Recovery plans, protection policies and availability zones are its building blocks, and Prism Central runs it to safeguard volume groups and VMs. Failing over to clusters managed by another instance requires it on both sides, after which there is no turning it off.
Also called formerly Leap, Nutanix Disaster Recovery (Leap).
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Terms in this definition
- Recovery plans
Azure Site Recovery capability for automating failover, covering the grouping and sequence of machines and any scripts.
- Availability zones
Separate physical datacentre locations inside one region. Placing VMs in at least two of them earns a 99.99% SLA.
- Prism Central
A standalone instance, made up of either one VM or three in scale-out form, for monitoring and managing many clusters centrally.
- Agents (classic) API
First-generation Foundry Agent Service API, based on threads, messages and runs. It is deprecated, replaced by conversations and responses, and retires on 31 March 2027.
- Volume
Holds non-tabular files sitting in cloud storage under Unity Catalog governance, addressed as
/Volumes/<catalog>/<schema>/<volume>. A volume can be external or managed, andWRITE VOLUMEorREAD VOLUMEdecide who may use it. - Virtual machines
Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.
- OVER
Gives a T-SQL window function its window: PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and, if wanted, a ROWS or RANGE frame. Rankings and running totals can then be worked out while every row is kept.
Related terms
- Availability zone
A site that Nutanix Disaster Recovery treats as physically isolated, with a single Prism Central instance standing for it. Recovery points replicate from the primary site to its paired recovery sites, which may be NC2, Nutanix Cloud AZ or on-premises.
- DR
Restarting workloads elsewhere once a site has failed. The Nutanix options are protection domains, the older route, and Nutanix Disaster Recovery, run from Prism Central.
- Non-Nutanix ESXi
Marketplace, Flow, Nutanix Disaster Recovery, and Backup and Restore are all unavailable when Prism Central sits on hosts that no Nutanix cluster owns. Setting it up takes an ESXi Administrator login.
- On-demand cross-cluster live migration
A way to shift a VM that has no protection to a different AHV cluster while it keeps running. Nothing goes down, and neither Nutanix Disaster Recovery nor a protection policy has to be set up.
- PC-DVS
Recovery plans in Nutanix Disaster Recovery reject subnets managed by this switch, allowing only overlay (VPC) or underlay types.