The hypervisor from Nutanix. Veeam's integration backs up its VMs to repositories and can restore to it from backups of vSphere, Hyper-V, AHV and other platforms.
Also called AHV.
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Terms in this definition
- Hypervisor
The virtualisation software allowing many isolated virtual machines to run on a single physical server. The cloud provider looks after it whichever service type is used.
- Virtual machines
Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.
- RESTORE
Puts a Delta table back to how it was at an older point, picked by
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VMware's platform for virtualisation, made up of vCenter and ESX hosts, supplying compute for VCF clusters.
- Hyper-V
The hypervisor built into Windows. The VMs for the Azure Extended Network appliance require the Hyper-V role, using nested virtualisation, and an external virtual switch for each NIC.
Related terms
- Instant Recovery
Starts a workload straight from a backup mounted to a host, getting it running within minutes, though slower until moved to production. Azure, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V and vSphere are supported targets.
- Nutanix AOS
The operating system running Nutanix hyperconverged clusters. Platform support requirements state the lowest AOS version the AHV integration supports.