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Selecting volumes to protect

If you have not done so already, launch the Protect an entire server using a Hyper-V virtual machine workflow.

Select the volumes you want to protect with the target virtual machine. By default, the system volume will be selected.

You can specify the size of the selected volume on the replica virtual machine.

  1. Select the checkbox next to the volume(s) to protect in the Volume table.
  2. In the Storage Controller column, select the type of storage controller for the volume (IDE or SCSI).

Note:

A maximum of three volumes can be attached to an IDE controller. If you are protecting more than three volumes on the source, you will need to install the Hyper-V integration components to acquire a SCSI device. Consult your Hyper-V documentation to determine how to install additional SCSI controllers.

If your source is Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 with no service packs and you have selected a SCSI controller, you will need to manually install the Hyper-V Integration Components after failover to attach these volumes to the replica virtual machine.

  1. If you want to change the size of the selected volume:
  1. Select the volume in the Volume table.
  2. Enter a value in the Size of the selected volume on the replica virtual machine field.

Note:
  • The value entered must be equal to or greater than the Used Space on the source volume.
  • If the size of the virtual disk on the replica is identical to the size of the disk on the source and the source has less than 20 MB of disk space remaining, you may run out of disk space on the replica due to differences in how the virtual disk's block size is formatted. To avoid this issue, create a virtual disk with at least 20 MB more disk space than the amount of data that will be mirrored to it.
  1. Use the drop-down box to select whether the value is in MB or GB.
  2. After you have entered the size for the selected volume, click Update.
  3. Repeat steps a-d to configure the size of additional volumes on the replica virtual machine.
  1. To exclude a path or folder from the protection, type the path to exclude in the Exclude these paths field, then click Add.
  2. To remove a path from being excluded, select the path, then click Remove.
  3. When you are finished selecting the data to protect, click Next.

Next step: Select target machine