“Nutanix Mine provides a single platform for organizations experiencing the

benefits of Nutanix Enterprise OS, as these organizations can simply extend

their existing integrated data protection to include secondary data backup

and archiving all in a turnkey backup solution powered by our platform

partners.”

One of the benefits here from a Veeam point of view is the benefit to choose where and what you use for your Veeam Availability, choice is very important, the ability to roll your own hardware and storage targets for your backups is great and that works for some but some will also will want to follow the HCI methodology and have an easy and simplified approach to where their data will reside.

One of the main benefits I see with Nutanix Mine is the scalability, Veeam is able to scale up and down according to the environment that it is protecting but by leveraging an HCI approach this makes life much much simpler. Also, it’s a single SKU including hypervisor, hardware, platform OS management storage and support including your Veeam licensing.

Hit the easy button

The ability to choose a validated configuration that scales out with your Veeam Backup & Replication licenses already bundled in already along with the flexibility of those licenses using the new Veeam Instance based licensing meaning the production workloads can move between different hosts, hypervisors and clouds makes for an interesting option.

Independence

The key differentiator here is the independent cluster for the Veeam components, regardless of the production workload this could be Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows or Linux physical workloads or any other virtualisation platform where we do not yet have access to the underlining hypervisor. This solution provides the ability to roll out a simple independent secondary approach to protecting all those workloads.

Simplicity

Veeam is not difficult to deploy in any case but what Nutanix Mine also offers in the ability for the customer to receive a pre staged Nutanix hardware solution, it is then to be racked and cabled before running a really simple automated Veeam deployment wizard.

Cloud Tier / Nutanix Buckets

The final thing I wanted to add was the ability to leverage the new Cloud Tier capabilities of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 update 4 with Nutanix Buckets. The premise of the cloud tier is to relocate backups as they exceed their operational restore window.

Veeam Differentiators

• (virtually) Unlimited capacity / restore points
• Seamless integration (restore point transparency)
• Dehydrated backup files are still files, and can be easily rehydrated
• Cross-tier indexing
• Source deduplication (forever incremental)
  • Intelligent restore
  • DR recovery from cloud tier
• No per-TB pricing

More information in general about Nutanix Mine can be found here.

I have covered lots of deep dive on the capabilities that the product brings even in a v1 state, but I wanted to highlight the ability to automate the deployment of the Veeam Availability for Nutanix Proxy appliance. The idea was also validated when I spoke to a large customer that had heavily invested in Nutanix AHV across 200 of their sites in the US.

Having been a Veeam customer they were very interested in exploring the new product and its capabilities matched up with their requirements. But they then had a challenge in deploying the proxy appliance to all 200 clusters they have across the US. There were some angles around PowerShell and from a configuration this may be added later to what I have done here. I took the deployment process and I created a terraform script that would deploy the image disk and new virtual machine for the proxy with the correct system requirements.

This was the first challenge that validated what and why we needed to make a better option for an automated deployment. The second was that the deployment process of the v1 is a little off putting I think is a fair thing to say, so by being able to automate this it would really help that initial deployment process.

Here is the terraform script, if you are not used to or aware of terraform then I suggest you look this up, the possibilities with terraform really change the way you think about infrastructure and software deployment.

# Configure the Nutanix Provider
provider "nutanix" {
  username       = "Admin"
  password       = "Passw0rd99!"
  endpoint       = "10.0.60.11"
  insecure       = "true"
  port           = "9440"
}

resource "nutanix_image" "VAN_Proxy" {
    name        = "VAN_Proxy"
    source_uri  = "http://10.0.30.20/VeeamAvailabilityforNutanixAHV_1.0.457.vmdk"
    description = "Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV"
}

resource "nutanix_virtual_machine" "Veeam_VAN_01" {
  # General Information
    name                 = "Veeam_VAN_01"
        description      = "Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV"
        
            num_vcpus_per_socket = 2
            num_sockets          = 2
            memory_size_mib      = 4096
            #power_state = "ON"
            nic_list = [
                {
    # subnet_reference is saying, which VLAN/network do you want to attach here?
                    subnet_reference = {
                        kind = "subnet"
                        uuid = "f7f0ce84-8097-45f8-b713-9ac1a2dd2ba7"
                    }
                }  
            ]
            disk_list = [{
    # data_source_reference in the Nutanix API refers to where the source for
    # the disk device will come from. Could be a clone of a different VM or a
    # image like we're doing here
    data_source_reference = [{
      kind = "image"
      uuid = "${nutanix_image.VAN_Proxy.id}"
    }]
    # data_source_reference in the Nutanix API refers to where the source for
    # the disk device will come from. Could be a clone of a different VM or a
    # image like we're doing here
                    data_source_reference = {
                        kind = "image"
                        uuid = "${nutanix_image.VAN_Proxy.id}"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    
        
    

One caveat you will need to consider is as part of this deployment I placed the image file that I downloaded from veeam.com on my web server this allows for that central location and part of the script to deploy that image from this shared published resource. Again the thought process to this was that 200 site customer and providing a central location to pull the image disk from, without downloading it 200 times in each location.

Once the script has run you will see the created machine in the Nutanix AHV management console.

There is a requirement for DHCP in the environment so that the appliance gets an IP and you can connect to it.

Now you have your Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV proxy appliance deployed and you can run through the configuration steps. Next up I will be looking at how we can also automate that configuration step. However for now the configuration steps can be found here.

Thanks to Jon Kohler he is the main contributor to the Nutanix Terraform Provider and also has some great demo YouTube videos worth watch, You will see that the base line for the script I have created is based on examples that Jon uses in his demonstrations.

The portability and flexibility of the Veeam Backup file (.vbk) that is created with the Veeam Agents for Windows and Linux as well as the VMware and Hyper-V backups is also the same format that we see with the Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV. This allows us to extend your availability options when we look at where we can store copies of our data offsite.

The 3-2-1 rule is a methodology that Veeam has been advocating for many years now, 3 copies of your data on 2 different media types and 1 of those being offsite. This protects your business against many different failure scenarios. That 1 copy offsite is the one I want to touch on in this post.

The focus of this post is how you can take your Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV backups and send them to one of the many Veeam Cloud Connect Service Providers for that offsite copy of your data and availability.

Adding your Veeam Cloud Connect Service Provider

It’s an easy process to start getting your data to an offsite location. Leveraging one of the Veeam Cloud Service Providers (VCSP) first within Veeam Backup & Replication we need to add in our Cloud Connect DNS name or IP Address.

Your service provider will have supplied the DNS Name or IP Address to use in the above screen, they would have also provided you with unique credentials that can be added here.

The Service Provider would have also setup available resources to you as a tenant. In the below scenario this is a repository to store those backups. This could also include the ability to leverage the Veeam WAN Accelerator technology if the links meet the requirements to do so.

We then apply those configuration changes and you will see the process running through on screen.

Providing you have given all the correct information you will then see the successful summary on the final screen of the wizard.

Creating a Backup Copy Job

The next stage is defining the Backup Copy job to start sending data to the Cloud Repository hosted by the Service Provider. From the drop down select backup copy and providing you are running Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 update 3a you will see the Nutanix Policy available if you have Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV jobs enabled and running.

For those that have created the Veeam Backup Copy job it is a very simple wizard driven approach and this job is no different other than the source being a Nutanix Policy, above you can see the other options that can be used for Backup Copy job sources.

At this screen we can now choose our Nutanix Policies that we want to include in this job to our new Cloud Repository.

If you happen to have several Nutanix Policies, we can choose multiple policies and include them in the same backup copy schedule.

For this walkthrough I am going to use just the one policy and include this as the object in the job.

Next is where do we want to store the backups, so we select the newly created Cloud Repository. This could be any supported Veeam Backup Repository.

In keeping in accordance to your companies regulation then you may get this warning if you are not tagging your repositories and their location, my system knows that my Nutanix policies are being stored in London but the Cloud Repository that we have added has no location if you are using this feature in accordance to compliance or just organisation then this prompt will warn you to make that change in configuration. More information on location tagging can be found here in these two posts.

Veeam Backup & Replication – Location Tagging

Veeam ONE – Location Tagging Reporting

I mentioned earlier on in the post about the Service Provider enabling the resources available to you as a tenant, if WAN Acceleration was a requirement due to poor connection link speeds then this is where you could configure the option to use.

The next is the schedule, when do we want this to run? For this example, I am happy for this to continuously run but you can see the granular time span that you can choose when things should be running and not.

Finally, a summary of the configuration we have made.

Sending Data Offsite

Now we have the new Cloud Repository configured and the Job to get that data offsite, the job should then be started, and you will see the first job progress run through with all details of data processed and transferred.

Once the job is complete you will see this job run in accordance to the schedule you have configured.

Recovery

If we ever need to recover from this data, then we can do so by navigating through Veeam Backup & Replication to perform the recovery steps as per <recovery post link> simply select the restore icon and run through the wizard.

Select the backup copy job you wish to recover from and run through the wizard that is explained in the link posted above.

Everything You Need to for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV

I wanted to wrap up this series with some reference to some solid documentation and resources.

Technical Documentation References

If you have questions about Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV you may use the following resources:

For the initial overview of what the product can do the best place to start is with the product page.

Product Web Page – www.veeam.com/availability-nutanix-ahv.html

By far the most in depth documentation will be the user guide, it’s quite granular with how to configure and setup the product it also touches on the supported requirements and some initial best practices.

User guides – https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/van/userguide/overview.html?ver=10

As this is a v1 product today, it is very important that we gain feedback on what features we would like to see from the field the best place to announce these to our product management team is via our forums.

Community Forums – www.veeam.com/forums

Technical Support

The final thing to mention here is obviously technical support, this is a paid for product and there are options for technical support contracts along with this, all we can ask is that you check resources available for a possible solution to a problem, the forums again would be a great way to understand if you are hitting a bug or if you have a solution to fix.

Email and phone technical support is offered for customers on maintenance and during the official evaluation period. For the best support experience, please provide the following when contacting technical support.

• Version information for the product and all infrastructure components.
• At the summary tab of the appliance settings section, click support bundle.
• Select a relevant set of log files and click download.

To submit a support ticket or obtain additional information, please visit www.veeam.com/support.html

Before contacting technical support, consider searching and engaging for a resolution on the Veeam community forums at www.veeam.com/forums

That’s a wrap for the Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV series, hopefully it has been useful as a resource. V2 is being worked on in the background so expect some great features and functionality to land when that is released.

Everything You Need to for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV

Now that we have the Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV all up and running and protecting our workloads, it’s now time to look at how we can accomplish the recovery scenarios. Today in the product and between Veeam Backup & Replication we can perform the following recovery scenarios:

• Entire VM restore (Proxy Appliance)
• VM disks restore (Proxy Appliance)
• File-level restore
• Application item restore
• Restore to Microsoft Azure
• VM disk export
• Instant recovery to Hyper-V VM

Entire VM Restore (Proxy Appliance)

A list of all Protected Virtual Machines will be shown here. You can either hit the restore or disk restore option here and then go through and choose your virtual machine or if you select your virtual machine below you will then see all the restore points you have associated to that virtual machine and can start the next wizard from there.

Select the restore button to begin the Full VM Restore Wizard.

Select Add, all jobs will be shown here.

Expand the job and you will see all associated virtual machines and the restore points available.

Click add, now you can define which restore point you want to restore back to by clicking the point button.

The next window will display the restore points available to that virtual machine.

Click next, you then should decide where you wish to restore the virtual machine, to the original location or a new location.

If you were to choose new location, then you will notice the steps for the wizard will increase to define the configuration settings and location for the newly restored virtual machine.

With new location selected let’s walk through these options, if you chose to push to original location you wouldn’t have to input all these additional items. It might be that you want to restore the machine to the original location, but you want to make a name change so that it is not conflicting with the live system.

You then need to choose what storage location you wish to restore this machine to, this will be the datastore to which is presented to the AHV cluster.

A reason should be given to ensure that you are keeping an audit log for restore operations.

The final screen of the wizard is the summary, this will outline the restore process, what name, restore point and the original name.

VM disks restore (Proxy Appliance)

There may be other circumstances where you wish to just recover a certain disk for a certain machine within the environment. This can also be achieved within the Veeam Backup Proxy Appliance.

Select Disk Restore

Select the restore point you wish to restore from.

The next step allows you to map the virtual disk to a specific target VM, this doesn’t need to be the original.

We then continue through the wizard with a reason for auditing and then a summary. The next steps are going to cover the recoverability options now within Veeam Backup & Replication.

Veeam Backup & Replication – Recovery Scenarios

Nutanix AHV backups are landing in the proprietary VBK format, within a Veeam repository we have the visibility of those files within Veeam Backup & Replication, also notice below the restore wizard options now includes Nutanix Policy.

File-level restore

If we want to perform granular recovery of files and folders, then we need to head over to the Veeam Backup & Replication server. From the restore wizard select the Operating system choice.

Windows

For this walkthrough we are going to use that same Windows 2016 instance we have been using to capture our backups. When you run through the restore wizard this way it allows you to see all available Nutanix Policies you can also navigate to the specific backup job and restore point under Backups and Disk on the Home page.

Above you have selected the backup job and virtual machine you wish to perform a file level recovery from. Now you need to choose your restore point.

Give a reason to why you are doing this and then review the summary, this will then start the process of mounting the backup file to your Veeam Backup & Replication server and you will see the explorer as per below.

From here we can navigate to the files or folders we wish to recover, we can copy the file to a location or use windows explorer to pick up the folder and move back to its original location. We do not have the ability to do a restore in place.

Once that restore function is complete you can close the window, and this will dismount the backup file from the Veeam backup and replication server.

Linux FLR

I need to add that if you require a guest file recovery of a Linux virtual machine then you will require a VMware or Hyper-V host to run the Linux FLR appliance.

Application item restore

Using the same process as above within the guest file recovery explorer we can use the Veeam Explorers to recover application items.

Active Directory

Exchange Server

SQL

VM disk export

Closing out on the recovery part of the series, I didn’t touch on but should mention and possibly point links out to them. But we have some extending available ways that we can perform against these Nutanix AHV backups.

Restore to Microsoft Azure

Instant recovery to Hyper-V VM

To complete the series, I will touch on some useful resources that will help you get started and some useful pointers.

Everything You Need to for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV

Now that we have our Veeam Proxy Appliance deployed, installed and configured, the next step is to start protecting some of the workloads we have sitting in our Nutanix AHV Cluster.

Navigate to the backup jobs tab on the top ribbon.

Here we can add a new backup job, a simple wizard driven approach to start protecting those workloads.

Next, we need to add in our virtual machines,

In my scenario I have simple virtual machines, if you are leveraging Nutanix Protection Domains then you can also leverage this grouping here to select your virtual machines, we can also leverage dynamic mode this is to allow the adding and removing of new workloads under that protection domain.

Add the virtual machine or machines that you wish to protect.

Next, the next option is selecting the destination of the backup job. To be able to see the backup repository the access on the VBR server needs to have the correct permissions to allow for access. This is done from the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

There are some advanced settings that can also be set to remove deleted VMs from the backup that are no longer included in the backup job.

The final step is to configure through the schedule. This will allow, you to choose the interim of backups and how many restore points that you must retain.

The final screen is the summary of the backup job you are about to complete.

You will also notice the ability to run the backup job when finish is selected, this will then start the backup job process. This will trigger the backup job to perform a full backup of the virtual machines you have selected.

Over in VBR you can see the job also running. In a very similar fashion to what we saw with the original Veeam Endpoint backup, we see enough that something is happening, but nothing can be configured from this job within Veeam Backup & Replication.

Back in the Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV we now have a completed backup job.

Veeam Backup & Replication also shows the completed job and the steps that have occurred during the job.

We will also now see the specific job in our Veeam Backup & Replication console under the backups giving us the ability to perform certain recovery tasks against those backup files.

And we also see the completed job now under the backup jobs in the proxy appliance interface. Here we can perform an Active Full in an ad hoc scenario but also, we can start and stop the job and edit that job.

Over on the Protected VMs tab you will also notice that we now have visibility into the virtual machines that are protected with how many snapshots and backups are present.

To finish, if you head back to the dashboard you will now see the job status showing that we have one created backup job and it is currently idle.

That’s all for the availability section of this series, this is really giving us the ability to create those backup jobs for the virtual machines that sit within the Nutanix AHV cluster, this is an agentless approach for any application consistency you will require the Nutanix Guest Tools.

One thing to note is if you have a transactional workload we would recommend using the Veeam Agent to provide not only the application consistent but also the log truncation within the application. Not required if you have an application that can manage that truncation task.

Next up we will look at the recovery steps and options we have.

Everything You Need to for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV

At this point we have our new Veeam Proxy Appliance deployed within our Nutanix AHV cluster. Now we need to login and run through the configuration of the appliance.

At the back of the last post, you were left with a web address. Log back in with the updated credentials and at the IP address configuration you set, if you chose not to change then your screen will be back at the login prompt.

The first message you will receive is regarding licensing

The initial dashboard view will look like the below.

The dashboard is the default view when you log in to the proxy appliance, it’s a very simple view and clean interface to navigate.

On the right side of the interface you have the configuration icon to begin the configuration we must add our workloads and targets to begin protecting data.

Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV requires Veeam Backup & Replication to leverage the backup repository targets, as well as recovery examples that we will touch on later in the series.

To connect to your Veeam Backup and Replication server it will need to be running 9.5 update 3a as a minimum.

Next up is we need to add our AHV Cluster, remember it is one proxy per cluster.

You will also see the Appliance Settings on the last tab, this is where we can take those configuration backups if we ever must restore that configuration to a new build of a proxy appliance.

This is also where we need to add our license to the appliance.

Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV can be licensed per protected VM. For more information, see www.veeam.com/eula.html

The trial license key is sent to you automatically after downloading the product, the trial license is valid for 30 days from that moment and includes basic technical support.

To obtain a full license please visit www.veeam.com/buy-end-user.html

With the license for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV you will also receive a license for Veeam Backup & Replication.

To install the license to Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV, on the summary tab shown above click license. At the license information window, click install license. Select the license file in the file browser and click open.

Now that we have the license, targets and source configured we can head back to the dashboard and now view the status of the environment.

As you can see it’s a pretty simple process to deploy, install and configure the appliance. Next up we will investigate protecting those workloads and the availability steps we can take for the AHV hypervisor.

Everything You Need to for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV

Carrying on from the previous post of Deployment, this post will touch on the installation and setup of the Nutanix AHV Proxy Appliance and the steps to then start protecting your workloads.

By taking that IP Address that we saw in the AHV console of our proxy appliance and copying that to your web browser you will then be greeted by the following landing page.

Select advanced and proceed to the site.

You will then see the welcome and login screen. In the opened welcome screen, enter the default credentials and click the arrow button.

Default username = admin

Default password = admin

The opening wizard screen will ask if you would like to install for a fresh new proxy appliance or if you would like to restore from a configuration backup. For the purposes of this walk through we are running through a vanilla installation of the proxy appliance.

Read through the EULA and accept to move on.

A strong suggestion at this point is to change the default password.

We then need to define the host name for the proxy appliance. You can also choose to use either DHCP or define static IP configuration on this screen.

Finally there is a summary screen showing you the configuration settings that will be saved.

When you click finish at this stage you will be notified that the installation configuration is being applied and you have a 60 second timer to sit through before the login prompt will reappear.

We now have the Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV Proxy Appliance deployed and installed and ready for configuration, the next post will begin the process of the simple configuration steps to join the appliance to your AHV cluster and the Veeam Backup & Replication server.

Everything You Need to Deploy Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV

Download the latest version of Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV from: www.veeam.com/availability-nutanix-ahv-download.html

These steps assume you have already had a Veeam Backup & Replication server configured. Navigate through the site to get the latest version available.

Accept the EULA.

You will then be prompted for login using your Veeam login credentials.

All the above is pretty standard for any downloads from Veeam.com, now we will get into the actual deployment into your Nutanix AHV cluster.

Once downloaded you need to extract the .vmdk file to a location accessible by the Nutanix AHV cluster.

Log in to your Nutanix AHV cluster, for the purposes of this walkthrough I am using the Community Edition but the process is the same in general for any hardware AHV cluster.

We need to take the VMDK disk and send this to AHV as an image, to do this we need to navigate to the settings button on the top right of the Prism interface and locate “Image Configuration”

A new window will appear, and you can then select Upload Image.

At this stage we can name the image something that allows you to recognize its purpose along with all other fields such as disk type and where you wish to upload the image to.

Upload from the file location you downloaded the vmdk to and save.

Now that we have the image we can create the Veeam proxy appliance from the image. Select create VM.

Create a VM with recommended parameters in the Nutanix AHV cluster that you wish to protect. As per the user guide you will find the system requirements for your proxy appliance. Also take note at those platform support versions.

Creating the VM is very easy and straight forward, we need a name and we need to determine what specifications we wish our VM to have.

In the VM settings add a new disk from the image previously uploaded, the operation job down allows you to clone from the image service. Then under image you can select your recently uploaded Nutanix AHV VMDK

Once added you will also need to ensure that the disk is seen as a boot device, I have removed the CDROM drive from my VM configuration.

You should also add your network interface that has access to your Veeam Backup & Replication server for that communication between the Proxy Appliance and the Veeam Repository.

Once you have added the disk and configured the network then you select save.

Complete the setup by selecting save and then wait for the VM to be created and power on.

NOTE – Must have DHCP available on this network so that the system will pick up an available IP for management this can later be changed to fixed if required.

Once the VM is powered on within the VM console you will see the web console address, copy that full address and paste into a web browser.

There you have it. You have successfully deployed and configured Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV.

The following post will touch on the next steps and navigating the web interface that is exposed from this proxy appliance, the post will also touch on the installation phase.

This post will walk through the areas and demo of the newly released Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV.

It is important to note that the screen shot used in this post are based on the beta versions, there should be very little difference between the GA and beta edition.

Basic Overview

The Veeam Backup Proxy Appliance for AHV, used to authenticate with a Veeam Backup & Replication server to gain access to Veeam repositories. The appliance will also provide a web interface where full VM restores and disk restores can take place.

The Veeam Backup & Replication server is a required component and used in conjunction with the Veeam Backup Proxy Appliance for AHV. Primary use case is to allow access to Veeam backup repositories but also to provide granular level recovery for both files and application items.

The Veeam repository (not including HPE StoreOnce or DellEMC Data Domain in version 1) provides us the ability to store the Veeam backups from AHV in that forward incremental proprietary vbk format.

In my lab I have the above configured as following:

Nutanix AHV Console

I will first show below that we have our Nutanix Community Edition running in our lab based on the networking configuration shared above.

The opening screen will look like the below, it’s an overview screen for the whole AHV environment, this is a nested Nutanix CE edition.

Select the drop down near Home and select VMs and then table. All machines are then listed, most of the backups you will see throughout this demo are based on the Windows 2016 VM that you can see below.

Veeam backup proxy appliance

The opening web interface for the Veeam backup proxy appliance looks as per below.

The opening screen is in the form of a dashboard interface giving you an overview of the AHV and Veeam environment.

The top navigation bar is very simple to find what it is you are looking for, this is where you can go back to that dashboard shown above, create and view backup jobs, protected VMs is where the recovery options can be performed.

Protected VMs tab: this is where the full VM and disk restore operations can be seen.

Event Log tab: all time logs are shown here. This is an extended visual from the one seen on the opening dashboard.

Configuration settings: simply the ability to add your Veeam backup servers and Nutanix clusters, there is also the appliance settings tab which is where you can configure how the configuration backup will take place. This is also where the licensing will be added.

Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 update 3

The Veeam Backup & Replication console is required to perform granular and application item level recovery. It will also enable for additional availability options.

Connect and launch VBR console. Under backups you will see the “Nutanix Policy”

Backup copy options, would also can send via backup copy to cloud connect provider and to tape.

Restore Functionality

As mentioned there are lots of restore scenarios available from the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

Restore guest files demo, you will have many restore points based on the job configuration that has been set. as you click through the wizard all will contain restore points.

Application Explorer demo, this is achieved from within the FLR explorer, select the explorer you wish to demo, you can see in the root for demo purposes I have AD, Exchange, SQL and File Data to make life easier to just show us mounting those database files.

I am excited to see where this grows next as a v1 product it will remove so many pain points for many of the Nutanix AHV administrators I have spoken to. I have been lucky enough to see this from the very early days so the feedback has been great and we already have a great list of feature requests for v2.