Recommended deployment for protecting a Hyper-V cluster

To protect a Hyper-V cluster, we recommend the following:

•      Install the Management service on a VM in the cluster, and enable High Availability on the VM.

•      Install the Host service on each host in the cluster. If the Host service is installed on all hosts in the cluster, the Hyper-V Agent Management service automatically distributes the backup processing load across the hosts.

If you do not want to deploy a VM in the cluster for the Management service, see the alternate deployment described in Alternate deployment for protecting a Hyper-V cluster.

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

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