Avamar Hyper-V Plugin: How to Check for Orphan Hyper-V VM Groups and Checkpoints on a Hyper-V Host

Riepilogo: This article provides a method to determine if there are any Virtual Machine (VM) orphaned groups and checkpoints on a Hyper-V Host.

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During the Avamar Hyper-V Plug-in backups, the VM Collection Groups and VM Recovery Checkpoints are created as part of the process. Upon backup completion, the Groups and Checkpoints are automatically deleted.

Understand that:
  • Occasionally this automatic process may fail the deleted task due to environmental reasons. As a result, VM Groups and VM Recovery Checkpoints are left behind.
  • These orphaned VM Collection Groups and VM Recovery Checkpoints may cause backup failures. The orphaned VM Recovery Checkpoints also consume space on the Hyper-V Storage. 
  • In this scenario, work with your Hyper-V Administrator to remove the orphaned items from the Hyper-V node. Work with Microsoft Support if necessary. 

Steps to identify any orphan VM Groups or VM Checkpoints in the Hyper-V environment:
  1. Check that no backups are running on the hyper-v client. This may be a federated client (for Hyper-V cluster), or a stand-alone client (for Hyper-V Node in a non-clustered environment).
  • Check for any Hyper-V Plugin backup job in "Running" state within the Avamar UI "Activity screen" for the client in question.
  • If there is a backup running, allow it to complete before proceeding with the next step.
  1. On the Hyper-V Node, start the PowerShell as Administrator. Run the following commands:
  • To list all VM Groups on the Node:
Get-VMGroup
 
As per the output below, there is one VM Collection Group named AvamarBackup_win2016-hv-crash-20230411101604-0.
Get VM Group output
  • To list VM Checkpoints for all VMs on the Node:
Get-VM | Get-VMSnapshot
 
As per the below output, there is one Recovery Checkpoint for VM (VMTEST), which was created during Avamar Backup (SnapshotType - Recovery).
Get VM Snapshot output
 
Similarly, a Recovery Checkpoint is shown in Hyper-V Manager:
VM Recovery Checkpoint seen in Hyper-V Manager
  1. In a clustered Hyper-V environment, run the commands above on each Hyper-V Node (member of the cluster). 

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Numero articolo: 000212171
Tipo di articolo: How To
Ultima modifica: 27 mar 2024
Versione:  3
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