Add or browse an AHV cluster
You can add and browse AHV cluster and their credentials.
To add AHV cluster and their credentials
- On the left, click Nutanix AHV then click the AHV cluster tab.
- Click Add to add an AHV cluster and enter the following:
See Error during AHV credential addition.
Cluster name
Note:
NetBackup recommends that you use the FQDN to add the AHV cluster. The cluster name must follow the limit of 218 characters.
REST API port (default: 9440)
This port must remain open between backup host and AHV cluster.
See About the ports that NetBackup uses to communicate with AHV.
Select a backup host
This backup host is used for validation and discovery.
Note:
Credential validation and discovery of virtual machines is only supported by NetBackup 9.1 or later.
Associate credential
Do one of the following:
Select an existing credential see Managing Credentials in the NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide.
- Click Add and Manage permissions.
Validations for all the inputs are performed.
Select the roles you want to have access to this cluster. See Managing role-based access control in the NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide.
- To add another AHV cluster credentials, click Add.
You can run the following inline actions on an AHV cluster:
Discover: Manually discovers the VM assets that belong to the selected AHV cluster.
Edit: Modify the AHV cluster credentials.
Delete: Removes the AHV cluster.
Manage Permissions: Used to add or manage the permissions on selected cluster.
You can select one or more AHV cluster and run the following bulk actions:
Discover: Manually discovers the VM assets that belong to the selected AHV cluster.
Note:
Discovery is triggered in a sequential manner for clusters one after the other.
Validate credentials: Validates the credentials of the AHV cluster.
Delete: Removes the AHV cluster.
You can browse the AHV clusters to locate VMs and storage containers and their details.
To browse AHV cluster
- On the left, click Nutanix AHV.
- Click the AHV cluster tab, and begin searching.
The list includes the AHV clusters that you have access to.
The tab shows the AHV clusters that you can access in the following hierarchy:
All AHV_clusters cluster1 VirtualMachine StorageContainer cluster2 VirtualMachine StorageContainer
To locate a cluster, you can enter a string in the search field.
- Click on an AHV cluster to view details.
- Click on a virtual machine to view its protection status, recovery points, and restore activity.
- Click Add protection to subscribe the selected VM to a protection plan. You can also select Backup now, Recover, and Manage Permission options.
Note:
Ensure that the protection plan for AHV exists to add protection to an asset.
- Click on a storage container to view free space, and last discovered time.
Note:
Once the data exceeds the advertising capacity, the additional data is shown as negative and for such value. NetBackup WebUI displays an empty filed and corresponding API shows -ve value for the free space field for particular storage container.
- For storage container, you can Manage Permission.
Note:
Manage Permission is enabled only when you select the storage container.