Configuring tape optimization for DPM
This recipe will cover how to optimize tape usage for DPM.
Getting ready
When Microsoft released the 2007 version of System Center Data Protection Manager, a new feature called co-location was introduced. The purpose of co-location was to create a tape optimization scenario where the DPM administrators could store data more efficiently on allocated tapes. The co-location feature was also introduced in the disk allocation methodology regarding Hyper-V, SQL, and client protected data sources that were placed in the DPM disk pool.
In the release of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2, there is more GUI-based configuration for the co-location feature for tape optimization that will be described in this recipe.
How to do it…
To enable long-term co-location for your protected workloads, there are some key points that you should be aware of. The first thing you need to configure is to create new sets of tape optimization by using the GUI and then...
