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22 Next-Generation Hyperconverged Infrastructure For Dummies, Nutanix Special Edition Streamlining infrastructure operations with advanced machine intelligence Artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled advanced automation and orchestration of complex processes across the entire IT environment. Next-generation HCI is no exception. You can automate many simple, repetitive storage management tasks and orchestrate more complex tasks. Nutanix Prism Pro lets you automate and orchestrate security hardening, application auto-scaling, and other big jobs in your environment. For example, with Prism Pro's proactive remedia- tion capabilities, you can create playbooks for common remedi- ation or troubleshooting steps. Those playbooks can be triggered automatically based on alert polices that you define. IMPLEMENTING COMPREHENSIVE DISASTER RECOVERY Every business must be prepared for natural and manmade disasters, such as severe weather, earthquakes, power grid failures, terrorism, and civil disturbances. Of course, there are also more mundane "disasters," like accidentally deleting a production database in the middle of the workday. Your disaster recovery (DR) plan must address it all. Your DR plan covers much more than "where to run your critical workloads if your datacenter ceases to exist". It must also encompass operational data recovery and the steps necessary to migrate work- loads to DR sites and, eventually, back into production. Your DR plan should consider both your recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTO). RPOs define how much data loss your business is willing to accept. RTOs define how long your business can be down. Your RPO and RTO targets determine certain operational characteristics of your HCI cluster and how it handles data replication. Lower RPO and RTO targets, for example, may require your HCI environment to support synchronous replication. Less strin- gent RPO and RTO targets may enable you to use less expensive asyn- chronous and near-synchronous replication. These materials are © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited.