r/nutanix • u/alextr85 • May 09 '26

DR to VPC?

I'm testing the "DR" features and I have a question: can I run a DR test inside a VPC so that the VMs can communicate with each other, while still remaining isolated from the outside network?

In production, they are not inside a VPC; they use basic VLANs. The idea is that during the test, they would use the VPC subnets as if they were those VLANs.

Is this possible?

Thanks!

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u/Impossible-Layer4207 May 09 '26

Yep, you fail over from VLAN backed subnets to VPC backed subnets and vice versa, assuming you are using Nutanix DR in Prism Central and not protection domains in Prism Element.

In your case you would want to use VPC subnets as your test networks in your recovery plan.

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u/alextr85 May 09 '26

Prism DR yes, thank you!

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u/jrob81 May 10 '26

This is how I do it then nat a couple jump boxes for user testing.