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91 XC Series Data Protection Management Console Administrator’s Guide
8.7 Hyper-V Cluster – Protection of VM
For Windows Server 2012 solution, Microsoft uses a failover cluster concept where the VM and the failover
VM can exist in different nodes for business continuity. Failover clusters provide high availability and
scalability to server workload. The DPMC solution offers protection only for VMs in the failover cluster.
8.7.1 Manually moving VMs to a failover cluster
If you select a cluster to auto protect, DPMC will auto protect any new VMs added directly to the failover
cluster. However, if you manually move VMs in and out of the Hyper-V failover cluster, DPMC will not
recognize it as a new VM.
In this situation, Dell EMC advises that you manually select the VMs that you want to protect.
8.7.2 Additional set up instructions for Linux VM
Hyper-V requires that you install a client and the Hyper-V VSS plugin in each Hyper-V host. For image-level
backups of a virtual machine with a Microsoft Windows guest OS, you also need the Hyper-V Integration
Components and the integration components version for the backup. Hyper-V Server and the guest virtual
machine must match. If the versions do not match, then the virtual machine might not start when you restore it
to a different Hyper-V Server.
Make sure that the Linux VM backup/checkpoint is unchecked. Linux VM backup checkpoint is not
compatible with the Avamar checkpoint; therefore, a VM backup will always fail unless you uncheck the
checkpoint.
To uncheck the checkpoint:
1. Open the Server Manager.
2. Go to Tools>Hyper-V Manager.