NetVault Plug-in for Hyper-V 10.5

This guide is intended for users who are responsible for the backup and recovery of VMs. Familiarity with Windows Server® administration and the operating system (OS) under which Plug‑in for Hyper‑V is running is assumed. Advanced knowledge of VMs is useful for defining an efficient backup-and-recovery strategy.

Recommended additional reading

Dell recommends that you have the following documentation available for reference while setting up and using this plug-in.

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Microsoft® Hyper-V®: Backing Up and Restoring Virtual Machines: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd405549(VS.85).aspx

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NetVault Backup documentation:

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Dell NetVault Backup Installation Guide: This guide provides details on installing the NetVault Backup Server and Client software.

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Dell NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide: This guide explains how to use NetVault Backup and describes the functionality common to all plug-ins.

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Dell NetVault Backup CLI Reference Guide: This guide provides a description of the command-line utilities.

You can download these guides from http://quest.com/support/.


	IMPORTANT: Starting with 10.0.0, NetVault Backup provides a WebUI to configure, manage, and monitor your NetVault Backup system and installed plug-ins. The procedures described in the user’s guide for this version of the plug-in are intended for the new WebUI. For procedures based on the NetVault Backup Console (user interface available with NetVault Backup 9.x), see the documentation for an earlier version of the plug-in.

Installing or removing the plug-in

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Deploying the plug-in

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Prerequisites for installing the plug-in

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Installing the plug-in in a standalone deployment

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Licensing the plug-in

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Removing the plug-in from a standalone deployment

Deploying the plug-in

Deploying the plug-in in standalone, clustered (high-availability), and SMB environments is almost identical because Plug‑in for Hyper‑V is installed on the Hyper‑V® Server. The Hyper-V Server is the physical machine that hosts the VMs — the plug-in is not installed on each of the protected VMs.

Figure 1. Deployment overview

Failover clustering

Using the failover cluster Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or IP address, the Plug‑in for Hyper‑V identifies the current node that is in control of the Hyper-V® Cluster and targets it for backup jobs.

Use of a Virtual Client is not plug-in-specific. For complete information, see the Dell NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide. Be aware of the following guidelines:

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Always use the information provided in the Dell NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide to ensure that management of the plug-in is conducted using the Virtual Client; do not use the physical nodes that are members of the Virtual Client to conduct cluster- or client-management activity. Use the physical node to set up backup jobs for local VMs that are not part of the cluster.

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To make the plug-in available for installation to all nodes that are part of a Virtual Client, you must copy the “.npk” installation file to the NetVault Backup Server. The path to copy the file is <NetVaultBackupHome>\packages\standard.

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If you later upgrade or update the plug-in, you must:

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Delete the existing “.npk” file from the same location identified earlier.

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Copy the “.npk” installation file to the same location identified earlier.

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Remove the Virtual Client that was created with the previous version of the plug-in.

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Create a new Virtual Client using the upgraded version of the plug-in. Assign the original Virtual Client’s name to the new Virtual Client. If you change the name, you cannot run backup jobs that were defined for the original Virtual Client.