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dmendezVoyager
asked in Nutanix Disaster 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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8 years ago
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badondersTrailblazer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
restore VM's from snapshot

Hi all, For a customer, I have a many-to-one replication implemented. On the DR-site, I want to back-up all VMs on the AHV cluster with Commvault... However, because the VM's are in a protection Domain, Commvault cannot discover them, so a back-up is not possible... Solution might be to export all vms from the latest snapshot, backup the vms, and delete the exported Vms from the DR cluster. I tried to do this with the Powershell shell cmdlets, but not successfully... Anyone tried this before? Regards, Bart

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Jon
Nutanix Employee
8 years ago
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shazamnExplorer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
How do I configure backups of VMs through Nutanix?

I am new to our environment and have been tasked with backing up our VM Servers. The backups are scheduled hourly but have not been configured properly (I believe we are missing a backup location, but I have not been able to find where to configure that item). Any help would be appreciated.

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8 years ago
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twhite5262Voyager
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Error restoring snapshot. NFS path 'OL6-11-2R' is not valid

Hi , trying to restore a VM from local snapshot to a new VM and error Error restoring snapshot. NFS path 'OL6-11-2R' is not valid any assitance appreciated Tom

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8 years ago
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wicheinVoyager
posted in Nutanix Disaster 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
8 years ago
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chumanAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Prism Central 4.6 - domain local AD group problem?

Anyone aware of a problem when using (unable to authenticate) domain local AD groups in PC 4.6? Worked before we upgraded to 4.6, but seems that a domain local AD group fails.

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8 years ago
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farhanparkarTrailblazer
posted in Nutanix Disaster 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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8 years ago
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SuperkikimAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Async DR failback when source data were not destroyed

Hi, I'm still digging into Async DR functionality. As I understand, Async DR will replicate changed blocks from Site A to Site B at given interval from an active protection domain to an inactive protection domain. Let's say now, I do a Site A shutdown to test the DR processes. I therefore activate site B protection domain, register the virtual machines, and boot them. So far, so good. Now, I restart site A, and I want to fail back. I shutdown all virtual machines on site B and Site A (if any running), deactivate PD on site A, and setup replication from Site B PD to site A PD, and run a manual Sync. Does this make sense ? And will this copy only data changed since fail over occured ? or will it do a full sync ?

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Jon
Nutanix Employee
8 years ago
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SuperkikimAdventurer
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Async DR vs Backup

Good morning... evening... night all over the world ^^ I'm wondering what are the technical differences between Async DR and Backup. What I've red in documentation is that Backup does not allow running the virtual machines on the remote site. This comes with many questions as I couldn't find any detailed description of the backup mechanism. As far as I understand, both works exactly the same. Only difference is that on the remote site, the backup target PD cannot be promoted to allow running of the VMs. Is this correct ? is this the only difference ? Otherwise, what are all the differences between both modes ? Any impact on the size of used on the target space ? ...

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8 years ago
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SuperkikimAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Multiple Remote site entries to same remote cluster for DR and backup ?

Hi, I couldn't find this in the documentation. As I understand, the choice of Async DR vs Backup is to be made at remote site configuration. I would like to replicate some VMs for DR, and some for backup only. Is it possible to create two remote sites in a cluster pointing to the same remote site, thou allowing to have one remote site set as " Async DR" and the second one as "Backup" ?

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
8 years ago
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BrentHysopAdventurer
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Protection Domains and Recovery in a disaster

Thoughts I'd post this rather than bugging our SE over and over ;) Trying to get a disaster recovery plan in place to protect against a major disaster such as server room fire... We have a couple of clusters geographically separated which I have set up as remote-sites. Site A and B lets call them. I've set up a PD w/ consistency group with the VMs to protect and periodically snapshot from site A to B. Now in the case of a fire/destroyed cluster at site A... obviously step one is rebuilding a cluster at that site with the appropriate configs, but then... With a brand new cluster in place, what is the standard process to retreive the snapshots from site B back to the new site A ? So far, I've activated the backup on site B (as if it was an unplanned outage and left it off). and recreated the remote-site link on the newly built out site A. I am thinking I now create a new PD to shuffle the VMs/consistency group back to Site A and then activate there and I am done ? I know this

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Jon
Nutanix Employee
8 years ago
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mjonesproVoyager
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Hyper-V VM level backups

Hello, Has anyone had success making Hyper-V VM level backups up in to the cloud? We were going to use DPM to send backups up there but it requires an agent to be installed on the SMB server so it wouldn't work on Nutanix. We also looked at Azure Cloud Connect to replicate our containers to Azure but that is backing up at the container level and restoring an individual VM can be difficult. What have you been using to achieve offline VM level backups? My organization's goal is to go back to any point within 35 days and the backups must be in the cloud(Amazon or Azure, prefer Azure).

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Jon
Nutanix Employee
8 years ago
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chumanAdventurer
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Thin Provisioning?

From this tech note - http://go.nutanix.com/rs/nutanix/images/TechNote-Nutanix_Storage_Configuration_for_vSphere.pdf, my impression is that Nutanix thin provisions a VM if the disk are set to "Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed". All Nutanix containers are thin provisioned by default; this is a feature of NDFS. Thin provisioning is a widely accepted technology that has been proven over time by multiple storage vendors, including VMware. As containers are presented by default as NFS datastores to VMware vSphere hosts, all VMs will also be thin provisioned by default. This results in dramatically improved storage capacity utilization without the traditional performance impact. Thick provisioning on a VMDK level is available if required for the limited use cases such as fault tolerance (FT) or highly demanding database and I/O workloads. Thick provisioning can be accomplished by creating Eager Zero Thick VMDKs. Eager Zero Thick VMDKs will automatically guarantee space reservations within N

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8 years ago
shuguet
shuguetTrailblazer
posted in Nutanix Disaster 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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8 years ago
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chumanAdventurer
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Get-NTNXContainer information?

trying to connect the maxCapacity and totalImplicitReservedCapacity fields with data from Prism gui. As of yet, unable to connect the dots. I'm assuming the amounts being presented from the cmdlet is in bytes. If so, I've got 28TB per the cmdlet in way of maxCapacity, but the Prism gui for that container returns 24.48TB as the max capacity. --- example out put from cmdlet PS C:usersmeDesktop ools> Get-NTNXContainer -Id 00052bfc-1527-12fd-46e3-246e96026620::13840122 id : 00052bfc-1527-12fd-46e3-246e96026620::13840122containerUuid : f72335e2-bf87-4c9c-a7db-64cf3ce5e88aname : D-RTP-A1-NTX-XC630-1-P-01clusterUuid : 00052bfc-1527-12fd-46e3-246e96026620storagePoolId : 00052bfc-1527-12fd-46e3-246e96026620::13storagePoolUuid : f0efd6cb-8839-43a0-b30f-c2aad97ce5demarkedForRemoval : FalsemaxCapacity : 30999844125064totalExplicitReservedCapacity : 0totalImplicitReservedCapacity : 14227079168000advertisedCapacity :replicationFactor : 2oplogReplicationFactor : 2nfsWhitelist : {}nfsWhitelistI

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Jon
Nutanix Employee
8 years ago
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schubbyVoyager
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
EMC Networker Hyper-V Backup

Hi, Does anyone have any experience backing up VMs (specifically Hyper-V VHDX files) running on a Nutanix cluster using EMC Networker? Was the backup done using the Hyper-V agents, or was direct Nutanix SMB share backup taken advantage of? If there are links to help or steps to follow, it would be of great help. So far, all I find is help for Veeam. Thanks, Schubert

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Jon
Nutanix Employee
8 years ago
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szewczykmAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Any tips for initial replication?

We've got a 11mb pipe between sites that bursts to about 20. We have some PD's that we've set up with about 30 machines in them and turned on replication. Its not surprising that initial replication is going very slow and we have an estimated completion time measured in months. Both sites are in production. I can't take on cluster down and bring it locally to the other site to get the intial replication done at high speed. Is there a white paper or procedure or even someone in here who's got some tricks to help us get replication moving? I was thinking of Starting a new PD, setting up replication, then adding one or two machines at a time until it's full and replicated. That seems pretty tedious and very time consuming. Any help would be appreciated.

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Jon
Nutanix Employee
8 years ago
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chumanAdventurer
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Multiple Source Protection Domains Pointing to the Same Remote Site?

I'm fairly certain this is possible, but going is rough for finding it documented. Let's say I have a remote container setup in a NTX cluster in LA. Can I created protection domains in a NTX cluster in Miami and NewYork and point them both to the remote container in LA? Sort of a many to one type approach in using protection domains and any limits on how many you can point at one? Any documentation anyone's found covering this and docs on where the snaps are stored (I don't see them in the ESXi datastores) and how much data is used from remote snaps. Thanks!

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cbrown
Nutanix Employee
8 years ago
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zizulrahmanTrailblazer
asked in Nutanix Disaster 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: How do we do it? What are the requirements?

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9 years ago
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AllBlackAdventurer
asked in Nutanix Disaster 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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9 years ago
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rsciaraffoAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Nutanix SRA

Is anyone using the Nutanix SRA in conjunction with Site Recovery Manager (SRM)? What are your experiences good, bad, or otherwise? We are currently using a vSphere replication server/appliance to replicate from one Nutanix cluster to another and it is working perfectly fine. I'm tempted to investigate Nutanix's SRA as a potential replacement, but as they say, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I would be interested to hear overall experiences as well as any viewpoints that are able to compare the Nutanix SRA against VMware's VRMS. Thanks.

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9 years ago
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farhanparkarTrailblazer
asked in Nutanix Disaster 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
9 years ago
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alapaquetteVoyager
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
question about the document BP 2009 metro availability

hi all, there is this best practice http://go.nutanix.com/metro-availability.html 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 availbility before to promote. there some body know if i

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
mluksch
mlukschAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster 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
9 years ago
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piAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster 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
9 years ago

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