Since the guest operating system was imaged, the image can be restored to different virtual machines or even restored to hardware, providing more recovery options for the individual virtual machines. The main advantage of the guest level image is that it provides more granularity when restoring if you have several virtual machines on the same host, the guest operating systems can be restored separately to different points in time. This enables the virtual machine to be imaged like any other computer. To do this, Macrium Reflect is installed on the virtual machine itself. The first way to image a Hyper-V virtual machine is at the guest level. We recommend regularly backing up the Hyper-V host and/or the virtual machines to ensure they are protected in the event of the virtual machine failing, or even worse, the host failing! Guest Level

Since a Hyper-V host can have tens or hundreds of virtual machines, there is a substantial point of failure. Each of these methods works slightly differently and has different advantages and disadvantages.

Using Macrium Reflect, there are two ways to image a virtual machine: the guest level and the host level.

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