VM Protection running on Hyper-V 2012 R2 with DPM 2010

Hi everyone,
We recently setup a new Hyper-V 2012 R2 server hosting virtual machine running with a Win2012 R2 server OS and 2008R2 standard Edition
Our backup solution is still running DPM 2010.
As I understand from the DPM Protection Support Matrix, You can only protect virtual machine running on a hyper-v server under Windows 2012 R2 OS with DPM 2012 R2. Isn't there possible any walkaround to have the vm protection working on dpm2010?
Otherwise, if we choose to protect the VM at guest level instead of host-level, is DPM able to perform the recovery point?
For instance, we've got a VM running a SQL database. We would like specifically to back up that SQL database running on that virtual machine.Is DPM able to perfom that job?
Regards,
Evan

Hi,
To remain in a supported configuration you need to a DPM 2012 R2 server to protect the Windows 2012 R2 hyper-v server. Unfortunately, the path to get there from DPM 2012 is not an easy one.
Upgrade steps.
Note: the Operating system and SQL requirements for DPM 2012
System Requirements for DPM in System Center 2012
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh757757.aspx
1) On DPM 2010 install the latest update: KB2751231 Description of hotfix rollup package 7 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
2) Update the Agents to 3.0.8195.0
3) Backup the DPM 2010 database.
4) Upgrade to DPM 2012 and update agents.
5) Install the latest DPM 2012 update and Update agents.
6) Backup the DPM 2012 database.
7) Upgrade to DPM 2012 Sp1 and update agents.
Note: The Operating system and SQL requirements for DPM 2012 Sp1
System Requirements for DPM in System Center 2012 Sp1
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj651645.aspx
8) Install the latest DPM 2012 Sp1 update and update agents.
KB2904723-Issues that are fixed in System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager SP1 Update Rollup 5
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2904723
KB2904730-Description of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 5
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2904730
9) Continue to DPM 2012 R2..
Note: the Operating system and SQL requirements for DPM 2012 R2.
System Requirements for DPM in System Center 2012 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh758176.aspx
10) Backup the DPM 2012 Sp1 database.
11) Upgrade to DPM 2012 R2 and update agents
12) Install latest DPM 2012 R2 update and update agents.
Else, you could stand up a new dedicated DPM 2012 R2 server from scratch to protect that new server and leave the DPM 2010 as is for current protection.
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What I mean by Applicaton Install is that there's a part of a Deployment Share where you can choose to install applications. A Task which will run at a appropriate time, e.g. Office is installed into our base image at that time. I tried including the Integration
Components before the Office install creating a base image with Office 2013 and the IC.
I also tried to use the base image a create a task for VMs only where no driver what so ever gets installed - it simply installs the base image created and activates Windows and nothing more. That doesn't work either.
The problem in a nutshell is this:
I want to install via MDT/WDS. I don't care if it's a regular machine or a virtual one. Both should work.
I've created several base images (Win7_x86, Win7_x64, Win8_x64 etc.) with Office included and everything has worked fine except when I try and install Windows 8 as a VM.
I must say that I've tweaked around and tried a few things while trying to find the problem so I probably have to test some things again to make sure what I say goes but we've installed both Win7 & Win8 on regular machines without problems but I can't
seem to install a Windows 8 machine via MDT/WDS for some reason as a VM - only on regular PCs.
As tested above installing via ISO works fine and creating a new image didn't help either.
The way I capture an OS is by simply write DoCapture=YES in my Deployment Share Rules section and boot into that Deployment Share (then I get a menu where I can choose to capture the machine and it simply installs the imported Windows ISO via a Standard
Client Task Sequence (where it also installs Office - there's an Application Install section part of the Standard Client Task Sequence).
So really really short; the image I try to install works fine on a regular PC but won't install on Hyper-V.

VM Protection running on Hyper-V 2012 R2 with DPM 2010

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