RackWare + Nutanix NC2
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Automated Cross-Cloud Failover for Nutanix Cloud Clusters
Executive Summary
Organizations adopting Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are increasingly looking for a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that extends beyond a single cloud provider while maintaining operational simplicity and automation. RackWare provides failover and disaster recovery automation for workloads running on Nutanix NC2 across any supported public cloud environment leveraging Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) for VM provisioning, infrastructure automation, and operational consistency.
RackWare enables organizations to protect and recover workloads between on-premises Nutanix clusters and NC2 deployments running in public clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and OVHcloud. By integrating with Nutanix APIs and infrastructure automation capabilities, RackWare automates VM provisioning, replication, failover, fallback, and DR testing while preserving the operational model customers already use within Nutanix environments.
Nutanix NC2 extends the Nutanix software stack into public cloud environments using native bare-metal infrastructure, allowing customers to run a consistent Nutanix operating model across clouds.
Business Challenges
Organizations modernizing infrastructure with Nutanix face several disaster recovery and cloud mobility challenges:
Maintaining secondary DR datacenters is operationally expensive.
Native public cloud DR services are often inconsistent across providers.
Traditional DR solutions are tightly coupled to specific hypervisors or cloud platforms.
Manual provisioning of DR infrastructure increases recovery times and operational risk.
Enterprises require flexible DR targets across multiple public clouds and sovereign environments.
Kubernetes and modern application deployments require consistent hybrid cloud protection strategies.
As organizations adopt NC2 to extend Nutanix into public cloud environments, they require a DR platform capable of orchestrating automated failover while maintaining Nutanix operational consistency.
Solution Overview
RackWare provides automated failover and DR orchestration for Nutanix NC2 environments across supported public clouds by combining:
Continuous replication
Policy-based orchestration
Automated VM provisioning
Cross-cloud failover automation
Automated fallback
DR testing and recovery workflows
RackWare integrates with Nutanix NCI APIs and Prism management capabilities to automate infrastructure creation and VM lifecycle management during recovery events.
This enables organizations to:
Fail over Nutanix workloads to NC2 running in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OVHcloud
Automate VM provisioning during recovery
Reduce manual DR operations
Eliminate dependence on identical physical infrastructure
Support both planned migration and unplanned disaster recovery scenarios
Extend DR protection across hybrid and multicloud environments
Architecture Overview
Primary Site
Nutanix on-premises cluster or NC2 deployment
Production workloads running on Nutanix AHV or supported hypervisors
Recovery Site
Nutanix NC2 deployment in supported public cloud
Nutanix NCI used for:
Automated VM provisioning
Networking configuration
Storage orchestration
Lifecycle management
RackWare recovery automation platform
Recovery Workflow
RackWare replicates workload changes per policy configuration.
Replication policies maintain recovery points.
During failover, RackWare triggers automated recovery workflows.
Nutanix NCI provisions target infrastructure and VMs automatically.
Workloads power on in the target NC2 environment.
Network mappings and recovery sequencing are applied automatically.
Applications resume operations in the target cloud.
Key Capabilities
Automated Failover
RackWare automates the entire recovery process including:
VM provisioning
Boot sequencing
Network remapping
Dependency orchestration
Recovery validation
Fallback operations
This reduces manual operational effort during disaster scenarios and improves recovery consistency.
Cross-Cloud Disaster Recovery
RackWare supports DR across any public cloud where NC2 is supported, including:
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud
OVHcloud
This allows organizations to standardize DR operations while avoiding vendor lock-in.
Nutanix NC2 supports hybrid multicloud deployments across these public cloud providers using a common Nutanix operating model.
Nutanix NCI Integration
RackWare leverages Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) for:
Automated VM deployment
Infrastructure scaling
Policy enforcement
Prism-based management integration
API-driven orchestration
Using Nutanix APIs and Prism automation capabilities, RackWare reduces operational complexity and accelerates recovery execution.
On-Demand DR Infrastructure
Organizations can maintain warm or pilot-light DR environments and provision additional compute resources only during failover or testing events.
This model helps reduce infrastructure costs while maintaining enterprise recovery objectives.
NC2 supports elastic scale-out and on-demand cluster provisioning in public cloud environments.
Non-Disruptive DR Testing
RackWare enables organizations to perform DR testing without impacting production operations by:
Spinning up isolated recovery environments
Executing policy-based recovery workflows
Validating application recoverability
Automatically cleaning up test environments after completion
Use Cases
Disaster Recovery to Public Cloud
Protect Nutanix workloads by replicating to NC2 deployments running in public cloud infrastructure.
Datacenter Evacuation
Use RackWare to orchestrate workload recovery into NC2 environments during datacenter outages or migration initiatives.
VMware Exit and Hybrid Cloud Modernization
Organizations transitioning away from VMware can use RackWare and NC2 to:
Migrate workloads into Nutanix environments
Establish DR protection simultaneously
Maintain operational continuity during modernization
Sovereign Cloud and Regional Recovery
NC2 deployments in supported sovereign or regional cloud providers allow organizations to meet residency and compliance requirements while maintaining automated DR capabilities.
Benefits
Benefit | Description |
Operational Simplicity | Unified DR automation and policy across Nutanix environments |
Cross-Cloud Flexibility | Failover across supported NC2 public cloud targets |
Reduced Recovery Time | Automated provisioning and orchestration accelerate recovery |
Lower Infrastructure Cost | On-demand DR infrastructure reduces idle capacity |
Reduced Risk | Automated workflows minimize manual intervention |
Hybrid Cloud Consistency | Same Nutanix operational model across clouds |
Faster Cloud Adoption | Simplifies migration and recovery into public cloud |
Why RackWare + Nutanix NC2
Together, RackWare and Nutanix provide a modern hybrid cloud DR architecture that combines:
Nutanix operational consistency
Public cloud flexibility
Automated failover orchestration
Cross-cloud mobility
Policy-driven recovery automation
Organizations can standardize disaster recovery operations across on-premises and public cloud environments while leveraging the scalability and elasticity of NC2.
RackWare complements Nutanix NC2 by providing automated recovery orchestration, continuous replication, and failover automation across hybrid multicloud environments.
Conclusion
RackWare enables organizations to operationalize disaster recovery for Nutanix NC2 environments across any supported public cloud by leveraging Nutanix NCI for automated VM provisioning and infrastructure orchestration.
The result is a flexible, automated, and cloud-agnostic DR platform that simplifies hybrid multicloud recovery while reducing operational complexity and infrastructure costs.
As organizations continue modernizing infrastructure and adopting hybrid cloud architectures, RackWare and Nutanix NC2 together provide a scalable foundation for resilient, automated disaster recovery across any environment.
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