Disaster Recovery from Nutanix to Azure

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Disaster Recovery from Nutanix to Azure

Emna Naili 0

Hello, Since Azure Site Recovery does not support Nutanix, what is the recommended way to implement Disaster Recovery from Nutanix to Azure?

Thank you.

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2026-04-06T03:12:28.9066667+00:00

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Answer 1

Hello Emna,

You want to implement Disaster Recovery (DR) from an on‑premises Nutanix (AHV) environment to Microsoft Azure, but Azure Site Recovery (ASR) does not support Nutanix AHV as a source hypervisor. The requirement is to understand what is supported, recommended, and practically feasible for DR in this scenario.

Nutanix is not compatible with Azure Site Recovery. However, you can treat the VM as physical and install a process server to protect the VMS. The only limitation is that it doesn't have an automatic failback. If you trigger the DR to go back to the Nutanix environment, you will have to download the VM and convert.

For more details, please refer to the similar post here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/984541/dr-site-on-azure

Hope this helps. and please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions. Thanks

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2026-04-07T01:33:28.07+00:00

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Answer 2

Azure Site Recovery does not list Nutanix as a supported source platform in the provided material, and the context does not describe a supported Nutanix-to-Azure DR pattern. It only documents:

Azure-to-Azure VM disaster recovery (between regions and between availability zones) using Azure Site Recovery.
On‑premises physical/virtual servers (Hyper‑V/VMware/physical) to Azure using Azure Site Recovery.
RDS deployments on Hyper‑V/VMware/physical protected to Azure.

Within this context, only the following supported DR options are described:

Protect Azure VMs to another Azure region using Azure Site Recovery, including:
- Global region‑to‑region DR for Azure VMs.
- Zone‑to‑zone DR within the same Azure region.
Protect on‑premises physical/virtual machines (not specified as Nutanix) to Azure using Azure Site Recovery.

No Nutanix‑specific guidance, tooling, or supported configuration is provided in the context, so no recommended or supported Nutanix‑to‑Azure DR approach can be stated here.

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