Walk Through of NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup – Installation

Walk Through of NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup – Installation. I have a Hyper-V server 2016 with SCCM, AD servers, and Windows 10 virtual machines. In this post, I will share my experience installing the NAKIVO Hyper-V backup solution.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication supports Microsoft Hyper-V 2016, 2012(R2), and 2012 hypervisors. The installation was straightforward, and it did take less than 5 minutes for me.

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides integration with Microsoft Active Directory. You can easily map Active Directory groups to NAKIVO Backup & Replication user roles.

I plan to cover the BACKUP and RESTORE guide in future blog posts. IE is missing from the recommended browsers list of NAKIVO. I don’t know what the exact reason for the same is. In this post, I will cover the following.

Prerequisites for NAKIVO Microsoft Hyper-V backup How to Install NAKIVO Backup and Replication Solution What is a Transporter? NAKIVO troubleshooting Logs How to Perform NAKIVO Configurations How to Create a New Backup Repository for NAKIVO Hyper-V Video Tutorial of NAKIVO Backup & Replication Installation

Prerequisites for NAKIVO Microsoft Hyper-V backup

  • Full administrative permissions are required
  • Default administrative shares must be enabled on Hyper-V hosts
  • The “File server” role must be enabled on Hyper-V hosts
  • The SMB v1 protocol should be allowed on Hyper-V hosts

NAKIVO Backup & Replication can be installed on the following operating systems.

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (x64)
  • Windows Server 2012 Standard (x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (x64)
  • Windows 10 Professional (x64)
  • Windows 8 Professional (x64)
  • Windows 7 Professional (x64)

NAKIVO Backup & Replication can be accessed from the following Web browsers

  • Google Chrome v26 or later
  • Mozilla Firefox v21 or later

How to Install NAKIVO Backup and Replication Solution

NAKIVO can be installed on Windows, Linux, and NAS. To install NAKIVO Backup & Replication on the Windows platform, run the NAKIVO Backup & Replication installer and click Install. This is explained in the video tutorial here.

NAKIVO has three main components: Director, Transporter, and Backup Repository. When you select FULL Installation, all three parts will automatically get installed. Following are the configuration that I chose for installation.

  • Installation Type:        Full solution
  • Create Repository:        E:\Program Files
  • Installation Path:        C:\Program Files\NAKIVO Backup & Replication
  • Director Web UI port:    4443
  • Transporter Port:         9446
NAKIVO - NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup
NAKIVO – NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup

What is a NAKIVO Transporter?

A Transporter is a service that runs actual backup, replication, and recovery tasks. These components are also responsible for the management of backup repositories. 

Do I Need a Transporter? One transporter called the “Onboard transporter” is already included in your installation. If you run a large environment or have multiple sites, you may need additional transporters.

NAKIVO Logs Location for Troubleshooting

C:\Program Files\NAKIVO Backup & Replication\logs\0

How to Perform NAKIVO Configurations

The configuration steps are General, Inventory, Transporters, Repositories, Events, and Licensing. Inventory and backup repository configurations are the most important settings from my perspective.

Inventory is the place where you add the hypervisor connectivity details and inventory of that infrastructure.

Nakivo Hyper-V Backup
NAKIVO Backup – NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup

I tested the NAKIVO inventory option with Adding Hyper-V Servers to connect my SCCM Hyper-V lab infrastructure with NAKIVO. 

Display Name: Type: select whether you want to add a standalone Hyper-V server Hostname or IP: Specify the hostname or IP address of the Hyper-V server Username and Password: Specify credentials of the Hyper-V server that you want to add to the inventory. The credentials you specify should have full administrative privileges to the Hyper-V server WS MAN port: 5986 – Specify the port number for WS MAN.

How to Create a New Backup Repository for NAKIVO Hyper-V

To create a new Backup Repository, follow the steps below

  1. Click Configuration in the upper right corner of the product.
  2. Go to the Repositories tab and click Add Backup Repository
  3. Click Create a new backup repository
  4. Fill out the fields as described below:
    Name, The target (Assigned transporter), Type (Forever incremental, Incremental with full backups), Location (Local folder on assigned transporter), etc…
  5. To specify advanced options, click More options and perform the following options Storage Savings & Encryption

Video Tutorial of NAKIVO Backup & Replication Installation

Walk Through of NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup – Installation

Reference

https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/

Author

Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…

Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide

Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide? In this post, we will see the details of the Hyper-V backup step-by-step installation and configuration guide. I have to build a hyper-v server 2016 with three VMs.

This is my new SCCM CB lab, and Altaro VM backup has been installed and configured on that server to take backup of my hyper-v VMs.

The restoration process of Hyper-v VMs from Altaro VM Backup will be covered in the future blog post. This blog post will cover the installation, configuration, VM backup, backup retention, and VM backup health check.

I’ve covered the all topics mentioned above in the video tutorial

here

Recently, Altaro released Altaro VM Backup v7 with vSphere 6.5 and Windows Server 2016 support, concurrency update, and the new Cloud Management Console; more details here. They have included other features into the latest version of the Altaro VM backup v7 boot VM from Backup and Augmented Inline Deduplication. The new Unlimited Plus Edition also comes with a new online console.

In general, this version will give you considerably increased backup concurrency per Hypervisor, and added with Altaro’s inline deduplication technology; the user can benefit from huge storage space saving and much better backup speeds.

Altaro_Hyper-V_backup_Solution_3 Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide
Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide

Step1 – Connecting to Hyper-V and Discovering VMS

Hosts – This is the step where the Hyper-v machines have been discovered via Altaro VM backup. I have an SCCM infrastructure setup with this Hyper-V lab. So, Altaro was able to find the 3 VMs as part of the STEP 1 discovery.

STEP 2 – Setting up Backup locations for VM backups

Backup Locations – This is the place where we set up a backup location for each Hyper-V VM. You can provide network location and external hard disk. Setting up a backup site is just easy. Altaro backup automatically discovers the external hard disk or USBs connected to your Hyper-V server. You can drag and drop your VMs to a particular backup location, and that is it!

Altaro_Hyper-V_backup_Solution_Backup_locations Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide
Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide

The scheduling of backup tasks for Hyper-V VMs via Altaro Hyper-V backup is very easy. You can set up a retention policy of Hyper-V VMs backups as per your organizational requirement.

Advanced settings will provide you the options to customize and skip IOS files from Hyper-V VM backups. And if your organization has some encryption requirements while backing up VMs, then Altaro has an out-of-box setting to configure the encryption of VMs.

STEP 3 – Hyper-V VM Backup, Retention Schedules, and Reports

Step 3 is the last stage which I’m going to cover in this post. This is all about taking the backup of Hyper-V VMs using the Altaro backup solution. When you click on the “+” symbol on the right side of your VM and click on the “Take Backup” button, then Altaro will send the instructions to the hypervisor. You can also schedule the Hyper-V VM backups for automation of the backup process.

Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide
Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide

You can also check and verify the backup which has already been completed. Schedule Test Drills and Test – Verify backups options are for automating the validation of Hyper-V VMs backup. There are useful out-of-box reports that will provide you with the details about the Altaro Backup jobs completed.

Retention policies are useful to automate the deletion of old Hyper-V VM backups on a particular schedule. As per my testing, this is very useful to have better storage management.  Check out the video tutorial to know more about Altaro services and file systems. 8 Altaro Services are running on the hyper-v server.

Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide
Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide

Conclusion:-

This post covered installation, configuration, VM backup, backup retention, and VM backup health check. In the later post, I will cover the recovery options of the Altaro VM Backup solution in detail. Overall I had a great user experience with the installation, configuration, and VM backup of Altaro VM Backup. The drag and drop options for VMs are the most favorite option in Altaro VM backup. Stay tuned for the next post restore topic.

Author

Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…