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  2. NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide
  3. Managing AHV clusters
  4. Remove Nutanix Prism Central
NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide

Remove Nutanix Prism Central

Use this procedure to delete one or more Nutanix Prism Centrals.

To remove an Nutanix Prism Central

  1. On the left, click Nutanix AHV, then click the Prism Central servers tab.

    The tab lists the names of Nutanix Prism Centrals that you have access to.

  2. Locate and select the AHV Prism Central.
  3. Select one or more prism central servers and click Actions > Delete

    Note:

    If you delete a prism central, all virtual machines associated with the deleted prism central server will be backed-up/recovered without project, category, owner and virtual private cloud networking related attributes.

  4. Unselect the Disable "Use Prism Central server for this cluster" for all clusters associated with this Prism Central servers. De-Select if you want to keep it enabled. checkbox, if required and click Delete

Note:

Once the Nutanix Prism Central is deleted, asset discovery will not be triggered automatically for the clusters of this Prism Central server. Hence, the VM's of these clusters will display the Prism Central server and project on the VM detail page until the next asset discovery is triggered.

Note:

If an environment has clusters associated with this prism central with Use Prism Central server for this cluster checkbox selected, and the prism central is deleted by unselecting the Disable "Use Prism Central server for this cluster" for all clusters associated with this Prism Central server checkbox, then the subsequent backup or restore jobs would fail until the associated prism central server is added.

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