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NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide
- Overview
- RBAC roles for the Nutanix AHV administrator
- RBAC roles for the Nutanix AHV administrator
- Assign both the Default VMware Administrator and Default AHV Administrator roles to a user
- Create a custom role for all Nutanix AHV permissions and additional VMware asset permissions
- Create a custom role for all VMware permissions and additional Nutanix AHV asset permissions
- Managing AHV clusters
- Quick configuration checklist to protect AHV virtual machines
- Configure secure communication between the AHV cluster and NetBackup host and Nutanix Prism Central and NetBackup host
- Enable the iSCSI initiator service on windows backup host
- Install the iSCSI initiator package on Linux backup host
- Migrate Java GUI/CLI added clusters into the web UI
- Prerequisites to configure Nutanix AHV cluster
- About support for Nutanix segmented iSCSI network
- Configure CHAP settings for iSCSI secure communication with AHV clusters
- About the ports that NetBackup uses to communicate with AHV
- Add or browse an AHV cluster
- Remove AHV Clusters
- Add a new Nutanix Prism Central
- Add new Prism Central server credentials
- Remove Nutanix Prism Central
- Create an intelligent VM group
- Assign permissions to the intelligent VM group
- Update the intelligent VM group
- Remove the intelligent VM group
- Set CHAP for iSCSI
- Add an AHV access host
- Remove an AHV access host
- Change resource limits for AHV resource types
- Change the autodiscovery frequency of AHV assets
- Scan for malware
- Managing credentials
- Instant access
- Protecting AHV virtual machines
- Things to know before you protect AHV virtual machines
- Protect AHV VMs or intelligent VM groups using Protection plan
- Backup AHV VMs or intelligent groups using Policy
- Protect AHV VMs within VPC
- Protect vTPM enabled AHV VMs
- Customize protection settings for an AHV asset
- Modify policy for an AHV asset
- Schedules and retention
- Backup options
- Prerequisite to Enable virtual machine quiescing
- Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
- View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
- Recovering AHV virtual machines
- Things to consider before you recover the AHV virtual machines
- About the pre-recovery check
- Recover an AHV virtual machine
- Recover an AHV VM within VPC
- Recover a vTPM enabled AHV VM
- About Nutanix AHV agentless files and folders restore
- Prerequisites for agentless files and folder recovery
- SSH key fingerprint
- Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agentless restore
- Recovery target options
- Pre-recovery checks for Nutanix AHV
- About Nutanix-AHV agent-based files and folders restore
- Prerequisites for agent-based files and folder recovery
- Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agent based restore
- Limitations
- Protecting Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
- Troubleshooting AHV operations
- Troubleshooting AHV operations: Error during creation of AHV instant access virtual machines
- Troubleshooting tips for NetBackup for AHV
- Error during AHV credential addition
- Error during the AHV virtual machines discovery phase
- Errors for the Status for a newly discovered VM
- Error run into while backing up AHV virtual machines
- Error while restoring AHV virtual machines
- API and command line options for AHV
Create an instant access VM
You can create an instant access VM from a NetBackup backup image. The VM is available almost instantaneously, achieving a near-zero recovery time objective. NetBackup mounts the VM's snapshot directly on the backup storage device to allow your AHV Cluster to treat the snapshot as a normal VM.
The mounted VM snapshot can be used for a variety of purposes. For example:
Recovering files from the VM, or copying a disk file.
Running tests on the VM, such as testing a patch.
Troubleshooting or disaster recovery.
Verifying an application.
Note:
This feature is supported for Build Your Own (BYO) server. This feature requires that the NetBackup backup image is stored on a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage device. More information on using instance access VMs is available:
See Things to consider and limitations before you use the instant access feature.
To create an instant access VM
- On the left, click Nutanix AHV.
- Locate the VM and click on it.
- Click the Recovery points tab, then click the date on which the backup occurred.
The available images appear in rows with the backup timestamp for each image.
- On the image or the copy of the image that has the option to recover using instant access, click Recover > Create instant access virtual machine.
- Review the Restore to values in Recovery target.
The default values are populated from the backup image of the VM.
To recover to an alternate location change the default cluster in the Restore to option. Then click Next.
Note:
You must have View and View restore target permissions on storage container or cluster to list down the expected storage container in target drop-down.
- Review or change the Recovery options values.
Create new VM ID instead of existing one
Creates a new ID for the VM that is different from the existing value that was set during the backup.
Note:
VM ID is the VM UUID.
Power on after recovery
Automatically powers on the VM when the recovery is complete.
Enable migration
Automatically moves the storage associated with the instant access VM from the NetBackup storage to a container on the Nutanix cluster.
- Review or change the Advanced options.
Remove network interfaces
Remove the network interfaces that were set for the VM during the backup.
Retain MAC address
Retain the MAC address that was set for the VM during the backup.
- Click Next to run the Recovery overview.
- Click Start recovery.
- Click the Restore activity tab to monitor a job's progress. Select a specific job to view its details.
- Click the Instant access virtual machines tab to view the details of the new VM.