Getting ready

Before you can start protecting a workload within your datacenter, you must install a DPM agent on the server hosting the workload that you would like to protect (that is, Hyper-V, SQL Server, Exchange, and so on).

You can install the DPM agent via the DPM Administrator Console in push mode; however, there are some scenarios where you will not able to perform a push installation of the DPM agent to the server hosting the workload that you would like to protect. On the DPM server, you can find two executables for the DPM agent that you can share or download to a removable media. Then, you can install the agent manually. The DPM agent is also available on the DPM installation media. There are two different executables here:

• DpmAgentInstaller_x86.exe is for 32-bit operating systems
• DpmAgentInstaller_x64.exe is for 64-bit operating systems

Both are applicable for Windows server and Windows client operating systems.