Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™: Insiders Guide to Microsoft's Hypervisor

Chapter 12. Protecting Virtualized Environments with System Center Data Protection Manager

There's a motto that says, "If you're going to put all of your eggs in one basket, you better have a good basket." Certainly this applies to virtualization: If you're going to put multiple servers, all of which you rely on, within a virtualization host, then you need a reliable way to protect that host. Within the Microsoft portfolio of virtualization technologies, Hyper-V is only one component (albeit a big one). The Microsoft virtualization portfolio obviously includes System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), but the rest of System Center is equally applicable for managing a virtual infrastructure.

System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is the ...