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System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) is able to monitor Data Protection Manager. SCOM enables to monitor DPM status, protection group health or storage pool states. To monitor DPM in SCOM, just follow these three steps: Import DPM management packs in SCOM; Install central console on Management server; (Optional) Install central console on your console servers. Import DPM management packs in ...

Make a backup consumes a lot of bandwidth especially when Bare-Metal protection is used. This is why dedicated network are used to avoid network congestion on the production network. Data Protection Manager is able to use a dedicated network to make backups. But it is little touchy because DPM needs DNS resolution of servers on the dedicated network. Usually on ...

VMM Library is the repository where are stored ISO, VHDX, answer files etc. This library is used by VMM to mount the ISO in a virtual machine, to deploy VM from VHDX or many others utilization. We will see in this topic how to manage multiple VMM library. Create a VMM Library To create a library, create a share of ...

Most of the time, when a Virtual Machine (VM) is deployed, there are some manual configuration as IP settings, System Center Agent parameters etc. Most settings can be set automatically but it take some time to prepare a template that enable fast deployment with the minimum of manual tasks. Prepare a good template enable also a reliable deployment because without ...

For the first time, I used in a real project IP Pool in Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2. Before that, I used as everyone a DHCP server or I set manually the IP addresses in network configuration. But this time I used IP Pools intensively to avoid these constraints. So in this topic I want to share you my happiness about ...

SQL Server 2012/2014 AlwaysOn Availability Groups: Article Summary Part 1 – AlwaysOn Introduction Part 2 – AlwaysOn Design Part 3 – Install and Configure Windows Server 2012 R2 in Core mode Part 4 – WSFC Cluster Creation Part 5 – Install SQL Core on Windows Core Server Part 6 – AlwaysOn Availability Groups Creation Part 7 – AlwaysOn Availability Groups ...

This week two colleagues (“Pitchou” and “Loulou”) and me stumbled on an VM Network issue in VMM 2012R2 with IPAM integration. All VM Subnets associated with IP Pools indicated “VM Subnet has been marked for deletion by the network administrator“. We realized that when we wanted to live migrate a virtual machine. When we were on rating host’s screen on ...

Bare-Metal Recovery (BMR) enables you to make a full protection of a machine. Usually BMR is used on servers. Thanks to BMR, even if a server crashes, you can restore it from a recovery point. The main advantage of BMR is that the restoration is performed very fast. In the example of this post, the restoration of a virtual domain ...

Recently, I was faced with this issue in Data Protection Manager 2012R2 (CU2) of my client. So to resolve this last I have had three solutions for the work around: Resize Recovery Partition Move shadow copy storage from Recovery Partition to C: volume Use Pre and Post backup script

This part covers the first SCCM Primary Site installation.   In Part 1, SCCM Prerequisites have been downloaded and the AD schema has been extended. In Part 2, the dedicated SQL Server (with SSRS) has been installed and configured.   Server: M-SCCM1