This section provides figures to help you locate virtual machines in a clustered setup when executing backups. See the following topics for details:
Clustered VMs in the Navigation pane
Clustered VMs display when you select their host node. However, to protect them, you must select the cluster in the Navigation pane. In the figure below, a cluster node is selected in the Navigation pane, and both clustered and non-clustered VMs display in the list of VMs to Protect. As the message in the figure indicates, you cannot run backups for the clustered VMs in this list from the host node. You must select the cluster.
Non-clustered VMs on a cluster node
Non-clustered VMs hosted on a cluster node do not display when you select the cluster in the Navigation pane. To protect these non-clustered VMs, you must select the host node. In the screen shot below, the VMs EDC_Test, W2K3R264-VM1, and Win8_VM1 reside on the cluster node MDVH12, but they do not display under the cluster HV12-Clus-134-84. This is because the VMs are not clustered. To execute backups for them, you must select the Hyper-V application under the nodeMDVH12.
