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Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

Collapse complex SAN/NAS storage arrays, Fibre Channel switches, and compute servers into a unified, software-defined enterprise cloud cluster. Powered by Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (AHV) and VMware vSAN with all-NVMe flash performance, inline deduplication, zero-trust micro-segmentation, and active-active metro disaster recovery.

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60% TCO Cost Reduction

99.9999% Storage SLA Uptime

100K+ IOPS Per HCI Server Node

0 Sec Non-Disruptive Upgrade Downtime

TOPIC 01 // SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE & COMPUTE

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud & VMware vSAN Unified Clusters

Eliminate traditional SAN storage complexity and Fibre Channel fabric management. Our Hyper Converged Infrastructure solutions pool x86 server nodes into a single, highly resilient distributed software-defined storage fabric, enabling IT teams to deploy virtual machines and containers in minutes with 1-click simplicity.

check_circle Nutanix AHV or VMware ESXi hypervisor choice with seamless license mobility.
check_circle Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) delivering linear compute and storage scaling.
check_circle Single-pane management via Nutanix Prism Central or VMware vCenter Server.

High-Density Enterprise Server Node Rack

Enterprise Nutanix & VMware vSAN Server Cluster Rack

All-NVMe Flash Storage Tiering & Data Optimization

TOPIC 02 // PERFORMANCE & DATA DEDUPLICATION

All-NVMe Flash Tiers, Inline Compression & Erasure Coding

Accelerate mission-critical SAP HANA, Oracle DB, and Microsoft SQL workloads with ultra-fast PCIe Gen4/Gen5 NVMe flash pools. Advanced inline data reduction engines perform byte-level deduplication, compression, and Erasure Coding (EC-X), maximizing usable storage capacity by up to 4:1 while reducing power and cooling footprints.

check_circle Data Locality keeping VM data on local NVMe drives for sub-millisecond read access.
check_circle Hardware-accelerated inline deduplication and compression without performance overhead.
check_circle Erasure Coding (RF2 / RF3) providing 33% higher usable storage efficiency than traditional mirroring.

TOPIC 03 // DISASTER RECOVERY & HYBRID CLOUD

Active-Active Metro Clustering & Zero-Trust Micro-Segmentation

Ensure business continuity across dual data centers with active-active synchronous replication (RPO=0) and automated failover (RTO < 1 minute). Integrated software-defined networking delivers zero-trust micro-segmentation, isolating East-West VM traffic to block lateral malware movement across subnets.

check_circle Nutanix Metro Availability / VMware vSAN Stretched Cluster with automatic witness tie-breaker.
check_circle Flow Micro-Segmentation / VMware NSX enforcing firewall policies at the virtual NIC level.
check_circle Seamless hybrid cloud burstability to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud platform endpoints.

Cloud Data Center Disaster Recovery Operations

Active-Active Metro DR & Hybrid Cloud Console

Engineering Specifications Matrix

Supported Hypervisors	Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM
Storage Architecture	Software-Defined Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) / vSAN OSA & ESA
Storage Media Tiers	All-NVMe Flash, NVMe-oF, Optane Persistent Memory, Hybrid SSD/HDD
Data Reduction Services	Inline Deduplication, Inline Compression, Erasure Coding (EC-X / vSAN EC)
Cluster Scalability	3 Nodes minimum to 64+ Nodes per Cluster with linear expansion
Disaster Recovery SLAs	Metro Synchronous (RPO=0, RTO < 1 min), Async Snapshots (RPO=5 min)
Network Connectivity	Dual 25G / 100G RoCE v2 & iWARP High-Speed Cluster Fabrics

Related HCI Hardware Nodes & Licenses

Enterprise HCI server nodes and software licenses sourced directly from Nutanix, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and VMware with 3-year OEM mission-critical support.

Nutanix NX-Series All-NVMe 2U 4-Node Appliance

Nutanix NX All-NVMe 4-Node Cluster

High-Density Enterprise Cloud

2U 4-node chassis, dual Intel Xeon / AMD EPYC CPUs per node, 24x NVMe SSDs, dual 25G SFP28 uplinks.

Dell VxRail vSAN Enterprise Node

Turnkey VMware vSAN Appliance

Dell PowerEdge 1U/2U server, pre-integrated vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA), iDRAC9 Enterprise management.

HPE ProLiant DX Nutanix Server

HPE Silicon Root of Trust Security

HPE ProLiant Gen11 rack server validated for Nutanix NCI, iLO6 management, and HPE GreenLake Cloud integration.

Nutanix NCI & vSAN Software Suite

Enterprise Software Subscription

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (Ultimate Edition) / VMware vSphere & vSAN Enterprise subscription licenses with 3-year SWM.

Frequently Asked Questions

Technical answers regarding Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI), SAN replacement, hypervisor choices, and DR failover.

1. How does HCI eliminate traditional SAN/NAS storage arrays and Fibre Channel switches?

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Traditional infrastructure requires separate compute servers, dedicated Fibre Channel (FC) HBAs, FC SAN switches, and external SAN storage controllers. HCI collapses these silos by embedding software-defined storage (vSAN or Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric) directly into x86 server nodes, utilizing high-speed 25G/100G Ethernet interconnects to pool local drives into a single shared storage datastore.

2. What are the key differences between Nutanix AHV and VMware ESXi?

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VMware ESXi is the industry-standard hypervisor requiring vCenter and licensing tiering. Nutanix AHV is an enterprise-grade license-free hypervisor included natively with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, delivering built-in security, 1-click VM management, and zero additional hypervisor licensing costs. Both hypervisors deliver top-tier performance for Tier-1 enterprise databases.

3. How does HCI maintain data resiliency during server node or drive failures?

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HCI uses distributed replication (Replication Factor 2 or RF3) and Erasure Coding. When a drive or entire server node fails, the distributed storage software automatically detects the missing data blocks and rebuilds them across surviving cluster nodes in the background without causing VM downtime or storage performance degradation.

4. How does 1-click rolling upgrade work in HCI clusters?

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In standard environments, updating BIOS, firmware, hypervisor, and storage drivers requires manual downtime windows. HCI software (Nutanix Life Cycle Manager / VMware LCM) automatically live-migrates (vMotion / AHV Live Migrate) virtual machines off one node at a time, updates hypervisor and firmware code, reboots the node, and moves VMs back—enabling 100% zero-downtime upgrades.

5. Can Microlines assist with migrating our existing VMware SAN setup to Nutanix HCI?

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Yes. Microlines provides end-to-end migration services using automated toolsets (such as Nutanix Move) to migrate physical servers, VMware ESXi VMs, and SAN LUNs to Nutanix AHV or VMware vSAN with minimal cutover maintenance windows and zero data loss.

Modernize Your Data Center with Enterprise HCI

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