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Hi, we are a IP Telephony company and we are looking for an option to have a better backup system on our servers.

We currently have 2 servers running ESXi. One live server with all our VM for our clients and one backup server. Nutanix seems like a good option for us to be able to have a backup system always live and not having to boot up any VM manually.

If I wanted to start using Nutanix what would you recommend as best practice for a switch from ESXi to Nutanix?

I just started looking into Nutanix and it seems like a great option with all the redundancy and self healing feature. I was wondering where I can find prices for the OS or access to the technical support. I can’t find any option list of subscription or price range for their OS.

We currently have 2 servers running ESXi. One live server with all our VM for our clients and one backup server. Nutanix seems like a good option for us to be able to have a backup system always live and not having to boot up any VM manually.

That is what the high availability does, and is not the backup. For backups, you should define your RTO and RPO, how often, and what data is changed in order to plan and build the 3-2-1 backup environment aside from the HA cluster. Assuming you have two servers running HA cluster with vMotion/Replication in-between, you also need to have a separate onsite backup server that stores backup files independently and another server, offsite backup media, or cloud storage used for offline and offsite backup in a fireproof place. https://www.vmwareblog.org/3-2-1-backup-rule-data-will-always-survive/
https://www.cvm.com/definitions-backup-vs-disaster-recovery-vs-high-availability/

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