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  7. Overview of configuring and protecting AHV assets in the NetBackup web UI
NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide

Overview of configuring and protecting AHV assets in the NetBackup web UI

Table: Steps to configure and protect AHV assets

Step

Action

Description

Step 1

Sign in to NetBackup web UI as the Default Security Administrator. Then add the AHV user to the Default AHV Administrator role. Or, create a custom RBAC role to fit the permissions that the AHV administrator needs.

Note:

To perform the AHV administrator tasks, the Default AHV Administrator role has the minimum required permissions. You can also create a custom role to give different access permissions to your AHV administrators.

Step 2

Configure the following for an AHV cluster:

  • Configure secure communication between the AHV cluster and NetBackup host.

  • (Optional) Configure secure communication between Nutanix Prism Central and NetBackup host.

  • Enable iSCSI on the NetBackup host which you want to use as a backup or restore host.

  • In the Nutanix Prism console, add the backup host to the allowed list.

Note:

To use the NFS protocol on the Linux backup or recovery host, NFS allowed listing of the host on the Nutanix AHV Prism Console is required. For details, click here.

See Configure secure communication between the AHV cluster and NetBackup host and Nutanix Prism Central and NetBackup host.

See Install the iSCSI initiator package on Linux backup host.

See Enable the iSCSI initiator service on windows backup host.

Step 3 (Optional)

Configure and Manage Nutanix Prism Central.

See Add a new Nutanix Prism Central.

Step 4

Configure and manage AHV cluster.

See Prerequisites to configure Nutanix AHV cluster.

Step 5

Add and manage credentials.

See Add new cluster credentials.

Step 6

Configure an AHV protection plan.

See the NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide.

Step 7

Configure an Intelligent VM group.

See Create an intelligent VM group.

Step 8

Protect AHV VMs or intelligent VM groups.

See Protect AHV VMs or intelligent VM groups using Protection plan.

Step 9

Recover a VM.

See Recover an AHV virtual machine.

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