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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

Enabling DPM for scale-out Hyper-V protection


This recipe covers how to set up protection for a large-scale Hyper-V environment.

Getting ready

Starting with DPM 2012 SP1 and later, the DPM team introduced a new feature called Scale-Out Protection that makes it possible to protect large Hyper-V cluster environments. This is especially useful if you have a large cluster with more than 800 virtual machines.

In this scenario, you need multiple DPM servers to protect a large number of VMs. Therefore, DPM scale-out capability removes the limit of a one-to-one relationship between a Hyper-V cluster and a DPM server; the DPM protection agent that runs on the Hyper-V host can attach itself to multiple DPM servers. Thus, you can add the virtual machine to a protection group on any of the recognized DPM servers.

How to do it...

When leveraging Scale-Out Protection, the DPM agent needs to be installed on the Hyper-V server, or on each server in the Hyper-V cluster. Then, you need to useSetdpmserver from...