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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide
  3. Configure Hyper-V Intelligent Policies
Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide

Configure Hyper-V Intelligent Policies

This section includes the following topics:
  • About Hyper-V Intelligent Policy (automatic selection of virtual machines for backup)

  • The basics of a NetBackup query rule

  • Important notes on Hyper-V Intelligent Policy

  • NetBackup requirements for Hyper-V Intelligent Policy

  • Setting up Hyper-V Intelligent Policy: Task overview

  • Options for selecting Hyper-V virtual machines

  • Creating a Hyper-V policy for automatic virtual machine selection

  • Editing a query in Basic Mode

  • Using the Query Builder in Advanced Mode

  • AND vs. OR in queries

  • Examples for the NetBackup Query Builder

  • The IsSet operator in queries

  • About selecting virtual machines by means of multiple policies

  • Order of operations in queries (precedence rules)

  • Parentheses in compound queries

  • Query rules for virtual machine Notes that contain a newline character

  • Query Builder field reference

  • Test Query screen for Hyper-V

  • Test Query: Failed virtual machines

  • Effect of Primary VM identifier parameter on Selection column in Test Query results

  • Effect of Primary VM identifier parameter on VM Name column in Test query results

  • Restoring a VM that was backed up with a Hyper-V Intelligent Policy and that has a pass-through disk

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