Nutanix, Inc.
INITIALIZATION OF A DISASTER RECOVERY SITE FROM A PHYSICALLY-TRANSPORTED INITIAL DATASET

Abstract:

Systems and methods for disaster recovery. The systems and methods serve to synchronize a target computer cluster from data that is physically transported to the target cluster. Steps include collecting data and configuration information pertaining to a primary running computing cluster situated at a first geographic location. Then, that data and those configurations are replicated from the primary running computing cluster to a seeding device configured to store a representation of the primary running computing cluster as a virtual cluster. The seeding device is transported to a location of a secondary computing cluster. At the second geographic location, the seeding device is interfaced to the secondary computing cluster so as to establish the data and configuration information of the primary running computing cluster at the running secondary computing cluster. The representation of the primary running computing cluster includes representation as a single node cluster with a single storage pool.