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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

Configuring Workload-Aware Storage


Starting with System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager, Microsoft introduced a new feature called Workload-Aware Storage (WAS). With WAS, you can create storage based on performance efficiency to back up designated workloads to specific volumes; thus you will improve DPM performance and reduce I/O requirements. In this recipe, we will show you how to configure Workload-Aware Storage.

Getting ready

Before you start configuring WAS, you need to enable MBS by adding volume(s) as backup disk storage. DPM will automatically format each volume with ReFS. For more information, please check the Enabling Modern Backup Storage (MBS) recipe in this chapter.

How to do it...

After adding the volume to DPM, the next step is to configure WAS; this feature can only be configured using PowerShell. Open a Windows PowerShell session on your DPM server and follow these steps:

  1. Query all disk storage volumes that are attached to DPM using the $vol = Get-DPMDiskStorage -Volumes...