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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook
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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook: Maximize storage efficiency, performance, and security using System Center LTSC and SAC releases

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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

DPM Post-Installation and Management Tasks

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Using the Data Protection Manager (DPM) UI
  • Enabling Modern Backup Storage (MBS)
  • Configuring DPM agent throttling
  • Optimizing the protection group
  • Working with filters
  • Configuring email notifications
  • Applying Update Rollups (UR) to the DPM server
  • Configuring a dedicated backup network
  • Configuring Workload-Aware Storage
  • Backup Storage Migration
  • Preventing unexpected data loss
  • Creating a manual initial replica
  • Creating custom reports

Introduction

This chapter is designed to provide you with skills and techniques for dealing with post-installation and management tasks for your Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) server. After reading this chapter, you will have the knowledge to carry out common DPM management activities, such as using the DPM console, configuring storage, creating custom reporting, working with SQL self service, and many more tasks.

To follow the recipes in this chapter, you need to have successfully installed Microsoft System Center DPM and also have a second instance of SQL Server that has been prepared for a remote DPM database installation.

Using the DPM UI

The following recipe provides an overview of the Microsoft System Center DPM Administrator Console; it includes a tour of the console, describes the console layout, and explains where you can find the controls for performing general administrative tasks. This recipe also includes an overview of the five task areas of the Administrator Console and their associated functions.

How to do it...

The DPM Administrative Console is the central management tool for DPM. It provides a consolidated interface that gives you immediate access to the MonitoringProtectionRecoveryReporting, and Management task areas. The task areas themselves are a set of logically related...

Enabling Modern Backup Storage (MBS)

Starting with Microsoft System Center 2016 DPM, Microsoft introduced a new feature called Modern Backup Storage (MBS). MBS is supported when DPM is installed on Windows Server 2016 or later. MBS helps to reduce the overall backup storage space, and Microsoft claims this is by a factor of around 50%. It also reduces the amount of I/O and the load placed on the backup server by using Resilient File System (ReFS) technology, which is available in Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019.

To be able to configure Modern Backup Storage, you will need to have some primordial storage (unallocated storage capacity) available and connected to the DPM server that you are currently managing.

Getting ready

...

Configuring DPM agent throttling

Configuring DPM agent throttling in Microsoft System Center DPM allows you to restrict the amount of network bandwidth consumed by DPM during the execution of a backup synchronization job. Managing network bandwidth helps to ensure that DPM is not using all the available bandwidth and there is sufficient bandwidth available to support other applications. However, there is an impact when you start to manage bandwidth usage and that is that the backup synchronization jobs themselves will take longer to execute. 

Getting ready

Microsoft System Center DPM manages network bandwidth at the agent level. When managing network bandwidth usage, start to think about limiting the...

Optimizing the protection group

Optimizing the protection group in Microsoft System Center DPM allows you to reduce the amount of data being transferred over the wire during replica creation, backup synchronization, consistency check operations, and recovery jobs, through the use of compression. This has the advantage of allowing more data throughput with less overall impact to your network's performance. However, enabling this option will add additional CPU load to both your DPM server and the server you are protecting.

Getting ready

Compression is enabled at the protection group level and here you can define what the backup settings are for your protected data source. To be able to optimize your protection group...

Working with filters

Filters in Microsoft System Center DPM allow you to query the result of jobs executed or scheduled in a number of varying ways. Filters are simply SQL queries that present the results of the fetched data to the DPM Admin Console. You can also go ahead and define your own custom filters, and these results appear under the custom filters option in the Action pane of the Admin Console.

Getting ready

You can filter jobs by using the following criteria by default:

  • All jobs
  • All jobs in progress
  • Failed jobs for yesterday and today
  • Today's jobs

How to do it...

...

Configuring email notifications

You can configure Microsoft System Center DPM to subscribe to notifications and reports via email. If you decide to enable either of these features, you will need to configure a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server that you want DPM to use to send email.

Getting ready

You can subscribe to alert notifications and to reports by email. If you plan to enable either of these features, do the following:

  1. Set up the SMTP server
  2. Subscribe to email notifications

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through how to configure...

Applying Update Rollups (UR) to the DPM server

Applying updates to your Microsoft System Center DPM server is important: updates keep your DPM server and any protected servers up to date. You may have a preferred mechanism for deploying updates; however, DPM updates are automatically available through Microsoft Update.

Getting ready

Microsoft System Center DPM updates for Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) are available through Microsoft Update. Microsoft Update delivers these updates from the Microsoft Update Catalog, which is a repository for Microsoft software updates that is managed and maintained by Microsoft. You can download these updates automatically or manually from the following link: https://www.catalog.update...

Introduction


This chapter is designed to provide you with skills and techniques for dealing with post-installation and management tasks for your Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) server. After reading this chapter, you will have the knowledge to carry out common DPM management activities, such as using the DPM console, configuring storage, creating custom reporting, working with SQL self service, and many more tasks.

 

Note

To follow the recipes in this chapter, you need to have successfully installed Microsoft System Center DPM and also have a second instance of SQL Server that has been prepared for a remote DPM database installation.

Using the DPM UI


The following recipe provides an overview of the Microsoft System Center DPM Administrator Console; it includes a tour of the console, describes the console layout, and explains where you can find the controls for performing general administrative tasks. This recipe also includes an overview of the five task areas of the Administrator Console and their associated functions.

How to do it...

The DPM Administrative Console is the central management tool for DPM. It provides a consolidated interface that gives you immediate access to the MonitoringProtectionRecoveryReporting, and Management task areas. The task areas themselves are a set of logically related functions and actions that have been grouped together in the Administrator Console. Each task area consists of two panes: the display pane, which is unlabeled, and the details pane. The following steps will guide you through the layout and usage of the DPM Administrative Console:

  1. From the Start screen, select the Microsoft...

Enabling Modern Backup Storage (MBS)


Starting with Microsoft System Center 2016 DPM, Microsoft introduced a new feature called Modern Backup Storage (MBS). MBS is supported when DPM is installed on Windows Server 2016 or later. MBS helps to reduce the overall backup storage space, and Microsoft claims this is by a factor of around 50%. It also reduces the amount of I/O and the load placed on the backup server by using Resilient File System (ReFS) technology, which is available in Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019.

Note

To be able to configure Modern Backup Storage, you will need to have some primordial storage (unallocated storage capacity) available and connected to the DPM server that you are currently managing.

Getting ready

Microsoft System Center DPM uses, by default, the new backup option, Modern Backup Storage. Once a volume is added in the Admin Console, DPM will automatically format that volume with the ReFS. There are four steps to setting up MBS:

  1. Provide a new storage pool...

Configuring DPM agent throttling


Configuring DPM agent throttling in Microsoft System Center DPM allows you to restrict the amount of network bandwidth consumed by DPM during the execution of a backup synchronization job. Managing network bandwidth helps to ensure that DPM is not using all the available bandwidth and there is sufficient bandwidth available to support other applications. However, there is an impact when you start to manage bandwidth usage and that is that the backup synchronization jobs themselves will take longer to execute. 

Getting ready

Microsoft System Center DPM manages network bandwidth at the agent level. When managing network bandwidth usage, start to think about limiting the amount of bandwidth used, in terms of the maximum amount of data to be transferred on a per-second basis. To be able to enable network bandwidth throttling, you must have the DPM protection agent deployed.

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through configuring network bandwidth throttling...

Optimizing the protection group


Optimizing the protection group in Microsoft System Center DPM allows you to reduce the amount of data being transferred over the wire during replica creation, backup synchronization, consistency check operations, and recovery jobs, through the use of compression. This has the advantage of allowing more data throughput with less overall impact to your network's performance. However, enabling this option will add additional CPU load to both your DPM server and the server you are protecting.

Getting ready

Compression is enabled at the protection group level and here you can define what the backup settings are for your protected data source. To be able to optimize your protection group, you must have a protection group defined.

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through how to optimize the protection group:

  1. From the Start screen, select Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. The DPM Administrator Console loads and the Monitoring task area...

Working with filters


Filters in Microsoft System Center DPM allow you to query the result of jobs executed or scheduled in a number of varying ways. Filters are simply SQL queries that present the results of the fetched data to the DPM Admin Console. You can also go ahead and define your own custom filters, and these results appear under the custom filters option in the Action pane of the Admin Console.

Getting ready

You can filter jobs by using the following criteria by default:

  • All jobs
  • All jobs in progress
  • Failed jobs for yesterday and today
  • Today's jobs

 

 

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through how to use the default filters and build your own custom filters:

  1. From the Start screen, select Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. The DPM Administrator Console loads and the Monitoring task area is highlighted.
  2. Select the Monitoring task area. Select one of the default filters in the Action pane to retrieve the associated data:
  1. To create a custom filter, click the Create...
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Key benefits

  • Adapt to the modern data center design challenges and improve storage efficiency
  • Effective recipes to help you create your own robust architectural designs
  • Solve data protection and recovery problems in your organization

Description

System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to your BCDR strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data. With an increase in data recovery and protection problems faced in organizations, it has become important to keep data safe and recoverable. This book contains recipes that will help you upgrade to SCDPM and it covers the advanced features and functionality of SCDPM. This book starts by helping you install SCDPM and then moves on to post-installation and management tasks. You will come across a lot of useful recipes that will help you recover your VMware and Hyper-V VMs. It will also walk you through tips for monitoring SCDPM in different scenarios. Next, the book will also offer insights into protecting windows workloads followed by best practices on SCDPM. You will also learn to back up your Azure Stack Infrastructure using Azure Backup. You will also learn about recovering data from backup and implementing disaster recovery. Finally, the book will show you how to configure the protection groups to enable online protection and troubleshoot Microsoft Azure Backup Agent.

Who is this book for?

If you are an SCDPM administrator, this book will help you verify your knowledge and provide you with everything you need to know about the new release of System Center Data Protection Manager.

What you will learn

  • Install and prepare SQL Server for the SCDPM database
  • Reduce backup storage with SCDPM and data deduplication
  • Learn about the prerequisites for supported Hyper-V Server protection
  • Integrate SCDPM with other System Center products to build optimal services
  • Protect and restore the SCDPM database
  • Protect your data center by integrating SCDPM with Azure Backup
  • Manually create online recovery points and recover production data from Azure
  • Protect and learn about the requirements to recover Azure Stack with SCDPM
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Installing and Upgrading DPM Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
DPM Post-Installation and Management Tasks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Protecting Hyper-V VMs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Monitoring DPM and Configuring Role-Based Access Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Protecting Microsoft Workloads with DPM Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Securing Windows Client with DPM Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Protecting Microsoft Azure Stack with DPM Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Protecting Workgroups and Untrusted Domains Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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