Cloudian

HyperStore for Nutanix

Cloudian HyperStore for Nutanix lets you integrate object storage within your Nutanix-powered private cloud. With Cloudian
HyperStore, you have an Amazon S3-compatible storage environment that is guaranteed interoperable with the thousands of
applications that support the S3 API.

Using Cloudian HyperStore for Nutanix, administrators can quickly get started with object storage. Create an S3-compatible storage
environment entirely within your existing Nutanix cluster. No additional hardware is required. Data is stored locally on the Nutanix
cluster, and can be tiered to Amazon S3 storage for expanded capacity, offsite storage, or content distrubution.

Cloudian features a 100% native S3 API, delivering the industry’s highest level of S3 interoperability. It is guaranteed compatible with
the thousands of S3-enabled software solutions in applications such as data protection, storage as a service, media and
entertainment, data analytics, file collaboration and more. Cloudian HyperStore for Nutanix also enables an ideal development
environment for S3-enabled applications.

SOLUTION OVERVIEW KEY BENEFITS FOR BUSINESS AND IT

With Cloudian HyperStore for Nutanix, you have a
✓S3-compatible storage: Builds an object storage
complete object storage platform within your system. environment within your Nutanix cluster.

✓Broad application interoperability: Cloudian includes a
• S3 API: 100% native S3 API, delivers industry’s highest level 100% native S3-API, and is guaranteed interoperable with the
of S3 compatibility thousands of applications that support S3. Common S3 use
cases include data protection, media and entertainment, data
• Feature rich: Includes data encryption, compression, data analytics, and more.

protection, tiering to cloud

✓Ideal development environment: Develop S3-enabled
applications on the industry’s most S3-compatible storage
• Easy to deploy: Self-contained entirely on Nutanix; no environment.
additional hardware required
✓Cloud-enabled: Includes tools for policy-based tiering to the
• Scalable Storage: Start small with a few TBs; upgrade path public cloud. Use for capacity expansion, off-site storage, or
to 100s of PBs based on dedicated storage hardware content distribution.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
Cloudian HyperStore runs fully virtualized within the
Nutanix AHV environment. Leveraging the
hyperconverged model of the Nutanix architecture,
storage within the Nutanix cluster can be presented
out as object storage via the S3 ReSTful API to both
internally and externally operated applications and
end users.
The Cloudian for Nutanix solution provides the ability
to start small with the hardware you already have.
Over time, add more capacity as needed to facilitate
growth on demand. Seamlessly add independent
storage hardware nodes to the storage cluster.





A hybrid storage solution, combining on-prem and public cloud storage, is also possible. Cloudian HyperStore for Nutanix provides
an integrated gateway to public cloud storage platforms, with data migration to the cloud based on the policies you set. Employ
cloud resources for capacity expansion, offsite data protection, collaboration or content distribution.
• 100% native S3 object storage enables storage over http (internet enabled access) with hybrid cloud storage implementation

• Enables multiple, geographically-diverse storage nodes for disaster recovery or for distributed storage within a single unified
storage namespace

• Policy-based tiering to the public cloud for long-term backup/archive

TECHNICAL RESOURCES
• Nutanix Resources Library: www.nutanix.com/resources
• Cloudian product information: cloudian.com/products/

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