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I am not attempting to spread any fud or misinformation. I am a typical, experienced, sys admin trying to cover a number of technologies in a complex infrastructure. I have purchased, implemented and used various backup solutions over the years for various companies. Our old infrastructure used Veeam, backing up vmware servers on EMC Sans. I have used veeam since v3.5 and I am a really big fan of theirs and can only speak highly of them. I have run veeam successfully on our nutanix environment. My opinion was based on a recent tendering exercise for a Nutanix backup solution for my company that I recently completed. The backup solution that fits my company would not suit every other company. Commvault, Data Domain and Hycu came onsite and provided a demo of their solution, answered our questions and followed up with a proposal. We also engaged with Veeam. As i said in my original post, commvault proposed we have physical devices, veeam propsed proxy servers in their solution
I have an environment that is completely virtualised. Decision points around Hycu were : Hycu is written using the Nutanix API's and therefore has great integration with Nutanix, that i don think anyone can beat at present. I also like that Hycu is a standalone app and there is no physical hardware (commvault) or software proxies (veeam) needed. Price, it was competitively priced
If you have malware on your system that is encrypting files that you have not detected, then you will just be saving the malware and encrypted files in your snapshots. With a backup you can restore to a previous version. OK you might have some data loss, but that is better than losing a complete system. If you have a requirement to keep month end and year end backups for compliance purposes then Nutanix snapshots are not suited for this. For longer term backups Hycu, Veeam etc are better for this. As mikegelhar says in his post, its good practice to follow the 3-2-1 rule.
No backup software supports backing up AFS. In this blog post [url=http://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/AFS-Adds-New-Capabilities-Through-An-Expanding-Partner-Ecosystem/ba-p/23785]AFS Adds New Capabilities Through An Expanding Partner Ecosystem[/url] it states "Nutanix has started working with Comtrade and Rubrik to add support for these API’s, with active discussions with other vendors." It seems that Comrade and Rubrik will be the first to market using native API's for AFS backup.
In this blog post [url=http://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/AFS-Adds-New-Capabilities-Through-An-Expanding-Partner-Ecosystem/ba-p/23785]AFS Adds New Capabilities Through An Expanding Partner Ecosystem[/url] it states "Nutanix has started working with Comtrade and Rubrik to add support for these API’s, with active discussions with other vendors." It seems that Comrade and Rubrik will be the first to market using native API's for AFS backup.
We currently use Veeam but are going to move to Hycu
Although it is not officially supported we run Windows Server 2003 on AHV without any issues for some legacy business applications.
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