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Thursday 25 September 2025 No comments
I developed a tool that calculates the upgrade path to update my HYCU controllers...
Friday 4 April 2025 1 Comment
My complete HYCU Backup guide to protect a Nutanix cluster, in 9 articles: prerequisites, controller, cluster, backup target, jobs and VM protection.
Tuesday 25 March 2025 No comments
HYCU Backup upgrade path table from 4.0.0 to 5.1.0: the intermediate versions you must go through to upgrade the controller.
Tuesday 18 March 2025 No comments
I accidentally deleted one of the virtual machines in my cluster. Luckily, I can restore it with HYCU!
Thursday 13 March 2025 1 Comment
Protecting Nutanix VMs with HYCU: assign a backup policy manually, then automate protection with Nutanix categories.
Friday 7 March 2025 No comments
Now that our HYCU controller is configured and up to date, we now need to protect our virtual machines…
Tuesday 4 March 2025 No comments
HYCU being a backup software monitored and supported by the publisher, updates will have to be installed regularly.
Friday 28 February 2025 No comments
Now that the Nutanix cluster is added to the HYCU software, we need to add the backup target to which the files will be sent.
Tuesday 25 February 2025 No comments
Adding a Nutanix cluster to HYCU: a service account with Cluster Admin and Backup Admin on Prism Element, Prism Central if needed, then validation.
Friday 21 February 2025 No comments
In the previous blog post, I created and started the HYCU virtual machine. Now let's move on to the initial configuration of the Backup Controller.
Tuesday 18 February 2025 No comments
Today, I will present you the method of deploying the HYCU backup solution on my Nutanix AHV cluster.
Thursday 13 February 2025 No comments
Prerequisites to back up a Nutanix cluster with HYCU: my CE 2.1 lab and Synology NAS, AOS and OS compatibility, and getting the images onto the cluster.
Tuesday 11 February 2025 No comments
HYCU stands out as a backup solution specifically designed for hyperconverged environments, particularly Nutanix.
Friday 12 July 2024 No comments
HYCU update 5.0.0 has just been released! Update your infrastructure!
Wednesday 10 July 2024 No comments
After writing an update to the article on deploying the solution, here is the update on adding a source to your HYCU controller.
Sunday 30 June 2024 1 Comment
Deploying HYCU 4.9.0 on a Nutanix AHV cluster: qcow2 image, upload to the cluster, VM creation and final setup of the backup controller.
Monday 5 February 2024 No comments
Learn to add your cluster to the software administration interface so that you can backup it.
Wednesday 29 November 2023 1 Comment
Getting the free HYCU edition for Nutanix Community Edition and deploying the backup controller on a cluster: prerequisites, files and VM setup.
Friday 25 November 2022 No comments
This post will allow you to set up an outsourcing of your backups to an S3 compatible Wasabi storage space via HYCU.

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