I found this really cool open source software that I’m currently implementing for a customer remotely. It’s called HVBackup and is of the time of writing in Beta v1. http://hypervbackup.codeplex.com/ Description from their website: The main goal of this project is to provide a very easy and powerful free tool to backup and restore Hyper-V…
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Backup VMs in a Hyper-V Cluster (Core-version)
As far as I know, after some googling I couldn’t find any program that could take backups of Virtual Machines running on Hyper-V Core when the .VHD files were located on a Cluster Shared Storage. If you read my previous post you can probably understand you aren’t able to install any advanced programs in the…
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with Failover Cluster
Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is a free version much like Windows Server 2008 R2 Core, except it comes with the Hyper-V role preconfigured. The only thing you will have to take in consideration before installing such a server is that Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 only comes with a PowerShell/CMD-prompt. So to configure such…