- First things first, you want to decide how to deploy DPM server:
- Virtual or physical deployment
- Deduping DPM data
- SQL Server consideration
- DPM server requirement
- Disks and storage consumption
A common question that we have heard a lot is, can we deploy DPM in a virtual or physical machine? The DPM server can be deployed either in a physical deployment or via a virtual machine. However, running DPM in a virtual machine has more benefits, such as the following:
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- It is easier to move the DPM server to new hardware if needed (portability).
- Easier to recover (protected DPM virtual machine).
- You can enable de-duplication on the VHDXs attached to the DPM server. The VHDXs files could reside on a Scale-Out File Server (SOFS ...
