Prism Central 7.3+

[ronnmartin61]

Nutanix unexpectedly changed the Prism Central versioning convention they utilize beginning with PC 7.3. The good news is that we caught this just prior to releasing our AHV plug-in for VBR 13.0.1 so the current release works as expected. The bad news is that older AHV plug-ins only look for the pc.XXXX.X versioning which renders us unable to determine PC compatibility.

[caspar32]

@ ronnmartin61:

Our current environment is Prism Central 7.3+（7.3.0.xx), and our AHV plug-in for VBR is 12.7.1.12. Now we plan to upgrade Prism Central to 7.3.1.3, my question is: Could current AHV plug-in will work or not?
I am some confused about "The bad news is that older AHV plug-ins only look for the pc.XXXX.X versioning which renders us unable to determine PC compatibility."

Thank you very much!

[ronnmartin61]

@caspar32 if you're strictly looking for "works" but not formally supported then you may be OK unless you're implementing vTPM for your VMs. Our vTPM backup/restore support utilizes newer Nutanix API's which require us to perform explicit Prism Central versioning checks which are the source of the VBR 12.x and back AHV plug-in incompatibility. We do not have any plans to attempt to revalidate newer Prism Central and AOS versions with the 12.x and previous AHV plug-ins...

[caspar32]

@ronnmartin61 :

Thanks for your clarify. We plan do the Veeam version upgrade to v13 maybe in the 2nd half of 2026. So we will keep staying Prism Central 7.3 + Veeam V12 for about 6 months. We want to keep the backup works smoothly.

[daniel.lindner]

In our environment (latest Veeam and Nutanix versions) we have lots of problems like missing SQL log truncation, no communication between Veeam and Prism Central with PC version 7.3.1.3 that should fix a „rate-limit-exceeded“ error ending up in a fully disfunctional backup. I would recommend to anyone asking to not upgrade to version 13 unless not absolutely necessary. Appreciate any hint that helps out with Prism Central version 7.3.1.3.