System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) allows you to protect and recover Hyper-V virtual machines. But before you begin protecting your virtual machines, you need to decide what kind of recoveries you might want to perform, because how you protect your virtual machines depends on how you want to recover them. The following table lists out the various actions you can perform on the virtual machine based on the setup you have.
With Storage Pool Only
With Storage Pool and Tape
Primary DPM Server
Protecting standalone Hyper-V hosts
Protecting clustered Hyper-V hosts
Recovering virtual machine to original host
Recovering virtual machine to alternate host
Recovering a virtual machine to a cluster
Recovering files/folders from host-level backup
Protecting standalone Hyper-V hosts
Protecting clustered Hyper-V hosts
Recovering virtual machine from tape to original host
Recovering virtual machine from tape to alternate host
Recovering virtual machine from tape to failover cluster
Secondary DPM Server
Switching from primary to secondary DPM
Switching back to primary from secondary DPM
Recovering virtual machine to alternate host
Recovering files/folders from host-level backup
Switching from primary to secondary DPM
Switching back to primary from secondary DPM
Recovering virtual machine from tape created by primary DPM server to secondary DPM server
Recovering virtual machine from tape created by secondary DPM server