I was playing around with few third-party VM backup solutions, all of which (except one, which don’t support shared storage for VM) require clustered VMs to be in VMGroup. Seems like an easy task – if your VM Host is not clustered.

I am running two node Hyper-V cluster based on WS2022 Core with CSVs based on S2D. I wanted to make all core services clustered too, however each vm backup solution out there hisses at me for shared storage. So I tried creating VM group:

> new-vmgroup -Name test -GroupType VMCollectionType
new-vmgroup : The operation failed because the file was not found.
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (:) [New-VMGroup], VirtualizationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ObjectNotFound,Microsoft.HyperV.PowerShell.Commands.NewVMGroup

Well, it does not look successful to me. Online docs are not exhausting on this topic, search engines are linking to dead or scam sites and none AI assistant could not resolve my issue.

I have tried creating group on a node with cluster service disabled (I took it down for test) and it worked, I could also remove it afterwards. However with cluster service online – I cannot proceed.

It certainly defies any benefit of clustering. Unfortunately, using only Windows Backup is not an option – I have to provide “quick and easy” way for less technical helpdesk specialists to browse through backups, restore files and track changes. 

​I was playing around with few third-party VM backup solutions, all of which (except one, which don’t support shared storage for VM) require clustered VMs to be in VMGroup. Seems like an easy task – if your VM Host is not clustered.I am running two node Hyper-V cluster based on WS2022 Core with CSVs based on S2D. I wanted to make all core services clustered too, however each vm backup solution out there hisses at me for shared storage. So I tried creating VM group: > new-vmgroup -Name test -GroupType VMCollectionType
new-vmgroup : The operation failed because the file was not found.
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (:) [New-VMGroup], VirtualizationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ObjectNotFound,Microsoft.HyperV.PowerShell.Commands.NewVMGroup  Well, it does not look successful to me. Online docs are not exhausting on this topic, search engines are linking to dead or scam sites and none AI assistant could not resolve my issue.I have tried creating group on a node with cluster service disabled (I took it down for test) and it worked, I could also remove it afterwards. However with cluster service online – I cannot proceed.It certainly defies any benefit of clustering. Unfortunately, using only Windows Backup is not an option – I have to provide “quick and easy” way for less technical helpdesk specialists to browse through backups, restore files and track changes.   Read More

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