Acropolis VM Storage
Efficient, high-performance, and enterprise-grade VM storage
What is VM Storage?
Acropolis provides enterprise-grade VM-centric storage for virtualized applications. Unlike traditional storage solutions that were built in a pre-virtualization era, operations in Acropolis are optimized to work at a granularity of a single VM or vDisk. Additionally, complex storage operations such as LUN provisioning, zoning and masking are non-existent in Acropolis enabling deployment of highly available storage with just a few clicks.
High Performance for all Workloads
Choice and Flexibility Support for a wide range of hypervisors including Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V with native hybrid-cloud connectivity to AWS and Microsoft Azure.
Deploy VM-centric Storage in Seconds
No more storage complexity, no more LUN provisioning. Give the VM datastore a name, set data redundancy levels, enable capacity optimization policies and you are done.
High Performance for all Workloads
Choice and Flexibility Support for a wide range of hypervisors including Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V with native hybrid-cloud connectivity to AWS and Microsoft Azure.
Choice and Flexibility
Support for a wide range of hypervisors including Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V with native hybrid-cloud connectivity to AWS and Microsoft Azure.
Data Localization
Localized Write I/O
Data stays proximate to the VM and allows write I/O operations to be localized on that same node.
Continuous Analysis
Each Nutanix Controller VM (CVM) continually analyzes whether I/O requests are satisfied by storage resources local on that node, or from another node in the cluster.
Transparent Migration
If a VM migrates to another host for load balancing in an active migration scenario, hot data automatically follows the VM to maintain the highest performance.
Intelligent Migration
After a certain number of read requests made by a VM to a controller that resides on another node, Nutanix data localization moves the remote data to the local controller.
Data Localization Management
Data localization is managed as a MapReduce job to take full advantage of all cluster resources and not impact system performance.
Shadow Clones
Nutanix Shadow Clones are a unique feature of the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform that allows for consistent performance at scale of large VDI and Multi-reader scenarios with VMs sitting on different hosts.
