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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide
  3. Windows Server failover cluster support
  4. About virtual machines on Windows 2008, 2012, and 2016 failover clusters
Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide

About virtual machines on Windows 2008, 2012, and 2016 failover clusters

NetBackup support for failover clusters includes the following:

  • NetBackup can use a single policy to back up high availability (HA) and non-HA virtual machines in the cluster.

  • NetBackup can back up a virtual machine even if it migrates to a different node in the cluster.

  • NetBackup can restore the entire virtual machine to a cluster or to any Hyper-V host.

Note:

A NetBackup client must be installed on each node of the cluster.

When restoring a clustered virtual machine to its original location, note the following:

  • The restore destination depends on the following: The virtual machine's HA status at the time of its backup and at the time of restore (if it still exists).

    See Location of the restored virtual machine in a cluster.

  • Virtual machines are always restored to a state of non-high-availability. They can be manually reset for high availability.

  • If the existing virtual machine has a status of highly available at restore time, also note the following:

    • Its cluster resources are deleted during the restore.

    • Its cluster group is not deleted during restore. Removal of the cluster group must be done manually.

      See Virtual machine maintenance after a restore.

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