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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) Administrator's Guide
  3. Introduction to NetBackup for Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
  4. About the Hypervisor policy type to protect Nutanix AHV VMs
  5. Migrating BigData policy to Hypervisor policy
Veritas NetBackup™ for Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) Administrator's Guide

Migrating BigData policy to Hypervisor policy

Use the NetBackup Administration Console to migrate BigData backup policy to the Hypervisor policy.

Complete the following steps to migrate your existing BigData backup policy to the Hypervisor policy:

  1. Edit the existing BigData policy and select the policy type as Hypervisor. Ensure that the Use Accelerator option is selected if you want to use the Accelerator feature.

  2. Verify the changes. During this migration, NetBackup automatically changes the following parameters in the Backup Selections tab:

    Application_Type=Nutanix-AHV to Hypervisor_Type=Nutanix-AHV

    Run a backup.

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