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Hyper-V Domain Controller and/or SQL Server

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I have a domain controller running on Windows Server 2012 R2 VM hosted on Hyper-V and another Windows Server 2012 R2 machine hosting SQL Server also running on Hyper-V Server 2012 R2. Can I perform backups using the Acronis 12 Hyper-V agent of these machines or do I need the Windows Server Agent? Would the DC and SQL dbs recover properly from an image taken using the Hyper-V agent?

Other than not being able to take file/folder backups what other limitations would I face using the Hyper-V agent over the Server agent? Would I be able to recover just the SQL dbs using the Hyper-V agent or would that require the Server agent?

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Hi Matthew,

With Agent for Hyper-V you will be able to back up both of the VMs (entire VMs) in application-consistent state which is achieved by VSS quiescing of the guest OSes when taking VSS snapshots of the VM data volume from the host side (that's standard agent-less backup for Hyper-V workflow which relies on Hyper-V Integration Services). This means that SQL DB will be in consistent state in such backups + you will be able to perform files/folders recovery from these entire VM backups including SQL DB files. However there will be no ability to automatically truncate the transaction logs in this case, so if you need this functionality you'll have to install Agent for SQL and usual Agent for Windows (they come in pair) inside the guest OS of the 2nd VM with SQL server inside and take backups using this approach which would also allow you to truncate the transaction logs automatically and recover the SQL DBs back to their original location despite extract-only capabilities in case of agent-less backup approach. For the 1st DC VM you can use just agent-less approach without any agents inside.

Thank you.