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Protect Hyper-V workloads overview

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Protect your Hyper-V VMs with NetApp Backup and Recovery. NetApp Backup and Recovery provides fast, space-efficient, crash-consistent, and VM-consistent backup and restore operations for both standalone and FCI cluster instances.

You can back up Hyper-V workloads to Amazon Web Services S3 or StorageGRID and restore Hyper-V workloads back to an on-premises Hyper-V host.

Architecture diagram of backup and recovery in general

Use NetApp Backup and Recovery to implement a 3-2-1 protection strategy, where you have 3 copies of your source data on 2 different storage systems along with 1 copy in the cloud. The benefits of the 3-2-1 approach include:

  • Multiple data copies provide multi-layer protection against both internal (insider) and external cybersecurity threats.

  • Multiple media types ensure failover viability in the case of physical or logical failure of one media type.

  • The onsite copy facilitates quick restores, with the offsite copies available just in case the onsite copy is compromised.

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.

Note To switch to and from NetApp Backup and Recovery UI versions, refer to Switch to the previous NetApp Backup and Recovery UI.

You can use NetApp Backup and Recovery to perform the following tasks related to Hyper-V workloads: