Deploying Nutanix AHV Virtual Appliance

Deploying Nutanix AHV Virtual Appliance

The NAKIVO Backup & Replication instance must be deployed in a Nutanix AHV cluster in order to enable backup and recovery functions.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers the following solutions:

  • Full Solution (Single Tenant) - requires a 100 GB thin provisioned disk

  • Transporter-only - requires a 20 GB thin provisioned disk

To deploy a virtual appliance via the Nutanix Prism application, follow the steps below:

  1. Download the .VMDK file with a full or transporter-only image from the Nakivo website and store it locally.

  2. Log in to the Prism console.

  3. From the Configurations menu, select Image Configuration.


  4. In the Image Configuration dialog, click Upload Image.

  5. In the Create Image