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  2. NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide
  3. Recovering AHV virtual machines
  4. Pre-recovery checks for Nutanix AHV
NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide

Pre-recovery checks for Nutanix AHV

Table: Pre-recovery checks for Nutanix AHV

Validation

Description and reference

Input source

Recovery host space

Checks for the required space on recovery host staging location.

Recovery host

Target host connectivity

Checks if target host is accessible from recovery host.

Target host and Target host port

Target host credential

Checks if provided target host credentials are valid.

Target host credentials

Target host staging location on a local disk

Checks if target host staging location is not a network path.

Target host staging location

Target host staging location space

Checks if the required space is available on target host staging location.

Note:

Required space is total size of selected file with space required for NetBackup restore package and space needed for logs and other files.

Target host staging location

Target host staging location permissions

Checks if provided user is an owner and has RBAC permissions on target host staging location.

Target host staging location

Target host default staging location path

Checks if provided target host staging location path contains valid characters. NetBackup does not support non-ASCII characters in target host staging location path.

Target host staging location

Target host operating system

Checks if target host has a supported OS.

General

VxUpdate package

Checks if required VxUpdate package is available on primary server.

General

Linux target host specific checks

Target host SSH key fingerprint

Checks if target host SSH key fingerprint is valid to establish trust with target host from the recovery host.

Target host SSH key fingerprint

Tar existence on the target host

Checks if tar is available on target host.

Target host

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