Anomaly Detection Behavioral analysis functions have been added to existing predictive functions to provide anomaly based alerts and alarms. These are dynamic and change based on ongoing analysis of the environment. Think thresholds but dynamic thresholds based on machine learning and historical analysis. Anomaly detection is valuable as it indicates when KPIs (e.g. CPU utilization)…
Before – Application Provisioning Public cloud services play an increasing part in an organization’s infrastructure, due to benefits elasticity, flexible consumption, pay-as-you-use and reduced OPEX. However, provisioning and managing applications in a hybrid environment can be difficult, as each platform has different deployment mechanisms, permissions, etc. After – Application Provisioning By using Calm, administrators can…
The Prism Self Service feature allows you to create projects where consumers of IT infrastructure within an enterprise—individual users or teams such as development, test, and DevOps—can provision and manage VMs in a self-service manner, without having to engage IT in day-to-day operations. Prism Self Service Overview Allows end-users to consume infrastructure resources in a…
See Deploy ABS to an AOS cluster (including Volume Groups, iSCSI Initiators, Discovery, CHAP)
Nutanix Volumes (“Volumes”) is the new service name given to Acropolis Block Services (ABS). The Volumes feature exposes back-end DSF storage to external consumers which include guest OS, physical hosts, containers, and so on through iSCSI. Volumes is a native scale-out Block Storage solution that provides direct block or LUN level access to the Nutanix…
Nutanix Files – formerly known as Acropolis File Services (AFS) – is a complete rethink of file services as it brings the best attributes of NAS and public cloud services together for your enterprise cloud. With Files, customers can consolidate VMs and unstructured data on Nutanix to get a simpler infrastructure stack. With unmatched simplicity,…
Creating a Volume Group for Use with Acropolis Block Services In the Storage dashboard, click the Volume Group button. The Create Volume Group dialog box is displayed. In Name, enter a name for the volume group. In Name, enter a name for the volume group. The iSCSI Target Name Prefix is auto-filled with the volume…
Files Features Share-level, Directory-level, and File-level Access Control Lists (security descriptors) Support for Alternate Data Streams, Shared-mode Locks, and OpLock Quota Hard limit only enforceable once user is under limit again (if changing from Soft to Hard) Access-based Enumeration Hourly Snapshots (WPV) and latest 24-hour retention policy AHV and ESXi support Many-to-One Replication Hypervisor-Specific Support…