Being able to protect your Private cloud is one of the more important things you can do. With so many moving parts how do you approach this. If you are leveraging System Center 2012 for the many other components of your infrastructure, than I would highly recommend you look at Data Protection Manager (DPM)for two reasons.
- DPM is designed to backup and maintain your Microsoft workloads, and leverages the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on your servers.
- If you bought System Center 2012, you already own DPM. When you buy System Center 2012 you get all the System Center components including DPM.
While DPM can protect a variety of workloads from SQL, SharePoint, Exchange bulk of your of the workloads in your cloud is going to virtualized. DPM is fantastic at protecting your Hyper-V hosts and their virtual guests that are running on them. Today’s post will focus on the protecting your virtual infrastructure.
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