A customer with a large Microsoft Hyper-V environment needs to back up the virtual environment. Many of the customer’s virtual machines use attached iSCSI disks. Which strategy will back up these Microsoft Hyper-V clients?

A customer with a large Microsoft Hyper-V environment needs to back up the virtual environment. Many of the customer’s virtual machines use attached iSCSI disks. Which strategy will back up these Microsoft Hyper-V clients?
A . place an IBM Spectrum Protect client on each VM with iSCSI disks
B . use default configurations of IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
C . only image backups are supported
D . Microsoft Hyper-V clients require a client on each VM for backup

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Answer: A

Explanation:

Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V also does not back up Hyper-V virtual machines with attached iSCSI disks. This is because Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V uses Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)for backup operations and VSS cannot create a snapshot of the iSCSI disks. If you try to back up a virtual machine with attached iSCSI disks, the operation fails.

References:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSERB6_8.1.0/ve.hv/c_ve_hv_limitations.html