and clusters for that matter
We recently saw a situation where a running VM could not be backed up by Data Protection Manager.
Here is why:
If at least one of the following conditions is true
The Hyper-V integration components for volume snapshot copy disabled for the VM
Dynamic disks configured inside of the VM
Non-NTFS based partitions inside the VM
Changed shadow storage assignments [...]
Ruud Baars, consultant and DPM expert at Microsoft NL explains how a disk in Data Protection Manager can be migrated to another disk by freeing up space, even if there are volumes spanning multiple disks.
See his blog at Ctrl P – The Data Protection Manager Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2010/06/05/space-needed-to-migrate-a-disk.aspx
Several issues around VSS based protection & recovery are being addressed with this Hyper-V update rollup package. The package can be downloaded from: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=975354&kbln=en-us
The last three issues might sound familiar if you already perform host level protection of virtual machines on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager [...]
Today the Data Protection Manager development team released the public beta of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM2010), the third generation of Microsoft backup software. Actually backup is not the right word since it is data protection and guaranteed data recovery what makes DPM really stand out. It was really designed for backup to [...]
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