Learn how to integrate PowerProtect Data Manager with Nutanix AHV for seamless backup and restore operations. This step-by-step guide covers enabling Nutanix AHV as an asset source, configuring Prism Central, deploying the Protection Engine, creating protection policies, and performing image-level restores. Discover how incremental forever backups, Data Domain deduplication, and disaster recovery replication enhance resilience and efficiency. Perfect for IT admins and virtualization specialists looking to protect Nutanix VM workloads with enterprise-grade data protection.
Hi. In this video I will introduce you to the integration of PA Protect Data Manager in Nutanix. HP the backup and restore experienced offer by PA protect data Manager has been extended to Nutanix HP VM workloads, complemented by an array of features. The experience is seamless and can be managed directly from the data Manager UI, ensuring efficient deployment on your Nutanix prism central environments, allowing to scale operations by dynamically assigning your tonics VMs to protection policies. Incremental forever backups leverage unit change, block tracking and recovery, point based snapshots, and data domain deduplication to minimize data growth, resulting in faster backups and restores. The solution also allows for seamless replication of protected VMs to disaster recovery sites and cloud tier for OD. Resilience and availability.
Finally, you can perform image level restores to any Nutanix element, cluster or prism central entity discovered by Data Manager. Let's walk through how that works by logging into Power Protect Data Manager. Under the Assets Sources menu on the left sidebar, select Assets Sources and scroll to the end of the screen here, enabling Nutanix, HP acid source. Wait a few moments for Power Protect Data Manager to enable the assets source. This process may take 1 to 2 minutes. Once complete, then add our Nutanix Prism central asset complete. The fields are shown including name Fqdn, the default port of nine for 40, and click verify to verify the certificate. Next, add our credentials so that we can authenticate with Prism central. We configure these earlier, click verify Credentials and wait a moment and then click save. In this demo we are using the same protections for Prism Central. And then the underlying Prism elements cluster. Wait for a moment for the discovery process to complete. Now navigate to assets to view our discovered assets. Once the discovery completes, we need to go to each cluster in the assets source page and accept the certificate of the cluster. Select security, then click save. In our demo, we will protect the VM named ubuntu 100. The next step will be to add our protection engine which is deployed on the part Nutanix cluster basis. Fill out the required fields as shown IP address, Fqdn, DNS and target prism central and for some central cluster.
Click next and then finish. The protection engine begins to deploy the target HP new Tactics cluster. The V proxy OVA image is pushed to the Nutanix Prism OVA repository and installed directly on the target cluster. You can monitor the installation process via the jobs menu, and then the system's job tab. Note we have sped up the video one. Capture the install process. After a few minutes, the protection engine deploys in the target cluster. Navigate back to Protection Engines to see more details about the install and verify its health. Next, we need to create a protection policy for the virtual machines. We have discovered. Navigate to the left of the screen and click on protections, policies. Click add and populate the deployment Wizard. In this example we will choose Cross Consistent and then click next. Other virtual machine ubuntu 100. Click add and then next add our primary backup target.
I configure the backup parameters including backup type in this case full backup frequency and retention period. Click save and then next. In this example, we will optimize for performance. Then click finish to create the policy. The policy successfully deploys, but we want to overwrite the schedule by clicking on protect. Note. Select all assets full backup as this is our first backup. Click next and protect. Now. Move to the jobs tab to monitor jobs progress. Again, we have sped up the video. Here was the protection job complete successfully. Next we will navigate to Prism Central Console and examine the state of our test VM. As you can see, it is healthy and we can ping its Ethernet interface. Now we wish to test the restore process. We will do this by accidentally deleting the test VM. Ubuntu 100. You can see the ping is no longer responsive as the VM no longer exists. Now let's recover the VM to its original state.
Click the restore tab, then assets. Click the machine we wish to restore and click restore. Navigate through the wizard. Select Create and Restore to a new VM. Select the target cluster, then next select Nutanix storage target or container. In this instance, the instance the default container. Insert the virtual machine name. Enable data domain boost. We also want to power on the virtual machine. When complete, we have a single protection engine. Configure it so we leave this toggle disabled. On the network configuration screen. We want to retain the network state and reconnect to the original subnet, which in this case was test.
Click next and review our configuration before clicking restore. We can view progress as always in the job section. Once the process has completed, we can open our Nutanix Prism console again and check the state of our restored virtual machine. All looks good. The pink test is successful and the VM is operational. For more information, please refer to the links at the end of the video. Thank you for your time.
