Understanding the primary/secondary DPM server scenario

This recipe will cover the information needed for you to understand the concepts of a primary and secondary DPM server scenario, also known as DPM-DPM-DR.

Building a disaster recovery design using the DPM-DPM-DR approach needs some initial consideration. The very first thing to check or decide is whether all protected data sources on the primary DPM server should be replicated to the secondary DPM server and whether they will be enabled for disaster recovery.

The most important part here is to understand that there are no best practices—nothing that you can simply download and just apply. Determining what protected workloads should be enabled for a disaster recovery scenario must come from the pre-study and classification process of the services' data dependencies. You must perform a classification that will define the retention time or the level of synchronization or recovery point creation but is also enabled for disaster...