Request - Best practices - How to protect Clustered Hyper-v virtual machines...
Dears ,I read an articles about protect Clustered Hyper-v virtual machines on CSV Volumes to install the follwing productsDoes it necessary to install the following products as i Already using DPM 2012...
View ArticleDPM 2012 to backup Hyper-V hosts
Currently we run DPM2010 and 6 Hyper-V hosts with SVR2008R2. We use DPM to back up the VMs but nothing on the hosts themselves. We are expanding to a 10 node cluster that will be all Server 2012 and...
View ArticleBackup Hyper-V more than 3 machines at a time
Hi,I have Hyper-V cluster 2012 and we are using CSV.I'm using DPM 2012 SP1 with the latest rollup to backup Hyper-V.I'm using Hardware provider to take backup I configured (MaxAllowedParallelBackups)...
View ArticleVDS Errors on 2012 Hosts during Express Full Backups
Hello,I have a Hyper-V 2012 Cluster using a CSV and am protecting select VMs within it using DPM 2012 Sp1. I've applied the hotfix:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2813630 which has resolved the major...
View ArticleMove a VM from one Hyper-V host to another - how to do this for DPM 2012
Still haven't seen any documentation about a supported way to do this... If i have a DPM server backing up two Hyper-V host servers, and then move a VM from one host to the other (easy now with Server...
View ArticleDPM backup Issues and VSS Errors
Hi All,Wondering if you can help, we've had a few backups failing recently on DPM, it’s not affecting all the backups just 3 random VM's on a cluster.In DPM we get the following error:Description:...
View ArticleDPM2012 SP1 and Hyper-V backup SQL error
Hi I have an problem whit backup of some Hyper-V servers. I run DPM 2012 SP1 (4.1.3408.0) Hyper-V environment 2008 R2 whit CSV disk. The backup worked from the beginning an then it stopped I found...
View ArticleCan no longer backup VMs using DPM 2012.
Hi, Up until Fri last week all our backups have been working well. Then all of a sudden both Hyper-V servers in a cluster no longer backup VMs. The error we get is:The VSS application writer or the...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 block based ?
Hello,I have deployed DPM 2012 SP1 on my infrastructure. I have created one protection group for one virtual machine on Hyper-V 2012 host.Backup works fine but i think it's full VDH backup and not...
View ArticleIssues with VMM Backups using DPM 2012
Hello,We get a lot of errors from our DPM 2012 server when doing a backup of VM's using VMM:Type: System.Management.Automation.CmdletInvocationException, Message: Unable to connect to the VMM...
View ArticleDPM 2010 host backup, Windows Server 2012 VM
We're using DPM 2010 for protecting a Hyper-V cluster running Windows Server 2008 R2. One of the VMs is a Windows Server 2012. Host backup is being used, can I add that WS2012 VM to a protection group?...
View ArticleInstalling Agents in a Clustered Hyper-V environment
Hi,I have a 2 node cluster, Hyper-V 2008 R2, using standard cluster shares, not CSV. Can I install agent on Host AND guests to ensure quicker backup and restore of VM guests. At the moment I have...
View ArticleThe DPM service was unable to communicate with the protection agent
We currently have 2 hosts performing backups. One of the hosts are off-site , and perform incremental backups. A lot of the time, we are greeted with the following error. These backups sometimes run...
View ArticleDPM 2012 SP1 - replica is inconsistent - VSS provider is in a bad state
Hello,We have a DPM 2012 SP1 implemented recently, and we have two Hyper-V Hosts running on Win 2012 Standard Edition configured with two node clustering. And, there are Hyper-V Machines hosted on the...
View ArticleDPM2012 SP1 & HYPER-V 2012
Hi,We have a few physical servers which we only backup the OS drive only. Now we planning P2V those servers into a standalone Hyper-v 2012 host. We would like to continue to protect those systems via...
View ArticleDPM 2012 SP1 Hyper-V CSV Backups Using Hardware Snapshot with V7000
Can anyone firm that Hardware snapshots work with the IBM V7000/SVC VSSVDS drivers using DPM? I have tried just about every configuration possible and nothing will reliably work.I have a 4 node Server...
View ArticleVSS Hardware Snapshot- wrong host
Hi,I've recently configured our Hyper-V hosts with the VSS hardware provider for SAN (P4000 10.5).However some VM's/ CSV's are failing.When I initiate a backup I can see the CSV going into redirected...
View Articlerestoring a VHDX
Hi!I'm running DPM 2012SP1 on a Server 2008R2 virtual machine, 2008R2 host. All updates installed.One of the backed-up servers (a 2008R2 virtual machine) has a 3 TB volume, hosted on a Server 2012...
View ArticleVSS Hardware Snapshot- wrong host
Hi,I've recently configured our Hyper-V hosts with the VSS hardware provider for our SAN (P4000 10.5).However some VM's/ CSV's are failing.When I initiate a backup I can see the CSV going into...
View ArticleHyper V Backup Strategy
hi,We are using Microsoft System Center DPM 2012 to back up about 30 servers. About 5 servers are physical and 25 are virtual machines. Of the virtual machines 10 are SQL boxes and about 5 are...
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