Use Hardware Snapshot for Hyper-V Agentless Backup
Follow these steps:
- Verify if the following prerequisites are met.
- Install a VSS hardware provider (for example, NetApp) on the Hyper-V servers. To support the transportable snapshot, install the VSS hardware provider on the backup proxy server. A typical configuration of a VSS hardware provider includes:
- Specifying a server that controls the LUN
- Specifying the disk array credentials to access the disk array
- Note: For more information on configuring the VSS hardware provider, contact your hardware provider vendor.
- The Hyper-V server and the proxy server must have a similar operating system version.
- If the Hyper-V server belongs to a cluster, the proxy server should not be a part of the Hyper-V cluster.
- Log in to the Console and create a plan for backup.
- Note: For more information on creating an agentless backup plan, see How to Create a Host-based Agentless Backup Plan.
- Verify that you have selected the Use hardware snapshot wherever possible option in the Advanced tab.
- Save the plan and submit the backup job.
The backup job runs using the storage snapshot.