Configuring a dedicated backup network
Providing a dedicated backup network for your backup traffic is a sensible strategy. It isolates backup-specific traffic away from other more common production-based traffic in your data center and can often remove dependencies from the production network.
Getting ready
There are a number of prerequisites to enabling a backup network with Microsoft System Center DPM, for example, the availability of a secondary network interface card (NIC), which can be either a physical NIC (pNIC) or a virtual NIC (vNIC: converged network in Hyper-V).
The name resolution can be done either through DNS or the hosts file, since the backup network may not have a DNS server, and this will ensure that you have network connectivity through the backup NIC for both the DPM server and protected servers.
How to do it...
The following steps will guide you through configuring a backup network:
- On your DPM server, from the Windows desktop, right-click on the DPM Management Shell icon...