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Best Practise request: When protecting Exchange running in Hyper-V VM, using DPM 2012 SP1, where does the agent go?

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Is the agent best installed on the Host OS or on the Guest OS to provide the most comprehensive and fine grained Exchange Server recovery options? Please advise for each scenario. Thank you in advance!

Secondly, will Windows Server 2012 R2 change the equation?

Scenario 1

  • DPM
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2012
    Guest OS Windows Server 2012 Standard
    DPM 2012 SP1 using Direct Attached Storage (DAS) via pass through disks
  • Exchange
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
    Guest OS Windows Server 2008 Standard x64
    Exchange 2007 SP3 x64 using DAS via .vhd

Scenario 2

  • DPM
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2012
    Guest OS Windows Server 2012 Standard
    DPM 2012 SP1 using DAS via pass through disks
  • Exchange
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2012
    Guest OS Windows Server 2008 Standard x64
    Exchange 2007 SP3 x64 using DAS via .vhdx
Scenario 3 
  • DPM
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2012
    Guest OS Windows Server 2012 Standard
    DPM 2012 SP1 using DAS via pass through disks
  • Exchange
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2012
    Guest OS Windows Server 2012 Standard
    Exchange 2010 SP3 using DAS via .vhdx

Scenario 4

  • DPM
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2012
    Guest OS Windows Server 2012 Standard
    DPM 2012 R2 using DAS via pass through disks
  • Exchange
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
    Guest OS Windows Server 2008 Standard x64
    Exchange 2007 SP3 x64 using DAS via .vhd
Scenario 5
  • DPM
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2012
    Guest OS Windows Server 2012 Standard
    DPM 2012 R2 using DAS via pass through disks
  • Exchange
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2012
    Guest OS Windows Server 2008 Standard x64
    Exchange 2007 SP3 x64 using DAS via .vhdx
Scenario 6
  • DPM
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2012
    Guest OS Windows Server 2012 Standard
    DPM 2012 R2 using DAS via pass through disks
  • Exchange
    VM running on Host OS Hyper-V Server 2012
    Guest OS Windows Server 2012 Standard
    Exchange 2010 SP3 using DAS via vhdx

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