Data resilience and infrastructure design for the modern datacenter
Virtualization, storage, backup, and disaster recovery, down to the metal.
Cheap to Store Does Not Mean Cheap to Recover
Recovery Point field notes on Veeam unstructured data backup, NAS archive, Instant File Share Recovery, metadata, retention, licensing, and v13.1.
VeeamImmutable Does Not Automatically Mean Recoverable
A Recovery Point field note on why immutable backups must be combined with threat detection, identity recovery, isolation, application validation, and controlled return to service.
VeeamWhat Veeam's appliance model and storage integrations change for repeatable recovery operations
Recovery Point field notes on Veeam Software Appliance, Infrastructure Appliance, storage snapshot integration, and Data Platform 13.1
VeeamThe Hypervisor Is No Longer the Center of the Recovery Strategy
A Recovery Point field note on restoring Veeam v13 VMware backups cross-platform to Hyper-V, cleaning up guest tooling, and designing DR across mixed hypervisors.
AHVHA, Metro Availability and Multi Site Design on AOS 7.3
The availability layer on Nutanix: AHV VM high availability and reservation, the async to NearSync to synchronous replication spectrum, AHV Metro Availability for zero RPO, Protection Domains versus entity centric Nutanix DR, and multi site topologies.
AHVSizing and configuring VMs on AHV 10.3 so they run fast, migrate cleanly, and work with the scheduler instead of against it
How to design VMs on AHV 10.3: vCPU and NUMA sizing, memory sizing and controlled Memory Overcommit, UEFI Secure Boot and vTPM for Windows, virtio and the Frodo path, NGT, host affinity and anti affinity under ADS, and GPU passthrough versus vGPU.
NutanixCapacity Planning and Cluster Lifecycle on AOS 7.3
Sizing to resilient capacity, reading the Planning dashboard, and expanding, shrinking, and refreshing a Nutanix cluster without breaking resiliency
AHVMonitoring and Observability AOS 7.3 / AHV 10.3 / Prism Central 7.3
A Nutanix cluster reports on itself by default. The question is whether you have routed that signal somewhere a human or a system will act on it, and
NutanixBackup, Snapshots, and Replication on AOS 7.3.
Snapshots, replication, and backup get treated as one feature on Nutanix because they share the same storage primitive. They are three different jobs with three different recovery contracts,
AHVSecurity, Identity, and Hardening AHV
Nutanix arrives with most of its security controls already running. The platform applies a hardened operating system baseline at the factory and holds it there without operator effort.
AiAI Governance: Closing the Gap Between Policy and Runtime
Most organizations that adopted AI in the last two years have a governance document. Far fewer have governance. The document lives in a policy portal. The AI systems
AHVLCM and Cluster Updates
NCD-06 in the Nutanix Cluster Design series. This one covers Life Cycle Manager (LCM) and how cluster updates actually run: the framework and module model, the inventory
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