Tag: Disaster Recovery
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NSX 9 Backup and Restore: Config Protection, SFTP Targets and the Passphrase Trap (NSX Series, Part 19)
How NSX 9 backup and restore actually works in VCF 9: the three backup types, SFTP target design, the exact-version restore requirement, and the passphrase that quietly decides whether your backup is worth anything.
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Disaster Recovery and Multi-Tenancy for VMware Private AI: What to Protect and How to Share (Private AI Series, Part 29)
Most of your AI platform is reproducible, a small part is not. Here is a reference design for backing up the stateful pieces of VMware Private AI and sharing GPU clusters across teams without a free-for-all.
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Stretched Cluster vs Site Recovery in VCF 9: Choosing Your DR Architecture (VCF 9 Series, Part 28)
A vSAN stretched cluster is not a disaster recovery plan. Here is how stretched clustering and Site Recovery differ in VCF 9, what changed in the tooling, and when to use each (or both).
Architect’s Toolkit
VMware Cloud Foundation
- VCF Documentation
- VCF 9 Planning & Preparation Workbook
- VCF Bill of Materials (BoM)
- VMware Compatibility Guide
- VMware Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Configuration Maximums
- VMware Ports & Protocols
- VMware Hands-on Labs
- RVTools Download
Nutanix
AI & Cloud-Native Platform
- AI Infra Sizing & Cost Calculator
- NVIDIA Build (Model Catalog)
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise Reference Architecture
- NVIDIA NIM Performance Benchmarking
- NVIDIA NGC Catalog
- NeMo Microservices Helm Chart
- Helm Charts Repository
- Hugging Face Models
Architecture & Design
About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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