topic Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix? in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

ArcGIS and Nutanix?

DEWright_CA — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:54:56 GMT

Has anyone else started looking or is working with the NUTANIX platform for VMWare and powering ArcGIS Services? I am intrigued by the mix of SSD to store the live access data while the HDD array maintains the less accessed data.

Are there any success stories out there?

Thanks;

David

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

SeanMcLaughlin3 — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:17 GMT

Hi David,

I have interesting updates for you per your ask. Please contact me on sean.mclaughiln@nutanix.com or 703-980-3291

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

DEWright_CA — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:08:29 GMT

Hi Sean, I tried to email you and the message was bounced as unknown/undeliverable.

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

Kelly_Estes — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:02:15 GMT

Hi David, please try seanm@nutanix.com that one should work. You can also email kelly.estes@nutanix.com

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

RyanDanzey — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 23:00:44 GMT

Esri Performance Engineering is working with Nutanix and will be publishing a blog and content in the near future.

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

DEWright_CA — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:25:58 GMT

Very happy to hear this; it has been years since I broached this topic at #ESRIUC and got blank stares...

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

DanielThomas1 — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:57:12 GMT

Ryan,

Has there been any movement with Nutanix and ArcGIS Enterprise? I am interested in deployment of datastores for enterprise into the Nutanix environment.

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

DEWright_CA — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:55:27 GMT

Hi Daniel, from my view we never saw enough traction from ESRI on this. But I did just complete my second deployment of a full NUTANIX environment for my Server environment and am happy to talk about it. We did not go with the Desktop Virtualization route, we are purely on the converged Server/Storage path.

Running VMWare/VSphere and Windows 2016/2019 VMs.

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

DanielThomas1 — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:03:22 GMT

David,

Thank you for your response. Did you deploy the datastores using AFS as 'OS' less file shares? Nutanix on the surface seems like a good fit for a highly available disk area and would be maintenance free if you go with Acropolis instead of using a Windows OS.

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

RyanDanzey — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:12:28 GMT

Nutanix has a fantastic technology stack that is very capable of supporting the needs of ArcGIS Pro desktop virtualization as well as server virtualization. My team was only able to spend a limited time using the Nutanix systems which focused more on desktop VDI instead of a total enterprise infrastructure deployment. Our testing was focused on desktop deployment, so I cant speak to all aspects of our product deployments. I do however know that some customers have looked into and deployed using Nutanix to support their infrastructure needs.

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

DEWright_CA — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:47:45 GMT

Sadly no, because of Auditing and Access-Control requirements we have to go with OS hosted shares for most items. Proper mapping of machines and distribution across your nodes helps a lot with reducing risk of contention and the needs to potentially have machines switch nodes. I went from a 3-node cluster to a 5-node, with one dedicated for cluster-class work.

The mixture of SSD and HDD has been a great performance boost; and maxing out your nodes with the most RAM you can is a huge boost for DB machines.

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

frdchp2021 — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 19:35:05 GMT

Any news about ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8.1 on Nutanix

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

DEWright_CA — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 20:54:12 GMT

For the most part I have been pretty happy with it; I am on my second generation of Nutanix as a VM-Farm for my Enterprise and it is pretty good.

Key things being to ensure you properly plan you deployment, thinking about your SDLC properly and your loads. So how to place and structure your AGS, Portal, Datastore layers, Web-Adaptors, and take into consideration high-availability.

Re: ArcGIS and Nutanix?

DavidHoy — Mon, 16 May 2022 12:14:57 GMT

Do you use Nutanix Files for ArcGIS Server Config and Directories?
If so, have you needed to configure the SMB shares to remove caching, oplocks and leasing?