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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 Hyper-V protection with DPM


This recipe covers how to configure Hyper-V protection with DPM.

Getting ready

Before you start configuring protection for Hyper-V, you need to make sure that the latest DPM agent is installed on all Hyper-V nodes that will be part of the Hyper-V protection. Please check the Installing the DPM Agents recipe in Chapter 1, Installing and Upgrading DPM.

How to do it...

To configure protection for Hyper-V, take the following steps:

  1. Open the DPM Administrator Console, and go to the Protection workspace. Click on New in the ribbon tab. This will trigger the Create New Protection Group wizard.
  2. In the Select Protection Group Type step, select Servers and click on Next >.
  3. In the Select Group Members step, expand your Hyper-V server(s) and select which virtual machine you want to protect. Click on Next > to continue.
  4. In the Select Data Protection Method step, provide the following information:
    • Protection group name
    • Select the protection method that you want:
      • Short...