This recipe covers how to protect a Hyper-V cluster over SMB and Hyper-V replica.
Hyper-V over Storage Spaces Direct clusters, and ReFS-based SOFS clusters, enable cost-effective, highly available, scalable, and flexible storage solutions for business-critical virtual deployments. They leverage industry-standard commodity servers and allow you to use Windows Server 2019 for highly available software-defined storage that can cost-effectively grow on demand.
DPM protects Hyper-V VMs that use Storage Spaces Direct, including the backup of VMs using Storage Spaces Direct hyper-converged scenarios with the Hyper-V (compute) and Storage Spaces Direct (storage) components on the same cluster.
To protect VMs on SOFS clusters, there are some considerations that you need to be aware of, such as adding the machine accounts to the backup operator groups and share permissions.
To add the machine accounts to the backup operator...