04.20
Speakers: Orin Thomas and Mike Ressler
Replication is not the same as backup. Lose it in site A = lose it in site B. Backup is still required. And backup provisioning in the private cloud is a challenge cos admins don’t know what’s being deployed.
DPM is a part of system center, a part of a holistic integrated solution. Makes it perfect for provisioning in the private cloud.
How Will The Agent Get Deployed?
- Make it part of image
- GPO for an OU
- Scripting or manually
- Use Configuration Manager
- And probably lots more options, e.g. a runbook fired off from Service Manager
Their solution is user goes to Service Manager, creates a request, and Orchestrator runs a runbook. Their is a DPM Integration Pack. It’s a confusing IP apparently.
- Initialize Data: Add parameters – ServerName, DatabaseName, and Type (3 types of protection group in DPM such as gold, silver, and bronze for recovery points, retention, etc).
- Get Data Source (renamed as Get Protection Group): Data Source Location set as protection group and select Type
- Get Data Source (get server ID) – choose protection server and select ServerName
- Get Data Source (renamed as Get Data Source ID) – DPM, Get protection server name and filter to DatabaseName to protect a single DB, could have said type = SQL to protect all DBs.
- Protect Data Source: Protection Group = Get Protection Group
- Create Recovery – Something.
Yup, it’s confusing. Go look at the videos when the guys tweet the link.
Keep the self-service simple. If there’s more than a few questions, the user won’t do it and they’ll blame you when data isn’t protected and it’s lost.
There’s a bunch of Service Manager stuff after this.
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