Thursday, June 29, 2017

Nutanix .NEXT 2017 - Xtract

Today at Nutanix .NEXT 2017 in Washington, D.C., Nutanix announced a new migration product called Xtract.

The intention of Xtract is to simplify the transition to the Enterprise Cloud Platform. In plain English, Xtract will move VMs from VMware ESXi to Nutanix's Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) with a single click, without guest OS agents, with minimal downtime, all while retaining existing VM network configurations and automatically inserting the required AHV guest OS drivers.

The Xtract workflow is a simple scan, design, deploy, migrate process.

Similarly, customers will be able to use Xtract to migrate Microsoft SQL databases to Nutanix AHV as well. Using a similar scan, design, deploy, migrate workflow, customers will leverage a design template to make sure all SQL database-specific considerations are accounted for, and created automatically. 


If you watched the general session this morning, you saw a demo of Xtract DB, where all of the low level details of the target SQL infrastructure were created automatically - vCPU, RAM, Guest OS, SQL version, individual disk sizing. Think of how much time that will save you.

One Xtract feature I found particularly useful is the batch upload process. Most organizations have dozens of SQL servers. You can populate all of the hostname and user credentials into a spreadsheet and upload it all at once to Xtract for discovery. Easy.

Once the VMs are provisioned in AHV, SQL replication populates the data from source to target. 

The clear intention of Xtract is to reduce the professional services costs and unique skillset required to otherwise migrate workloads to AHV. This should increase adoption of AHV by leveraging Nutanix's simple and easy 1-click graphical workflows. 

Be sure to check out nutanix.com/xtract for more details!

I would like to thank Marc Trouard-Riolle for sharing Xtract details with the Nutanix Technical Champion community. 

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