Nutanix AHV

Nutanix AHV Virtual Infrastructure

Veeam Backup & Replication provides support for the following versions of the Nutanix AHV platform.

Nutanix AHV Virtual Infrastructure
Specification	Requirement
Platform	Nutanix-certified hardware and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) running Nutanix AOS versions 6.8.1.6 and above
Hypervisor	AHV
Management Server (optional)	Prism Central version pc.2022.6–pc.2024.3.1.10, pc.7.3 and above except 7.3.1.2 and 7.5.0.0

Consider the following:

An IP address of the cluster and the iSCSI Data Service must be configured in Nutanix AHV cluster settings.
UEFI boot must be supported in the Nutanix AHV environment.

Nutanix AHV VMs

Nutanix AHV VMs
Specification	Requirement
Hardware	All types and versions of virtual hardware are supported
OS	All operating systems supported by Nutanix AHV. Guest processing is supported for OS versions released before the Veeam Backup & Replication build release date. Guest processing (which includes application-aware processing and indexing) is supported for the following Microsoft Windows operating systems except Nano Server: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 SP1 or later Microsoft Windows 10 22H2 for GA channel or later Microsoft Windows 10 1507 for LTSB/LTSC channels or later Microsoft Windows 11 22H2 or later Guest processing (which includes application-aware processing and indexing) is supported for 64-bit versions of the following Linux operating systems: Alma Linux 8.10 and 9.4 Debian 11.0 to 13.1 Oracle Linux 7 (UEK 3) to 9.6 (UEK 8) Oracle Linux 7 to 9.6 (UEK/RHCK) RHEL 8.4 to 10 Rocky Linux 8.10, 9.4 and 9.6 SLES 12 SP5 or later, 15 SP3 or later Ubuntu: 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS
Software	Nutanix Guest Tools (optional, not required for application-aware processing)

Guest OS File Restore

File-level restore is supported for the following file systems, including Microsoft Windows LDM dynamic disks and Linux LVM:

Guest OS File Restore
OS	Supported File Systems
Microsoft Windows	FAT, FAT32 NTFS ReFS Windows file-level restore to original location is supported for the following Microsoft Windows operating systems except Nano Server: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 SP1 or later Microsoft Windows 10 22H2 for GA channel or later Microsoft Windows 10 1507 for LTSB/LTSC channels or later Microsoft Windows 11 22H2 or later
Linux	ext2, ext3, ext4 ReiserFS JFS XFS Btrfs DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Devices) are not supported.
BSD	UFS, UFS2
Mac	HFS, HFS+ (volumes up to 2 TB)
Solaris	UFS ZFS (except any pool versions of Oracle Solaris)

For other requirements and limitations of guest OS file restore, see Requirements and Limitations.

Version Compatibility

The following table lists compatible versions of Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Plug-In for Nutanix AHV.

Version Compatibility
Product Release	Veeam Plug-In for Nutanix AHV Build	Veeam Backup & Replication Build	Backup Appliance / Worker OS Version
9	13.9.0.212	13.0.1.2067 (recommended) 13.0.1.1071 13.0.1.180	Veeam JeOS 9.2
8	13.8.0.582	13.0.0.4967	Rocky Linux 8.10
7.1	12.7.1.12	12.3.1.1139	Rocky Linux 8.10
7.0	12.7.0.172	12.3.0.310
6.1	12.6.1.15	12.2.0.334
6.0	12.6.0.632	12.2.0.334
5.1	12.5.1.8	12.1.0.2131 12.1.1.56	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
5.0	12.5.0.465	12.0.0.1420 12.1.0.2131	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
4a	12.1.4.5	12.0.0.1420	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
4.0	12.0.4.1020	12.0.0.1420	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS