Navigating the Post-Xi Leap Landscape:
Top Alternatives for Disaster Recovery

Benefits:

• Seamless Integration: If you’re already using Nutanix, transitioning to NC2 in AWS or Azure is a breeze. Your existing workflows and management tools can be leveraged with minimal changes.
• Scalability: Benefit from the scalability and flexibility of public clouds without re-architecting your applications.
• Cost Efficiency: Only pay for what you use, reducing the need for significant upfront investments. Start with a pilot-light cluster for only what you need, and then expand and shrink as workloads require additional resources.
  • Another benefit with NC2 on Azure is the ability to leverage existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitments (“MACC”) to purchase both Nutanix licensing AND Azure Bare Metal infrastructure.
• Portability: If you already own Nutanix licenses, you can move licenses between on-premises and Azure—think about shuttering your DR facility at the time of a hardware (HW) refresh, but migrating to NC2 and not needing to buy any new licensing!

   

Considerations:

• Learning Curve: Familiarity with both Nutanix and the chosen public cloud platform (AWS or Azure) is necessary.
• Networking: Ensure your network setup can handle the integration without performance hits.
• Workloads: Consider where you land your workloads.
  -Do you replicate everything? If so, you need to understand the requirements during failover to expand the NC2 cluster to ensure you optimize costs.
  -Or, do you run Test/Dev in NC2 to validate connectivity and operations, and during failover, just expand the cluster? Options are there, but careful planning can ensure you don’t have cost overruns!