Nutanix AHV • MSCS Cluster with Volume Groups - backing up question

Hi Veeam people.

I have 2 MSCS VM clusters with volume groups attached. These are file-only MSCS clusters. I have installed the Veeam Windows agents on each node and set up a backup for them.
Incidentally, there's a Nutanix Backup job configured to back up these VMs as well.

When I go into the disk backups to drill down and see the restore points, I see the multi-terabyte backups under both the Agent backup job and the normal VM backup job.
Do I need to do both, or can I drop the Agent backup and just let the native Nutanix VM backup do the job?

I do have other MSCS clusters with MSSQL on them and those I do know that I need the agents on to do VSS consistent backups, but the 2 file server clusters are my question. Am I just duplicating the backups and chewing up unnecessary spaces on my disk array?

Thanks!

Statistics: Posted by Voltron — Oct 15, 2025 11:27 am

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