I recently came across an issue in an environment where we used DPM 2012 SP1 to backup Windows Server 2012 Virtual Machines running on Server 2008R2 Hyper-V cluster. The only option available in DPM for the VM's was "Backup Using Saved State". Of course this is not the preferred method for backing up a VM... Continue Reading →
Snapshots of Hyper-V VM with DPM fails on new cluster node
Scenario After adding a new node (4th) to an existing Hyper-V Cluster, DPM backup jobs failed on VM's that where hosted on the new node. For this cluster I use hardware snaphots on a Dell Equallogic SAN. So the "HIT Kit" from Dell was installed on the server and all the other required components to... Continue Reading →
Michel van Vliet - IT Blog 