This article discusses how to install Altaro Hyper-V host agent. Troubleshoot the fact that the Hyper-V host agent has not been installed. The below steps will fix the error, failed to install and configure the Altaro Hyper-V host agent. I will show you how to manually install the Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent.
Setup The Microsoft Hyper-V host agent has not been set up successfully. Please note that .NET Framework is required for setup.
Hyper-V Host Agent Altaro Deployment Troubleshooting
This article is designed to help you with common issues/failures that may happen when automatically deploying the Hyper-V Host agents through the Altaro Management Console. Here you can find a list of common failures when we install the Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent, and how to fix each failure.
The Hyper-V host machine should have the full .NET 4.7.2 installation
Altaro VM Backup requires .NET Framework 4.7.2 to be installed on each host machine. Make sure .NET Framework is installed, if not, you can find the installation by following the link How to Download and Install .NET Framework.
The Hyper-V host system and Altaro server have a time offset.
Correct the time and time zone of both the Hyper-V host and Altaro VM backup server.
To manually install the Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent on the Hyper-V Host, please follow the below steps.
Installing Altaro VM Backup
To download the Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent installer, visit the Altaro Website.
Copy the downloaded Altarovmbackupsetup_hostagent file over to the Hyper-V Host system that you wish to backup.
Install Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent
Launch the setup file to install the Altaro Hyper-V host agent.
Altaro VM backup setup Welcome screen of the installer, click next.
Accept the license, and then click Next.
Altaro VM Backup will be installed in the Program Files folder, click next.
Ready to install the Hyper-V host agent, Click Install.
Once the Altaro Hyper-V host agent installation is done, you will see the successful installation screen.
Once the Altaro host agent is installed, go back to the machine running Altaro Hyper-V Backup, open the Altaro Management Console, and then go to the host screen
Under Hyper-V host agent, click on the install button and then enter administrator credentials. The Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent application will be detected immediately.
Preparing to install the Hyper-V host agent.
Finally, the Altaro Hyper-V host agent is installed and running.
