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 →
Connect Azure to App Controller
Ever wanted to try out the integration of your On-Premise Hyper-V virtual infrastructure and Azure? Here are the steps how to do this. You need to have System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and App Controller with SP1 (Beta) in place. The installation of these will not be discussed. Create an Azure subscription The first... 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 →
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