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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

Introduction


This chapter is designed to provide you with the skills and techniques for dealing with the post-deployment monitoring and management tasks of your Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) server. After reading this chapter, you will have the knowledge to carry out common DPM monitoring and management activities, such as monitoring DPM with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), monitoring DPM using native tooling, using the DPM Central Console, configuring and using role-based access control, and many more tasks.

 

Note

To follow the recipes in this chapter, you need to have successfully installed Microsoft SCOM within your environment. For more information on how to deploy SCOM, please refer to the following article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/deploy-overview.