Merge pull request #269180 from AbhishekMallick-MS/Mar-15-2024-Freshness

Freshness - Hyper-V VM backup

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/backup/back-up-hyper-v-virtual-machines-mabs.md

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 title: Back up Hyper-V virtual machines with MABS
 description: This article contains the procedures for backing up and recovery of virtual machines using Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS).
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 03/01/2023
+ms.date: 03/15/2024
 ms.service: backup
-ms.custom: engagement-fy23
+ms.custom: engagement-fy24
 author: AbhishekMallick-MS
 ms.author: v-abhmallick
 ---
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ The following table lists the prerequisites to back up Hyper-V virtual machines
 |Back up VMs with CSV storage|-   For CSV storage, install the Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) hardware provider on the Hyper-V server. Contact your storage area network (SAN) vendor for the VSS hardware provider.<br />-   If a single node shuts down unexpectedly in a CSV cluster, MABS will perform a consistency check against the virtual machines that were running on that node.<br />-   If you need to restart a Hyper-V server that has BitLocker Drive Encryption enabled on the CSV cluster, you must run a consistency check for Hyper-V virtual machines.|
 |Back up VMs with SMB storage|-   Turn on auto-mount on the server that's running Hyper-V to enable virtual machine protection.<br />   -   Disable TCP Chimney Offload.<br />-   Ensure that all Hyper-V machine$ accounts have full permissions on the specific remote SMB file shares.<br />-   Ensure that the file path for all virtual machine components during recovery to alternate location is fewer than 260 characters. If not, recovery might succeed, but Hyper-V won't be able to mount the virtual machine.<br />-   The following scenarios aren't supported:<br />     Deployments where some components of the virtual machine are on local volumes and some components are on remote volumes; an IPv4 or IPv6 address for storage location file server, and recovery of a virtual machine to a computer that uses remote SMB shares.<br />-   You'll need to enable the File Server VSS Agent service on each SMB server - Add it in **Add roles and features** > **Select server roles** > **File and Storage Services** > **File Services** > **File Service** > **File Server VSS Agent Service**.|
 
-## Back up virtual machines
+## Back up Hyper-V virtual machines
 
 To back up a virtual machine, follow these steps:
 
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ A replica virtual machine is turned off until a failover is initiated, and VSS c
 
 - Migration or failover of the replica virtual machine is in progress
 
-## Recover backed-up virtual machines
+## Recover backed-up Hyper-V virtual machines
 
 When you can recover a backed up virtual machine, you use the Recovery wizard to select the virtual machine and the specific recovery point.