A supported directory structure for the successful creation of shadow copies conforms to the following requirements:

In the following illustration, the volume named vm_vol1 is created with a junction point at /hyperv/vm1 on storage virtual machine (SVM) vs1. Subdirectories to contain the virtual machine files are created under the junction point. The virtual machine files of the Hyper-V server are accessed over share1 that has the path /hyperv/vm1/dir1/vmdir. The shadow copy service creates shadow copies of all the virtual machine files that are contained within the directory structure under share1 (up to the configured depth of the shadow copy directory).