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Protecting Microsoft Virtualization with DPM 2012 R2

Ronnie Isherwood@virtualfat

• 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

Session objectives

• Data Protection Manager overview

• Whats new in 2012 / 2012 R2

• What are the choices for protecting virtualization

• Windows Azure

• Performance

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

• 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

Hyper-V Host

DPM(Database)

VHDX / VHD

Hyper-V Host level backup

DPM Server

DPM Agent =

Hyper-V Host1

DPM(Database)

VHDX / VHD

Hyper-V Host2VHDX / VHD

VHDX / VHD

Cluster Shared Volume

Hyper-V Clustered Host level backup

DPM Agent =

DPM Server

Hyper-V Host1

DPM(Database)

VHDX / VHD

Hyper-V Host2VHDX / VHD

VHDX / VHD

SMB 3.0 Share

Hyper-V Clustered Host level backup

DPM Agent =

DPM Server

Virtual Machines

DPM(Database)

DPM Agent =

Virtual Machine Backup

Hyper-V Host

DPM Server

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

Performance considerations

• Scheduling

– Consider Cluster Aware Updating schedule conflicts.

– Consider AV scanning schedule conflicts.

– Consider defrag schedule conflicts.

– Consider time zones.

Performance considerations

DB tuning

Multiple NICs

Bandwidth throttling

Scheduled backups

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

Thank you

Questions?See you in Brussels

Ronnie Isherwood@virtualfat

www.jwug.co.uk www.virtualfat.com