Configuring the protection groups to enable online protection
After you have registered your DPM server with your Azure Backup Vault, you are ready to configure your protected production data. This recipe will cover how to start protecting the workloads present in your datacenter and enable them for online protection.
Getting ready
What's worth mentioning again is that you can place the following workloads in your backup vault:
- SQL
- Hyper-V
- SharePoint
- Client
- Exchange
- File
You can either create a new Protection Group or modify an already configured Protection Group for online protection. In this example, I already have a Protection Group and will show you how to add the online protection for my DPMDB that is a SQL database that is supported for online protection.
How to do it...
The modify wizard for a Protection Group contains a few steps that are specific to online protection. The first one is the Select data protection method step.
To enable the online protection for your protected production...