How to do it...

From a more technical perspective, there are some considerations that need to be addressed during the planning phase, such as the following:

  • The total amount of data that should be protected
  • Firewall settings
  • Network consideration
  • Who can interact with DPM
  • Untrusted domains/workgroup
  • Backup repository 

To start provisioning resources for the DPM server that you want to deploy, you must first take into consideration the following:

  1. Starting with DPM 2016 onward, Microsoft removed the Logical Disk Manager (LDM) limits for protection groups. The absence of LDM limits allows the data sources to grow and shrink as many times as needed, without the need for manual intervention. DPM 2016 or later does not need to allocate storage ...

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