To protect the VMs running on the HLH, Dell Technologies recommends that you take a regular backup of the VMs using the Export-VM command function of Windows Server Hyper-V.
Note: The following steps describe how to do the backup manually. However, backing up the VMs is in the Dell Patch and Update Automation Tool, which creates a scheduled task that runs these steps automatically.
Protect your Azure Stack Hub Infrastructure by protecting the VMs that are running on the HLH. You can do the backup in several ways, but Dell Technologies recommends that you use the tools that Microsoft provides.
To back up the VMs manually:
- Using either a Windows System or a Dell Technologies data protection product, create an SMB file share in which to back up the VMs. The SMB file share for this example is \\10.128.8.126\Backups.
- To export the DellEMC-MGMTVM to the SMB file share, run the following command:
Get-VM | Export-VM -Path "\\<SMB_TARGET>\<SMB_PATH>"
The copied files on the SMB file share are now ready to be backed up.
Note: As part of this step, consider creating a password-protected ZIP file to protect against unauthorized access to the data.