Migrating Backup Appliance

You can migrate a Nutanix AHV backup appliance to a new backup infrastructure if you want to keep the specified appliance settings and configured jobs:

Add the Prism Central or Nutanix AHV cluster where the Nutanix AHV backup appliance resides to the new backup infrastructure as described in section Adding Nutanix AHV Server.
Remove the Nutanix AHV backup appliance from the old backup infrastructure as described section in Removing Backup Appliance.

If you do not remove the Nutanix AHV backup appliance, it will not function properly since the old backup server will try to manage the appliance.

Important

While removing the appliance, do NOT select the Permanently delete the proxy VM from the cluster and all of its backup jobs (irreversible) check box. Otherwise, the Nutanix AHV backup appliance VM will be removed from the cluster.

Connect the Nutanix AHV backup appliance to the new backup server as described in section Connecting Existing Backup Appliance.
Specify new backup repositories in the jobs configured on the appliance as described in section Editing Job Settings.
Rescan the Nutanix AHV backup appliance to synchronize data with the backup server as described in section Rescanning Backup Appliance.
Import Nutanix AHV backups from new backup repositories as described in section Rescanning Backups.