Chapter 17: Agentless Backup for Microsoft Hyper-V

As mentioned in Chapter 14: Overview of Virtual Environment Protection, you can use the special features in Catalogic DPX to protect the Microsoft Hyper-V assets: Agentless Backup and file-level restore.

To use the Agentless Backup, you must install Catalogic DPX Backup Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V on your Microsoft Hyper-V host. The agent handles Hyper-V snapshot processing and communicates with the storage destination and master server. Agentless Hyper-V Backup supports auto-discovery and protection of new and modified VMs. Moreover, supports crash-consistent backup of all guest operating systems that are supported by Microsoft Windows 2016 and later.

Restrictions. Microsoft Hyper-V backup and restore is only accessible through the HTML5-based DPX Management Interface.

Prerequisites for Microsoft Hyper-V Agentless Backup

You can use the Catalogic DPX Agentless Backup with the following the Microsoft Hyper-V environments:

  • Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows Server 2016

  • Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows Server 2019

The VMs that you want to protect must have the Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine configuration versions of 8.0 or later. To check the configuration version of a VM, click the VM in the main window of Microsoft Hyper-V Management Console and see the Configuration Version value in the summary tab.

Or, you can get the configuration versions of all or specific VMs by using Microsoft Hyper-V Module for Microsoft Windows PowerShell or Microsoft PowerShell. In the Microsoft Windows Server system, launch Microsoft Windows PowerShell or Microsoft PowerShell with the administrator privilege. Use the following command:

Hyper-V\Get-VM * | Select-Object Name,Version

The command prompts the output that is structured as shown:

Name             Version
----             -------
sales-vm         7.1
service-vm       8.0
development-vm   9.0

In this example, you have to upgrade the configuration version of sales-vm before Catalogic DPX protects this VM.

See also. For more information about virtual machine configuration versions in Microsoft Hyper-V, see the following document:

In addition, you must install Catalogic DPX Backup Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V on the Microsoft Hyper-V host system.

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