This recipe will cover the prerequisites for Hyper-V protection. Before you are able to provide a restore plan for your virtual machines to recover the services that you are providing in your modern data center, you need to understand the prerequisites for protecting Hyper-V.
The supported versions of Hyper-V that DPM 2012 R2 can protect and restore are:
Windows Server 2012 R2 - Data center and Standard
Windows Server 2012 - Data center and Standard
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 - Enterprise and Standard
Note
System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 can also protect Linux running as a virtual machine in the Hyper-V environment.
The different versions of the Hyper-V role that the Windows Server operating system hosts work similarly but uses different kinds of underlying architecture within the operating system.
The most common approach is the usage of CSVs for storing the VHD files for older versions of Hyper-V. With the 2012 release of the...