The journey to AHV — Why Does Nutan ix Have a

Hypervisor

• Segmented / Manual Management

• Limited native HA
• No native load balancing
• Manual monitoring
• Limited planning tools
• Command Line Tools

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Hypervisor ration Management

CPU Scheduling
VM Availability (HA)

"Real value comes from ease

management,
of orchestration, and
operational insights"

Monitoring
Orchestration
Security

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Converted journey: Nutanix HCI with AHV

Capacity Planning

utanix Prism and AHV

Nfonitoring / Insights

Prism Nfanagement
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What Is the Enterprise Cloud OS?

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Value: Deep Intedration

• Performance
Storage ODt imized

• Visibility
Singie / FuII Stack

• Machine Learning
ADS (a. k.a DRS)

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Value: Operational Efficiency Lower TCO

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Value:
Securty

• Auto mated Secu rity Development Li fecyc Ie Sec

DLQ Custo m Secu re Technical Implementatio n Guide
• Auto mated Co nfiguratio n Va I idatio n &
Remediation Data at Rest Encry ptio nHW or
Software Based} Network Secu rity - M ic ros
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Secu rity Ce rtifications

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Tech Features: VM High Availabi lity

What it does:
Auto restart user VMs after host failure
Policy enabled through Prism
AHV pinks the best admission oontrol
policy:
Reserved segments (default)
Reserved host

Benefits
• Always-on VMs
• Reduced administrator overhead

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Tech Features: Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling

• Automatic Detection, and re-mecliation o1 CPU

and storage hot-spots
• Initial VM Placement

• Following anomalies are detected:

• CPU hot spots
• Storage controller hot spots
• Affinity rule violation

• 11 anomalies are 1ound, re-mediation by:

• Intelligent live migration o1 VMs
• Backecl by X1it machine learning
• ABS iSCSI session re-direction

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Tech Features: VM Affinity Ru
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VM<»VM Anti-affinity VII-VM Anti-affinity:

• Place and always keeD a rouD of
DOW‹2red ON VMS on different
hosts.
Use Cases:
• VM H A far It domain seDaration {e.p
SQL cI uster)
• Ma nuaI Hot SDot avoidance

"Should” rule - best effort but can be

violated.

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Tech Features: Host Affi nity Rules

VM <> Host Affi nity VM-Host Affinity:

• Place a n d always keeD a Dowered ON
VM on se!ected grouD of hosts
Use Cases:
• SW License ComDI iance
• Security / Governance
• Hardware Segmentation

"Must" rule - never violated by:

• Init iaI placement
• HA
• Host maintenance mode
• ADS
• Manual live migration

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DEMO: key Features and Functions

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Ecosystem: Partners and Validations

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AHV Native Backu p Ecosystem Partners

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How do I get there*

**’ 1-Click ESXi -> AHV Conversion

•’ Cross Hypervisor DR / Replication
+' Nutanix Xtract Tools
•* SQL Migration - Best
Practices
•’ ESXi to AHV VM Migration

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Simple Onboarding with Xtract for VMs

vCenter

Agentless m ig rations Inventory

Near-zero downtime

Retain network configurations

Auto AHV IO driver insertion

Architecture Discover and Assess Migration Plan Seeding and Cutover

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