Protecting Hyper-V clusters over Clustered Shared Volumes
This recipe covers how to protect Hyper-V clusters over CSV.
Getting ready
Hyper-V over CSV (connected by SAN) is the traditional deployment where virtual machines are hosted on a Hyper-V cluster with CSV storage. There is no limit to the number of disks a Hyper-V cluster can be configured to use, which allows much flexibility in designing the storage architecture of Hyper-V clusters.Â
How to do it...
For backing up the VMs, the DPM agent should be installed on each cluster node, and you can get reliable backups at scale with the latest version of DPM.
Starting with DPM 2012 R2 and later, there are no more host-level volume snapshots; it calls guest-level VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service inside the VM) to get application-consistent backups. DPM supports express full backups and parallel backups.
Note
Please note that when selecting clustered virtual machines, do not pick virtual machines from individual nodes; instead, point to the cluster...