Introducing NetVault Backup Plug-in for Hyper-V
NetVault Backup Plug-in for Hyper-V: at a glance
Key benefits
Feature summary
Target audience
Recommended additional reading
Installing or removing the plug-in
Deploying the plug-in
Prerequisites for installing the plug-in
Prerequisite for using SMB file servers
Installing or upgrading the plug-in
Licensing the plug-in
Removing the plug-in from a standalone deployment
Configuring the plug-in
Configuring settings for a clustered deployment
Enabling communication between VMs in clustered environment
Backing up data
Backing up data: an overview
Adding patterns to use for inclusion and exclusion of VMs
Performing backups
Using backup policies
Restoring data
Restoring image-level backups
Troubleshooting
Prerequisites for image-level restore
Selecting data for an image-level restore
Setting image-level restore options
Finalizing and submitting an image-level restore job
Performing file-level recovery
Selecting data for a file-level restore
Setting file-level restore options
Finalizing and submitting a file-level restore job
Using other restore procedures
Introducing NetVault Backup Plug-in for Hyper-V
NetVault Backup Plug-in for Hyper-V: at a glance
Key benefits
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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 and Differential Backups for data stored in VMs of Windows Server 2016. For Windows Server 2016 VMs, the plug-in uses Resilient Change Tracking (RCT). RCT tracks changes to a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD or VHDX) that occur between backups. |
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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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