This session explain the features of Data Protection Manager that help you protect your Microsoft server virtualization environment. The session will include consideration for your virtual machines hosted on standalone Hyper-V hosts and Hyper-V clusters that use CSV or SMB storage. We also cover Item Level Recovery and brief introduction to Windows Azure Backup for DPM.

1. ROME
Protecting Microsoft Virtualization
with DPM 2012 R2
Ronnie Isherwood
@virtualfat

2. • Who?
• R I Technology
• Infrastructure consulting and support, virtualization and system
management. Bespoke training.
• Content Developer, Technical Reviewer
• Microsoft Learning, Server Virtualization and System Center
• User Group and Event monkey (15+ Events).
• System Center, Windows Server, RDS, Hyper-V, Cybercrime and other fun
stuff
• Sometimes blog, sometimes tweet
Ronnie Isherwood
@virtualfat

3. Session objectives
• Data Protection Manager overview
• Whats new in 2012 / 2012 R2
• What are the choices for protecting
virtualization
• Windows Azure
• Performance

4. Online Snapshots (up to 512)
Disk-based
Recovery
Tape-based
Backup
Data Protection Manager
Up to
Every 15 minutes
Disaster Recovery
with offsite replication & tape
Data Protection Manager
Active Directory®
System State
file services
BMR
System Center - Data Protection Manager Overview
Windows Azure
Backup Service

5. • Private Cloud Protection
• “Application Consistent” backup of Linux VMs – VM doesn’t need to go offline for backup anymore
• DPM can be completely virtual
• DPM can leverage VHD/VHDX as its storage
• Leverage SynthFC to provide tape support
• DPM can now leverage SQL Cluster for its DB needs
• Leverage VMM Service template to provision DPM
• Leverage Orchestrator Run Books for configuring DPM and Production Server

6. Hyper-V Host
DPM
(Database)
VHDX / VHD
Hyper-V Host level backup
DPM Server
DPM Agent =

7. Hyper-V Host1
DPM
(Database)
VHDX / VHD
Hyper-V Host2
VHDX / VHD
VHDX / VHD
Cluster Shared
Volume
Hyper-V Clustered Host level backup
DPM Agent =
DPM Server

8. Hyper-V Host1
DPM
(Database)
VHDX / VHD
Hyper-V Host2
VHDX / VHD
VHDX / VHD
SMB 3.0
Share
Hyper-V Clustered Host level backup
DPM Agent =
DPM Server

9. Virtual
Machines
DPM
(Database)
DPM Agent =
Virtual Machine Backup
Hyper-V Host
DPM Server

10. About Azure
• Integrated offsite data protection to Azure
– Azure integrated service to manage your subscription
– Single billing for all of your Azure consumption
– Protect SQL, File Server, VM workloads to Azure
– Faster backup to Azure using Express Full technology
– Ability to see data sources protected to Azure on Azure Portal

11. Performance considerations
• Scheduling
– Consider Cluster Aware Updating schedule
conflicts.
– Consider AV scanning schedule conflicts.
– Consider defrag schedule conflicts.
– Consider time zones.

12. Performance considerations
DB tuning
Multiple NICs
Bandwidth throttling
Scheduled backups

13. Key take-away
Don’t forget the backups, you might need them!
Maintain an on-going review process.
Ronnie Isherwood
@virtualfat
www.jwug.co.uk www.virtualfat.com

14. Thank you
Questions?
See you in Brussels
Ronnie Isherwood
@virtualfat
www.jwug.co.uk www.virtualfat.com