Enabling DPM for scale-out Hyper-V protection

This recipe covers how to set up protection for a large-scale Hyper-V environment.

Getting ready

Starting with DPM 2012 SP1 and later, the DPM team introduced a new feature called Scale-Out Protection that makes it possible to protect large Hyper-V cluster environments. This is especially useful if you have a large cluster with more than 800 virtual machines.

In this scenario, you need multiple DPM servers to protect a large number of VMs. Therefore, DPM scale-out capability removes the limit of a one-to-one relationship between a Hyper-V cluster and a DPM server; the DPM protection agent that runs on the Hyper-V host can attach itself to multiple DPM servers. Thus, you can add...