Host-based backup of Microsoft Hyper-V VMs.
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Veeam on Hype-V enabled host

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I have two standalone hyper-v host and 8 VM's running on it. I have use veeam and its really too good for backing up virtual machines. can any one please tell me i needed to install veeam on hyper-v host. for backup i don't have any NAS SAN or CSV.
i have used local disk to store VM's and my all vms are 993GB i wan to backup them on Portable HDD. can i use extreme zip for that is this recommended for production
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Setting compression to Extreme level will literally put extremely high load on your host, however will allow to save only about 2%-3% of space at the expense of double CPU load. I do not recommend to do this if your production host acts as the proxy server for the backups.
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thanks for quick reply. also i have just start my test machine to check actual load using Extreme level. i have configure 3 vms in hyper-v. when i started backup only 2 machine are getting backup 3rd is showing pending. also i am getting below warning in action pane "10/10/2013 3:57:55 PM :: Guest processing skipped (check guest OS VSS state and integration components version)" Can you please let me know what is the exact issue is i'am missing something to configure.
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Do you have any errors reported in the Windows Event Log; similar to the ones mentioned in the adjacent thread? Thanks.
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Ray, what Veeam B&R and Hyper-V versions are you running?
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@ v.Eremin. No i don't have saw any logs in event viewer.

@ foggy. I'am using B&R version 7.0.
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Is there a chance that this VM has dynamic disk? Is it up and running during backup?
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Yes. all VM are configured with dynamic disk and all VM's are up and running.
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If the VM guest OS has dynamic disks, it can be backed up using saved state only, so this warning, this is expected.
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Ok. but i have tried with one more guest with same settings and i don't receive any error or warning.
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Well, are you probably talking about virtual dynamic disks, not guest OS dynamic disks then?

This warning could also be caused by Hyper-V Integration Services failure, you can contact technical support to identify the actual reason of this behavior. I would also check permissions for the guest OS and Integration Services version.
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Yes. i have created dynamically expanding disks for guests.
what is "10/10/2013 4:50:04 PM :: Resource not ready: Hyper-V backup proxy" message.
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I encourage you to open a case regarding the observed behavior. Also, it would be much appreciated if you could update the thread with the case ID for reference.
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Ok... i will open ticket in i need to check on more thing i have just restarted my server and guests and now i am again going to launch backup again if i get error again then i will sure open ticket for same.
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