Before You Begin

Before you create a backup job, consider the following limitations:

• You cannot back up workers and Nutanix Controller VMs.
• You cannot use Veeam Plug-in for Nutanix AHV to back up iSCSI disks mounted to VMs — they are skipped from processing automatically. However, you can use Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux to protect those disks.
• If the backup job includes individual virtual machines, as well as the whole Prism Central, category, protection domain or cluster, Veeam Backup & Replication creates a snapshot of each VM and a VG snapshot of each volume group, and then produces image-level backups using the created snapshots. This approach cannot guarantee full consistency of VM and volume group data.

• When processing a VM, Veeam Backup & Replication always tries to produce an application-consistent backup using Nutanix Guest Tools. However, if the requirements for application-consistent snapshots that are used to create application-consistent backups are not met, Veeam Backup & Replication creates a crash-consistent backup instead.

If you want to create an application-consistent backup using the Veeam technology, you can configure application-aware processing settings for resources included into the backup job. This will also allow you to periodically back up and truncate transaction logs.

• [Applies only to the Prism Central deployment] If you want to back up VMs using data obtained from snapshots on replica clusters, ensure that you have scheduled Prism Central protection policies to take snapshots more frequent than the backup job runs.
• By default, backup encryption is disabled for backed-up data. However, you can enable encryption at the repository level as described in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Access Permissions.
• Since Veeam Backup & Replication does not allow you to assign information about locations to Nutanix AHV clusters and backup appliances, job statistics do not include information on the Nutanix AHV VM data migration between different geographic regions.