Nutanix Disaster Recovery

Can I use Hycu without Calm and Prism Central? if I can, how to I use it? Our hypervisor is ESXI. Could you recommend some documents. Thanks.

DPM of Microsoft can integrated with Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor?

Hi, Im currently looking into a 3-node Cluster layout with NX-1155 hosts and PRO license as Remote Site for DR. I would like to go for 3 nodes instead of a single node configuration because it can withstand block/node failures. But Im trying to keep it low on the price scale. The one thing that keeps bothering me is that I want to be able to start a few user vms on the Remote Site. I know its possible but 64GB of RAM per host isnt much especially when the CVM blocks at least 24. It has to compete against a 3node CE installation which im not in favour because i would like to have support/production grade software. But I could get hosts that supports more RAM and start more VMs if I need to. What do you think?

Hi All, I'm trying to take an image level backup on Hyper-V nutanix by Networker (EMC backup appliance). It succeeds to backup the VM but fails to backup the config files and the below error shows up (Most probably it is a nutanix access issue): ============================================= suppressed 3077 bytes of output.Creating files/directories on container template for VC_FS_MPATH_MFILES backup.Backup of Hyper-V config files failed with error Unable to get size and security information for \?UNC**Container name**@{531954875}w-test-01Snapshots5445BBE0-9B98-4E91-814F-59035D01C282.xml, reason = The specified server cannot perform the requested operation...Save-set ID '2402477366' (client '** Client name ** ': save-set 'APPLICATIONS:Microsoft Hyper-Vw-test-01ConfigFiles') is aborted.nsrnmmsv: APPLICATIONS:Microsoft Hyper-Vw-test-012D20C6CE-9416-4F18-8D14-50E2863D5D62 level=full, 15 MB 00:02:56 1 filePerforming the cleanup of 'APPLICATIONS:Microsoft Hyper-Vw-test-01' to avoid inconsist

Hello, New to Nutanix. I'm trying to add VM's to a protection domain via the webconsole, but some VM's I want to add aren't showing up. What's interesting is on the VM sumary page in Prism shows I have 66 VM's, but vCenter shows 81. Is there an easy explanation for this? I am on Esx 5.5 and AOS 4.5.2 Thanks!

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

Ok Everyone, I am fairly new to the Nutanix system as our company recently decided to upgrade all server hardware to a Hyper-Converged system. Because of this, my knowledge of the backupsnapshot systems used by Nutanix is very limited, so please bear with me. So heres the issue; yesterday afternoon one of UPS burned itself up and caused a sudden power outage in our core datacenter. This location houses our primary Nutanix 4 node cluster. This is also the location where all employee profiles are stored using the Nutanix File Server system. After power was restored and th Nutanix system powered back up (took roughly 30mins) all services seemed to be restored. The next morning however, we started recieving calls about users not being able to login to the system. They are getting errors about network profiles not being available. Quicking checking the HomeShare location, we quickly determined the users home profile folder is suffering some issues. Properties shows 0bytes and all tabs a

Hello all, can i use Veeam Replication from VMware ESXi Environment to Nutanix AHV Environment ? is that applicable Thanks

Hi All, (Async DR, Nutanix-to-Nutanix) One of our customer are moving their DRC site to a new location, which will require IP addresses reconfiguration (to a totally different set of IPs) to their DRC Nutanix cluster. As there are already current PD snapshots in the DRC cluster (~5TB disk space), they wouldn't want to lost them upon IP addresses reconfiguration/DRC relocation. Kindly advise for any risk; and if there are risks to current PD snapshots' availability/reliability, kindly advise for any workaround.

If I have 15 physical servers Windows servers with the Veeam plug-in, can I use a Nutanix cluster as a backup target?

Hi guys, Is there a way to change the min. snap retention count for local site AND remote site? We have a PD wich has two schedules. -every 60 mins - keep 3:3 -every 24 hours - keep 4:4 The problem now is that if for example the replication of the 60 min schedule fails because of network problems, or because the replication takes longer than normaly, the snapshots on the remote site expires. So let's say the disaster happens monday night at 1am. If the first admin arrives at 7am, every 60min snapshot will be expired and we can only work with the older 24hour based snaps. In the nutanix kb i can only find this article: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/kbs/details?targetId=kA0600000008dn2CAA which says: "...It's also important to note that the min-snaps value only affects local protection domains, not remote sites..."

Hello, we switch from NetApp to Nutanix and I want to know how could an AFS Backup look like. I have read that ABS is underneath AFS to deliver the data, hence no File Services Data resides inside the AFS VMs doing the client side. So a VM-only backup would not reach any data that we migrate from our Filers to AFS, right? We have Veeam B&R Enterprise Plus but doing File-level backups gains around 200KB/s. The VM-Backup on the other hand gets over 100MB/s so there is someone pulling on all brakes with file-level backup. Are there any other options to get the data in a timely manner? Even other backup software will be worth looking into as the file server is the most important business value. best regards Steffen 5x3060,2x3175 AOS 5.0.2, AFS 2.0.2

Hi, Has anything changed with the single node target where I can can use it as an iSCSI target or SMB target for Storagecraft Backups ? Thanks, G

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?

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

Nutanix 5.11.2 Ultimate Licence VMware vSphere 5.5 According to the Nutanix Knowledge base Restore Snapshot (2 options) , I shoud get the option to overide the existing vm when recovering a VM via a Snapshot. However I only see the option to restore to a clone (see attached). Can anyone advise?

Hello, I connected a CE Edition to our nutanix to test async data protection. A snaphot from the remote side always show "processing" in Async Dir -> Local Snapshots -> Row "RECLAIMABLE SPACE" also if the snapshot was done days before so "processing" is suspicous. Is this a known issue, limitation of ce, bug, or config problem. /Greetings René

Hi team, I have created a Protection Domain with one VM. I have setup a daily schedule with a retention policy of 5. When I look at the local snapshots, I shows me the last 5 snapshots that are available. This is the same when I tick the box "Include Expired". When I add up the reclaimable space for these 5 snapshots, the total comes to 143.72 MiB. When I look at the value of "Snapshot Exclusive Usage" for the PD, it tells me 492.48 MiB. Why the difference? On a related question: what is the impact on performance when deleting snapshots? I understand it is a background process, but is there any impact on the protected VM(s) when this is initiated or while it runs? The environment is running AOS 5.0.1. Thank you. Marc.

Every time we launched the backup jobs we were receiving this critical warning: Snapshot status for vstore XXX: Failed. VM "proxy avamar" on vstore xxx has files from multiple vstores yyy, zzz. Skipping snapshotting this VM. The solution is to change the transporte protocol on avamar backup from hotadd to nbdssl. I hope this helps some of you

Hi, I'm having this issue, wich I seem to be the only one in the world to have.I'm new to the Nutanix world so I apologize in advance for any dumb question I may ask.:-) We've just deployed a new Nutanix block with 3 nodes running the latest version of everything and using VMware ESXi 5.5 U3b for hypervisor. It is deployed in our vCenter Server as a separate cluster (there are two other cluster running older H/W not Nutanix but all the hosts are on the same 5.5 version) The problem is with vDP. If the appliance is running in the NTNX cluster then I can't connect to it with the vSphere web client. There's no error message whatsoever, the little clock keeps on ticking. If the appliance is running on one of the older H/W, I can connect to it (like I always did for the past 5 years) But, if I go an modify one of the backup jobs to add a VM running on NTNX, when I try to save the job, the client hangs indefinitely and the job is never saved. I've been searching blogs, knowledge base,

Is there any chance of being able to use built in backup to work with Backblaze B2? Is there any feature request to have this done? It is much cheaper than Amazon or Azure.

Hello, I am receiving the following alert: "Old generation AWS instance is configured for remote site AWS. Follow KB 3861 to change the instance type to m3.2xlarge and cloud CVM configuration for better RPO/RTO." The remote site was configured only about a week ago and it spun up an instance size of m2.2xlarge. I cannot find any reference to the KB article 3861, or anything about changing the instance size. Does anyone have any ideas? Many thanks, Daniel

Hi, Can someone advise if possible to present iSCSI block services from DFS to Hyper-V host running on Nutanix Cluster. We have AOS 5 and we running Hyper-V 2012 R2 on our Nutanix Nodes. Why? This is to address problems with backup of VMs on SMB3. Possible alternative: Present iSCSI volumes from the underlying DFS to the Hyper-V nodes and migrate from SMB3 to iSCSI for VM. Then we should be able to do full VM back ups?? Would love to hear opinions / experience / feeback on the above idea. Thanks.

Hello, Could anyone offer ideas around how to manage the log truncation for applications like Exchange/SQL when moving to CloudConnect from a product that used to perform that automatically? This seems like a pretty important aspect which I can't seem to find any information on. Many thanks, Daniel

I've a couple of vms building a windows failover cluster. Shared storage is provided by a NDFS volume group attached to vms using iscsi. It's possible to create a vss enabled snapshot of this cluster?