To configure protection for Hyper-V, take the following steps:

1. Open the DPM Administrator Console, and go to the Protection workspace. Click on New in the ribbon tab. This will trigger the Create New Protection Group wizard.
2. In the Select Protection Group Type step, select Servers and click on Next >.
   
3. In the Select Group Members step, expand your Hyper-V server(s) and select which virtual machine you want to protect. Click on Next > to continue.
4. In the Select Data Protection Method step, provide the following information:
   • Protection group name
   • Select the protection method that you want:
     • Short-term protection using Disk
     • Online protection using Microsoft Azure Backup
     • Long-term protection using Tape 
5. Note the following screenshot. For DPM to be able to protect your Hyper-V server workload using Microsoft Azure or Tape, this must be configured before you create or modify the protection group. Select the option(s) that you would like to use and click on Next > to continue:

6. In the Specify Short-Term Goals step, you will specify the retention range, that is, the number of days you would like to keep the protected data in the DPM storage volume. In the Application recovery points section, you can specify when to create a recovery point for the protected Hyper-V data sources. Clicking on Modify… will open a window where you can choose the time of the day and also specific weekdays for recovery point creation. Click on OK to get back to the Select short-term goals step:
   

7. In the Review Disk Storage Allocation step, review the target storage assigned for each data source and change it if needs be. When you are finished with your disk storage allocation, click on Next > to continue:

8. In the Choose replica creation method step, you can define how the DPM server should create the replica of the protected data source. You can create the replica now or you can schedule the creation of the replica. You can also create the replica manually; this is covered in the Creating a replica manually recipe in Chapter 2, DPM Post-Installation and Management Tasks. Click on Next > to continue.

9. In the Choose consistency check options step, you can specify whether DPM should run a consistency check if a replica becomes inconsistent; this is an auto-heal function within the DPM server technology. You can also specify whether you want it to run a daily consistency check, where you set the start time and the maximum number of hours the task should run for. Click on Next > to continue:

10. In the Summary step, review the summary for the protection group and click on the Create Group button to create the protection group:

11. In the Status step, you can see the actual status of the protection group creation.