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IT at a Crossroads .......................................................................................................................5 Time for a Different Approach? ............................................................................6 What is Hyperconverged Infrastructure? .........................................................6 The Nutanix Solution ...............................................................................................................7 Nutanix Community Edition and Community Edition On-Demand ... 8 Prism and Acropolis .............................................................................................................8 How Nutanix Software Is Deployed ............................................................................. 9 Nutanix Leads the Pack .............................................................................................9 Acropolis ......................................................................................................................................11 Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) ................................................................................ 11 Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) ............................................................................................ 11 App Mobility Fabric (AMF) ............................................................................................... 11 Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) ...................................................................... 12 Infrastructure Resilience ......................................................................................... 13 Tunable Redundancy .......................................................................................................... 13 Replication Factor versus RAID .......................................................................... 13 Data Path Redundancy ...................................................................................................... 13 Nutanix Software Upgrades and Data Path Redundancy ......................14 Integrity Checks ....................................................................................................................14 Availability Domains ............................................................................................................14 Performance Acceleration .................................................................................................15 Intelligent Tiering .................................................................................................................. 15 Data Locality ........................................................................................................................... 15 Automatic Disk Balancing ................................................................................................ 15 VM Flash Mode ......................................................................................................................16 Shadow Clones ...................................................................................................................... 17 Capacity Optimization .........................................................................................................19 Deduplication .........................................................................................................................19 Compression ...........................................................................................................................19 Pro Tip: Compression .............................................................................................20 EC-X ............................................................................................................................................20 Data Protection ......................................................................................................................21 What are RTO and RPO? ....................................................................................... 21 Converged Local Backups With Snapshots And Time Stream .................... 22 Integrated Remote Backup and DR Using Async Replication...................... 22 Self-Service File Restore ...................................................................................... 22 Cloud Connect ...................................................................................................................... 23 Metro Availability and Sync Replication .................................................................. 23 Table of Contents