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System requirements for Nutanix AHV
Updated over a month ago

Enterprise Workloads Editions: ✅ Business | ✅ Enterprise | ✅ Elite


Supported AHV versions

We support AHV as the underlying hypervisor. We support all Long Term Support (LTS) and Short Term Support (STS) releases for AOS versions 6.5, 6.7, and 6.8. We do not support the Community Edition (CE) releases.

Supported Guest Operating Systems

We support all guest operating systems supported by Nutanix. For more information, see the Nutanix Compatibility Matrix.

Operating System

Editions

Windows

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Linux

  • Ubuntu 22.04

  • Ubuntu 20

  • Centos 7.8, 5.3

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.8, 7.8, and 6.3.

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP 1 (openSUSE used, because SLE is not available)

Disks, partitions, and files for File Level Restore (FLR)

Items

Supported

Partition Types

  • Primary

  • Extended

  • Logical Disk Manager (LDM)

  • Windows

    • Basic disk (Partition type: MBR/GPT)

    • Dynamic disk (Partition type: MBR/GPT. Partition can have spanned, simple, striped, and mirrored volume.)

  • Linux

    • Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

    • MBR (Simple/Spanned/Mirrored/Striped)

    • GPT (Simple/Spanned/Mirrored/Striped)

File Systems

  • Windows

    • FAT32

    • FAT

    • NTFS

  • Linux

    • FAT

    • FAT32

    • NTFS

    • Ext2/3/4

    • XFS

    • Btrfs


📝 Note
For the basic disk types, the Hybrid Workloads agent cannot read the <drive letter>:.


Unsupported Disk Types

We do not support the following disk types:

  • CDROM (the contents of CDROM aren’t backed up)

  • VMs containing volume groups (VG) Disks

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