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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds

Overview of this book

System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to your BCDR strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data. With an increase in data recovery and protection problems faced in organizations, it has become important to keep data safe and recoverable. This book contains recipes that will help you upgrade to SCDPM and it covers the advanced features and functionality of SCDPM. This book starts by helping you install SCDPM and then moves on to post-installation and management tasks. You will come across a lot of useful recipes that will help you recover your VMware and Hyper-V VMs. It will also walk you through tips for monitoring SCDPM in different scenarios. Next, the book will also offer insights into protecting windows workloads followed by best practices on SCDPM. You will also learn to back up your Azure Stack Infrastructure using Azure Backup. You will also learn about recovering data from backup and implementing disaster recovery. Finally, the book will show you how to configure the protection groups to enable online protection and troubleshoot Microsoft Azure Backup Agent.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Protecting Hyper-V clusters over SMB and Hyper-V replica


This recipe covers how to protect a Hyper-V cluster over SMB and Hyper-V replica.

Getting ready

Hyper-V over Storage Spaces Direct clusters, and ReFS-based SOFS clusters, enable cost-effective, highly available, scalable, and flexible storage solutions for business-critical virtual deployments. They leverage industry-standard commodity servers and allow you to use Windows Server 2019 for highly available software-defined storage that can cost-effectively grow on demand.

How to do it...

DPM protects Hyper-V VMs that use Storage Spaces Direct, including the backup of VMs using Storage Spaces Direct hyper-converged scenarios with the Hyper-V (compute) and Storage Spaces Direct (storage) components on the same cluster.

To protect VMs on SOFS clusters, there are some considerations that you need to be aware of, such as adding the machine accounts to the backup operator groups and share permissions.

To add the machine accounts to the backup operator...