem or netbackup? if available , does it require base license or enterprise license please note the from prism in licensing part I saw the field Dataprotection and deduplication and others with status off,is this mean that these functions are not supported with the current license or just need to turn on? Regards

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DonnieBrasco
Nutanix Employee
7 years ago
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wicheinVoyager
posted in Backup and Recovery

About DR design, How to calculate WAN bandwidth ?

Hi All I'm a Nutanix partner in Thailand, when I present Nutanix product in DR feature one question alway arise from the customers who seriously interest in this feature. "How to caculate WAN bandwidth ?", that mean to how effective compression and deduplication of DR feature. I can not find this information on the Google and Nutanix site. Please advise me. TIA.

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Nutanix Employee
6 years ago
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kiboroAdventurer
asked in Backup and Recovery

KVM backups, how?

Hi, I'm struggling with backups while using KVM. We've been using snapshots for our standard backup process and these work just fine within the cluster. I can recover a VM either as a new clone to retrieve lost files or to directly replace the original in case of a major crash. My next problem is exporting those snapshots to another cluster (since DR isn't available for KVM yet) or to a non-Nutanix archival server. That appears not to be possible. Everything I've been suggested so far involves backing up the VM internally or copying the iSCSI device with dd which would involve us having two completely separate backup processes running in parallel. Not fun. Is there a way to export the Nutanix drives to another server? Logically they must exist somewhere so should be copyable.

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aluciani
4 years ago
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MeistermnAdventurer
posted in Backup and Recovery

New modern Backup Tools

Looked around for new backup tools and found two interesting ones: http://www.nakivo.com/VMware-VM-backup-replication-recovery-software.htm And second Cloudbacko Cloudbacko shows a screen were a 1 TB is backup in 2 Minutes http://www.cloudbacko.com/en/cloudbacko-advanced-cloud-local-server-workstation-amazon-S3-google-backup-software-benefits.jsp

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2 years ago
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rsciaraffoAdventurer
posted in Backup and Recovery

Veeam

Is anyone using Veeam to backup their virtual environment on a Nutanix cluster? If so, how have you configured your backup proxy (how many, virtual or physical, 1 arm or 2 arm configuration, etc)? What are you using for a backup target? What kind of throughputs or processing rates are you seeing? I am running some test jobs, and a few of the jobs I have run identify the soure (Nutanix) as the bottleneck in the job. My backup proxy is a VM with a 2 arm configuration (1 vNIC in the production storage VLAN and 1 vNIC in the backup storage VLAN) running in Network Mode. I'm wondering if there are other modifications I can make to alleviate the source (Nutanix) from being the bottleneck in the jobs.

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shuguet
8 years ago
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rsciaraffoAdventurer
posted in Backup and Recovery

When do you use Compression?

Is anyone using compression? If so, for which workloads and what is the experience like on your cluster?

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R
4 years ago
shuguet
shuguetTrailblazer
posted in Backup and Recovery

Default Protection Group for new VMs

Hello, Is there a way (other than REST or scripting/crontab) to put any new VM created inside a container to a "default" protection domain? The rationale is to create a "standard" policy for all VMs of a cluster like "this cluster is replicated every 2h, by default", then if exceptions need to be handled, they can be treated on a case by case basis. I have a customer that is PoCing Nutanix, with the goal to move from a NetApp/NFS/IBM Blades solution to Nutanix if everything goes well. Problem is, they use SnapMirror to replicate their datastore (1 by cluster) every 1h. They do want to be able to replicate just a VM, but they don't want to have to add each new VM individually to a protection domain. Sylvain.

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C
6 years ago

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