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As organizations adopt Kubernetes to run stateful, production-grade applications, traditional VM backup tools fall dangerously short. They cannot capture the full application context of a containerized workload i.e. Kubernetes environment configuration, persistent storage, and application state are left exposed — invisible to VM backup tools and unprotected against the ransomware, corruption, or cluster failure that could strike at any time. Meanwhile, managing separate tools for VMs, files, databases, and containers fragments visibility, inflates operational overhead, and creates the kind of blind spots attackers exploit.
Cohesity and Nutanix deliver a tightly integrated, enterprise-grade data protection solution for the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). By combining Cohesity Data Cloud with NKP’s native Kubernetes capabilities, organizations can protect containerized workloads with policy-driven, scalable, and cyber‑resilient backup and recovery without the operational complexity.
Cohesity integrates natively with Nutanix NKP using open, Kubernetes-native standards. Velero protects Kubernetes object metadata. Cohesity Datamover uses CSI snapshots to protect persistent volume data. Together, they deliver complete application-context protection from a single platform, the same Cohesity Data Cloud that protects your AHV VMs, Nutanix Files, and NDB databases.
CSI-based snapshots capture only changed data after the first full backup, minimizing storage footprint and backup windows.
Recover an entire namespace, individual PVCs, or specific files and folders from within a PVC—to the same cluster or a different one.
Protection policies follow Kubernetes labels automatically. Tag a namespace as tier=production and it is protected—no manual intervention required.
Restore applications to a different cluster and remap PVCs to a new storage class on the target—enabling true application portability.
Pre- and post-exec scripts quiesce stateful and transactional workloads before snapshot, ensuring clean, usable recovery points.
Granular PVC inclusion and exclusion at protection group or namespace level with custom Kubernetes resource filtering. Can include/exclude K8s resources at the granular level like secrets, Config Maps, CRDs etc .
How It Works
Use Cases
Why Cohesity
Efficient Data Protection Forever-incremental, CSI-based backups reduce storage and operational overhead
One Platform. Unified Cohesity UI with centralized visibility and control
Cyber Resilience Immutable backups, data isolation, and clean recovery paths
Co-engineered. Cohesity is Nutanix ready certified. Built alongside Nutanix to accelerate IT modernization without compromising security or recoverability.
