Hi,
we are using an on premise Exchange 2010 installed on a Server 2008 (not R2) VM running on a Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V server.
I understand that there is support for backing up Exchange via the DPM agent and that Server 2008 is supported as a platform. The problem is that during the installation of the DPM agent, it insists on installing Virtual Server 2005. I am not particularly happy about installing a hypervisor on a virtual machine running Exchange.
Is it at all possible to install the DPM agent without Virtual Server 2005? Why would we need it at all? I have noticed that it does not do this on Server 2008 R2. If the recoverey involves mounting a VHD or a virtual machine, we can easily du that outside the Exchage VM on the 2008 R2 Hyper-V server. We are currently using Azure to backup file shares on a physical 2008 R2 server and that works fine, but our Exchange server is currently without a decent backup solution.
Can we use Azure for this or do we have to find another vendor?
Erik