Nutanix AHV enhancements
NetBackup 9.1 includes state-of-art features for the protection of Nutanix AHV. NetBackup 9.1 provides following enterprise-level capabilities to protect Nutanix AHV using the NetBackup web UI:
Integration with NetBackupweb UI:
Nutanix AHV features are integrated with NetBackup web UI to provide ability to configure, protect, recover, and monitor Nutanix AHV resources from a web browser.
Role Base Access Control (RBAC):
Lets the administrator configure user access and delegate NetBackup tasks such as AHV Asset management, Credentials access, workload protection, VM Recovery, and Files and Folders Recovery.
Credential Management:
Nutanix AHV credentials are added in the NetBackup Credential Management database as named credentials. The owner can share named credentials with other users or administrators for reuse without revealing actual credentials.
Automatic Asset Discovery:
Once AHV cluster is added in NetBackup Asset, NetBackup runs automatic Resource Discovery process and adds all VMs in the NetBackup asset. After the initial run, the Resource Discovery process runs at a scheduled interval which is configurable. This option ensures that any newly added VMs are included in the NetBackup asset.
Intelligent VM Group:
You can create an intelligent VM group based on a set of filters called queries. You can then apply protection to the group. NetBackup automatically selects virtual machines based on the queries and include them for the protection during the backup operation.
Individual VM backup:
You can also select individual VMs for protection from the list of VMs which are available through automatic discovery process.
Backup Now:
Lets you perform ad hoc backup outside the backup schedule.
Virtual Machine Quiescing:
This option lets you select application-consistent or crash-consistent snapshots leveraging suspending the operations for the options that are provided by Nutanix.
Resource throttling:
This option avoids overloading of Nutanix AHV resources during backup operations. It is done by controlling the number of simultaneous snapshots, backups that can be performed on a Nutanix AHV resource.
Restore options using NetBackup web UI recovery wizard:
VM restore:
Lets you restore the entire AHV VM to same or a different AHV cluster.
Agentless File and folder recovery:
Lets you restore individual files and folders of protected AHV VM to any homogeneous platform target host. The target host can be a virtual machine that is hosted on AHV or other hypervisors or even a physical machine where the NetBackup client is not installed. If NetBackup client is found on the target host then Files and Folders Recovery automatically uses NetBackup client.
File and folder recovery using NetBackup client:
Lets you restore individual files or folder of protected AHV VM to any homogeneous platform where a NetBackup client is configured. This can be a virtual machine that is hosted on AHV or other hypervisors or even a physical machine where the NetBackup client is installed.
Windows backup hosts support:
In addition to Linux based NetBackup Media server/Backup Hosts, you could now use Windows based NetBackup Media server/Backup Hosts to protect Nutanix AHV Cluster.
iSCSI transport mode:
NetBackup now supports iSCSI transport mode for Windows and Linux based NetBackup Media server/Backup Hosts. NFS transport is additionally supported for Linux based NetBackup Media server/Backup Hosts.
Automatic media server selection:
This lets NetBackup automatically pick up available Media server from the pool of media servers. It distributes backup jobs across multiple media servers which are available.
NetBackup APIs:
You can also use NetBackup APIs which are added for all the above features.
For details, refer to the NetBackup 9.1 Web UI Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide.