Solutions for Preflight Check Items of Nutanix AHV VMs

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The following tables describe the solutions to help you resolve errors and warnings from your Preflight Check results for Nutanix AHV VMs:

Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT)

Status

Message

Solution

Warning

Not running

Enable the Nutanix Guest Tools for the VM.

Warning

Tools Enabled

Guest Tools enabled but not running. Install the Guest Tools in the VM.

Power State

Status

Message

Solution

Warning

Powered off

Power on the virtual machine.

Warning

Suspended

Continue the virtual machine.

Data Consistency

Status

Message

Solution

Warning

Nutanix AHV does not support application-consistent quiescing for a VM that has IDE disks.

Create an agent-based backup plan in Arcserve UDP or use Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) to back up the Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange Server data.

Warning

Nutanix AHV does not support application-consistent quiescing for a VM that has SATA disks.

Create an agent-based backup plan in Arcserve UDP or use Arcserve UDP Agent to back up the Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange Server data.

Warning

Nutanix AHV does not support application-consistent quiescing because enough SCSI slots are not available.

Create an agent-based backup plan in Arcserve UDP or use Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) to back up the Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange Server data.

Warning

Not verified because the application failed to access the virtual machine. Verify that the user credentials are correct and have administrative privileges.

Provide the built-in local administrator or domain administrator credentials to log into the virtual machine guest operating system.

Warning

Unable to verify whether data-consistent backup is possible because the virtual machine is not powered on.

Refer to the Power State column.