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Recipe: Create a Hyper-V Replication Job with Guest Processing for Windows VMs
Expected deliverables:
A Veeam Replication Job to replicate Hyper-V VMs from a source Hyper-V host to a target Hyper-V host without Guest application-aware processing enabled.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- Hyper-V infrastructure must have been added to the backup infrastructure and properly configured. That means adding source and target Hyper-V clusters (recommended) or standalone Hyper-V hosts.
- If you want to perform backup in the off-host backup mode, the off-host backup proxy must also be added and properly configured, otherwise you can use the Hyper-V hosts as on-host Backup Proxies.
- A Backup Repository for replica metadata. Deduplicating appliances and Scale-out Backup repositories aren’t supported
- A user account with administrator privileges if Guest Processing will be enabled
Before you start:
The target datastore must have enough free space to store disks of replicated VMs.
Assumptions:
You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.
It’s assumed that Windows VMs included in this job support Microsoft VSS.
Method:
- Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
- On the Home view. On the ribbon, click Replication Job > Virtual machine > Microsoft Hyper-V.
- At the Name step , specify a job name and description. Leave other options by default and click Next.
- At the Virtual Machines step, select VMs and/or VM containers that you want to replicate.
- Click Add, then in the Add Object window select the necessary VMs or VM containers and click Add.
- At the Destination step, select a target host or cluster (recommended) and next to the Path field, click Choose and specify a path to the folder where VM replica files must be stored. Click Next.
- At the Job Settings step, select a backup repository that will store metadata for VM replicas.
- In the Replica name suffix field, enter a suffix that will be added to the original VM names
- In the Restore points to keep field, specify the number of restore points that the job must maintain (Max 47).
- At the Data Transfer step:
- If you want to use off-host Backup Proxy, click Choose and select the Source proxy , otherwise click Choose and select On-host backup in the Backup Proxy window
- If you want to use WAN Acceleration, click in Through built-in WAN accelerators and select a Source and a Target WAN Accelerator.
- Otherwise, leave Direct option selected and click Next.
- At the Guest Processing step, check Enable application-aware processing option:
- If it’s required, choose a specific Guest Interaction Proxy, otherwise leave the default option.
- From the Guest OS credentials list, select a user account that has enough permissions. If you have not set up credentials beforehand, click the Manage accounts link or click the Add button to add credentials.
- If you want to configure transaction log processing for MS Exchange, SQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL, click in Applications, then select a workload from the list and click in Edit. In the Processing Settings windows configure the parameters according to your requirements.
- Click Next.
- At the Schedule step, select to run the replication job manually or schedule the job to run on a regular basis.
- At the Summary step, review details of the replication job. If you want to start the job right after you close the wizard, select the Run the job when I click Finish check box, otherwise leave the check box unselected. Then click Finish to close the wizard
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