Nutanix Advanced BC With Automation to HCI Software and AHV Hypervisor

Nutanix, Inc. announced several capabilities in its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software and AHV hypervisor to protect business-critical applications and maintain continuous business operations in the face of a possible disaster.

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These capabilities include advanced automation for recovering applications and data, support for seamless multi-site DR, synchronous replication for workloads running on AHV, and a near-zero data loss with ‘near sync’ replication for RPO times of approximately 20 seconds.

At a time when BC is more important, ensuring businesses have strong recovery policies and procedures is no longer a ‘nice to have.’ However, customers looking to implement strong DR plans for critical applications, such as those supporting emergency services, had little choice but to deploy complex, often disparate technologies that demand specialized, on-going administration. These capabilities in the firm’s HCI and AHV help enable customers to confidently deliver mission-critical applications with less complexity and lower management overhead.

“Maintaining continuous business operations is a high priority for all types of companies and organizations,” said Greg Smith, VP, product marketing, Nutanix. “However, most businesses rely on custom, handcrafted DR implementations to guard vs. system-wide IT failures. Nutanix now natively delivers automated, easy-to-deploy DR solutions built to deliver applications that must always be available.“

Capabilities to simplify and automate DR efforts include:

• Multi-site DR: The company supports multi-site DR designs, helping enable enterprises to recover from the simultaneous failure of 2 or more data centers while keeping applications and data available to users. Particularly valuable in regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, and emergency services where organizations need to deliver uninterrupted service, the DR leverages automation technology to eliminate the complexity of DR installation and ongoing orchestration. Application teams can recover from unplanned outages or data corruption and set configurations to adhere to many compliance requirements.

• Unmatched Near Sync DR: The firm supports near sync replication with an RPO of only about 20 seconds, a 3x improvement from its technology. The firm is a HCI vendor to offer a 20-second RPO.

• Synchronous data replication for Nutanix AHV: Synchronous replication, or the nearly instantaneous replication of data between multiple locations, is now natively supported on the AHV hypervisor. AHV can be used by customers to deliver a highly available service for their most important workloads, such as VDI, databases, and general server virtualization.

• DR Orchestration with Runbooks: This latest release gives customers more flexibility and control over the end-to-end recovery process, with more granular control to focus DR resources toward targeted applications.

“Our business users expect a zero RPO, which guarantees no data loss when a failover occurs following a datacenter outage,” said Delfim Da Costa, manager, system and infrastructure, Infomil, an IT spin-off of a large European retailer and a Nutanix customer since 2015. “We are delighted to now use Nutanix’s AHV virtualization and to maintain the highest possible SLA for our production workloads.“

These DR capabilities are included in the company’s HCI software and are available.

Resource:
Disaster Recovery and High Availability