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Microsoft Hyper-V Backup

When you are carrying out a virtualization upgrade to Microsoft Hyper-V machines, it’s probably time to upgrade your backup and disaster recovery technology software too. If you are still carrying out traditional file-and-folder Hyper-V backup you’re actually only backing up half of what you really need for a complete recovery. Dell AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery technology can help.

Use these guidelines to gain the full benefit of backup protection:

Snapshots great for upgrades, but backups more efficient
Image-level snapshots themselves are an excellent tool for software or system upgrades, but they can generate massive amounts of duplicate data if you depend on snapshots alone for your server backup. Dell AppAssure backups are more efficient because they take advantage of file compression and data deduplication with changed block tracking (CBT) for maximum disk storage efficiency efficiency. It helps cut disk usage and backup-related network traffic backup by up to 90%.

Smart Agent-based backup is faster
Agentless technology vendors regularly claim to deliver a quicker, more efficient Hyper-V backup and recovery than agent-based software, but an independent test of a popular agentless backup package actually measured slower than Dell AppAssure auto-installed Smart Agents. Moreover, an agentless backup can introduce parasitic host CPU spikes of 60% to 80% during backup, which can slow every virtual machine on the host by the same amount. Dell AppAssure Smart Agent Hyper-V backup, on the other hand, doesn’t slow down the host CPU at all (1% or less, to be specific). And they don’t add to administrative workloads because there are no agents to license (Dell AppAssure is priced per socket) and the agents are deployed automatically.

Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) add challenges
CSV technology can add complexity to backup administration, and many data protection products are only just now beginning to deal with it. Dell AppAssure Smart Agents avoid complexity by backing up the host as well as the VMs, regardless of their location within the cluster.

Make sure your backup is application aware
A successful backup of a message or object data by itself can offer a sense of false security that a Microsoft database application will operate properly following a system failure. But some backup schemes are not application aware, which means the backup lacks the information needed to properly relate an application to its data. AppAsssure applicationaware backups, on the other hand, ensure that when you recover, everything will work as before.

Know for certain your backup is recoverable
Dell AppAssure Recovery Assure™ makes sure you can recover everything you backed up. Recoverability testing runs as soon as each backup is complete to guarantee that if you ever have a disaster, you’ll get everything back.

An Offsite backup can save your company
Some Hyper-V backup solutions offer data protection just for your local backups, but if onsite servers and backups are destroyed by flood or fire, your investment in data protection is wasted. Look to Dell AppAssure for seamless support for must-have local and offsite backups. This gives you the recovery flexibility you need to recover company data to any location you choose.

Microsoft Hyper-V Backup Tips For Data Safety

  • Use snapshots for upgrades, backups for full data protection
  • Look to Smart Agent technology for greater performance, reduced disk storage
  • Insist on application-aware backups to ensure a quick return to productivity
  • Test to assure a full recovery from each and every Hyper-V backup
  • Put offsite or online backups on your must-have list

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