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  4. Best practices: NetBackup for Nutanix AHV
NetBackup™ Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide

Best practices: NetBackup for Nutanix AHV

Refer to the following guides on the NetBackup Documentation Landing Page for more details about NetBackup for Nutanix AHV:

  • NetBackup Web UI Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide

  • NetBackup for Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) Administrator's Guide

Tuning parameters - resource throttling

To avoid the load on the Nutanix AHV production environment, set resource limit options for AHV backups:

  • The backup job resource limits can be set at the AHV cluster, per storage container and per AHV host.

  • The snapshot job resource limit can be set at, AHV cluster level.

  • Set the global level resource throttling to apply across clusters, containers, and AHV host level. Consider the load on AHV to decide on these restrictions.

  • Override the global level throttling values if you need to alter those values specific to given cluster or container or AHV host level.

Tuning parameters - Media server load balancing
  • Media server load balancing is dependent on the storage server used. It is supported only for the Media Server Deduplication Pool and Cloud storage.

  • For the Media server Load Balancing feature, discovery would be done only by one of the available media servers even though the backup jobs are distributed across multiple media servers.

  • For Nutanix AHV backups using the Media server Load Balancing option, it is required that all media servers assigned to a particular storage are of the same version.

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