Is it possible to take snapshots in Hyper-V (on Windows Server 2008 R2) directly to a network location? (4039943)

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Is it possible to take snapshots in Hyper-V (on Windows Server 2008 R2) directly to a network location?
Description

Vm backup on a Hyper V host failing to take snapshot during VSS stage
Cause

Hyper-V does not support putting live VHD files on network shares (partly because VSS and the backup infrastructure isn't available there.) And those snapshots have "differencing VHDs" within them that are used while the VM is running
Resolution

For more information
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560637(v=ws.10).aspx
Additional Information

hyper V, snapshots, VSS, network share

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