Month: September 2022

Nutanix delivers the Unified Storage Design, as a bundled solution for storage consolidation with the SMB, NFS and S3 protocols, that includes hardware, software, and services to accelerate and simplify the deployment and implementation process. This Validated Design features a full-stack solution for unified storage deployments that integrates multiple products including AOS, AHV, Prism Pro, Files, Objects, Flow, F5, Mine, and HYCU.The Unified storage validated design sizer reference scenarios have the following features:

 

• The baseline configuration is comprised of two clusters:
  • Nutanix Files – 4-node cluster (representing one Availability Zone) based on NX-8155 for the file servers providing SMB and NFS services.   
  • Nutanix Objects – 4-node clusters (representing one Availability Zone) based on NX-8155 for the object instances providing S3 services. These clusters can also host Prism Central as a part of the design

 

The overall Unified Storage Design can optionally include the management and backup cluster as defined in the Hybrid Cloud NVD (On prem (Large)) reference scenario with the following features:

• Management – 4-node cluster based on NX-1175S for Prism Central, Active Directory, IPAM, Load Balancing, SYSLOG, and any other management services.
• Backup – 4-node cluster of NX-8155-G8 for Mine/Hycu 

A dedicated management cluster in each Availability Zone provides increased availability, security, operations, and performance. The Files or Objects clusters have a defined maximum size of 8 nodes each, which provides a reasonable maintenance window for rolling firmware and software upgrades and rebuild operations during failure scenarios given the node density and drive sizes. Smaller workload clusters can be deployed, but the maximum size should not exceed 8 nodes.

 

• HYCU software license is not included, and must be purchased separately via other channels. 
• Services SKUs are not included in the Sizer reference scenarios. Review the BOM in the NVD appendix for the complete list of Services SKUs which should be included.

 

It is extremely important to review the entire Hybrid Cloud: Unified Storage Design on the Solutions Support portal to understand the complete Hybrid Cloud validated solution. 

 

For questions or additional information:

 

• Slack Channel – #nutanix-validated-design-internal​
• Services Sales Team

 

 

Nutanix delivers the Disaster Recovery to Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS Design, as a bundled solution for general server virtualization that includes hardware, software, and services to accelerate and simplify the deployment and implementation process. This Validated Design features a full-stack solution for hybrid cloud deployments that integrates multiple products including AOS, AHV, Prism Pro, Calm, Flow, Leap, Mine, and HYCU.The Validated Design – Disaster Recovery to Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS Design  sizer reference scenarios have the following features:

 

• The on-prem  baseline configuration is comprised of three clusters:
  • Management – 4-node cluster based on NX-1175S for Prism Central, Active Directory, IPAM, Load Balancing, SYSLOG, and any other management services.
  • Workload – 4-16 nodes of NX-3170-G8 for general purpose server virtualization workloads.
  • Backup – 4-node cluster of NX-8155-G8 for Mine/Hycu 
• The AWS  baseline configuration is comprised of three clusters:
  • Management – 4-node cluster based on m5d.metal for Prism Central, Active Directory, any other management services.
  • Workload– 2 * 4-16 nodes of i3en.metal for general purpose server virtualization workloads. At the time of testing Nutanix only supported a 16 node  cluster in AWS.

 

A dedicated management cluster in each Availability Zone provides increased availability, security, operations, and performance. The workload cluster has a defined maximum size of 16 nodes, which provides a reasonable maintenance window for rolling firmware and software upgrades. Smaller workload clusters can be deployed, but the maximum size should not exceed 16 nodes.

 

•  NVD Defines standard VM “t-shirt” sizes for deployment via Calm:

 

Small	Medium	Large
1 vCPU	2 vCPU	4 vCPU
8 GB RAM	16 GB RAM	32GB RAM
50GB SSD	100GB SSD	200GB SSD

 

• When using the defined VM sizes, the on-prem per-workload cluster maximums are:

 

	Small VMs	Medium VMs	Large VMs
Maximum running VMs per on-premises workload cluster building block	1,860	1,380	690
Maximum running VMs per node on-premises	124	92	46
Maximum deployed VMs per workload cluster on AWS	1,350	675	330
Maximum running VMs per node  on AWS Workload Cluster	90	45	22

 

• Due to quoting limitations, a single Availability Zone has two sizer scenarios: Management + Workload cluster, and Backup Cluster. Note that the Hycu software license is not included, and must be purchased separately via other channels. 
• Services SKUs are not included in the Sizer reference scenarios. Review the BOM in the NVD appendix for the complete list of Services SKUs which should be included.

 

It is extremely important to review the entire Hybrid Cloud: Disaster Recovery to Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS Design on the Solutions Support portal to understand the complete Hybrid Cloud validated solution. 

 

For questions or additional information:

 

• Slack Channel – #nutanix-validated-design-internal​
• Services Sales Team