Streamline Your IT Ecosystem with Nfina-View Edge/Cloud Management Software
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Nfina-View™ data backup and disaster recovery software revolutionizes the way IT administrators and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) manage their organizations by offering a comprehensive cloud-based unified management dashboard. This innovative tool empowers users to enhance their responsiveness and efficiency, allowing them to access essential information at a single glance. By integrating data from servers, storage pools, networking systems, and more, Nfina-View enables users to gain valuable insights into their IT ecosystem in real-time. With its user-friendly interface, this cloud management software caters to organizations of all industries and sizes, providing both historical and current performance metrics for better decision-making. Whether deploying fully on-premises or utilizing various cloud solutions like private, public, colocation or hybrid environments – Nfina-View is designed to meet the diverse needs of modern IT infrastructures.
Utilizing Nfina-View’s summary view, you can easily monitor the overall health of your IT ecosystem. This includes a quick overview of zones, clusters, and node details such as status, IP address, uptime, memory health, CPU utilization, and DiskPool information. Additionally, hardware details provide insight into power supplies, fans, motherboard voltages, and hard drives’ well-being. Storage Pool details further enhance your understanding by displaying status updates for capacity, Zvols, datasets, read cache, snapshots, and clones. Network details are also accessible to show host name and interface specifics like IP address, MAC address, speed, model,t Tx/Rx errors and drops status. Rest assured that all sensor readings are consistently reported and any detected errors can be set up to alert administrators promptly.
When it comes to data recovery and system restoration, Nfina-View cloud management software provides a comprehensive solution that goes beyond just restoring entire systems. In many cases, only specific virtual machines or individual files within a virtual machine need to be recovered. This is where instant clones from system snapshots come in handy, allowing for quick and efficient machine and file level restorations. With Nfina-View, users can easily select the exact components they need to restore without having to go through the time-consuming process of restoring an entire system. This level of flexibility and precision ensures that businesses can get back up and running as quickly as possible after a data loss event.
Failover, Rollback, and Disaster Recovery Testing with Nfina-View
What sets Nfina-View apart is its seamless integration of Failover, Rollback, and Disaster Recovery Testing functionalities. Unlike other platforms that require time-consuming rebuilding and repopulating of data during these operations, Nfina-View simplifies the process with intuitive tools that streamline the shifting of workloads between sites. With site-to-site Failover and Rollback operations built into the software, organizations can rest assured knowing that their data is secure and easily accessible in case of any unexpected disruptions. The power and efficiency of Nfina-View cloud management software make it an invaluable asset for businesses looking to maintain continuity and resilience in today’s dynamic IT landscape.
Failover
With Nfina-View cloud management software, administrators can seamlessly move workloads between locations using a failover mechanism. This option can be utilized during a disaster or for planned migrations to secondary sites. The cloud management software maintains copies of data in various locations to ensure constant access and minimize downtime. In the event of an edge failure, recovery can be quickly achieved by failing over to a replica on the cloud. This will allow the replica to take over the functions of the original host. It is also possible to failover to a previous state or restore point on the cloud host. Once the primary system has been repaired, data changes will be synchronized from the cloud. After this synchronization, workloads can easily be shifted back at any time.
Watch the video to learn how to easily failover from your on-prem location to an off-site location
TRANSCRIPT
Hi. Thanks for stopping by Nfina Technologies. Today I’m going to give you a quick demo of our planned failover functionality that’s built in to Nfina-View, which is a monitoring management software we have for our storage systems here at Nfina. What you see here is a couple of nodes in this edge cloud hosting cluster. The storage cluster here has these volumes on it that are listed under Zvols.
As far as this failover test is concerned, this particular test volume is what I’m going to focus on. It’s running these five virtual machines on this volume, which you can see here within vCenter on the left. So failover test 1 through 4 and space test and all those virtual machines reside on this failover test data store in Nfina-view.
If I go back to vSphere, you can confirm that failover test 1 through 4 as well as space test reside on that particular data store. The planned failover would be utilized, let’s say, in the event that you proactively want to move your virtual machines from one location to another. The location we’re going to be moving to is actually offsite in a completely different location.
And we’re going to failover to this host here that’s in vCenter, this 233 host. It’s a disaster recovery site. So, when would you use this? Well, it might be of a hurricane is coming or you want to move the VMs to run somewhere else temporarily while you reconfigure the system, something of that nature. To actually perform the failover it’s pretty simple. You’ll go into your Nfina-view interface. If the nodes are in a cluster, then the failover is going to be located at the cluster level, which is represented by this edge cloud hosting with the two-server icon shown here. You go to the failover tab and you find the volume that you want to actually failover.
Now the failover is on the volume level, so any virtual machines that reside on that given volume will actually get moved to the offsite location. To perform the failover, just select the volume, choose failover and that’s going to bring up our failover menu. So there’s a couple of choices here. It’s going to populate automatically with where it’s actually replicating to.
In this case, we’re only replicating to one location. So that’s the only choice. But you do have the ability to replicate to multiple locations. So if you had multiple locations, you would need to select which location you actually wanted to failover to. I have a target choice, which is the iSCSI target that we’re attaching the volume to on the destination side and the source replication.
VIP is what IP address we want to use to replicate back. Once we failover, it will immediately set up replication back to the original system. In this case, I’m going to use the system IP and that will allow it to immediately start replicating back the host options. Here is where you want the VMs to run in the remote location and that will be the 2.233 node over here on the left.
So, with that, I’ll go ahead and click failover. It will bring up this next menu. This is where you have some flexibility to either power on or not power on the VMs, or you can even not register them. It’s going to come by default in the state that they’re currently in. So if they’re currently powered on, power on is going to be checked.
If they’re currently registered, then registrations will be checked here. You also have the ability to skip VM failover altogether that will not do any automation around VMs or you can click the Skip VM power on and that’s just going to clear the check boxes in mass here. I’m going to leave it as default and go ahead and click failover.
So, at that point, it’s starting the failover process. It’s going to shut those virtual machines down. It’s going to un-register them and begin the failover process. You can see in vCenter, it’s un-mounted this data store from both of these hosts on the source side, which means it’s now moved to inaccessible here on the source side. In Nfina-View, let’s check to make sure that any changes have been replicated across that may have occurred during the shutdown. That includes any logging or any data that was written up until the point that the virtual machines were actually shut down. Looks like those changes were replicated across. So, what it’s going to do now is begin to bring the volume up on the destination side.
As soon as the volume is brought up on the destination side, it will immediately go ahead and begin replication back down to the source side even before the virtual machines are brought online here. You can see at this point it registered the VMs and powered them on. You can see our failover test is now mounted here in the destination location and they are now running in the destination location.
Now if I come over to the destination node inside of Nfina View, it failed over to this node. This is the storage node. You can go to failover and see that this DR volume now has these VMs running on here. Now if you want to fail back to the original host whenever you’ve reconfigured or the environmental disasters such as a hurricane or something has passed, you will be able to come back and click failover and that would allow you to fail back to the primary location where it started.
That’s all I have for today. I hope you found this demo useful and you’ll check out more of our demo videos on our site.
Rollback
With Nfina-View cloud management software, you can restore your entire system state to a previous point using Nfina-Store’s built-in rollback feature. During a ransomware attack, when the IT ecosystem has been corrupted, this is particularly useful. As soon as a rollback operation is performed during a ransomware attack, all of the customers’ data will be available again within minutes.
Protect your data with just a few clicks. Watch the video to see the power of Nfina-View for yourself!
TRANSCRIPT
For the rollback demo. I have three windows virtual machines, running on a storage volume, which is presented by one of our storage nodes. I have storage volume 01, it’s one terabyte in size and that is running these three virtual machines shown here. What I will do now is run the hive ransomware virus on these machines. If I take a look at my downloads folder, I can see the files that were accessible are now encrypted and have the dot hive extension. Now the ransom note is presented – giving us an onion address with a login and password to pay them the ransom and get the decrypter to the files so we can regain access. So over on the storage RAID side, we were taking snapshots. If we look at the storage volume, we can see we’ve been taking snapshots of the volume every 5 minutes. It’s roughly 2:05 now. So, if I come over here to the Snapshots tab, I can simply select the rollback. I will list the last five snapshots. I’m going back about 10 minutes just to guarantee that we restore before the ransomware is actually executed. I’m selecting this point in time, which will affect the three virtual machines. It will detect that those virtual machines are the one running on that volume. We’re going to choose rollback. We will confirm that we want a rollback and will begin the process where we’re actually going to rollback the entire volume, which will also rollback these three virtual machines over here. At this point, the rollback has been initiated from the storage array side. We’ve started the process of presenting the storage volume back to the ESX host. Once it’s available to the ESX host, we will power on the virtual machines and bring them back online. Now we will re-enable the backup job – and it looks like the virtual machines have been powered back on. What we want to do now is test whether we can actually log in and see if the files are accessible. If I go to my downloads page, I can see that those files are no longer encrypted and I’m able to open the files.
Disaster Recover Testing
Nfina-View cloud management software offers automated disaster recovery testing, enabling administrators to easily power on and connect to virtual machines in the DR location. While many organizations have backups, they often neglect to thoroughly test them. Backups are essential for preparedness, but their true value lies in their functionality and ability to be swiftly deployed during a disaster. With Nfina-View’s backup and disaster recovery testing feature, you can confidently assess the effectiveness of your backups in real-time, providing assurance that your systems will be efficiently restored when necessary. Regulatory agencies and insurance companies increasingly require backup proof, and proof that the backup has been tested and work. Disaster recovery testing in Nfina-View provides a report specifying that backups have been tested and are operative if needed.
What is Cloud Management Software?
Cloud management software is a type of technology enabling organizations to monitor, control, and optimize their cloud-based resources. This software plays a crucial role in managing the complexities of cloud computing by providing users with tools for automating tasks, tracking performance metrics, and ensuring security compliance.
With cloud management software, businesses can effectively allocate resources in their cloud hosting, scale applications up or down as needed, and streamline workflows across multiple cloud environments. By centralizing management functions into a single platform, this software simplifies the process of overseeing diverse cloud infrastructures and allows IT teams to focus on innovation rather than maintenance tasks.
Additionally, cloud management software facilitates cost optimization by identifying unused resources or unnecessary expenses within the cloud environment. Overall, this technology serves as an asset for businesses looking to harness the full potential of cloud computing while maintaining efficiency and security standards.
Benefits of Using Cloud Management Tools
Cloud product management software offers a plethora of benefits to businesses looking to streamline their operations and optimize efficiency. One key advantage is the ability to scale resources up or down based on demand, ensuring you only pay for what you use. This flexibility allows for cost savings and improved resource allocation.
Furthermore, a cloud management suite enhances security measures by providing real-time monitoring and threat detection capabilities. With data encryption features and access controls, businesses can rest assured that their sensitive information is protected from unauthorized access.
Another perk of using cloud management software is its user-friendly interface, making it easy for employees with varying levels of technical expertise to navigate the platform seamlessly. This results in increased productivity and reduced training time when implementing new processes or technologies within the organization.
Scalability and Flexibility
Scalability ensures that the software can grow with your business needs, allowing you to easily expand resources as required. Whether you need to increase storage space or add more virtual machines, a scalable solution will accommodate these changes seamlessly.
Flexibility is equally important, enabling you to adapt and customize the cloud management platform based on your specific requirements. Look for a platform that offers a range of deployment options, supports multiple cloud providers, and allows for easy integration with existing systems.
By prioritizing scalability and flexibility in your decision-making process, you can future-proof your IT infrastructure and ensure that your cloud management software remains effective as your business evolves.
Security Features
Look for a cloud management solution that provides robust encryption methods to safeguard sensitive information stored in the cloud. Encryption helps prevent unauthorized access and ensures data privacy.
Additionally, check if the software offers multi-factor authentication capabilities. This extra layer of security adds another level of protection by requiring users to verify their identity through multiple verification steps.
Moreover, consider whether the software includes regular security updates and patches to address any vulnerabilities promptly. Keeping your system up-to-date with the latest security measures is essential in mitigating risks associated with cyber threats.
User-Friendly Interface
A well-designed interface can make a significant difference in how efficiently you can manage your cloud resources. A user-friendly interface should be intuitive and easy to navigate, allowing users to quickly access the features they need without unnecessary complexity. Clear menus, icons, and tooltips can enhance the overall user experience and streamline tasks within the software.
Customizable dashboards and reporting tools are also essential components of a user-friendly interface. Being able to personalize your dashboard layout and easily generate reports tailored to your specific needs can greatly improve productivity.
Additionally, responsive design that adapts well to different devices ensures that users can manage their cloud resources seamlessly from desktops, laptops, or mobile devices. Overall, prioritizing a user-friendly interface in cloud management solutions is key to maximizing usability and efficiency.
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