Protecting a Hyper-V environment

Preparing for a situation that hopefully never takes place; this is a definition of the process of backup and disaster recovery. While restoring a lost Word document on a file server is a common and well-practiced task occurring daily in most IT environments, the complete loss of a bunch of VMs or even a whole Hyper-V cluster is unlikely to occur; or so you may think. Almost all companies make use of redundant components, and even clusters are standard; however, single points of failures (SPOFs) can often be found. The following are a few examples:

• Non-mirrored storage systems
• Core switches
• Intersite networking
• Authentication systems

So, a typical technical architecture offers a realistic chance for a disaster to occur. Hardware and software issues aren't number 1 in a list of possible disaster scenarios. More than 50 percent of all disastrous issues are triggered by a human error according to the backup-focused company Acronis. Deleting...