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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook Maximize storage efficiency, performance, and security using System Center LTSC and SAC releases

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787289284
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Upgrading DPM FREE CHAPTER 2. DPM Post-Installation and Management Tasks 3. Protecting Hyper-V VMs 4. Monitoring DPM and Configuring Role-Based Access 5. Protecting Microsoft Workloads with DPM 6. Securing Windows Client with DPM 7. Protecting Microsoft Azure Stack with DPM 8. Protecting Workgroups and Untrusted Domains 9. Recovering Data from Backup 10. Integrating DPM with Azure Backup 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Protecting Hyper-V VMs with Resilient Change Tracking


This recipe covers how to protect a Hyper-V VM with Resilient Change Tracking (RCT).

Getting ready

Starting with Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced built-in change tracking for Hyper-V virtual hard disks known as RCT. As a result, in the case of a Hyper-V host outage, or VM migration, change tracking is automatically preserved.

System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager or later will take the benefit of this feature when protecting Hyper-V VMs running on Windows Server 2016 with configuration version 8.0 and later.

With RCT, DPM backups benefit as follows:

  • More reliable: Consistency Checks (CC) aren't required after a VM migration
  • Scalable: More parallel backups and less storage overhead
  • Improved performance: Lower impact on the production fabric and faster backup

 

How to do it...

Hyper-V VMs, deployed on Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019 and protected using DPM 2016 or later, have RCT by default. VMs deployed on Windows Server...

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