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Discover Hyper-V workloads in NetApp Backup and Recovery

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Discover Hyper-V virtual machines in NetApp Backup and Recovery so you can protect them with protection policies.

Required NetApp Console role
Backup and Recovery super admin. Learn about Backup and Recovery roles and privileges. Learn about NetApp Console access roles for all services.

Add a Hyper-V host and discover resources

Add Hyper-V host information to enable NetApp Backup and Recovery to discover virtual machines. Within each Console agent, select the systems where you want to discover resources.

Note After adding a storage system to NetApp Console, wait a few minutes before discovering resources. Discovering resources immediately after adding a storage system can cause the discovery to fail.
Note When you add Hyper-V hosts and discover resources, NetApp Backup and Recovery installs the NetApp Hyper-V plug-in and the NetApp SnapCenter Windows FileSystem plug-in on the Hyper-V host to help with managing and protecting virtual machines.
Steps

  1. From the NetApp Console menu, select Protection > Backup and Recovery.

  2. Select Discover resources.

  3. Enter the following information:

    1. Workload type: Select Hyper-V.

    2. Hyper-V settings: Do the following:

      1. If you haven't yet stored credentials for this Hyper-V host, select Add credentials.

        • Select the Console agent to use with this host.

        • Enter a name for this credential.

        • Enter the user name and password for the account.

        • Select Done.

      2. Add a new Hyper-V host by entering the host's FQDN or IP address and selecting a Console agent and credentials. If the FQDN is not resolvable by the Console agent, use the IP address instead. For failover clusters, enter the cluster management IP address.

    3. Advanced settings: Optionally, enter an installation path for the NetApp Hyper-V plug-in.

  4. Select Discover.

    Tip This process might take a few minutes.
Result

After NetApp Backup and Recovery discovers resources, the Inventory page displays the Hyper-V workload in the list of workloads.

Continue to the NetApp Backup and Recovery Dashboard

Steps

  1. From the NetApp Console menu, select Protection > Backup and Recovery.

  2. Select the Hyper-V workload tile.

  3. From the Backup and Recovery menu, select Dashboard.

  4. Review the health of data protection. The number of at risk or protected workloads increases based on the newly discovered, protected, and backed up workloads.