Implementing Hyper-V virtual machine backup and recovery

After building a solid foundation for our understanding about Hyper-V virtual machine backup methodologies and best practices, we will now move ahead to see things in action. In this section, we will first cover Hyper-V VM backup and recovery with the Windows Server 2012 backup feature. Then, we will go on to see how System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 can help us to back up and recover Hyper-V virtual machines.

Hyper-V backup and recovery with the Windows Server Backup feature

Most of us who have been working with Windows Server from the previous releases are huge fans of the NTBackup, which was a native backup utility for system state, Exchange Information Store, and files and folders. It gave us a nifty way to quickly back up data, whenever needed, and then restore it on the same or any other Windows Server. Some people used to back up the files and folder data, just to avoid keeping this huge amount of data in the original...