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  2. NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting AHV virtual machines
  4. Things to know before you protect AHV virtual machines
NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide

Things to know before you protect AHV virtual machines

During protection plan creation there are some validations which are to be taken in consideration:

  • If schedule type is Automatic, ensure all the NetBackup versions are as mentioned:

    • Incremental schedules are supported only for backup host version 8.3 or later.

    • If you have windows computer as a backup host, make sure that the version is 9.1 or later.

    • If you want to use Enable virtual machine quiesce option, ensure that the backup host is 9.1 or later.

    • If Intelligent VM group has category attribute as filter then backup host version should be 10.4 or later.

  • To protect Nutanix Prism Central related VM attributes, Nutanix Prism Central configuration is required.

    Note:

    To protect Nutanix Prism Central related VM attributes, ensure that the NetBackup host version is 10.1.1 or later.

  • Cohesity recommends to use either of protection plan or policy while protecting a Virtual machine or Intelligent group.

  • Cohesity recommends to use backupId as recovery point instead of client and filter in the recovery API.

Note:

To protect AHV VMs using policies, ensure that the NetBackup primary server, media server, client / backup hosts are upgraded to NetBackup version 11.1.0.2 or above.

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