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

NetBackup requirements for Hyper-V Intelligent Policy

Note the following requirements for automatic selection of Hyper-V virtual machines:

  • The system where the NetBackup Administration Console runs must have access to the Hyper-V server.

  • For the policies that back up VMs that reside in a Hyper-V cluster: The NetBackup master server should not be installed on any Hyper-V nodes of the cluster. If the master server resides on one of the nodes, you cannot log on to the NetBackup Administration Console.

    See Unable to log in to the NetBackup Administration Console.

  • If the policy's Primary VM identifier option is set to VM display name, certain special characters are not supported in the name.

    The following characters are supported: ASCII letters a through z (uppercase and lowercase), numbers 0 through 9, hyphen (-), period (.), underscore (_), plus sign (+), left and right parentheses (), spaces.

    If the display name contains unsupported characters, set the Primary VM identifier to VM GUID, or to VM hostname if a host name is available.

  • Refer to the following Veritas document for support information and additional requirements for Hyper-V Intelligent Policy:

    Support for NetBackup in virtual environments

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