Protect AHV using NetBackup
Virtual infrastructure is one of the key components of today's modern data centers. The ability to back up and restore your virtual machines is essential. It maintains business continuity and deliver superior high availability and disaster recovery (HA-DR) solutions to meet stringent service level agreements.
Veritas NetBackup, in addition to VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Red Hat Virtualization, lets you back up and restore Nutanix AHV virtual machines.
You can protect the Nutanix AHV virtual machines using the Hypervisor backup policy.
See About the Hypervisor policy type to protect Nutanix AHV VMs.
With NetBackup version 8.3, the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) plug-in for Hypervisor policy is installed as part of the NetBackup installation.
Starting from version 8.3, NetBackup supports incremental backups for the Nutanix AHV virtual machines.
Starting from NetBackup 8.3, you cannot create new BigData policies to protect your Nutanix AHV VMs.
See Migrating BigData policy to Hypervisor policy.
See Deprecation of BigData policy to protect Nutanix AHV VMs.
Table: High-level steps to protect the Nutanix AHV virtual machines using the Hypervisor policy
Step | Step overview | Sub-steps and links to the sections |
|---|---|---|
1 | Understand NetBackup, Hypervisor policy, and AHV | About the Hypervisor backup policy Migrating an existing BigData policy to Hypervisor policy |
2 | Read the prerequisites, and things to consider before using the NetBackup for AHV plug-in | |
3 | Establish communication between NetBackup and the Nutanix components | Configure secure communication between Nutanix AHV and NetBackup. Add the Nutanix Acropolis cluster credentials to the NetBackup primary server. Add the name of the backup host to relevant file system allowed lists on the Prism web console and the NetBackup primary server. |
4 | Create a backup policy | Create a backup policy |
5 | Protect the Nutanix AHV virtual machines | Backup the virtual machines. |