5 Essential Tips for Maximizing Your Experience at Nutanix .NEXT for Bloggers
The Nutanix SRA will not perform any runbook type functionality like, for example, changing IP addresses, running pre/post recovery scripts, etc. Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a VMware product to perform recovery plans and runbook functionality. This is where you'll be able to change IP addresses of servers, run pre and post recovery scripts, set dependencies on virtual machine startup and shutdown in your recovery plan, and run non-distruptive testing of your recovery plans. Nutanix replication and vSphere Replication Management Server (VRMS) perform the same function as each other, which is to replicate virtual machine data from source to target. The VRMS natively integrates with SRM, but the Nutanix replication, as a stand-alone product, will not allow you to integrate your virtual machine replication with your SRM runbooks / recovery plans. Nutanix has developed a Storage Replication Adapter (SRA), however, that will allow for the integration of Nutanix's storage replicatio
The other two posts covered that it's possible, so I'm just writing to validate that we actually have implemented the Nexus 1000v in our environment successfully. We were able to successfully and seamlessly transition all of our VMs from the standard switches to the Nexus 1000v dvSwitch by having one uplink to the standard switch and another uplink to the dvSwitch. Once you've migrated all VMs to the dvSwitch, you can safely remove the uplink to the standard switch and add it to the dvSwitch for redundancy.
We are using vSphere with NFS storage presented by Nutanix. Understood that there is no official support for Microsoft Exchange backed by NFS, but it was in part ignorance and business decision [ sometimes the two are not different :) ] that we moved forward in this direction. We made the switch to NFS two years ago (early adopters of Nutanix), and our need to be agile and migrate to the Nutanix platform quickly drove us to where we are today. Luckily, we have not had an issue where we have not been able to get support from Microsoft due to the NFS storage. Overall, our experience has been good. (We have a smallish exchange environment of ~300 - 350 mailboxes)
That's helpful, thanks. What kinds of databases? What size were they? What kind of space savings are you seeing? As far as I know, dedupliction is only on the hot tier in NOS 3.5.x. So we won't see any savings by employing deduplication until Nutanix releases NOS 4.0.
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