Microsoft System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager Cookbook

Key Features

• Solve the day-to-day data protection and recovery problems in your organization
• Adapt to the new modern data center design challenges and improve storage efficiency
• Covers recipes enabling you to independently create your own robust architectural designs

Book Description

System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager (DPM) 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 SC DPM 2016 and it covers the advanced features and functionality of SC DPM 2016.

This book starts by helping you install DPM 2016 and then moves on to post installation and management tasks. You will come across lot of useful recipes that will help you recover your VMware and Hyper-V VMs. It will also walk you through tips for monitoring DPM in different scenarios. Next, the book will also offer insights into protecting windows and non windows workloads followed by best practices on DPM tape management. You will also learn to back up your Azure Stack Infrastructure using Azure Backup. You will also learn about recovering data fro 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.

What you will learn

• Install and prepare SQL Server for DPM Database
• Work with third party tools to duplicate DPM data and apply Update Rollups (UR) to the DPM server
• Understand the prerequisites for supported file server protection
• Integrate DPM with other System Center members to build optimal services
• Protect and restore the Data Protection Manager database
• Provide online protection for your data center by integrating System Center DPM with Azure
• Manually create online recovery points and recover production data from Azure