Midwest Management SummitManage DPM with SCOM and the Central Console

John Joyner@john_joynerwww.clearpointe.com

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Manage DPM with SCOM and the Central Console

#MMSMinnesotajohn.joyner@clearpointe.com

John Joyner@john_joynerwww.clearpointe.com

Manage DPM with SCOM and the Central Console

Multiple DPM Instance Management

Agenda

•Establish DPM Relevancy•DPM Central Console technicals•Backup as a Service discussion

Maxim

“All employed network administrators have good backup.”

Who needs multiple DPM instance management?

• Scale out datacenter• Non-issue to manage additional DPM instances• Large organizations and datacenter hosters

• Distributed organization• Branch offices• DR sites

• Remote service provider• Untrusted customer premises / private clouds / CPS• Backup as a Service: SCOM Web Console / Savision Live Maps

What do you need to use the DPM Central Console?

• Microsoft workloads to protect! • DPM 2012 or DPM 2012 R2 instances to manage.• DPM server instances are Agent Managed Computers in

SCOM 2012 or SCOM 2012 R2.• Enterprise model: Fully functional trusted DPM instances• Routed network connectivity in same or trusted domain

• Service Provider model: Reduced function untrusted DPM instances• Certificate-based authentication without network or trust• SCOM Gateways / Web Consoles published to Internet

What do you get with the DPM Central Console?

• Out of Box (OOB) central management of many DPM instances• Freedom from jumping between DPM consoles• Email alerts not configured on each DPM server• Use SCOM views, alert subscriptions, reports for DPM

optimization, trending, and SLA compliance• Extend access to DPM health monitoring with SCOM Web

Console and Live Maps Consoles• Efficiently leverage existing customer System Center licenses

to add sophisticated management at no additional license cost

Centralized monitoring of DPM servers from a single location

• Monitor different versions of DPM, and track the status of servers, tasks, protected resources, tape libraries, available storage and disk space.• Role-based access control• Remote recovery• Remote corrective actions

• Service level agreement (SLA)-based alerting—Alerts are generated when an SLA is broken.

Steps to Deploy the Central Console

Multiple DPM Instance Management

Import the MPs

Before you can start the installation you need to import the DPM Management packs to Operations Manager.

Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataProtectionManager.2012.Discovery.mp Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataProtectionManager.2012.Library.mp

Find them on the DPM ISO in the \SCDPM\ManagementPacks folder

Install Central Console

Logon to the Operations Manager management server and start the setup from the DPM 2012 R2 media. Then select the DPM Central Console.

Install Options:

• Install the Central Console server-side and client-side on the same server. (This way we can start the console directly from the management server.)

• You can also install the DPM Central Console client-side on a workstation (with the SCOM Operations console installed) for remote administration.

Features of the Central Console

• The DPM Central console is integrated with the Operations Manager console.

• Start Operations Manager to work with the Central Console.

Alert Management

Alert consolidation—Consolidate alerts and work on high priority items, as follows:• Repeated alerts—Display only one alert for repeated alerts. For example if

a job is scheduled to run hourly and hasn’t run for the last ten hours, only one alert for the failed job is displayed.

• Same root cause—If multiple alerts have the same root cause, or if multiple backups fail for the same data source, only the alerts informing you of the failure is generated.

• Ticket generation—If you are using a ticketing system, only one ticket is generated.

Alert Views

Backup Alerts vs. Infrastructure Alerts

• Backup Alerts contains all alerts related to backup issues like recovery point creation, replica synchronization, disk backup and tape backup alerts.

• The Infrastructure Alerts folder shows alerts about the DPM infrastructure, like disk infrastructure, protected computers and the tape components.

Alert Context Tasks

Take direct action from the Operations Manager console using the Action Task panel and the DPM tasks:

“Take recommended action”

• Example: From modify disk allocation task, adjust the disk allocation directly from the central console.

• No need to log into a DPM console

State Views

State Views show the health state per component. You can view the status of the DPM servers, Protected servers, Protection Groups, Disks or Tape drives.

Scoped Views

A scoped DPM console is a remote DPM console which only shows alerts and actions related to the selected protected machine.

• The title bar provides you with alert information such as ticket number and the related DPM server.

• The context bar gives you more details about the alert and where it is generated.

• The console only shows the objects for which the alert is generated.

Other Tasks in the Central Console

Some of the other available tasks you can perform using the Central Console:

• Resume tape or disk backup after a failure• Run Consistency Check on a protection • Create a recovery point • Inventory tape library

“DRaaS is the first cloud service to offer value for an entire production infrastructure, all the servers and all the storage.”

John P. Morency, Research Vice President, Gartner

Market / Industry demand for service delivery

Biggest Showstoppers for DR

• Cost• Complexity

Workloads drive the DR tool choices

ExchangeWindows BackupDPMExchange DAGs and Dumpster V2

SharePointCentral Admin / Management ShellDPM

Hyper-V VMDPMAzure Site Recovery

Active Directory Azure

SQLSQL AzureAzure Site Recovery with SQL Always-ONDPM

File and FolderWindows BackupBackup to Azure

System State / BMRWindows Backup Feature DPM

System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

Use Operations Manager to monitor and manage:• Windows Backup• Hyper-V Replica• System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)• Windows Azure Subscription and Virtual Network Health• SQL Server Backup Jobs• Exchange Distributed Availability Group (DAG) Health• Active Directory Replication Health

Monitor manual failover of workloads on DR site activation

Instance Scaling Guidelines

DPM scale:120 TB for the disk pool600 volumes (LDM database) 9024 shadow copies per DPM disk pool1000 VM’s2000 SQL databases3000 Clients

Create an optimal backup schedule

Design strategies DPM 2012 R2

Virtualize DPM• DPM disk pool -> VHDXNumber of DPM servers not relevant• See a DPM server as an instance to your serviceMonitor and manage DPM via SCOM• Central console and MP for DPMAutomate DPM via SCO & Azure Pack/SMAAzure integration to reduce or eliminate tape usage

GIVE DPM LOTS OF DISK

Take-Aways

• Use your System Center licenses, DPM could be ‘nearly free’

• Deploy DPM instances on physical, virtual, and cloud computers as needed

• Respect DPM instance scale units• Use SCOM to manage all DPM instances• Enforce DPM SLAs with SCOM• SCOM Reports and Web Console provide customer touch

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