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Chris Henley Product Strategy Specialist

Hyper-V Backup Best Practices

“A major reason that

organizations still hit these

bumps on the backup and

recovery road: They use the

same products for both physical

and virtual server backup, when

we all know that virtualization

requires a fundamentally

different approach.”

– SearchServerVirtualization.com

Traditional Backup

Traditional backup

● Agent in each VM

● Full VM recovery is complex

● Expensive

● Does not guarantee recoverability

Typical Hyper-V backup

● Backup code runs internal to each VM

● Significant storage requirements

● Limited recovery options

● Does not guarantee recoverability

Hyper-V VSS

VSS Requestor

Volume Shadow

Copy Service

VSS Writer

Hyper-V VSS

Writer

Virtual Machine

Veeam Backup & Replication v6

….with vPower, VBR provides advanced

Virtualization-Powered Data Protection and is

the #1 VM backup solution on the market.

Distributed Backup Architecture

Simple Deployment

Advanced Deployment

Forward Incremental Backup

Reversed Incremental Backup

Synthetic Full Backup

Synthetic Full backup

Changed Block Tracking

Proprietary Hyper-V Changed Block Tracking

Mechanism

File System Driver

In a Cluster each node must contain the driver

2-in-1 Backup and Replication

Backup any VM, VM Container, or VM disk

Replicate VM’s Onsite or Offsite

Near CDP at a fraction of the cost

Replication 101

Replica Failover Measured in Seconds

Failback to Production Host

Replica Seeding Minimizes WAN Traffic

2 Agent Architecture ● Source Side Agent

● Target Side Agent

Advanced Replication Options

OnHost

OffHost

Multiple Data Recovery Options

Data Deduplication and Compression

There are 4 Types of Compression ● Optimal is Recommended

There are 3 types of Deduplication ● Local Target

● LAN Target

● WAN Target

Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

Manage Multiple Veeam Installations from a Single Web

Console

Perform, Edit and Clone Backup and Replication Jobs

Search for Files

One Click Restore

A solution you can count on

Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Hyper-V and Vmware

1 Intuitive Interface

Know that your VMs are protected and that you can recover

quickly in the event of a problem

Simple, Fast, Reliable, Agentless Backup and Replication