Configuring a Volume Collection for Hyper-V

The storage volumes containing Hyper-V VMs must be placed in a volume collection. All volumes in a volume collection can be either standalone or CSVs, but not a mixture of both. The volumes can be either ReFS or NTFS formatted. Clustered volumes that are not CSVs are not supported. For those configurations, a VSS Hardware Provider can be used with a third-party backup application. If the volumes in the volume collection are CSVs, the Windows failover cluster IP address should be specified as an application server while configuring the volume collection.

The VSS requester for Hyper-V performs a full or copy backup depending upon the "verify backups" setting in the schedule. A full VSS backup is created if verification is enabled, and a copy backup is created if verification is not enabled.

To set up snapshots for Hyper-V VMs using the VSS Requester, use the application ID option hyperv. For information on how to use this option with array OS, refer to the following topics in the GUI Administration Guide or the CLI Administration Guide:

• Create a Protection Template
• Edit a Protection Template
• Create a Volume Collection
• Modify a Volume Collection