Protect AHV VMs or intelligent VM groups using Protection plan
Use the following procedure to subscribe assets that are AHV VMs or intelligent VM groups to a protection plan. When you subscribe an asset to a protection plan, you assign predefined backup settings to the asset.
Note:
The RBAC role that is assigned to you must give you access to the assets that you want to manage and to the protection plans that you want to use. In case of protect for Intelligent VM group, ensure that all the clusters forming the group have protect permission.
To protect AHV VMs or VM groups:
- On the left, click Workloads > Nutanix AHV.
- On the Virtual machines tab or Intelligent VM groups tab, click the box for the VM or the VM group and click Add protection.
- Select a protection plan and click Next.
- You can adjust one or more of the following settings:
Schedules and retention
Change the backup start window.
Backup options
Select the server or host to use for backups.
Note:
If Automatic option is selected here and this protection plan is used to protect intelligent VM group having category as a filter, please make sure you have atleast one media server with version 10.4 or later which is associated with storage unit.
Advance options
Enable virtual machine quiesce for the protection plan.
- Click Protect.
The results of your choices appear under Virtual machines or Intelligent VM groups.