Unmatched Protection for Nutanix NC2 on AWS Using Veritas Alta™ Data Protection

As enterprises continue their journey to the cloud, many are turning to solutions like Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run business-critical applications. In this post, we’ll explore how Veritas Alta™ Data Protection (ADP) helps Nutanix customers secure their AWS workloads against data loss and ensure fast recovery when the need arises.

The Backup and Recovery in the Cloud

With all applications and data moved to the cloud, it is important to understand what responsibilities fall under the cloud or SaaS provider and what you are ultimately responsible for. NC2 is deployed directly into your AWS account, and is managed directly by your team(s). This gives you additional control and flexibility, but also requires that you ensure your data is protected in the event of disasters, accidental deletions, and even unauthorized access. Native snapshots, backups, and disaster recovery tools offered by AWS are not natively integrated with NC2 clusters to provide client level backup and recovery options. As a result, organizations can sometimes struggle to meet their recovery objectives in the cloud. 

Key challenges include:

Limited Backup Functionality – Native cloud snapshots lack application awareness and can’t deliver the backup performance needed for large-scale production workloads. Recovery is difficult and time-consuming.

Exposure to cyber events – Ransomware is one of the biggest risks to enterprises and organizations worldwide. Ensuring that backups are taken, tested, and stored in an immutable manner is critical to protect against cyber events.

Compliance and Data Privacy – Meeting regulatory compliance for data retention and privacy requires comprehensive backup and recovery. 

Complex Hybrid-Cloud Management – Managing backups across on-premises, public cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge environments from a single pane of glass can be difficult. 

To address these challenges, Nutanix customers need an enterprise-grade backup and recovery solution tailored for the cloud.

Introducing Veritas Alta Data Protection (ADP)

Veritas ADP is an industry-leading enterprise backup and recovery solution providing unified data protection across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. ADP gives Nutanix customers:

• Optimized backup performance using change block tracking and incremental forever backups 
• Rapid recovery with an intelligent catalog that enables search and restore of individual files or objects
• Built-in ransomware detection that scans backup copies in the cloud 
• Immutable cloud storage to guard against cyberattacks and virtual air-gapping with Veritas Recovery Vault
• Long-term retention policies to address compliance requirements
• Global deduplication that reduces cloud storage footprint and costs
• Centralized management and reporting across hybrid-cloud environments

ADP integrates with native AWS snapshots to protect native EC2 instances and EBS volumes while also delivering application and VM consistent backups through direct integration with Nutanix HCI infrastructure (client-based backups for NC2 instances). This combination of cloud native integration and enterprise capabilities provides robust data protection for NC2 workloads running on AWS.

Protecting Nutanix on AWS with ADP

ADP makes it simple to protect Nutanix clusters deployed on Amazon EC2 instances. It delivers application-consistent backups for Microsoft applications, databases, and more. Key capabilities include:

• Single-click backups and recovery for Nutanix VMs from the ADP console
• Scheduled backups aligned to user-defined policy and service levels 
• Long-term retention policies to meet regulatory compliance demands
• Backup copy jobs to AWS S3 for low-cost storage
• Fast individual file and full VM recovery with a single click
• Ransomware detection by scanning backup copies in S3
• Recovery Vault for managed backup and archival storage in AWS.

ADP also makes it easy to find and restore lost or corrupted data through an intelligent catalog and search. This allows users to quickly browse and restore individual application objects, messages, files, and more.

Getting Started with ADP

Ready to protect your Nutanix investment on AWS? Contact Veritas today to request a demo and learn more about ADP’s data protection capabilities for multi-cloud environments. 

Key reasons to choose ADP for Nutanix on AWS:

• Enterprise-scale backup and recovery designed for the cloud
• Application-consistent protection for Microsoft apps and databases
• Rapid recovery of files, folders, or full VMs
• Long-term retention policies to meet compliance needs  
• Ransomware detection, cyber resilience, and immutable object storage
• Simple license portability and unified management across on-premises, AWS, and hybrid cloud workloads

Don’t leave your critical Nutanix workloads on AWS unprotected. ADP delivers the proven data protection Nutanix customers need to confidently run production workloads across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.