Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide

Using Windows Server Backup

There are a huge number of backup solutions for Hyper-V. Some of them work only with stand-alone hosts, some work with clusters, and some work well with clusters and work well when virtual machines move around a cluster. Some solutions are economical, and others are expensive enterprise products. And there is WSB, which is built into Windows Server 2012 and supports backing up virtual machines on stand-alone hosts and clustered hosts with CSVs. This section discusses how to use WSB to protect your virtual workloads.

Backup and Virtual Machine Mobility

Storage-Level backup typically works as follows:

1. Virtual machines are running on known hosts or clusters.

2. A backup job is created to backup virtual machines ...