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Managing Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB configurations

There are certain ONTAP tasks that you can perform to manage Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB configurations.

  • Configuring existing shares for continuous availability
    You can modify existing shares to become continuously available shares that the Hyper-V and SQL Server application servers use to nondisruptively access Hyper-V virtual machine and configuration files and SQL Server database files.
  • Enabling or disabling VSS shadow copies for Hyper-V over SMB backups
    If you use a VSS-aware backup application to back up Hyper-V virtual machine files stored on SMB shares, VSS shadow copy must be enabled. You can disable the VSS shadow copy if you do not use VSS-aware backup applications. The default is to enable the VSS shadow copy.
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