Data Protection Manager 2010 Webcast

I joined this late due to a phone conference.

This is a System Center Influencers briefing on Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010.

The Aims

• Single supported solution for Microsoft workloads
• Single agent, no workload licensing
• Enterprise scalability in the 2010 release

New Workload Additions

• Cluster Shared Volume
• Exchange 2010
• SharePoint 2010

It supports OS’s going back to XP SP2.

Features

• Self-service end user restore from Explorer or Office
• Self-service DBA restrore from within SQL
• Auto protection of new databases
• Protect 1000’s of databases per DPM server
• Recover 2005 DB’s to SQL 2008
• Auto protection of new content databases in SharePoint farms
• Protect the farm, restore the document
• Optimizations for the new and many Exchange architectures

Hyper-V

• CSV support
• Item level recovery from within a VHD
• Alternate host recovery

Client Protection

• 1000 clients per DPM server
• “User data only”.  Don’t protect the entire machine.
• Uses VSS in Vista and Windows 7
• Policy allows you to protect specific folders, so there’s no end user set up.
• User can restore from local VSS while offline, or DPM while online.
• While offline, the PC continues to make VSS copies and will sync them to DPM when it is online again.