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  3. NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide
  5. Protecting AHV virtual machines
  7. Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide

Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups

You can unsubscribe VMs or intelligent VM groups from a protection plan. When the asset is unsubscribed, backups are no longer performed.

Note:

When you unsubscribe an asset from a protection plan, there is a possibility that the asset displays Classic policy in the Protected By column on web UI. This situation can happen when an asset is subscribed to a protection plan and a backup runs for that asset. Then the asset is unsubscribed from the protection plan while it has a valid backup image. The web UI displays Classic policy, but there may or may not be an active policy protecting the asset.

To remove protection from a VM or intelligent VM group

  1. On the left, click Workloads > Nutanix AHV.
  2. On the Virtual machines tab or Intelligent VM groups tab, select the VM or the intelligent VM group.
  3. Click Remove protection > Yes.

    Under Virtual machines or Intelligent VM group, the asset is now listed as Not protected.

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