Technical asst. at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Dec 11, 2025
We are already working with Veeam but we don't have the product under subscription. We have a perpetual license. We are using it for virtual machine backup. We have an on-premise HCI setup and we are using it for backing up the HCI and the VMs running on the HCI platform. We are not using public clouds. We are using only on-premise infrastructure and we are taking backup on object storage. We have an on-premise object storage named Cloudian. We are also backing up some physical NFS servers using Veeam on the Cloudian object storage. We have Lenovo servers and we are using Nutanix for our HCI. For disaster recovery from Nutanix, we have two clusters. One is a primary cluster and another is a DR cluster. We are using DR backup functionality. We are taking backup of most of the critical servers with different RPO and RTO based on the criticality and the change in the data. We are taking backup of the virtual machines through replication, especially for far DR, not near DR or same DR. Based on the requirement, we have different RPO and RTO, and accordingly we have grouped some VMs for particular applications and those groups are replicated periodically. For replications, we are not using synchronous replication. We are using asynchronous replication only. Within a cluster, we are using redundancy factor two. This is a very nice feature because there are always two copies of data. It can support up to one or two node failures. This is node level redundancy and our data are always protected even if a node fails. We are using recovery orchestration when we are taking the backup or when we are replicating the VMs on the DR side. We are using all of those orchestration features to schedule and group the VMs. The orchestration part is very effective. We are taking two backups. One is at the DR side, automatically by Nutanix Disaster Recovery functionality, the orchestration features and others. The second backup we are taking using Veeam. That will be the outside cluster backup we are taking on our on-premises object storage using Veeam.
The main use case for Nutanix Disaster Recovery is disaster recovery, where we connect two Nutanix Prisms in different locations such as Santa Maria and Los Angeles for data communication.
The primary use case of Nutanix Disaster Recovery ( /products/nutanix-disaster-recovery-reviews ) is to prevent the infrastructure from a major catastrophic failure at the primary site. If the primary site goes down, the Disaster Recovery site must be aware and initiate the process to start running workloads from the Disaster Recovery site.
Assistant VP, Information Technology at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Oct 10, 2024
I use Nutanix Disaster Recovery for the application purpose and not for the database purpose. I have just started it and configured it for the replication of data, with plans to invoke the disaster recovery feature by the end of November.
Senior Infrastructure Manager, Information Technology at Pediatrix
Real User
Oct 19, 2023
We've got a hot data center and a cold one. We use Nutanix Disaster Recovery for replication purposes and to ensure our workloads are replicated in case we need them. We replicate every six hours in our hot data center and twice a day, every twelve hours in our cold data center.
Nutanix Disaster Recovery is a natively integrated DR solution that helps organizations stay prepared in the face of a disaster while minimizing data loss and downtime.
We are already working with Veeam but we don't have the product under subscription. We have a perpetual license. We are using it for virtual machine backup. We have an on-premise HCI setup and we are using it for backing up the HCI and the VMs running on the HCI platform. We are not using public clouds. We are using only on-premise infrastructure and we are taking backup on object storage. We have an on-premise object storage named Cloudian. We are also backing up some physical NFS servers using Veeam on the Cloudian object storage. We have Lenovo servers and we are using Nutanix for our HCI. For disaster recovery from Nutanix, we have two clusters. One is a primary cluster and another is a DR cluster. We are using DR backup functionality. We are taking backup of most of the critical servers with different RPO and RTO based on the criticality and the change in the data. We are taking backup of the virtual machines through replication, especially for far DR, not near DR or same DR. Based on the requirement, we have different RPO and RTO, and accordingly we have grouped some VMs for particular applications and those groups are replicated periodically. For replications, we are not using synchronous replication. We are using asynchronous replication only. Within a cluster, we are using redundancy factor two. This is a very nice feature because there are always two copies of data. It can support up to one or two node failures. This is node level redundancy and our data are always protected even if a node fails. We are using recovery orchestration when we are taking the backup or when we are replicating the VMs on the DR side. We are using all of those orchestration features to schedule and group the VMs. The orchestration part is very effective. We are taking two backups. One is at the DR side, automatically by Nutanix Disaster Recovery functionality, the orchestration features and others. The second backup we are taking using Veeam. That will be the outside cluster backup we are taking on our on-premises object storage using Veeam.
The main use case for Nutanix Disaster Recovery is disaster recovery, where we connect two Nutanix Prisms in different locations such as Santa Maria and Los Angeles for data communication.
The primary use case of Nutanix Disaster Recovery ( /products/nutanix-disaster-recovery-reviews ) is to prevent the infrastructure from a major catastrophic failure at the primary site. If the primary site goes down, the Disaster Recovery site must be aware and initiate the process to start running workloads from the Disaster Recovery site.
I use Nutanix Disaster Recovery for the application purpose and not for the database purpose. I have just started it and configured it for the replication of data, with plans to invoke the disaster recovery feature by the end of November.
Nutanix Disaster Recovery is mainly used for the physical to virtual integration.
We've got a hot data center and a cold one. We use Nutanix Disaster Recovery for replication purposes and to ensure our workloads are replicated in case we need them. We replicate every six hours in our hot data center and twice a day, every twelve hours in our cold data center.
We use Nutanix Disaster Recovery for compliance. It helps us to duplicate data on the other side and take backups.