Alternate deployment for protecting a Hyper-V standalone host

As described in Recommended deployment for protecting a Hyper-V standalone host|tag=Recommended deployment for protecting a Hyper-V standalone 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 you do not want to open the virtualized environment for Portal or vault access, you can install the Management service on a separate Windows server with local network access to the standalone host. The Management service server can be a physical or virtual machine that is on the same domain as the Hyper-V standalone host.

You must install the Host service on the standalone host.

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

Note: The Agent for Microsoft Windows cannot be installed on the standalone host.