Configuring Hyper-V protection with DPM

This recipe covers how to configure Hyper-V protection with DPM.

Getting ready

Before you start configuring protection for Hyper-V, you need to make sure that the latest DPM agent is installed on all Hyper-V nodes that will be part of the Hyper-V protection. Please check the Installing the DPM Agents recipe in Chapter 1, Installing and Upgrading DPM.

How to do it...

To configure protection for Hyper-V, take the following steps:

1. Open the DPM Administrator Console, and go to the Protection workspace. Click on New in the ribbon tab. This will trigger the Create New Protection Group wizard.
2. In the Select Protection Group Type step, select Servers and click on Next >.
3. In the Select Group Members step, expand your Hyper-V server(s) and select which virtual machine you want to protect. Click on Next > to continue.
4. In the Select Data Protection Method step, provide the following information:
   • Protection group name
   • Select the protection method that you want:
     • Short...