Nutanix Vmware Stretched Cluster No Metro

Remark: All of the information are based on my installation experience for VxRail Appliance and Nutanix Metro Availablity. The following information is for your reference. Please let I know once if it has any mistake.

vSAN Stretched Cluster on VxRAIL – Central Management Console (vCenter Server).
Nutanix Metro Availability – Different Management Consoles (vCenter Server + Prism Central Home Dashboard).

VPLEX Metro is trusted by thousands of customers to provide Continuous Availability for VMware vSphere clusters. The arrival of VSAN Stretched Clustering doesn’t change that trust. Pick the option that best fits your environment, and be happy with the knowledge that your vSphere environment and your VMs have been given Metro superpowers!

vSAN Stretched Cluster on VxRAIL

  • Workloads have access to the combined resources between Site 1 and 2.
  • All the resources are treated as one single cluster.

Nutanix Metro Availability

  • Workloads need to be associated with a storage container.
  • An active container on one site can have a stand-by (passive) container on another site.

vSAN Stretched Cluster on VxRAIL

  • Kernel-level integration with VMware not only enables higher performance.

Nutanix Metro Availability

  • Controller virtual appliance (CVM) on every node controls I/O – can be its own “noisy neighbor”.

vSAN Stretched Cluster on VxRAIL

Failover (Site 1 to Site 2)

  • Just move all VMs which are running at Site 1 to Site 2 by vMotion.

Failback (Site 2 to Site 1)

  • Just move all VMs which are running at Site 2 to Site 1 by vMotion.

Nutanix Metro Availability

Failover (Site 1 to Site 2)

We must perform the following operations.

1. Update Affinity Rules for all VMs (Site 1).
2. vMotion VMs to Site 2.
3. Promote the Metro protection domain (PD) in Site 2.
4. Disable the PD in Site 1.
5. Re-enable the PD in Site 2.

Failback (Site 2 to Site 1)

1. Update Affinity Rules for all VMs (Site 2).
2. vMotion VMs to Site 1.
3. Promote the Metro protection domain (PD) in Site 1.
4. Disable the PD in Site 2.
5. Re-enable the PD in Site 1.

vSAN Stretched Cluster on VxRAIL

  • Storage policies defined for each VM (virtual disk level).
  • In vSAN Stretched Cluster, we can define storage polices to make a full copy (minimum) of each VM that store on local site, remote site, or both local and remote site.

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NOTE: The number of virtual machine’s full copy that is depended on the settings of storage polices.

Nutanix Metro Availability

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  • Nutanix storage volume is mounted within vSphere. It only replicate the data of active controller to standby controller.
  • Nutanix only solves traditional SAN complexity issue but not design for VMs.

vSAN Stretched Cluster on VxRAIL – Deep VMware Stack Integration.

Nutanix Metro Availability – Need to wait for certification at VMware Compatibility Guide for every Nutanix product and new version.

Nutanix Vmware Stretched Cluster No Metro

vSAN Stretched Cluster – Enterprise Edition.

Nutanix Metro Availability – Requires Ultimate edition software.

vSAN Stretched Cluster – Supports on All-Flash mode only.

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Nutanix Metro Availability – Includes of Hybrid and All-Flash.

vSAN Stretched Cluster

  • All-in-one software package upgrade through VxRail Manager, it includes of Integrated Software, vCenter Server Appliance, vSphere, vSAN, BIOS, NIC driver & firmware etc.
  • The software upgrade can be executed automatically

Nutanix Metro Availability

  • Requires to upgrade Nutanix Prism software and VMware software separately.
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