Preface

System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data. With an increase in data recovery and protection problems faced in organizations, it has become important to keep data safe and recoverable. This book contains recipes that will help you upgrade to SCDPM and it covers the advanced features and functionality of SCDPM.

This book starts by helping you install SCDPM and then moves on to post-installation and management tasks. You will come across a lot of useful recipes that will help you recover your Hyper-V and VMware VMs. It will also walk you through tips for monitoring SCDPM in different scenarios. Next, the book will also offer insights into protecting windows workloads followed by best practices on SCDPM. You will also learn to back up your Azure Stack Infrastructure layer as well as the Tenant layer using SCDPM. You will also learn about recovering data from backup and implementing disaster recovery.

Lastly, the book will show you how to integrate SCDPM with Azure Backup service as well as how to enable protection groups for online protection, and finally how to centralize reports and monitor your backups using Power BI and Log Analytics.