Hypervisors
The ThinkAgile HX Series appliances support the following hypervisors:
Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 3
VMware ESXi 6.5
Note: The HX Series appliances ship with Nutanix AHV (default) or VMware ESXi (optional) preloaded.
Software
The ThinkAgile HX Series Express appliances ship with Nutanix Xpress Software edition, which offers a
rich set of features for cluster of up to four nodes (three nodes minimum are required per cluster).
The following table lists features that are available in the Nutanix Xpress software edition.
Table 20. Nutanix Xpress software edition features
Feature
Nutanix Xpress software edition
Enterprise storage
Cluster size
4 nodes max
Online cluster grow/shrink
Yes
Heterogeneous clusters
No
VM-centric snapshots and clones
Yes
Volume groups
No
Data tiering
Yes
Inline compression
Yes
Inline performance deduplication
Yes
MapReduce compression
Yes
MapReduce deduplication
Yes
Erasure Coding (EC-X)
No
VM Flash Mode (Pin to SSD)
Yes
Infrastructure resilience
Data path redundancy
Yes
Redundancy factor
2 (Fixed)
Availability domains
No
Data protection
Asynchronous replication and disaster recovery (DR)
Yes
VSS integration
Yes
Time Stream (Converged local backups)
Yes
Cloud Connect (Backup to public clouds)
Yes
Multiple site DR (many to many)
No
Metro availability
Yes
Synchronous replication and disaster recovery
Yes
Security
Client authentication
Yes
Cluster lockdown
No
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