Primary VM identifier option (Hyper-V) ........................................ 43
Enable offline backup of non-VSS VMs (Hyper-V with VSS) ............ 44
Cluster shared volumes timeout (Hyper-V with VSS) ...................... 45
Hyper-V - Advanced Attributes ........................................................ 46
Provider Type configuration parameter (VSS) ............................... 46
Snapshot Attribute configuration parameter (VSS) ......................... 47
Virtual disk selection parameter (WMI) ........................................ 47
Existing snapshot handling parameter (WMI) ............................... 48
Consistency level parameter (WMI) ............................................ 48
About the Exclude disk options for Virtual disk selection ................. 49
Virtual disk selection options: an example to avoid ........................ 51
Restoring data from the backups that excluded the boot disk or
data disks ....................................................................... 51
Browse for Hyper-V virtual machines ................................................ 51
About cached names for virtual machine backup ........................... 52
Prerequisites for alternate client backup of a virtual machine
(VSS) ................................................................................... 53
Configuring alternate client backup of virtual machines ......................... 53
Requirements for a NetBackup client inside the virtual machine ............. 55
Chapter 5 Configure Hyper-V Intelligent Policies ........................ 56
About Hyper-V Intelligent Policy (automatic selection of virtual machines
for backup) ............................................................................ 57
The basics of a NetBackup query rule ............................................... 58
Important notes on Hyper-V Intelligent Policy ..................................... 59
NetBackup requirements for Hyper-V Intelligent Policy ......................... 61
Setting up Hyper-V Intelligent Policy: Task overview ............................ 62
Options for selecting Hyper-V virtual machines ................................... 63
Creating a Hyper-V policy for automatic virtual machine selection ........... 65
Editing a query in Basic Mode ......................................................... 70
Using the Query Builder in Advanced Mode ....................................... 70
AND vs. OR in queries .................................................................. 71
Examples for the NetBackup Query Builder ....................................... 72
The IsSet operator in queries .......................................................... 74
About selecting virtual machines by means of multiple policies .............. 75
Order of operations in queries (precedence rules) ............................... 76
Parentheses in compound queries ................................................... 78
Query rules for virtual machine Notes that contain a newline
character .............................................................................. 78
Query Builder field reference .......................................................... 80
Test Query screen for Hyper-V ........................................................ 88
Test Query: Failed virtual machines .................................................. 89
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