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josegerezAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Create vss enabled snapshot in a windows failover cluster

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?

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7 years ago
AntonioG
Nutanix Employee
AntonioGNutanix Employee
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Supported third-party backup solutions | Part 2

How does one navigate in the ocean of solutions that are available on the market? What is supported? What is compatible with which hypervisor? Allow us to help! Here is part two of supported backup solutions together with an overview of each.   RUBRIK Top significant functionalities: Instant Recovery: deliver near-zero RTOs for  Hyper-V or vSphere VMs by mounting directly onto Rubrik. No rehydration required. Global Real-Time Search: search for VMs and files with suggested search results. API-first Architecture: automate custom lifecycle management workflows that play well with third-party services (i.e. Chef, Puppet, ServiceNow, VMware vRealize Automation). Customized Analytics: deliver platform analytics across the hybrid cloud on data management, compliance, and capacity utilization with Rubrik Envision. Create and share data visualizations. Policy-Based Management: use an SLA policy engine to create and automate policies. Protects NoSQL Databases on Nutanix Enterprise Cl

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AntonioG
Nutanix Employee
4 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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BmcgrathVoyager
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Where can we find pricing for Xi LEAP?

Interested in the cost for Xi LEAP. I cannot find any estimated costs for this new service and need to know how it is priced. Anyone have information on this?

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aluciani
5 years ago
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Suporte Taker ITVoyager
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Export VMs from AHV failing

Hi everyone, I´m trying to export the VMs from AHV in vmdk and qcow2 formats directly from a CVM. Sometimes I get the errors bellow: qemu-img: NFS Error: NFS: Write failed with NFS3ERR_JUKEBOX(-11) qemu-img: error while writing sector 44426880: Resource temporarily unavailable In other situations Putty just close in the middle of the copy. After several retries, I finally made backup of two big VMs (around 50 gb). The commands that I am using are: qemu-img convert -O vmdk nfs://127.0.0.1/TKWORKSTATION/.acropolis/vmdisk/d9759595-6dee-4138-bcc0-bad7bf8e1075 nfs://127.0.0.1/Backup_VM/TAIPEI.vmdk qemu-img convert -c nfs://127.0.0.1/TKWORKSTATION/.acropolis/vmdisk/d9759595-6dee-4138-bcc0-bad7bf8e1075 -O qcow2 nfs://127.0.0.1/Backup_VM/TAIPEI.qcow2 Nutanix Community lastest version. Thanks in advance!

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nubill
6 years ago
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ramiAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster 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
9 years ago
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mmeiklejohnVoyager
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Ad Hoc Snapshots

We've just gotten started with Nutanix, and I have a question about snapshots. Do I need to create a Protection Domain before I can create a snapshot? I'm not looking to take snapshots of a bunch of machines or have scheduled snapshots. I just want to make one snapshot of a single Windows server before I upgrade some software on it. We are running AHV as our hypervisor. Thank you

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AntonioG
Nutanix Employee
4 years ago
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rsciaraffoAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster 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
10 years ago
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KanlasakaAdventurer
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Rubrik backup vm in Nutanix failed

I have issue about Rubrik backup. I have monitored that some vms could not backup some days with alerts are same. However, some days work fine.[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/10508755-dbb2-4d48-a12a-4bb18e04410c.jpg[/img][img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/a6fad98e-7e72-44b8-8b57-38e325ea3cdf.jpg[/img]

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K
5 years ago
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SudhirkvAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Nutanix Mine with Hycu

Hi Team, Do we have any link which clarifies nutanix Mine (VMware) with HYCU backup. Please help with a link for docs.  Thanks 

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Sergei Ivanov
Nutanix Employee
4 years ago
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BobJamesAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster 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
7 years ago
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VastseaVoyager
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Hycu with ESXI

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.

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aluciani
6 years ago
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RoberteoOutrider
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Deleting a Remote Site

[b]Caution:[/b] Deletion of the remote site is currently not supported from Prism. Contact Nutanix support for further assistance. Not quite sure if I get this ?

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5 years ago
VMwarer
VMwarerAdventurer
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Snapshot within stun time

Hi Cloud builderWhile I was reading the NTNX Bible they said that the VM snapshot being taked by freezing the VM, unlikely with ESXi where the VM is stunned » Delta created for I/Os and then VMDK is consolidatedMy question while on NTNX Platform how/when the I/O takes place while VM is being snapshot’ed while its freeze.

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VMwarer
4 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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davidvoogdVoyager
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
vDisk Count

Does anyone know if/how I can get a count of all vDisks in my cluster, including vDisks associated with snapshots? We want to increase our data retention and it appears the limitation on snapshots is the number of vDisks so I need to figure out how many we have with our current number of VMs and snapshots. Running AOS 5.6, NCC 3.5.2, Hyper-V 2012r2. Any help appreciated, please let me know if there's more info I can provide. Thanks! David

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6 years ago
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luifangWayfarer
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Protecting storage container with local snapshot

I need someone to light my bulb regarding data protection scenario I have in my mind. Currently we're migrating from NetApp/UCS ESX to Nutanix ESX and we uses Commvault as data protection. In addition to Commvault, we uses volume snapshot in NetApp for DR and fast recovery. This does not replicate to remote site however. In Nutanix, I have configured container for Prod and Dev/QA datastores. Prod datastore protected by Commvault intellisnap and keep two day worth of snapshots. DEV/QA datastore does not protected by Commvault due to licensing issue, we would like to use Nutanix data protection to have similar data protection like Prod datastore (2 day snapshots) . My question is, writing script to adding VMs automatically to data protection domain is the only way to go? Or any other suggestion?

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DavidN
2 years ago
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EUSCADAAdventurer
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
"VMWare Workstation" equivalent?

Hi all We recently converted one of our environments to AHV/Acropolis from ESX/VCenter. All is well and runs just fine. One of the caveats is, we have a tertiary machine we use in “disaster” type scenarios and with this machine we would use our backup solution to “backup” a VM to and run with VMWare Workstation. As I understand it, Nutanix does not offer a “Workstation” type solution, so I am reaching out to hopefully receive some feedback on what a “new” solution would entail. Could I build a small PC and run Community edition on it? Can communtiy edition run on say an i9/32gb RAM/1TB ssd or does it need N+1 to function? This way I could point my backup solution to the new cluster or have my cluster be aware of a NAS solution and ingest the AHV VM as needed in these type scenarios. Any feedback will help me in the endeavor!

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4 years ago
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mpsdVoyager
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Sudden Power Outage now Corrupt files

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

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6 years ago
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himngExplorer
posted in Nutanix Disaster 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
6 years ago
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ralas-65957Explorer
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
DPM - Acropolis

DPM of Microsoft can integrated with Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor?

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nishantpanchal
6 years ago
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vStorageVoyager
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Near sync and backup showstopper

Using near sync replication in AOS 5.5 means that normal snapshots on VMs cannot be initiated by external backup tools like comtrade, rubrik This is a bit of a showstopper. If we need an RPO of 15 minutes on AHV, we have to use nearsync - but then we can't backup VMs off the cluster When will Nutanix resolve this rather major downside?

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Nutanix Employee
5 years ago
JeremyJ
Nutanix Employee
JeremyJNutanix Employee
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Snapshot reclaimable space showing “Processing” for a long time. What’s the deal?

If you need to clear up space on your Nutanix cluster you may be considering removing local snapshots, but what if the reclaimable space is displayed as “Processing”? What can we do about it, and how can we know if a snapshot is worth removing? The reclaimable space is subject to change and has to be totaled up before it can be known. This work is done during the same periodic filesystem scans which drive disk clean-up, post-process deduplication and compression, and information lifecycle management. Generally speaking we just need to wait for the next periodic scan to finish and then we should have the reclaimable space figure shown in Prism. If you need to estimate reclaimable space in the meantime, I can offer a few hints to help narrow that estimate. It helps to have a little understanding of how snapshots work, and how the reclaimable space number is identified. Think of it this way. Each current filesystem block has one or more owners, and any block cannot be deleted until no mor

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JeremyJ
Nutanix Employee
4 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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jestepVoyager
asked in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
AWS GovCloud

When will GovCloud be supported for Remote Backup?

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M
5 years ago

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