The final result of an installation will never be better than the dependent application design and implementation. A common mistake discovered frequently is the misconfiguration of the SQL configurations that the System Center applications depend on. If you provide System Center a poorly configured SQL Server or insufficient resources, you will end up with quite a bad installation of the application that could be part of the services you would like to provision within your modern data center. In the end, a System Center application can never work faster than what the underlying dependent architecture or technology allows.

By proper planning and decent design, you can also provide a scalable scenario for your installation that will make your System Center application applicable for future scenarios.

One important note regarding the upgrade scenario for the System Center Data Protection Manager software is the fact that there is no rollback feature built in. If your upgrade fails...