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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

Installing the DPM Central Console


When you start to scale your Microsoft System Center DPM environment to multiple DPM servers, you will find that it becomes difficult to monitor and manage all your DPM servers individually. This is where the DPM Central Console comes in. The DPM Central Console allows you to manage individual DPM servers from one centralized location.

Getting ready

You can install Microsoft System Center DPM Central Console on a server operating system running Windows Server 2008 R2 or above, or a Windows client operating system running Windows 7 or above. However, you cannot install the Central Console on the DPM server itself. Before you can install the DPM Central Console, you need to have completed the following:

  • You need to have installed the SCOM agent on your DPM server.
  • You need to have imported the required two SCOM Management Packs. We completed this step in the previous Monitoring DPM with SCOM recipe.

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through the...