Introduction
Virtualized servers have already surpassed physical servers in terms of the number of their deployed instances, and this is primarily due to the cost savings achieved with server virtualization. With virtualized servers becoming first-class citizens of any modern datacenter today, building a virtualized private cloud is the next step in the cloud computing journey to get all the benefits of the cloud while keeping control within an IT department. Whether the private cloud is built on Hyper-V or VMware, Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) protects both deployments.
This chapter covers the protection and recovery of Hyper-V VMs at the private cloud scale using SCDPM. Different protection configurations that apply to Hyper-V VMs and the different restore options that you can exercise are covered in detail. For protection and recovery of VMware VMs, please checkChapter 11, Protecting VMware VMs.