Add or browse an AHV cluster
You can add and browse AHV cluster and their credentials.
To add AHV cluster and their credentials
- On the left, click Workloads > Nutanix AHV then click the AHV cluster tab.
- Click Add to add an AHV cluster and enter the following:
See Error during AHV credential addition.
Cluster name
Note:
NetBackup recommends that you use the FQDN to add the AHV cluster. The cluster name must follow the limit of 218 characters.
REST API port (default: 9440)
This port must remain open between backup host and AHV cluster.
See About the ports that NetBackup uses to communicate with AHV.
Select the Use Prism Central for this cluster check-box to protect Prism Central server-related attributes of virtual machines. For example to capture virtual private cloud network-related attributes, project, category, and owner-related attributes of VM.
See Add a new Nutanix Prism Central.
Note:
Prism Central server must be added in the NetBackup environment, before you select this check-box.
Select one of the following from iSCSI transport.
Use iSCSI data service IP
Uses iSCSI data services IP configured on AHV cluster as an iSCSI target discovery portal and initial connection point.
Note:
This option falls back to NFS on a Linux backup host if:
The iSCSI data services IP is not configured on the AHV cluster.
The iSCSI connection is not established on the backup host.
Use segmented iSCSI data service IP
Uses segmented iSCSI data services IP configured on AHV cluster as an iSCSI target discovery portal and initial connection point.
Note:
Cluster Validation fails if the configuration is not on an AHV cluster.
Backup/Recovery job fails if the configuration is not on the AHV cluster or the backup host does not have the required network configuration.
Use specified segmented iSCSI data service IP
In the Virtual IP address field, provide the valid IP address.
Provide the virtual IP corresponding to Nutanix segmented iSCSI network interface which you plan to use for backup and recovery iSCSI data traffic.
Uses specified IP address as an iSCSI target discovery portal and initial connection point. NetBackup validates using Nutanix APIs, if the virtual IP address is from any one of the configured segmented iSCSI data services interfaces.
Note:
Backup/Recovery job fails if the configuration is not done on the AHV cluster or the backup host do not have the required network configuration.
Select a backup host
This backup host is used for validation and discovery.
Note:
Credential validation and discovery of virtual machines is only supported by NetBackup 9.1 or later.
Associate credential
Do one of the following:
Select an existing credential see Managing Credentials in the NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide.
Note:
You must associate the credentials of an AHV cluster user who has a Cluster admin role.
- Click Add and Manage permissions.
Validations for all the inputs are performed.
Select the roles you want to have access to this cluster. See Managing role-based access control in the NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide.
- To add another AHV cluster credentials, click Add.
You can run the following inline actions on an AHV cluster:
Discover: Manually discovers the VM assets that belong to the selected AHV cluster.
Edit: Modify the AHV cluster credentials.
Delete: Removes the AHV cluster.
Manage Permissions: Used to add or manage the permissions on the selected cluster.
You can select one or more AHV clusters and run the following bulk actions:
Discover: Manually discovers the VM assets that belong to the selected AHV cluster.
Note:
Discovery is triggered in a sequential manner for clusters one after the other.
Validate:
Validates the credentials of the AHV cluster.
If you choose Use segmented iSCSI data service IP, validates if segmented iSCSI Data service IP address configured on the Nutanix cluster.
If you select Use specified segmented iSCSI data service IP, validates if the specified virtual IP address is configured as a segmented iSCSI Data service IP address on the Nutanix cluster.
Delete: Removes the AHV cluster.
You can browse the AHV clusters to locate VMs and storage containers and their details.
To browse AHV cluster
- On the left, click Nutanix AHV.
- Click the AHV cluster tab, and begin searching.
The list includes the AHV clusters that you have access to.
The tab shows the AHV clusters that you can access in the following hierarchy:
All AHV_clusters cluster1 VirtualMachine StorageContainer cluster2 VirtualMachine StorageContainer
To locate a cluster, you can enter a string in the search field.
- Click on an AHV cluster to view details.
- Click on a virtual machine to view its protection status, recovery points, and restore activity.
- Click Add protection to subscribe the selected VM to a protection plan. You can also select Backup now, Recover, and Manage Permission options.
Note:
VMs can be protected using Nutanix-AHV policies in NetBackup web UI 11.1.0.2.
- Click on a storage container to view free space, and last discovered time.
Note:
Once the data exceeds the advertising capacity, the additional data is shown as negative and for such value. NetBackup web UI displays an empty filed and the corresponding API shows the -ve value for the free space field for a particular storage container.
- For storage container, you can Manage Permission.
Note:
Manage Permission is enabled only when you select the storage container.