Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 80 | Page 48

FEATURE : HYPER CONVERGENCE
The Nutanix solution implemented at Metacom now includes :
• Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
• Nutanix Prism
• Nutanix Prism Central
• Nutanix Prism Elements
• Nutanix Acropolis
• Nutanix Move
Metacom has achieved resiliency and redundancy in both its Johannesburg and Cape Town datacentres . It has a full stack with four nodes running independently in both datacentres
Alex Russell , Regional Sales Manager , SADC at Nutanix
“ Proper and full system lifecycle management was very important to us . Not just for the software but for our hardware too . As the hardware we selected for our Nutanix deployment was built for Nutanix , we can now use the Nutanix system lifecycle management tool , and we can manage the hardware down to the firmware and BIOS upgrades . It is a mature solution , and it really works well together ,” says Visser .
“ The immediate benefits we have seen are true resiliency and redundancy , even geographically . With a four-node cluster running independently in both environments , we can move payloads between the two and back again ,” adds Visser .
“ Metacom has drawn the best out of the Enterprise Cloud Suite . They have created an environment that can scale as needed , have visibility with integrated management , and the resiliency and redundancy they wanted from a hyper-converged solution ,” says Alex Russ . p
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