# Hyper-V

You can use the Commvault software to back up and restore VMs that are hosted on a Hyper-V cluster or a standalone Hyper-V server. You can configure a hypervisor to represent a Hyper-V cluster, a Hyper-V server in a cluster, or a standalone Hyper-V server.

## Backups

### Data You Can Back Up

- Hyper-V VMs (powered on or powered off)

- VHD, VHDX, and VHDS files

- Snapshot files

- Shared Disks (Streaming Backup)

- Configuration files for the VMs

- Metadata required for granular recovery of files (NTFS and ext3 volumes only)

- VHDX formatted hard disks with sector size of 4K bytes without metadata

- VMs that are configured with Hyper-V Replica

  Before performing an in-place restore of VMs configured with Hyper-V Replica, disable replication on the Hyper-V host. After restoring the VMs, you can re-enable replication.

### Data You Cannot Back Up

- Pass-through disks

- Hard links (only for disk-level backup)

- Virtual machine smart paging files

- Certain virtual machines in which Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) fails to create a shadow

- Devices residing in a guest virtual machine over iSCSI or vHBA

- Page and swap files (Hyper-V Integration Services must be installed on guest VMs)

- VM folders with compression enabled

  When a virtual machine resides on a VM folder that has compression enabled, backups of that virtual machine fail. However, manual snapshots of the virtual machine complete.

### Backups You Can Perform

- Full backups

- Incremental backups

- Synthetic full backups

- Streaming backups

- IntelliSnap backups

- Backup copy

- Application-aware backups

### When You Can Perform Backups

- On a schedule: The backup plan that you assign manages scheduled backups

- On demand: You can perform on-demand backups at any time

## Restores

### Restores You Can Perform

- Guest files and folders

- Full virtual machines

- Disk files

- Live Recovery

- Live Mount

### Backups You Can Use for Restores

- The most recent backup: For example, restore the most recent backup to its original location

- A backup from a specific date: For example, restore data to a point in time before it became unusable

- Backups from a date range: For example, restore data that was accidentally deleted

### Destinations You Can Restore To

- Hyper-V hypervisors

- AWS instances

- Azure destinations

- VMware destinations

- Azure Stack Hub destinations

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