Expanding the data center's capabilities is a common scenario in a modern data center, other than reducing or replacing different data center capabilities. Understanding how this impacts the protection provided by the System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 is crucial.
The most common management tasks for a Hyper-V environment are:
Adding nodes to a Hyper-V cluster
Removing nodes from a Hyper-V cluster
Changing the name of a protected virtual machine
When you add a new Hyper-V node to a cluster hosting protected virtual machines, System Center Data Protection Manager raises an alert saying that there is a new node cluster member that needs to have the DPM agent installed.
If you remove a Hyper-V cluster node, DPM raises an alert stating that the server is no longer a member of the cluster.
In the scenario that you need to change a virtual machine's name, you cannot do so without causing interruption to the DPM protection, since System Center Data Protection...