It’s not just the core platform and engineering team coming up with some great stuff at Nutanix. Our Education team is also always pushing the boundaries. They’ve recently published some great videos that explain how certain aspects of the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform work. This article includes the videos, which cover four key areas – Basic Read / Write IO, Live Migration, High Availability, and Data Path Redundancy.
Basic Read / Write IO
Live Migration
High Availability
Data Path Redundancy
Shadow Clones
Block Awareness
Final Word
You can see more great videos with the Nutanix Education TechTopX. I hope you’ve enjoyed these short educational videos about how the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform works. Your feedback is appreciated.
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I have no idea what Nutanix is, but after looking at these video what I feel is that Nutanix is kind of similar to vSAN which is native or built-into hypervisor, whereas Nutanix needs a Controller VM.
Surely I will look into Nutanix once I finish my VCAP.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi Wasim, Thanks for that feedback. While VSAN and Nutanix both use local disks to present shared storage to a hypervisor that is where the similarities end. The architectural philosophy of both products and both companies is very different. You can take a look at some of the other articles I\’ve published about Nutanix and make your own comparisons. The VMware knowledge base also has very valuable information about VSAN that should be considered. My article may also be useful.