Hello,

I just recently installed Nutanix AVH for a client; they were previously on VMware (and backing up with Veeam).

I setup two backup jobs that use the Nutanix AVH plugin/appliance, but to be honest, I am not “happy” with it, and am wondering if it might be better to use the Windows/Linux agent to backup, but not sure what pros and cons are.

What I am not overly-happy with with the Nutanix AVH plugin are:

  * Even though VMs are in the same job, backups get split per-VM, which I don’t think get any benefit from deduplication (though I think they benefit from compression still).  The agent-based backups seem to behave more like the VMware-based backups in  that the VMs in the same job get backed up to one file (named for the job), and benefit from deduplication (as well as compression)

  * The “session report” is very light on details.  I had come to like the details provided by the “normal” session report I could see previously (and which I can get with the agent-based backups)

What I am not too sure about, if I were to use agent-based backups, is whether “Instant Restore” would still work?  From what i can see, it *should*, but wanted to see if I could get confirmation.