Today, I will present you the method of deploying the HYCU backup solution on my Nutanix AHV cluster.

In the previous article, I presented you the prerequisites necessary for installing the solution, including sending the HYCU installation files to the Nutanix AHV cluster. At this stage, you should therefore have the desired version of HYCU available on your cluster:

In my case, I have deliberately placed 3 different versions of the software in order to be able to show:

• the deployment of the solution
• the upgrade with upgrade path

Sizing

Before proceeding with the installation, it must first be sized according to our needs. For this, HYCU gives indications on VM sizes depending on the quantity of virtual machines to be backed up:

In my case, having less than 50 virtual machines to backup, I will go for the smallest size:

• 8 vCPU
• 8Gb RAM
• 32Gb storage

Now that my VM is sized, let’s move on to its deployment.

Deploying the HYCU controller

To deploy the HYCU VM, you need to connect to the Prism Element, go to the “VM” menu and click on “Create VM”. In the window that appears, I give it a name and move on:

I enter the values ​​retained during dimensioning in the “Compute Details” section:

And then I add the first disk of type “DISK” as “Clone from Image Service” and select the image I previously loaded on my cluster “hycu-4.9.0-5310”:

I then add a second disk of type “DISK” this time, in “Allocate on Storage Container” since it is a blank disk of 32Gb that I place on the default storage container:

Finally, I assign a network card to my virtual machine on the subnet of my choice:

My virtual machine is now deployed, I can start it:

My next blog post will detail the initial configuration of the HYCU virtual machine which will allow to finalize the system initialization and access the solution administration interface.