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Recipe: Create a Nutanix AHV Backup Job with Guest Processing

Expected deliverables:

A Veeam Backup Job to back up Nutanix AHV VMs data with Guest application-aware processing enabled.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• A Nutanix AHV cluster added to the backup infrastructure.
• At least one Nutanix AHV Worker for backup processing.
• A Backup Repository with enough capacity to keep backup files for the retention period. You can also consider the use of Scale-Out Backup Repository.
• A user account with the required privileges if Guest Processing will be enabled

Before you start:

The target Repository must have enough free space to store Backup files.

Assumptions:

You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.
It’s assumed that Windows VMs included in this job support Microsoft VSS.

Method:

1. Open the Veeam Backup Console.
2. Right-click the working area and select Backup > Virtual machine > Nutanix AHV.
3. At the Job step, specify a job name and description. Click Next.
4. At the Virtual Machines step, select the Nutanix AHV VMs or containers (clusters, categories or protection domains) that you want to back up.
   • Click Add, then in the Add Object window select the necessary VMs or VM containers and click Add. Click Next.
5. At the Backup Destination step, select backup infrastructure components for the job:
   • From the Backup repository list, select a backup repository where the created backup files must be stored. Make sure it has enough free space.
   • In the Retention Policy field, specify retention policy settings in Days.
   • If you want to enable GFS for Long-Term retention, then select the Keep certain full backups longer for archival purposes check box and configure GFS options.
6. At the Guest Processing step,
   • Check Enable application-aware processing option.
   • If you want to configure archive/transaction log processing for databases like MS SQL Server or Oracle, click Customize application-aware processing settings, then select a workload from the list and click Edit. In the Processing Settings windows configure the parameters according to your requirements.
   • Check Enable guest file system indexing and malware detection if you want to create a catalog of guest OS files and scan it for suspicious file system activity and malware files.
   • From the Guest OS credentials list, specify credentials that Veeam will use to access guest OSes of all VMs included into the backup scope.
   • To check whether Veeam can connect to VMs using the specified guest OS credentials, click Verify Network Connectivity.
   • Click Next.
7. At the Schedule step, select to run the backup job manually or schedule the job to run on a regular basis. Click Apply.
8. At the Summary step, review details of the backup job. If you want to start the job right after you close the wizard, select the Run the job when I click Finish check box, otherwise leave the check box unselected. Then click Finish to close the wizard.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• Veeam Best Practices