Introduction

From a modern perspective, a majority of the companies using or provisioning any services should be considered as service providers for other companies. Regardless of whether the company is a hosting company or not, IT must consider this and approach of the new data center that is building services, which they will provide, instead of virtual machines.

With this in mind, the content of this chapter will provide you with the basics regarding a private cloud protection, in terms of what to consider and how to setup DPM as the primary protection for the virtualization that the Microsoft Hyper-V platform provides. Specifically, we will cover how to set up an optimal Hyper-V protection for virtual machine protection. We will also cover the different restore scenarios and also some important configurations regarding protecting large scale implementations.