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Identify use cases for Acropolis File Services (AFS)
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,…
Deploy ABS to an AOS cluster (including Volume Groups, iSCSI Initiators, Discovery, CHAP)
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…
Identify use cases for Acropolis Block Services (ABS)
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…
Deploy AFS to an AOS cluster (including a File Server and File Shares)
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…
Manage an AFS cluster
Click the File Server tab to display the list of file servers. Select the target file server in the table. The Summary line (middle of screen) displays the file server set of relevant action links on the right. The possible actions are: Activate (if file server is deactivated) Protect+ Share Update Join Domain Leave Domain…
Based on a given scenario, administer and manage Nutanix data protection solutions
Data Protection Strategy The below image is a representation of the capabilities that the Nutanix solution offers across the entire data protection spectrum. Nutanix offers a natively integrated solution for data protection and continuous availability at VM granularity. It gives administrators an affordable range of options to meet the recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery…
Demonstrate how to install and configure synchronous replication for multiple hypervisors
Synchronous Replication is a feature where data is synchronously replicated between two sites in metro availability configuration. In an event of a disaster on any one site, real-time data is available on the other site. The protection domain can be configured for metro availability or for synchronous replication depending on the following: Metro availability: The…