Backup Strategies for Hyper-V Chris Henley, Veeam Software @HyperVBear

How Hyper-V Works (Architecture) Hardware Parent VM Virt Stack Drivers Hypervisor Hyper-V Child VM Drivers

What’s In a Hyper-V VM? Hyper-V Virtual Machine.VHD/.VHDX Config.xml Snapshots.avhd Binary files

The VSS Process VSS Requestor Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS Writer Hyper-V VSS Writer Virtual Machine

Got my image! What now?  Changed Block Tracking  Forward Incremental  Increment injection  Synthetics  Reversed Incremental

Parent VM Changed Block Tracking Virt Stack Drivers Child VM Drivers CBT Hardware Hypervisor Hyper-V

Tracking Block Changes in VM’s ctp.vib CBT

Incremental Backup VM CBT Full.vbk.vib

Full.vbk Injection ctp.vib CBT

Synthetics 10 VM Full.vbk.vib Synthetic Full.vbk.vib SunMonTuesWed CBT

Reversed Incremental 11 VM CBT Full.vbk.vib.vrb Full.vbk.vib.vrb Full.vbk.vib.vrb SunMonTuesWed

Further Reducing RPO and RTO  Continuous Data Protection  Near Continuous Data Protection  Replica’s and Replication

How Replication Works Source Hyper-V Host VM.vib.vrb.vib CBT

The reason we do backup: Recovery  Restore Operations  Instant VM recovery Full.vbk VM.vhd

Summary  Hyper-V VM’s are more than just a single file.  VSS Enables the Hyper-V Backup Process.  Software Innovation Extends Backup and Restore

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