Microsoft System Center Data Protection for the Hybrid Cloud

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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Data protection trends and challenges
Data growth trends
Data protection scenarios and challenges
Emergence of the public cloud
Chapter 2 Overview of hybrid cloud backup
Cloud design point for backup
Azure Backup
Microsoft workloads and enterprise client backup
Hyper-V virtual machine backup at CPS scale
De-duplication of backup storage
System Center integration
Chapter 3 Protecting Microsoft workloads
Basic configuration
Adding disks to a DPM storage pool
Installing DPM agents
Configuring protection groups
VSS framework
Hyper-V protection
Hyper-V backup process
Client protection
Client data recovery
Exchange Server protection
SQL Server protection
SQL Server backup process
Self-service recovery of SQL Server databases
SharePoint protection
SharePoint backup process
SharePoint catalog
Scoped consistency check
SharePoint recovery
Chapter 4 Protecting Azure IaaS workloads
Setting up DPM in Azure
Creating a new VM for DPM
Joining the VM to a domain
Adding backup storage
Installing and configuring DPM and Azure Backup
Reviewing the post-deployment architecture
Protecting workloads
Discovering servers and installing the agent
Discovering workloads and creating a Protection Group
Workloads and configurations supported for backup
Considerations for performance and scale
Recommendations for better performance
Scaling up vs. scaling out
Tiering data to Azure Backup
Chapter 5 Protecting Hyper-V virtual machines
Customer scenarios and challenges
Planning for VM backup
What to back up (host level vs. guest level)
When to back up
Where to back up
How to back up
How to control costs
Protecting Hyper-V VMs
Protecting Hyper-V over SOFS
Protecting Hyper-V over CSV
Continued protection with VM migration
Protecting replica VMs
Protecting servers in workgroups and untrusted domains
Recovering Hyper-V data
How to restore a file from a VM
How to restore a VM
Recommendations
Case study: Real-world customer
Chapter 6 VMware private cloud protection
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Chapter 7 Protecting the Microsoft Cloud Platform System
Protecting the management cluster
Default protection policy
Recovering VMs and databases
Recovering from failures of management cluster features
Protecting tenant VMs
Using DPM servers for tenant backup
Adding tenant VMs to backup
Recovering tenant VMs
Monitoring backups
Case study: A real-world CPS customer
Chapter 8 Optimizing backup storage
Exponential growth in backup storage
Containing the cost of backup storage
Software approaches to reducing stored backup data
Azure Backup
Data Protection Manager
Using deduplication with DPM
High-level deployment architecture and constraints
Understanding the backup-deduplication software stack
Deduplication benefits: A real-world scenario
Chapter 9 Integration with System Center
Management and monitoring scenarios and challenges
Enterprise reporting capabilities
Management and monitoring solutions
SLA-based alerts
Client Auto Deployment
Chapter 10 Integration with Azure Backup
Advantages of Azure Backup
Backup scenarios
Tape replacement
Branch office backup
Windows client backup
Protection of Microsoft Azure assets
Getting started with Azure Backup
Azure Backup capabilities
Expanded workload support
Long-term retention
Offline seeding of initial replica
Chapter 11 Protecting Azure IaaS virtual machines
Why back up Azure VMs?
Tradeoffs with VM backup
Azure Backup vs. on-premises backup
How VM backup in Azure works
The backup extension
Data transfer
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