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Acronis Backup Support for Nutanix AHV

  • November 14, 2025
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Daniel Martinez

Hi,

I have a customer with a standalone ESXi host running a few VMs. All backups are currently performed using Acronis Backup.

I need to replace this ESXi host with a new Nutanix AHV standalone cluster, and I'm concerned about Acronis compatibility with AHV.

As far as I know, Acronis requires an agent to be installed inside each VM that needs to be backed up. If I migrate these VMs from ESXi to AHV, will this affect Acronis Backup in any way? Is there any incompatibility between Acronis and Nutanix AHV?

When checking the Nutanix Compatibility Matrix and the Acronis documentation, I see that the Nutanix “Data Protector” option is only supported on AHV versions 6.8.1 and earlier.

However, I’m not sure whether “Data Protector” is required at all for Acronis to back up VMs running on AHV, considering that Acronis uses in-guest agents.

Here is the Acronis documentation for reference: Supported virtualization platforms

Can someone clarify this?

Thanks.

Best answer by Jon Jordan

If you’re doing the backups in guest the hypervisor would not matter. I see this is noted at the top of the link you provided also.

If you use a virtualization platform or version that is not listed below, the Agent-based backup (Backup from inside a guest OS) method should still work correctly in all required scenarios. If you encounter issues with the agent-based backup, contact the Support team for further investigation.

AHV support would be to target Prism Element or Prism Central to trigger a backup from AOS. This is the preferred method for snapshotting VMs, but if the backup Vendor does not support this, in guest is just fine.

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If you’re doing the backups in guest the hypervisor would not matter. I see this is noted at the top of the link you provided also.

If you use a virtualization platform or version that is not listed below, the Agent-based backup (Backup from inside a guest OS) method should still work correctly in all required scenarios. If you encounter issues with the agent-based backup, contact the Support team for further investigation.

AHV support would be to target Prism Element or Prism Central to trigger a backup from AOS. This is the preferred method for snapshotting VMs, but if the backup Vendor does not support this, in guest is just fine.

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