External Storage

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This section explores the details of architecture changes and expansion of the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) to support 3rd party external storage providers. Previously, Nutanix converged compute and storage into a single entity with AOS distributed storage. With this new disaggregated model, Nutanix AHV and AOS can now consume high-performance external storage from outside the cluster while maintaining the VM-centric Nutanix management experience.

Chapters

  1. Motivation
  2. High-Level Design
  3. Architecture

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