Nutanix Prism Central With Wasabi

  • Updated on Dec 12, 2025
  • Published on Dec 12, 2025
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Nutanix Prism is an enterprise-grade control and management plane for unified hybrid multicloud management. Wasabi has been validated for use with Nutanix Prism. To use Prism with Wasabi, follow the instructions below.

Prerequisites

  • Nutanix Prism Central v7.5 and above

  • NCI starter and above license

  • Nutanix clusters registered to the Prism Central

  • An active Wasabi account

Configuring Wasabi

Creating a bucket

  1. Log in to the Wasabi Console.

  2. Create an object lock enabled bucket. Enable Governance mode and set the Retention time to 31 days. Click Apply.

  1. Navigate to the Lifecycle Policy section and create a lifecycle policy, as shown below.

Creating a Policy

Create a policy with the permissions below. For more information, review Creating a Policy.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:GetObjectVersion",
                "s3:DeleteObject",
                "s3:DeleteObjectVersion",
	            "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::pcbr-wasabi-bucket/*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:ListBucket",
                "s3:GetBucketLocation",
 	            "s3:GetBucketVersioning",
                "s3:GetLifecycleConfiguration",
                "s3:GetBucketObjectLockConfiguration",
                "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::pcbr-wasabi-bucket"
        }
    ]
}

Replace the bucket name accordingly in "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::pcbr-wasabi-bucket/*".

Creating a User

Create a user with programmatic (create API key) access and apply the policy created above to the user. For more detail, refer to Creating a User.

Remember to save the access keys, as they will be required to create the backup location in Prism Central.

Configuring Prism Central

Creating Prism Central Backups to Wasabi

  1. Log in to the Prism Central web console.

  2. From Application Switcher Function, select the Infrastructure application and click Settings (gear icon).

    Navigate to Point-in-Time Backup under Prism Central Backups. Click Protect Now.

  1. Under Backup Location, select Other S3 Compliant Object Store as Endpoint Type. Provide the following details and click Proceed.

  • IP Address or Host Name—Provide the  Service URL of the region where the bucket is located

  • Region Name—Wasabi region

  • Bucket Name—Name of the Wasabi bucket created in the earlier section

Scroll down to provide the credentials created in Creating a User. Configure the desired setting in the Restore Points Objective (RPO) section and click Proceed.

  1. The system synchronizes Prism Central configuration data to the Wasabi bucket. While the configuration data is synchronizing, the Status of the Prism Central instances is shown as Sync in Progress in the Prism Central Backups dashboard. The Status turns to Synced when the configuration data is synchronized. The process of taking the first backup starts immediately when you submit the Wasabi bucket details and takes at least fifteen minutes. After the first backup, the system synchronizes Prism Central configuration data with the Wasabi bucket and creates restore points every RPO cycle.

  1. We can see a folder with the name “pc_backup” has been created after registering the Wasabi account.

Restoring Prism Central

Ensure that the old Prism Central is disconnected and powered off before initiating the restore operation as outlined below.

The restoration creates a new Prism Central instance that replaces the older instance.

  1. Navigate to Prism Element —> Settings —> Restore Prism Central. Select Restore a Prism Central from Point in-Time Backups and click Restore Now.

  1. In the Connect section, provide the Wasabi configuration details below.

    • IP Address or Host Name—Provide the  Service URL of the region where the bucket is located

    • Region Name—Wasabi region

    • Bucket Name—Name of the Wasabi bucket created in the earlier section

    • Access Key

    • Secret Key

  1. In the Source section, select the Prism central we need to restore and click Next.

  1. In the Restore Point section, select the desired restore point and click Next.

  1. In the Installation section, review the details and click Next.

  1. In the Configuration section, select the desired vlan. Review the Summary tab and click Restore.

  1. Navigate to Tasks and monitor the restoration of Prism Central.

  1. Once restoration is complete, validate by navigating to Prism Central and change the default password on the first login.