Many companies incorporate Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized servers into their data backup environments. But backing up Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized servers involves different steps than the familiar VMware servers. Hyper-V can be backed up with either agent or host-based approaches, and there are specific things you need to enable in Hyper-V, such as Volume Shadow Copy Service and Hyper-V integration services to ensure acceptable performance of the data backups.

This comprehensive podcast discusses the challenges of backing up Hyper-V virtualized servers.