Planning a Data Protection Manager Deployment

Deploying any information system can be a very challenging task and DPM is no exception. Many different factors, both business and technical related, need to be considered when planning a DPM deployment, and any DPM deployment plan needs to be well thought out to be successful. Although Microsoft has attempted to make DPM as easy as possible to deploy and use, this also happens to be its Achilles’ heel. It is very easy for an IT professional to get DPM up and working very quickly, and get to a point where the storage sizing, DPM server performance, protection groups, and so on are all afterthoughts, thus causing administration issues or, worse, resulting in data loss.

This section describes the steps ...

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