All Nutanix workloads now support backups. This does the following
- For any workload you can define backup policy in terms of number of full and incremental backups.
- When invoked Sizer computes the backup storage that is needed and puts that in a standalone cluster. Only backup workloads can be included in the backup standalone cluster(s)
- Sizer also allocates cores, ram and storage for 3rd party backup software in the backup cluster
- In future, you can specify the backup hardware that is to be used in the backup cluster(s).
- Alternatively we do offer Files Pro and Buckets Pro standalone clusters as targets
The inputs are as follows
- Recovery Point Objective – the time between last backup (be it incremental or full backup). This represents what point in time you can recover data.
- For example, you want to recover some information. The last backup will have occurred less than or at most 24 hours ago
- Backup cycles. This would be the number of cycles you want retained
- Full backups in a cycle. Typically 1 but can be more. Here all the data in the workload is backed up
- Incremental backups in a cycle. Typically several and amount of data is the % percent change * workload data
- Retention in Days – Backup cycles * (Full Backups per cycle + Incremental backups per cycle)
- Rate change – Percent change expected between incremental backups
- Backup Target – options for holding the data such as Files Pro
- Standalone Cluster – Name of cluster that will hold the backups