eBook: Nutanix Data Protection with HYCU

IT teams are moving to Nutanix for its simplicity, scalability, and lower total cost of ownership. But protecting these environments with legacy backup tools leads to frustration.

Why Legacy Backup Falls Short

Legacy backup platforms often:

• Require agents, proxies, or dedicated hardware, adding complexity and slowing deployment
• Struggle to protect the full range of Nutanix workloads, including Files, Objects, NDB, and containers
• Deliver slow recovery times that put business continuity at risk
• Hide true costs in licensing, infrastructure, and cloud egress fees

These limitations create bottlenecks, increase risk, and drive up costs. Modern Nutanix environments demand a new approach.

HYCU: Purpose-Built for Nutanix

HYCU is the only data protection solution designed specifically for Nutanix. It simplifies backup, disaster recovery, and migration for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

• Zero-impact, agentless protection with no proxies or extra hardware required
• Broadest Nutanix coverage: VMs (AHV/ESXi), Files, Objects, NDB, containers, and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
• One-click, policy-driven management with auto-discovery of workloads
• Familiar, Prism-like interface for seamless user experience
• Elastic scale that automatically grows with your Nutanix environment

Comprehensive, Modern Protection

HYCU delivers:

• Instant, snapshot-based recovery for minimal downtime
• Immutable, air-gapped backups with WORM lock and hidden snapshots for ransomware resilience
• End-to-end security with compliance-ready controls for PCI, HIPAA, SOX, and GDPR
• Disaster recovery to AWS NC2 and Azure bare metal without the need for costly warm infrastructure

Optimized for Every Nutanix Workload

Nutanix supports a wide range of workloads. HYCU protects them all:

• VMs on AHV or ESXi
• Nutanix Files and Objects
• Nutanix Database (NDB), with the first and only purpose-built support for NDB workloads4
• Containerized applications on Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)
• Remote and branch offices with optimized WAN usage

Unified Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Protection

• Seamless backup and disaster recovery for AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Simplified hybrid DR and workload migration with no vendor lock-in
• Automated policy management and optimized storage to reduce cloud TCO