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bill_H
Level 3
13 years ago

Hyper V backup options

I am looking of a backup solution for Hyper V with 2 VM's.  The first system will be running Windows Small Business Server 2011 with Exchange 2010 and the 2nd VM will be Windows 2008 R2 server running SQL 2008 R2.  I have a LTO3 tape installed on the host system and would like to provide bare metal disaster recovery inaddition to a ganualar restore of Exchange, and files.

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  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    13 years ago

    Since you have a SBS macine, it would be cheaper, licence-wise, to buy a BE SBS licence.  The BE SBS licence is a special licence which bundles things like the Exchange and SQL Server so that you can back up your SBS machine.  It is cheaper than getting the individual licences.

    Since you are installing your tape drive on the host machine, you should install the BE SBS on the host machine.  The host machine must be running a full version of Server 2008.  BE cannot use Server 2008 Core as a media server.

    You would also need BE Hyper-V licence (AMHV) to backup your VM's and a SQL Server licence to backup the SQL databases on your 2nd VM.

    BE can do bare metal recovery if it is recovering to similiar hardware.  If the hardware is dissimiliar, you might want to looks at Symantec System Recovery which is a seperate product from BE.

  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    Moderator
    13 years ago

    Hi Bill,

     

    Check the link below which gives you an idea on what you can do with the Hyper-V agent within BE:

    http://tinyurl.com/87lcceo

    You might also want to check out the Hyper-V best practices below:

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO21770

    You'd be able to back up files and folders using the RAWS agent, or using the Hyper-V agent, the entire VM. However for this to work well, it would be recommended that you back up the VMs to disk first, and then duplicate to tape.

    Just using the RAWS agent and any application agent would run well to tape. Also make sure you have a dedicated physical server for the media server, as Hyper-V doesn't support a virtual media server backing up to tape.

     

    THanks!

  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    Moderator
    13 years ago

    Since you have a SBS macine, it would be cheaper, licence-wise, to buy a BE SBS licence.  The BE SBS licence is a special licence which bundles things like the Exchange and SQL Server so that you can back up your SBS machine.  It is cheaper than getting the individual licences.

    Since you are installing your tape drive on the host machine, you should install the BE SBS on the host machine.  The host machine must be running a full version of Server 2008.  BE cannot use Server 2008 Core as a media server.

    You would also need BE Hyper-V licence (AMHV) to backup your VM's and a SQL Server licence to backup the SQL databases on your 2nd VM.

    BE can do bare metal recovery if it is recovering to similiar hardware.  If the hardware is dissimiliar, you might want to looks at Symantec System Recovery which is a seperate product from BE.