Demonstrating the value of SCDPM 2007 SP1 in a POC environment to protect Hyper-V
In early February I attended a half day partner event “Intelligent Application Protection with Systems Center Data Protection Manager 2007” and this event stimulated me into thinking about what kind of things I would like to demonstrate, when running a SCDPM 2007 SP1 POC, to protect Hyper-V.
The result, with some validation from both Stephen Porter (Storage Partner Manager – Microsoft EMEA) and Anthony Tyler (Storage Technology Architect – Microsoft EMEA) is as follows:
Demonstrate the use of SCDPM 2007 SP1 to backup, recover and provide DR functionality
Allocate storage on the DPM Server
Configure SCDPM 2007 SP1 Hyper-V protection
Specify short term backup objectives e.g. define retention range and frequency for synchronization of data
Specify long term backup objectives (this would require a tape device or an emulator)
Create a protection group
Create a recovery point for Hyper-V
Recover a Hyper-V server
Demonstrate DR functionality by doing an alternative location restore
Patrick Lownds