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Planning Protection Configurations
Planning for DPM Deployment
When you create your deployment plan for Microsoft System Center Data Protection
Manager (DPM) 2007, you should plan your protection groups first because the needs of the
protection groups—size, rate of data change, location, recovery goals—will inform your decisions
for creating and locating DPM servers and tape libraries.
After you plan your protection groups, you can complete the deployment plan by determining the
configurations of DPM servers necessary to protect your data most efficiently. The topics in this
section include security and management considerations that might influence your deployment
plan.
In This Section
Planning the DPM Server Configurations
End-User Recovery Considerations
Security Considerations
See Also
Planning Protection Groups
Planning the DPM Server Configurations
Your deployment plan should specify the number of DPM servers necessary to protect your data
and where you plan to locate each DPM server on your network.
Your deployment plan should also specify which instance of Microsoft SQL Server each DPM
server will use. DPM requires an instance of SQL Server for the DPM and reporting databases.
DPM will install SQL Server during installation on the DPM server, or you can use an existing
instance of SQL Server on a remote computer.
A critical component of your DPM server configuration is the storage pool, a set of disks that store
replicas and recovery points for protected data. The capacity of the storage pool and any custom
volumes that you assign to DPM must be sufficient to provide disk-based protection of the
selected data sources.
If your deployment plan requires tape-based protection for any data sources, you will need to
attach a tape library or stand-alone tape drive to the DPM server.