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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide
  3. Configure NetBackup policies for Hyper-V
  4. Requirements for a NetBackup client inside the virtual machine
Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide

Requirements for a NetBackup client inside the virtual machine

Although a NetBackup client is required on the Hyper-V server, it is not required in the virtual machine except in the following cases:

  • To back up the individual virtual drives that are inside the virtual machine. For example, the virtual drives that are on vhd (or vhdx) files as though on a physical host.

  • To back up the physical disks that the virtual machine accesses in a pass through configuration.

    To back up disks in a pass through configuration by means of a VSS hardware snapshot provider, an alternate client configuration is required.

    See About Hyper-V pass-through disks with NetBackup.

  • To back up databases or applications using NetBackup agents.

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