Beyond HCI

Question 1

What are key modules beyond HCI

Answer 1

1. AFS (Acropolis File Services)
2. calm (Hybrid Cloud Automation and Management)
3. Flow (Microsegmentation)
4. Beam (cost visibility and optimization)

Question 2

Acropolis File Services

Answer 2

1. One or more SMB or NFS namespaces
2. Distributed
3. Resilient
4. Simple
5. No Hardware -> One Clik Upgrade

Question 3

AFS Architecture

Answer 3

1. One VM on each node: FSVM
2. Build a Logical File Server
3. Scales horizontally
4. Uses the underlying Distributed Storage Fabric

Question 4

AFS Benefits

Answer 4

1. Simple to deploy maintain and scale
2. Predictable performance at scale
   3 Scales to bilions of filles and thousands of concurrent connections
3. Enterprise features such as AV Integration, DR, quotas, CFT, ABE

Question 5

What is Calm

Answer 5

A product that allows you to deploy apps in hybrid way

Question 6

Calm features

Answer 6

1. App life cycle management
2. Application blueprints
3. Provion VMs across public clouds and Nutanix
4. Blueprint marketplace

Question 7

Access Calm features

Answer 7

Prism central > Toolbar > Apps > Left Toolbar > Marketplace

Question 8

Flow microsegmentation

Answer 8

ability to control traffic flows between vms within same subnets

Question 9

Microsegmentation process

Answer 9

1. Create categories (groups of VMs)
2. Add VMs to categories
3. Create the security policies for said categories

Question 10

Advantage of using categories

Answer 10

To add a VM to a security policy, you simply add it to the appropriate category

Question 11

What is Beam?

Answer 11

1) cloud optimization and security compliance service
2) SaaS Based
3) AWS + Azure

Question 12

Nutanix Coud OS

Answer 12

1. Calm (deploy apps)
2. Beam
3. Private & Public Cloud (incl Nutanix HCI)

Question 13

Can you use different hardware spec in a cluster?

Answer 13

Yes, but not different vendors

Question 14

Nutanix purchase options

Answer 14

1. Software
2. Appliance

Question 15

Type of appliances

Answer 15

1. Nutanix NX
2. OEM

Question 16

Appliance options

Answer 16

1. Dell (XC)
2. Lenovo (HX)
3. IBM (CS)

Question 17

Software Options

Answer 17

1. Dell (PowerEdge)
2. HP (DL 3XX)
3. Cisco (UCS)
4. Chrystal
5. Klass