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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 also protect Hyper-V virtual machines provisioned by System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and hosted on a CIFS share.

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.

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 protect against internal 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 helps you quickly restore data, and you can use the offsite copies if 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.

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