Beyond HCI Flashcards
1
Q
What are key modules beyond HCI
A
- AFS (Acropolis File Services)
- calm (Hybrid Cloud Automation and Management)
- Flow (Microsegmentation)
- Beam (cost visibility and optimization)
2
Q
Acropolis File Services
A
- One or more SMB or NFS namespaces
- Distributed
- Resilient
- Simple
- No Hardware -> One Clik Upgrade
3
Q
AFS Architecture
A
- One VM on each node: FSVM
- Build a Logical File Server
- Scales horizontally
- Uses the underlying Distributed Storage Fabric
4
Q
AFS Benefits
A
- Simple to deploy maintain and scale
- Predictable performance at scale
3 Scales to bilions of filles and thousands of concurrent connections - Enterprise features such as AV Integration, DR, quotas, CFT, ABE
5
Q
What is Calm
A
A product that allows you to deploy apps in hybrid way
6
Q
Calm features
A
- App life cycle management
- Application blueprints
- Provion VMs across public clouds and Nutanix
- Blueprint marketplace
7
Q
Access Calm features
A
Prism central > Toolbar > Apps > Left Toolbar > Marketplace
8
Q
Flow microsegmentation
A
ability to control traffic flows between vms within same subnets
9
Q
Microsegmentation process
A
- Create categories (groups of VMs)
- Add VMs to categories
- Create the security policies for said categories
10
Q
Advantage of using categories
A
To add a VM to a security policy, you simply add it to the appropriate category
11
Q
What is Beam?
A
1) cloud optimization and security compliance service
2) SaaS Based
3) AWS + Azure
12
Q
Nutanix Coud OS
A
- Calm (deploy apps)
- Beam
- Private & Public Cloud (incl Nutanix HCI)
13
Q
Can you use different hardware spec in a cluster?
A
Yes, but not different vendors
14
Q
Nutanix purchase options
A
- Software
- Appliance
15
Q
Type of appliances
A
- Nutanix NX
- OEM
