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Saturday, July 28, 2018

Deploy Veeam Proxy for Nutanix Acropolis Protection

Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV (VAN) has just general availability (GA). Besides than backup Hyper-V and Vmware, Veeam just added support to backup Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor.

Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV requires a Veeam backup server and Veeam backup repository as a target for backups of AHV VMs. These components can be deployed via Veeam Backup & Replication.

In this guide, we will focus on how to deploy and install Veeam proxy appliance.

[Pre-requisite]
For setup a lab environment, you can follow this guide:
a) Setup Nutanix Community Edition - http://www.ms4u.info/2018/02/setup-nutanix-ce-on-lab-environment.html
b) Download VAN - https://www.veeam.com/nutanix-backup-solution.html
c) Upload Existing Image which you have downloaded from step (b) into Nutanix - http://www.ms4u.info/2018/02/upload-existing-image-into-nutanix-ahv.html
d) Deploy Proxy VM from step (c).

[Deployment]

To access proxy VM, key in https://<proxy ip>:8100/ and enter default credential

  • user name - admin
  • password - admin



 Configure to install VAN proxy. Click INSTALL



Accept the EULA
Replace default password to new password


Define proxy appliance name and ip address

Review the summary and click FINISH.


Voila! You have successful deploy a proxy for Nutanix AHV data protection.