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 on a single piece of hardware, then you need a reliable way to protect that host.
In Chapter 7, “Backing Up and Recovering VMs,” we reviewed common issues and manual methods to back up Hyper-V–based virtual machines. Although those options and techniques work well with Hyper-V, they are not optimal, because they require manual intervention and don’t easily address complex scenarios or multiple servers. This chapter will explore how you can use System Center ...