Enabling a DPM server to be a secondary DPM server
This recipe will cover how to enable the DPM-DPM-DR scenario, which means enabling the secondary DPM server feature, so that you can build a disaster recovery site for your organization or company.
Getting ready
In the scenario that your datacenter needs additional protection from a disaster recovery scenario, you can provide protection in numerous ways. One way is to provide a secondary DPM site where your production data can be located in the scenario of a disaster of your primary datacenter.
There are two different approaches that a secondary DPM sever could be used for:
- Chaining
- Cycling
The chaining approach is the traditional primary secondary DPM server approach, where the primary DPM server is the dedicated primary protection for all datacenters and locations.
Enabling the secondary protection is a two-step process that consists of the following steps:
- Connecting the secondary DPM server with the primary DPM server
- Choosing what protected...