- Published 6/8/2015
- 1st Edition
Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center, this book helps you optimize your System Center Data Protection Manager environment. It focuses on best practices, design concepts, how-to procedures, and in-depth technical troubleshooting.
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Table of Contents
Introduction vi
Chapter 1: Data protection trends and challenges 1
Data growth trends 1
Data protection scenarios and challenges 2
Emergence of the public cloud 2
Chapter 2: Overview of hybrid cloud backup 5
Cloud design point for backup 5
Azure Backup 7
Microsoft workloads and enterprise client backup 8
Hyper-V virtual machine backup at CPS scale 8
De-duplication of backup storage 9
System Center integration 10
Chapter 3: Protecting Microsoft workloads 11
Basic configuration 11
Adding disks to a DPM storage pool 11
Installing DPM agents 12
Configuring protection groups 13
VSS framework 14
Hyper-V protection 15
Hyper-V backup process 16
Client protection 17
Client data recovery 18
Exchange Server protection 18
SQL Server protection 18
SQL Server backup process 20
Self-service recovery of SQL Server databases 20
SharePoint protection 21
SharePoint backup process 22
SharePoint catalog 23
Scoped consistency check 23
SharePoint recovery 23
Chapter 4: Protecting Azure IaaS workloads 27
Setting up DPM in Azure 27
Creating a new VM for DPM 28
Adding backup storage 29
Installing and configuring DPM and Azure Backup 31
Reviewing the post-deployment architecture 32
Protecting workloads 33
Discovering servers and installing the agent 33
Discovering workloads and creating a Protection Group 34
Workloads and configurations supported for backup 35
Considerations for performance and scale 35
Recommendations for better performance 36
Scaling up vs. scaling out 36
Tiering data to Azure Backup 38
Chapter 5: Protecting Hyper-V virtual machines 39
Customer scenarios and challenges 39
Planning for VM backup 40
What to back up (host level vs. guest level) 40
When to back up 40
Where to back up 41
How to back up 42
How to control costs 43
Protecting Hyper-V VMs 43
Protecting Hyper-V over SOFS 44
Protecting Hyper-V over CSV 46
Continued protection with VM migration 48
Protecting replica VMs 48
Protecting servers in workgroups and untrusted domains 49
Recovering Hyper-V data 50
How to restore a file from a VM 50
How to restore a VM 51
Recommendations 53
Case study: Real-world customer 54
Chapter 6: VMware private cloud protection 55
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Chapter 7: Protecting the Microsoft Cloud Platform System 57
Protecting the management cluster 57
Default protection policy 58
Recovering VMs and databases 60
Recovering from failures of management cluster features 63
Protecting tenant VMs 66
Using DPM servers for tenant backup 67
Adding tenant VMs to backup 67
Recovering tenant VMs 68
Monitoring backups 71
Case study: A real-world CPS customer 72
Chapter 8: Optimizing backup storage 73
Exponential growth in backup storage 73
Containing the cost of backup storage 74
Software approaches to reducing stored backup data 74
Azure Backup 76
Data Protection Manager 76
Using deduplication with DPM 76
High-level deployment architecture and constraints 77
Understanding the backup-deduplication software stack 77
Deduplication benefits: A real-world scenario 78
Chapter 9: Integration with System Center 79
Management and monitoring scenarios and challenges 79
Enterprise reporting capabilities 80
Management and monitoring solutions 81
SLA-based alerts 82
Client Auto Deployment 84
Chapter 10: Integration with Azure Backup 87
Advantages of Azure Backup 87
Backup scenarios 88
Tape replacement 88
Branch office backup 89
Windows client backup 89
Protection of Microsoft Azure assets 89
Getting started with Azure Backup 90
Azure Backup capabilities 91
Expanded workload support 91
Long-term retention 92
Offline seeding of initial replica 94
Chapter 11: Protecting Azure IaaS virtual machines 95
Why back up Azure VMs? 95
Tradeoffs with VM backup 96
Azure Backup vs. on-premises backup 96
How VM backup in Azure works 97
The backup extension 97
Data transfer 98
Learn more 99