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Whats New with Microsoft

Data Protection Manager

2010Data Protection Manager (DPM) - part of the Microsofts System Center

suite of products - delivers unified data protection for Windows servers

such as SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, virtualization and file

servers, as well as Windows desktops and laptops. The latest version of

this product, DPM 2010, was released just a few months ago. In this

expert e-guide from SearchWindowsServer.com, learn about the new

features being offered in DPM 2010. Find out what advantages this

release has over previous versions and what will remain the same as

with DPM 2007.

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Whats New with Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010

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Whats New with Microsoft

Data Protection Manager

2010


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by: Brendan Cournoyer

I attended a live webcast recently on System Center Data Protection Manager 2010.

Jason Buffington, senior technical product manager for Microsoft System Center, described DPM 2010 as the best

solution for file and application protection from Microsoft. He noted that the company focused heavily on protection

for Windows-based clients and virtual environments, as well as enhanced scalability and reliability features.

So whats new with Data Protection Manager 2010? Here are some of the key points I gathered:

The RC is in its final testing stages and should be available within a few weeks.

The fundamental model of DPM which allows customers to use one technology to protect data on multi-

ple production servers from a single interface remains more or less intact.

Like DPM 2007, the new version is designed primarily for Windows-based environments, which Buffington

said is the best way to allow for DPM 2010 to take advantage of key Microsoft OS and app features (like

the Volume Shadow Copy Service). In other words, Data Protection Manager 2010 will leverage the way

Microsoft apps want to do things. He noted that the company created partnerships for protection of hetero-

geneous environments.

DPM 2010 will support the same OS and app versions as DPM 2007. Microsoft has also added support for

Exchange and SharePoint 2010, along with SAP running on SQL Server.

System state and bare-metal recovery are both included, and can be managed centrally.

On the virtualization front, the big change from DPM 2007 is added support for Hyper-V R2. This includes

Clustered Shared Volume support, which wasnt previously available.

Buffington highlighted a feature called item-level recovery, which basically is the ability to browse file

systems to select individual items to recover, rather than restoring the entire file server.

A new feature that wasnt included with the September beta is the ability to protect workgroups and

non-trusted domains. Buffington demoed how to set these up, and they can be managed in the exact same

way as other protection groups.

He noted a few favorite new checkboxes for creating a protection group. One allows DPM 2010 to

automatically grow allocated volumes when more disk space is required, while another offers automatic

consistency checks that can be scheduled (rather than notifying an administrator to do one). There is also

a new collocate feature, which allows Data Protection Manager to protect a higher number of data

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DPM 2010 includes enhanced protection for traveling/roaming laptops, which is good. However, it sounds

like there are still some bugs to work out when it comes to protecting laptops using DirectAccess instead of

a standard VPN.

Buffington said that scalability was a big focus, noting that a single Data Protection Manager 2010 server

will be able to support up to 100 servers, 1,000 laptops and 2,000 databases.

There was plenty more to report, including disaster recovery improvements, enhanced tape support and new

automatic self-healing functionality for improved reliability.





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By Bridget Botelho, Senior News Writer

When Microsoft started offering systems management tools a few years back, analysts said the company would

have trouble taking on market rivals because of its self-centered approach. But Microsoft has opened the floodgates

on System Center management tools and will include some cross-platform support.

At the Microsoft Management Summit 2010 in Las Vegas this week, the company shared its three-year System

Center roadmap, including six product releases this year and seven in 2011. And while Microsoft's management

tools are mainly Windows-centric, the company has conceded a bit.

Last year, Microsoft began offering Linux and Unix support in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, and

the company has long offered management packs for some third-party systems and applications. These packs are

typically provided by that third party but distributed through the Microsoft Operations Manager catalog, said Don

Retallack, a systems management analyst with Kirkland, Wash.-based Directions on Microsoft, an independent

analysis firm.

Data Protection Manager 2010, released this week, combines with third-party products to back up heterogeneous

environments, both on-premises and to the cloud. Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 offers some management

functionality for VMware vSphere 4 if it's used in conjunction with VMware management tools. And Microsoft

acquired Opalis Software late last year to have an IT process management tool that supports Microsoft and

non-Microsoft products; it is included with Service Manger 2010, which was also released this week, Retallack said.

Richard Ptak, principal of Amherst, N.H.-based IT consultancy Ptak Noel & Associates, said Microsoft would be hand-

icapping itself by not offering cross-platform support when its competitors in systems management are doing so.

"Most environments are somewhat heterogeneous, so unless they make [System Center tools] completely transpar-

ent, people are going to have to maintain expertise in multiple management platforms, which is just annoying and

expensive," Ptak said.

That said, System Center tools will make sense for Microsoft-only shops and there will be people who use them

because of Microsoft's cache, Ptak said.

Less complex than CA or IBM

System Center tools are also simpler to use than more robust products from CA, IBM and the like, which tend to be

"substantially more complex" because they manage every aspect of an environment, said Greg Shields, an inde-

pendent IT consultant and author based in Denver and co-founder of Concentrated Technology.





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Microsoft may also get its customers to use System Center tools by including them in enterprise licensing agree-

ments and by making certain tools, such as System Center Operations Manager, an "absolute necessity" for

Windows shops, Shields said.

But, large companies with heterogeneous data centers that already use well-established tools, such as BMC

Performance Manager, may be a tough sell for Microsoft.

"The other players in this space are well established with good products that have been out in the field for a long

time, so people will wonder, why switch from the devil you know to the devil you don't know?" Ptak said. "I'm sure

their products will be good, eventually, but they have to mature."





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