Dell EMC Avamar for Hyper-V User Guide
Dell EMC Avamar for Hyper-V
Version 18.1
User Guide
302-004-678 REV 02
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CONTENTS
Figures
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Tables
9
Preface Chapter 1
Chapter 2
11
Introduction
15
Architecture................................................................................................ 16
How Avamar works with Hyper-V...................................................16
How Avamar works with Hyper-V in a cluster................................ 20
How Avamar works in an SCVMM environment.............................26
Granular level recovery.................................................................. 26
Data Domain system support......................................................... 29
Backup....................................................................................................... 29
Backup methods............................................................................ 29
Backup types................................................................................. 30
Files included in backups............................................................... 30
Multi-streaming..............................................................................31
Restore....................................................................................................... 31
Restore to the original Hyper-V Server..........................................32
Restore to a different location on the original Hyper-V Server...... 32
Restore to create a virtual machine on a different Hyper-V Server...
32
Restore of virtual machine files for manual provisioning................ 33
Granular level recovery.................................................................. 33
Installation
37
Preparing to install the Avamar client software.......................................... 38
System requirements.....................................................................38
Downloading the software..............................................................41
Verifying the environment............................................................. 42
Installing the Avamar client software..........................................................43
Installation road maps.................................................................... 43
Installing the Avamar Client for Windows.......................................44
Installing the Avamar Plug-in for Hyper-V VSS.............................. 46
Registering the client.....................................................................48
Configuring the cluster client........................................................ 49
Upgrading the Avamar client software........................................................57
Upgrading on a stand-alone server................................................ 57
Upgrading in a cluster.................................................................... 57
Uninstalling the Avamar client software..................................................... 58
Uninstall roadmap.......................................................................... 58
Uninstalling the cluster client.........................................................58
Uninstalling the Avamar Plug-in for Hyper-V VSS......................... 60
Uninstalling the Avamar Client for Windows.................................. 60
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Chapter 3
Image-Level Backups
61
Perform an on-demand Hyper-V backup by using AUI ............................... 62
Performing on-demand backups by using Avamar Administrator................ 62
Backup of virtual machines using RCT........................................................65
Scheduling backups....................................................................................65
Creating a dataset......................................................................... 66
Creating a group............................................................................68
Enabling scheduled backups.......................................................... 69
Synthetic full backups................................................................................ 70
Excluding virtual machines from backups................................................... 70
Monitoring backups.....................................................................................71
Canceling backups.......................................................................................71
Chapter 4
Image-Level Restores
73
Restore requirements................................................................................. 74
Software requirements for restore................................................ 74
Requirements to restore to the original location............................ 74
Redirected restore requirements................................................... 74
Restoring virtual machines to SMB file shares............................... 75
Restore a Hyper-V backup client by using AUI............................................75
Finding a backup......................................................................................... 77
Finding a backup by date............................................................... 77
Finding a backup by content.......................................................... 78
Restoring to the original location................................................................ 79
Restoring to a different location on the original Hyper-V Server................ 80
Restoring to create a virtual machine on a different Hyper-V server...........81
Restoring virtual machine files for manual provisioning...............................83
Restoring the Host Components................................................................ 84
Restoring Host Components on a stand-alone server.................... 84
Restoring Host Components on a cluster proxy node.................... 85
Monitoring restores.................................................................................... 85
Canceling restores......................................................................................86
Chapter 5
Granular level recovery
87
Granular level recovery from the original location.......................................88
Granular level recovery from a different location........................................89
Setting a custom GLR timeout value........................................................... 91
Performing granular level recovery of application databases.......................91
Appendix A
Plug-in Options
93
How to set plug-in options..........................................................................94
Hyper-V VSS plug-in backup options..........................................................94
Hyper-V VSS plug-in restore options..........................................................96
Hyper-V GLR plug-in options......................................................................97
Appendix B
Command Line Interface
99
Overview of the Hyper-V VSS plug-in CLI.................................................100
Command reference................................................................................. 100
Synopsis.......................................................................................100
Operations................................................................................... 100
Options......................................................................................... 101
Specifying command line options.............................................................. 107
CLI examples.............................................................................................108
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Example browse commands......................................................... 108 Example backup commands......................................................... 108 Example restore commands.......................................................... 112
Appendix C
Backup and Restore in SCVMM Environments
117
Overview of Avamar in SCVMM environments.......................................... 118
Backing up and restoring a VMM server.................................................... 118
Backing up and restoring a VMM host....................................................... 118
Backing up and restoring a VMM library server..........................................118
Backing up and restoring a VMM database server..................................... 119
Disaster recovery of a VMM environment..................................................119
Appendix D
Troubleshooting
121
Backup problems and solutions................................................................. 122
Browse request fails for cluster client.......................................... 122
Paused virtual machine is in a Saved State after backup.............. 122
Virtual machines are skipped during backup................................. 122
Improving backup performance in Windows Hyper-V Server clusters
with CSV...................................................................................... 122
Avamar virtual client is registered to a different Avamar server and
backups fail.................................................................................. 123
Backup of Windows Hyper-V Server with SMB and non-SMB target
VMs is not supported .................................................................. 123
Hyper-V federated backup and recovery in a multiple IP or multiple
NIC environment ......................................................................... 123
Virtual machine file path or name with special characters............ 124
Mixed cluster environments not supported.................................. 124
Backups with mixed absolute and relative paths will fail............... 124
Incremental backups.................................................................... 124
Backups failing when Data Domains are switched between
consecutive backups.................................................................... 124
Restore problems and solutions................................................................ 125
Browse request fails for a cluster client....................................... 125
Access denied error when restoring a cluster...............................125
Virtual machine fails to start after redirected restore...................125
Virtual machine configuration file is hidden after restore..............126
Restored virtual machine fails to start after live migration........... 126
Conflict between Hyper-V host and guest backup application......126
Restore takes a long time when restoring virtual machines on
multiple CSVs in an environment with multiple proxies ................ 126
Redirected restore of VMs shown as failed in Avamar Administrator
.....................................................................................................126
Glossary
127
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Guest backup environment..........................................................................................17
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Image-level backup environment................................................................................. 18
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Image-level backups with a single proxy in a Windows Hyper-V Server cluster with
CSV.............................................................................................................................21
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Image-level backups with multiple proxies in a Windows Hyper-V Server cluster with
CSV............................................................................................................................ 22
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Image-level backups in a Windows Hyper-V Server cluster with SMB........................ 24
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Granular level recovery environment.......................................................................... 28
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Granular level recovery environment.......................................................................... 34
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