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IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V software provides several components to assist with protecting your virtual machines. As a result, multiple documentation resources are provided to assist with specific tasks.

Table 1. Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V documentation resources
Documentation Contents Location
IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V Installation and User's Guide Overview information, strategy planning, installation, configuration, back up and restore scenarios, and command-line reference.

IBM® Documentation at https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSERB6/landing/welcome_sserb6.html
Online help for the Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V Management Console GUI Back up and restore tasks related to Hyper-V guest virtual machines, configuration, backup management, and backup monitoring. Start the Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V Management Console using either of the following methods:
  • On the Windows system, click Start > IBM Storage Protect > DP for Hyper-V Management Console.
  • Open an Administrator command prompt window and enter the following command:

    "C:\Program Files\IBM\StorageProtect\DPHyperV\DpHv.msc"

Access the help using either of the following methods:
  • In the main page of the Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V Management Console, click the links in the Getting Started section.
  • In the menu bar, click Help > Help on Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V.
Online help for the IBM Storage Protect file restore interface Restore individual files and folders from a VM backup. Start the file restore interface with the URL that is provided by the file restore administrator.

Access the help by clicking Help > Product documentation.
Online help for the data mover command-line client Back up and restore tasks related to Hyper-V guest virtual machines. Start the data mover command-line client by using either of the following methods:
  • On the Windows system, go to Start > IBM Storage Protect > Backup-Archive Command Line.
  • Open an Administrator command prompt window and change to the backup-archive client installation directory ( cd "C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\baclient"). Run dsmc.exe.
Access the help by using either of the following methods:
  • After you start the command-line client, at the Protect> prompt, enter help to display the table of contents for the help.
  • To display the help in its own window, open an Administrator command prompt window and change to the backup-archive client installation directory (cd "C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\baclient").

    Run dsmc.exe help to display the help table of contents. You can also append a topic title to the command to display help for a topic. For example, dsmc help options displays the help topic that describes how to use client options; dsmc help backup vm displays the help for the backup vm command.