Key features
The ThinkAgile HX Series appliances deliver the industry’s most feature-rich hyperconverged infrastructure
to enterprise datacenters (shown in the following figure). Nutanix brings the benefits of web-scale
technologies to enterprise applications through enterprise storage, data protection, infrastructure
resilience, management and analytics, and security.
Figure 2. HX Series hyperconverged infrastructure
The ThinkAgile HX Series appliances offer the following key features:
Enterprise storage
The HX Series appliances deliver enterprise data storage as an on-demand service by employing
highly distributed software architecture. The Nutanix Software eliminates the need for traditional
SAN and NAS solutions, and delivers a rich set of software-defined services that are entirely VM-
centric, including snapshots, high availability, disaster recovery, deduplication and more.
Inline and post-process compression at the sub-block level increase effective storage
capacity by up to four times.
Redirect-on-write snapshots and writeable clones at the granularity of a single VM increase
efficiency.
Distributed caching of VM data improves performance in multi-reader scenarios, such as VDI
with linked clones.
Inline deduplication in the read cache and post-process deduplication in the capacity
tier improve performance and effective capacity.
Powerful acceleration capabilities such as caching, automatic data tiering and data locality
speed storage performance.
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX2320-E and HX2720-E Appliances
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