Implement backup and recovery

Although it is likely that the fabric upon which you are running your private cloud is highly redundant, with VMs hosted on failover clusters that use redundant storage and network resources, it’s still important to ensure that you regularly back up important workloads. This is because while redundant resources minimize the chance that you’ll lose important data to hardware failure, it’s still possible to lose data due to data corruption, malware, or an administrator making an unforced error.

This section covers the following topics:

  Understanding Data Protection Manager

  Deploying DPM agents

  Configuring DPM storage

  Creating DPM protection groups

  Performing recovery

  Integrating Microsoft Azure Online Backup

  Using DPM Orchestrator integration pack

Summary:

• DPM requires agents to be deployed to servers that host data requiring protection.
• You need to add disks to a DPM storage pool before you can configure a protection group.
• DPM protection groups determine what is backed up, to where it is backed up, how often it is backed up, and how long it will remain backed up.
• You can integrate DPM with Microsoft Azure, allowing you to store protected data off site in the Microsoft Cloud.
• You can use the DPM integration pack for Orchestrator to create runbooks with DPM activities.