As enterprises continue to modernize their infrastructure with hybrid cloud platforms like Nutanix, the need for robust disaster recovery (DR) solutions has never been more critical. Whether facing natural disasters, network outages, or the increasing threat of ransomware, organizations need to quickly recover and maintain business operations with minimal disruption.
To meet this need, Rubrik has added disaster recovery capabilities for Nutanix AHV environments. This release brings proven disaster recovery orchestration with the same enterprise-grade protection that customers have come to trust for their VMware vSphere workloads. In addition to the existing isolated recovery capabilities that were announced last year for Nutanix AHV workloads, customers now gain comprehensive DR capabilities that simplify disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution.
Key Capabilities and Benefits
Rubrik’s Disaster Recovery for Nutanix AHV gives customers the ability to:
Predefine Recovery Plans: Now you can create recovery plans in advance of need to streamline and automate the restoration of critical applications. These plans allow IT teams to precisely define how their applications and services should recover during a failover event and include boot order priority, resource mappings, and post-failover actions. This structured approach helps applications recover in a predefined, orderly manner.
Schedule Recovery Tests: It's now possible to validate recovery plan efficacy by scheduling automated periodic test recoveries without disrupting production environments. This proactive approach ensures that recovery processes remain reliable and compliant, so that end-to-end testing can be performed without tying up staff for manual operations.
Failover Production Workloads: In the event of a disaster, organizations can quickly failover workloads from the primary site to a secondary site, minimizing downtime and maintaining business continuity.
Activate Seamless Failback: Once the primary site is restored, failback operations allow for smooth migration of workloads back to their original location without service disruption.
Simplifying Disaster Recovery with Rubrik
Rubrik’s disaster recovery solution for Nutanix AHV is built on a robust, scalable architecture, simplifying operations and offering greater flexibility and resilience in recovery processes. Key elements include:
Recovery Options: Customers have access to four primary recovery types—local recovery, test failover, failover, and failback—each of which can be executed from a single predefined and customizable recovery plan. Automated workflows ensure consistent execution of recovery steps while reducing manual intervention and minimizing the risk of human error.
SLA-Driven Protection: Rubrik’s SLA policies support continued data protection post-failover, enabling robust backup and replication options.
Granular Recovery Options: The flexibility to recover specific workloads or entire environments allows organizations to prioritize critical systems and applications as needed.
Centralized Control: Rubrik Security Cloud provides a user-friendly, centralized platform that streamlines the management and orchestration of recovery plans, making it easier for IT teams to maintain recovery readiness.
Reporting and Compliance: Comprehensive reporting provides insights into recovery performance, audit trails, and adherence to regulatory requirements, helping organizations continuously improve their recovery strategies.
This design gives organizations the secure and automated recovery orchestration they need to maintain operational resilience without relying on complex third-party integrations.
Beyond Traditional Disaster Recovery: Ransomware Recovery
In today's evolving threat landscape, organizations face not just natural disasters but also sophisticated cyberattacks that can compromise critical business data. So in addition to traditional DR capabilities, Rubrik goes a step further with advanced ransomware recovery features, including:
Anomaly Detection: Integration with Rubrik Anomaly Detection provides intelligent insights to identify encryption and anomaly patterns, helping IT teams determine the blast radius of an attack, and easily identify recommended recovery points.
Attack Genesis Identification: Security teams can investigate specific point-in-time snapshots to determine the root cause of the incident. This iterative process allows for comprehensive threat analysis.
Recovery Orchestration: Leveraging the recovery plans feature, organizations can automate and expedite recoveries by selecting the recommended recovery points, and restoring affected workloads, either at the primary or secondary site.
These capabilities help organizations prepare for traditional disasters and build resilience against modern cyber threats.
Ready to further explore Rubrik’s recovery capabilities for Nutanix environments? Contact us to learn more about how Rubrik can help you ensure business continuity and fortify your organization against disasters and cyber attacks.
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