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| What are the minimum and recommended memory requirements for DPM 2010? |
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| 4 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended |
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| What are the minimum and recommended requirements for storage pool disk space? |
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| minimum 1.5 times the protected data, recommended is 2.5-3 times the size of protected data. |
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| What is the maximum LUN size for the storage pool |
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| 17 TB for GPT dynamic disks, 2 TB for MBR disks |
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| What are the DPM data source limits? |
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600 volumes, of which 300 are replica volumes and 300 are recovery point volumes
Data sources are typically spread across approximately 75 servers and 150 client computers. |
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| What is the recommended maximum disk space for a DPM server? |
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| 80 TB per DPM server, with a maximum recovery point size of 40 TB. |
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| What operating systems are supported to run DPM 2010? |
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| Windows Server 2008 R2, standard or Enterprise, or Windows 2008 std. or enterprise. |
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| What operating systems can the DPM management shell run under? |
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Windows Vista
Windows XP with Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 |
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| Which updates are required to protect a Windows 2003 computer with DPM? |
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| Windows 2003 SP2, KB940349, and KB 975759 |
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| Which updates are required to protect a Windows server 2008 computer with DPM? |
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| Which updates are required to protect a windows server 2008 R2 computer with DPM? |
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| Which updates are required to protect a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or Windows Storage Server 2008 computer? |
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| What updates are required to protect a server running SQL 2000 SP4 or 2005? |
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| KB 940349 and any OS updates required. |
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| What updates are required to protect a server running SQL 2008 or later? |
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| None for application level |
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| What updates are required to protect a server running Exchange 2003? |
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| must be SP2 or later. KB 940349 |
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| What updates are required to protect a server running Exchange 2007? |
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| None unless your Exchange 2007 environment is in a CCR configuration, then KB 940006. |
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| What virtual host versions can DPM protect? |
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| Virtual Server 2005 R2 Sp1, Virtual Server 2008, Windows server 2008 with Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 R2 with HyperV, Windows 2008 R2 SP1 with Hyper-V |
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| What updates are required to protect a computer running Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V? |
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| What updates are required to protect a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V? |
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| What updates are required to protect a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Hyper-V? |
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| What versions of SharePoint can DPM protect? |
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| What workstation operating systems can DPM protect? |
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| What is required to protect servers and workstations across domains within a forest? |
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| What is required to protect servers and workstations across active directory forests? |
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| a two way forest-level trust between the separate forests. Requires FFL of 2003 or later. |
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| What is the minimum network bandwidth requirement for protecting data over a WAN? |
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| What is the recommended capacity of disks used for the DPM storage pool? |
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| We recommend that you use disks that have capacity of no more than 1.5 terabytes. Because a dynamic volume can span up to 32 disks, if you use 1.5-terabyte disks, DPM can create replica volumes of up to 48 terabytes. |
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| How much space does the DPM database require when protecting SharePoint? |
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| 1GB for every one million items in the SharePoint farm. |
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| What are new features in DPM 2010? |
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DPM 2010 automatically grows volumes as required.
DPM 2010 allows you to shrink volumes so your space is used effectively.
Support for system protection of Windows Server 2008 and later editions.
Exchange Server 2010 databases now appear within the Database Availability Group (DAG) after creating a new protection group.
Improved Windows SharePoint support for the following:
Restoring individual SharePoint list items.
Parallel backups of databases that are on the same instance of SQL Server 2005 in a SharePoint farm.
SharePoint list item search recovery. Note that you can now perform a search based on the title of the list item.
SharePoint tape backup.
In DPM 2010, DPM takes the last valid backup at the database level, and then copies the backup to tape. This process creates a complete recovery point for the SharePoint farm. In previous releases, the latest farm level recovery point was backed up to tape, and might not have included all of the databases causing the copy-to-tape operation to be incomplete.
Recovery of items in a SharePoint farm using host-headers.
The DPM Library Management tab now displays the amount of data that has been written to available tapes.
New SQL Server Self Service Recovery Configuration Tool user interface.
To open the tool, in DPM Administrator Console, on the Protection tab, in the Actions pane, click ConfigureSelfServiceRecoveryForSQLServer.
Enhanced support for SQL Server database administrators. Using the SQL Self Service Recovery tool, the database administrator can now specify the recovered files path in addition to auto-recovery under an instance of SQL Server.
In previous releases, DPM performed a long erase operation from tape. For this DPM RC and future releases, DPM will also perform a short (or quick) erase if the following regkey is set:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Agent] "UseShortErase"=dword:00000000
DPM 2010 allows you to protect client computers, like laptop computers, that may not be connected to the network at all times.
Users of protected client computers can recover their data without waiting for the backup administrator. |
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| when rolling back an upgrade form DPM 2007 to DPM 2010, how do you restore the database |
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| at DPM management shell dpmsync –restoredb |
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