Nutanix Recovery Plans: Orchestrating DR Failover

Recovery Plans are your automated DR runbooks, orchestrating the complex choreography of failover to bring applications back online in the right order with proper network configuration. This post explores power-on sequencing, network mapping, VM selection strategies, and non-disruptive testing—transforming disaster …
Read MoreNutanix Protection Policies: Async, Near-Sync & Sync DR
Sep 26, 2025 · 16 min read · Disaster Recovery Protection Policies Data Protection Business Continuity ·
Protection Policies are the foundation of Nutanix DR, defining how recovery points are created, replicated, and retained. This post explores the three replication types—Asynchronous (1-24 hour RPO), Near-Synchronous (1-15 minute RPO), and Synchronous (zero RPO)—covering configuration, performance impacts, distance …
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#comment: true # Disable comment if false. If you've been holding off on upgrading to AOS 7 due to backup vendor support, we've crossed that bridge! Let's take a quick look at the current landscape of AHV and AOS releases, and then do a quick rundown of the current support from a few major backup vendors to see how …
Read MoreZerto v10: Unleashing Ransomware Resilience
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the availability, protection, and recovery of data and applications is paramount. Organizations need robust solutions to address the challenges of multi-cloud environments, cyber threats, and data loss incidents. Enter Zerto, and specifically Virtual Replication v10, a …
Read MoreSaved by Pure Storage: Ransomware Recovery Success
Feb 24, 2021 · 3 min read · pure-storage ransomware disaster-recovery data-protection security snapshots ·This past weekend, I got to experience with another customer an unexpected intrusion, one of the worst I’ve honestly experienced in my years. Once I was onsite and got to see the level of sophistication on this attack, I realized that we had our work cutout for us. Backup solution, gone… User Files, hijacked… VMFS …
Read MorePart 4: Prism Central Deployment and Configurationetween clusters for VM migration and disaster recovery testing." date: 2016-09-21 featured: false draft: false toc: false usePageBundles: true categories: "Technology" tags: "acropolis" "ahv" "nutanix" "data-protection" "replication" Welcome back to my series on our …
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