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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 Clustered Shared Volumes


This recipe covers how to protect Hyper-V clusters over CSV.

Getting ready

Hyper-V over CSV (connected by SAN) is the traditional deployment where virtual machines are hosted on a Hyper-V cluster with CSV storage. There is no limit to the number of disks a Hyper-V cluster can be configured to use, which allows much flexibility in designing the storage architecture of Hyper-V clusters. 

How to do it...

For backing up the VMs, the DPM agent should be installed on each cluster node, and you can get reliable backups at scale with the latest version of DPM.

Starting with DPM 2012 R2 and later, there are no more host-level volume snapshots; it calls guest-level VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service inside the VM) to get application-consistent backups. DPM supports express full backups and parallel backups.

Note

Please note that when selecting clustered virtual machines, do not pick virtual machines from individual nodes; instead, point to the cluster...