Dell PowerVault DP600 - Manual (Page 10)

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• DPM database files
Note
You can install DPM on the same volume that the operating system is installed on, or you
can install DPM on a different volume that does not include the operating system.
However, you cannot install DPM on the disk that is dedicated to the storage pool, which
is a set of disks on which the DPM server stores the replicas and recovery points for the
protected data.
DPM owns and manages the disks in the storage pool, which must be dynamic. For purposes of
DPM, disk is defined as any disk device manifested as a disk in Disk Management. For
information about the types of disks that the storage pool supports and how to plan your disk
configuration, see Planning the Storage Pool (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91965).
If you want to manage your own additional disk space, DPM enables you to attach or associate
custom volumes to data sources that you are protecting in a protection group. Custom volumes
can be on basic or dynamic disks. Any volume that is attached to the DPM server can be selected
as a custom volume; however, DPM cannot manage the space in custom volumes. Note that this
release of DPM 2007 will not delete any existing volumes on the disk attached to the storage pool
to make the entire disk space available.
Note
If you have critical data that you want to store, you can use a high-performance logical
unit number (LUN) on a storage area network rather than the DPM-managed storage
pool.
The following table lists the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for the DPM
server. For information about planning DPM server configurations, see Planning for DPM
Deployment (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91848).
Note
We recommend that you install DPM on a 64-bit machine.
Component Minimum Requirement Recommended
Requirement
Processor
• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster. • 2.33 GHz Quad
Memory
• 2 gigabytes (GB) RAM
For information about how DPM manages
memory, see DPM and Memory
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=97938).
• 4 GB RAM
Pagefile
• 0.15 percent of the total DPM storage pool.
For information about configuring the DPM
pagefile size, in the DPM Operations Guide
see Managing Performance
N/A