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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 VMs with Resilient Change Tracking


This recipe covers how to protect a Hyper-V VM with Resilient Change Tracking (RCT).

Getting ready

Starting with Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced built-in change tracking for Hyper-V virtual hard disks known as RCT. As a result, in the case of a Hyper-V host outage, or VM migration, change tracking is automatically preserved.

System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager or later will take the benefit of this feature when protecting Hyper-V VMs running on Windows Server 2016 with configuration version 8.0 and later.

With RCT, DPM backups benefit as follows:

  • More reliable: Consistency Checks (CC) aren't required after a VM migration
  • Scalable: More parallel backups and less storage overhead
  • Improved performance: Lower impact on the production fabric and faster backup

 

How to do it...

Hyper-V VMs, deployed on Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019 and protected using DPM 2016 or later, have RCT by default. VMs deployed on Windows Server...