Recommended deployment for protecting a Hyper-V standalone host

To protect a standalone Hyper-V host, we recommend installing both the Management service and Host service on the standalone host.

If you want to minimize performance impact in the environment, or do not want to open the virtualized environment for Portal or vault access, see the alternate deployment method described in Alternate deployment for protecting a Hyper-V standalone host.

For supported platform information, see the Hyper-V Agent release notes.

Note: You cannot install the Agent for Microsoft Windows on the standalone host. The Windows Agent is not compatible with the Host service.