Backup Exec 2010 R2 and Hyper-V Cluster

[Gerald_Anderson]

Hi All,

I am just needing to confirm (assuming someone knows, or can point me to the article?) how BE2010 transfers data from a Hyper-V cluster to its local backup storage.

Does all of the network traffic go through the currently 'master' Hyper-V host, or will it make a backend connection directly to the host from BE server to transfer the VM as its snapshot directly?

I have a 5 node cluster, and the performance during a parrallel backup is poor and I believe it may be related to the networking side (only 1GB unfortunately).

Thanks!

[CraigV]

Hi Gerald,

Best bet here is to get hold of the BE 2010 Admin guide on the link below, and read from pg. 1145.

The section on Hyper-V explains how it all works, which is obviously what you're looking for.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH77887

Thanks!

[Gerald_Anderson]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the reply.

I have already been through and read the administrators guide, but it doesn't actually say how the process of backing up a VM through Hyper-V - it tells me how to set it up, but not the process the system uses to get the data from point A to point B.

 I rang pre-sales support but they weren't able to help me at the time - nor was the technical support.

Jason