One of the most important Microsoft workloads present in any modern data center is the SQL Server, on account of the majority of enterprise applications that use its functionality.
With Microsoft SCDPM, you can enable SQL Server protection in various configurations. Typical SQL Server configurations include standalone SQL Server, SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) with Windows Server failover clustering, as well as SQL Server deployed as an AlwaysOn availability group.
In this recipe, we will provide you with the necessary information to protect SQL Server workloads.
You can deploy Microsoft SQL Server in a VM or in a physical machine. In either case, you must install the DPM agent on the SQL Server machine. If SQL Server is deployed in a clustered mode or as a SQL AlwaysOn, then the DPM agent must be installed on all the nodes that are part of the failover cluster for the SQL Server instance. And if you add any node to the cluster...