utilizes MapReduce tiering technology to insure data is intelligently places in the optimal storage tier (SSD or HDD) for the fastest performance
Storage Tiers
a logical segmentation of the storage pool and contains a group of VMs and files (vDisks). These are usually mapped to hosts as shared storage in the form of a NFS Share or a SMB Share.
Containers
A of physical storage devices, including SSD and HDD drives, for the cluster. Can span multiple Nutanix nodes and is expanded as the cluster scales.
Storage Pools
a group of Nutanix nodes that form a distributed platform. This platform is presented to the hypervisors like any other central storage array, however all I/O’s are handled locally for performance.
Distributed Storage Fabric
- Storage Pools
- Containers
- vDisks
Nutanix Data Structure
Nutanix Cluster component that is the data I/O manger for the cluster.
Stargate
Nutanix Cluster component that is the access interface for Cassandra.
Medusa
Nutanix Cluster component that is the distributed metadata store.
Cassandra
Nutanix Cluster component that handles MapReduce cluster mgmt & clean up.
Curator
Nutanix Cluster component that manages cluster configuration.
Zookeeper
Nutanix Cluster component that is the access interface for Zookeeper.
Zeus
Prism
Central Mgmt Interface
Solid-State Drives are considered?
Metadata Drive
A subset of storage on SSD drives that is distributed to other SSD drives on cluster nodes
OPLOG
NX platform for Branch office.
- 4-nodes per block
- Single or Dual CPU & 6-16 cores
- 1 SSD (1.2 TB) & 2 HHD (6 TB)
- 64 - 512 GB of Memory
NX-1065S and NX-1065G
NX platform that is compute intensive
- 4-node per block
- Dual CPU 16-24 cores
- 2 SSD (1.6 TB) & 4 HHD (2 TB)
- 128 - 512 GB of Memory
NX-3060-G4
NX platform that is compute intensive
- 1-node per block
- Dual CPU 20-36 cores
- 2 SSD (1.6 TB) & 2 HHD (6 TB)
- 192 - 768 GB of Memory
NX-3175-G4
NX platform that is data intensive
- 2-node per block
- Single CPU 6 cores
- 1 SSD (400 GB) & 5 HHD (6 TB)
- 32 GB of Memory
NX-6035C
NX platform that is data intensive
- 2-node per block
- Dual CPU 12-16 cores
- 1 SSD (1.6 TB) & 5 HHD (6 TB)
- 64 - 512 GB of Memory
NX-6035-G4
NX platform that is graphics intensive (VDI
- 1-node per block
- Dual CPU 20 cores
- 2 SSD (400 GB) & 6 HHD (1 TB)
- 256 GB of Memory
NX-7110
NX platform that is business critical APPs
- 1/2-node per block
- Dual CPU 16-24 cores
- 2 SSD (1.6 TB) & 4 HHD (2 TB)
- 128 - 512 GB of Memory
NX-8000
NX platform that is all-flash
- 4-node per block
- Dual CPU 12-24 cores
- 6 SSD (1.6 TB)
- 128 - 512 GB of Memory
NX-9060-G4
Each node has a virtual machine which has a purpose of enables pooling of local storage from all nodes within a cluster
Nutanix Controller VM
