Recover Hyper-V data
Applies To: System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
System Center 2012 – Data Protection Manager (DPM) supports various recovery scenarios for Hyper-V virtual machines.
The following table describes the various support recovery scenarios for Hyper-V:
Scenario |
Description |
Recovering a virtual machine to its original location. |
The original VHD is deleted. DPM will recover the VHD and other configuration files on the original location by using the Hyper-V VSS writer. At the end of the recovery process, virtual machines will still be highly available. > [!NOTE] > The resource group must be present for recovery to happen. If the resource group is not available, recover to an alternate location and then make the virtual machine highly available. > |
Recovering a virtual machine to an alternate location |
DPM supports alternate location recovery (ALR), which provides a seamless recovery of a protected Hyper-V virtual machine to a different Hyper-V host, independent of processor architecture. Hyper-V virtual machines that are recovered to a cluster node will not be highly available. For more information about how to make a virtual machine highly available, see Make the virtual machine highly available. |
Item-level recovery (ILR) of Hyper-V virtual machines |
DPM supports item-level recovery (ILR), which allows you to do item-level recovery of files, folders, volumes, and virtual hard disks (VHDs) from a host-level backup of Hyper-V virtual machines to a network share or a volume on a DPM protected server. > [!NOTE] > The DPM protection agent does not have to be installed inside the guest to perform item-level recovery. > |
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