About the Hypervisor policy type to protect Nutanix AHV VMs
Starting with NetBackup 8.2, you can use the policy to protect the Nutanix AHV VMs.
The policy type lets you protect hyper converged systems and hypervisors like Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) or Red Hat Virtualization (RHV).
The Hypervisor policy leverages several existing NetBackup features to protect the hypervisor and the virtualization workloads. For example, incremental backups and accelerator for Hypervisor using the hypervisor change block tracking capabilities.
For information about accelerator-enabled backups, refer to the NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide.
Starting from NetBackup 8.3, incremental backups for Nutanix AHV are supported with change block tracking capabilities.
A policy differs from other policies in the following respects:
The entries that are provided to add clients and to define backup selections, differ based on the application that you choose to back up.
During backup selection, you must specify certain parameters and their appropriate values.
Note:
To backup other hypervisors that run on a Nutanix Acropolis cluster, configure or use a relevant backup policy for that hypervisor. For example, to backup VMware ESX or a Hyper-V on a Nutanix Acropolis cluster, use or configure a VMware policy or a Hyper-V, respectively.