NetVault Plug-in for Hyper-V 11.4.5

Increase confidence when deploying the plug-in: Plug‑in for Hyper‑V is flexible enough to account for many recovery scenarios. By relying on the plug-in to implement your backup policies, you can focus on more critical tasks without risking your ability to recover what is needed if a failure occurs. Plug‑in for Hyper‑V also empowers you to create a comprehensive and flexible backup policy and reduces the need for scripting, which may increase the risk of syntax or human errors.

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Reduce risk with flexible backup and recovery options: Plug‑in for Hyper‑V equips administrators with a powerful set of tools to simplify backup and recovery of business-critical VMs. The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)-based backup provides a simple method to protect VMs including their applications. Full image-level backups protect the VM from failures while also providing flexibility to support test environments and disaster recoveries. Individual-file recovery offers faster restores and reduces storage utilization, server load, and the amount of data transferred over the network. Plug‑in for Hyper‑V offers the choice to restore a complete VM image or individual files.

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Shorten backup windows and improve device usage: Plug‑in for Hyper‑V speeds VM image-level backups with high-performance Incremental Backups for data stored in VMs of Windows Server 2016. For Windows Server 2016 VMs, the plug-in uses Resilient Change Tracking (RCT). Use of RCT ensures that only the blocks that have changed since the initial Full or the last Incremental Backup are sent to the current Incremental Backup stream.

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Maximize information technology (IT) efficiency: Plug‑in for Hyper‑V reduces administrator involvement in the recovery process while delivering faster and more reliable recoveries. Less-experienced personnel can initiate restores, thus reducing downtime and improving business continuity and freeing administrators from being available 24x7. Less-experienced personnel can also perform routine administrative options, thus empowering administrators to create comprehensive backup policies with a reduced need to understand Plug‑in for Hyper‑V internals. The plug-in uses an automated workflow with point-and-click options for tasks such as defining backups and submitting job scheduling.

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Ensure business continuity: With offsite backups being an important part of the data-protection plan for business-critical applications, the plug-in takes advantage of NetVault Backup’s integration with a range of backup devices. Plug‑in for Hyper‑V gives you the confidence that your virtualized environments are protected and stored offsite for disaster-recovery purposes.

Feature summary

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Hyper-V Clustering

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VSS-based VM backups

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Single plug-in for image-level backups and restores

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File-level restores from image-level backups. Includes support for the following types of partitions and file systems:

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Master Boot Record (MBR)

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GUID Partition Table (GPT)

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Windows Server New Technology File System (NTFS)

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Extended file systems: EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4

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Extents File System (XFS) on Linux and UNIX

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Volumes managed by Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Linux-based systems and Logical Disk Manager (LDM) on Windows-based systems as single or spanned disks

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Full support for VMs that reside on a Server Message Block (SMB) file server

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Support for NetVault Backup Virtual Client

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Uses Active Block Mapping (ABM) to reduce network and storage requirements. Includes support for the following types of partitions and file systems:

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	NOTE: If you disable ABM, the plug-in automatically uses zero-block exclusion to ensure that the zeroed blocks are excluded during backups. ABM is not supported with XFS.