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Nutanix native backup and replication
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The number 1 ticketed event in LBM was snapshot issues
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We don’t get them now the replication partner is gone
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Really good guide
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Nutanix Protection Components
Fine-grained snapshots are the foundation of Nutanix data protection.
VM-centric snapshots can provide data protection even at the scale of an
individual virtual hard drive.
Nutanix also offers snapshot protection for volume groups that provide in-guest
iSCSI storage to cover a variety of specific application requirements.

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The storage system generates a snapshot by creating a full or virtual copy of
the metadata or index of the stored data, rather than copying the entire pool of
stored data.
When a snapshot of a VM is initially taken on the Nutanix Virtual Computing
Platform, the system creates a read only clone of the metadata (i.e. index to
data) and makes the underlying VM data immutable or
read only;
No VM data or virtual disks are actually copied or moved.
Nutanix snapshots take only a few seconds to create, eliminating application
and VM backup windows.

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After a snapshot is taken and as the VM continues to run, any updates to
existing data and new writes are redirected.
The original data in the snapshot remains unchanged and the unchanged data
is shared across the snapshots and active VM.
The Virtual Computing Platform handles this transparently so there is no
change to how applications and the virtualization stack accesses the VM.

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From an efficiency standpoint, Nutanix snapshots can be taken with byte-level
resolution.
This byte-incremental implementation means that only the changed data is
captured between successive snapshots.
For even greater efficiency, all the data stored on the Virtual Computing
Platform including the snapshot can be compressed and deduplicated. Even
though individual deployment savings will vary with the specific workloads,
average deployments depending on the workload have seen anywhere from
25% to 75% reduction in the amount of space needed.

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