©2017 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved CHALLENGE ASU had been relying on a traditional 3-tier storage and server environment, using NetApp MetroCluster storage systems, x86 servers, and the Citrix XenServer hypervisor. “Scheduling downtime and support on all of those different areas of hardware and software was very difficult,” said Shaun Calvin, IT project manager and systems architect at Arizona State University. “Our on-line courses are accessed by students around the world, so our infrastructure must be available 24x7. As a result, we had to coordinate all of our maintenance windows with several different IT groups in order to minimize the impact on our end users.” In addition to upgrading its aging server and storage infrastructure, ASU also wanted to switch hypervisors from

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