Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager

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Microsoft System CenterData Protection Manager
Mat Young Storage Technology Architect,
Microsoft EMEA Justin Alderson Storage
Specialists Manager, Microsoft EMEA
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Agenda

• Schedule
• Data Protection challenges
• Introducing Data Protection Manager
• Key technologies
• Demos
• Partners

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Schedule

• Tech preview August 04
• 15 early adopter customers 20 early adopter
  partners
• Publicly Announced September 04
• Beta Starting April 05
• Release Summer 05

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Importance of Data

• Information is the enterprises most valuable
  asset
• Information must be
• available
• accessible
• replicated
• backed up
• Exploding growth in Windows-based storage
• Windows-powered services becoming
  mission-critical requiring 24x7 availability
• Data protection is an integral component of
  enterprise platform

If your storage system goes down, whole IT
infrastructure becomes useless -Gartner, March
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Customer Data Protection Pain Points
Customer Needs Lower costs, save time

• Recovery is unreliable painful
• Typical recovery takes hours or days
• 42 of companies had failed recovery in past year
• 50 of customers wish for online backup
  verification
• Data protection is labor intensive
• All recoveries go through the server admin

• Backup is too complex and slow
• Shrinking backup window
• Backups too slow/lots of manual scheduling
• 24 hours of data loss assumed
• Tape as one size fits all (file and server
  recovery, offsite protection and long term
  archive)
• Tape inconvenience and unreliability of is 1
  challenge

• Costs are too high
• Too many tapes
• Labor is the majority of backup cost
• Massive data growth increases costs

Lower costs, increase efficiency
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Introducing Microsoft System Center Data
Protection Manager

• What is System Center Data Protection Server
  (DPM)?
• Data Protection Manager is a new server product
  from Microsoft that enables disk-based backup and
  recovery of Windows file data.

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Data Protection ManagerCustomer benefits
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Data Protection Manager Customer Benefit 1
Rapid Reliable Recovery

• Current customer backup issues
• Too slow and expensive to recover files
• Recoveries are unreliable
• All recoveries go through the IT staff
• Solution with DPM
• Designed for fast recovery - customers recover
  files in minutes
• Enables a whole new recovery scenario
  allowing end users to easily recover their own
  files
• Snapshots enable multiple recovery points
• Recoveries are assured through verification

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Data Protection ManagerCustomer Benefit 2
Continuous efficient protection

• Current customer backup issues
• Growth in data too difficult and time
  consuming to back up
• 24 hours of data loss assumed with tape
• Shrinking backup window
• Solution with DPM
• Faster More Efficient Backup
• Never do a full backup from a production server
  again
• Avoid the shrinking backup window
• Perform online verification of backup

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Data Protection ManagerCustomer Benefit 3
Best Value

• Current customer backup issues
• Companies still spend too much time and money on
  backup
• Most disk based back up solutions cost
  prohibitive
• Competing solutions not as easy to use
• Solution with DPM
• Designed to reduce TCO via continuous,
  disk-based backup
• Automatic protection schedules reduce
  operational costs
• Allows end users to easily recover their own
  files
• Usability and easier management
• Integration into existing environment
• Industry standard hardware software

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Ideal Customer

• Medium-sized data centers
• Have between 5 and 49 servers
• Backup window issues
• Fairly Frequent file recoveries from tape
• Familiarity with VSS and SCSF
• Have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of
  approximately one hour
• Have a faster Recovery Time Objective (RTO) than
  tape can provide

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DPM - InstallationInitial scenario
Active Directory
Clients

• DPM Server
• Windows Server 2003
• Lots of (inexpensive) disks
• Similar specs to a NAS box
• DPM Application Installed
• installed in parallel to Tape Solution
  complimentary

File Servers / Storage Servers
Archive Offsite
Backup To Tape
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DPM - InstallationDetecting new file servers on
network
Active Directory
Clients

• Auto-discovery of Servers
• and Volumes
• Scheduled discovery job
• Queries AD for new servers
• Admin is alerted to new servers
• Admin is never surprised again!

File Servers / Storage Servers
Archive Offsite
Backup To Tape
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DPM in ActionDisk to disk to tape backup scenario
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DPM in ActionFile server backups
Time Continuous (log changes on File Servers)
Time 100am (move log files to DPS Server and
apply)
Time 200am (point in time shadow copies)
Active Directory
Clients

• Daily Backups
• Lose no more than 1 hour
• Sync with File Servers daily
• Daily restore points (point in time shadow
  copies)

File Servers
Thursday
Friday
Archive Offsite
Backup To Tape
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DPS Management Console

• MMC Snap-In
• Used by administrator to configure and monitor
  protection, recover, and run reports
• Can be run directly on DPM server or accessed
  remotely via terminal services

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Key Technologies Shadow Copies of Shared Folders
and DPM

• Customer Scenarios
• Shadow Copy of Shared Folders (SCSF)
• Accidentally Deleted - User can NOW recover
  files THEMSELVES
• Forgot to Save as - User can NOW recover files
  that were accidentally overwritten
• Empowers users to help themselves
• System Center Data Protection Manager
• Backup and restore entire servers, volumes,
  shares
• Allows snapshots to be taken of production data
  without disconnecting the application accessing
  the data
• Snapshot can be backed up to tape

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Recovery Experience
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Demonstration
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Data Protection Manager - Summary

• Continuous data protection
• Service level based
• Rapid and reliable recovery
• By end user and administrator
• Best value solution
• Using standard hardware components
• Beta starts in April!
• Find out more at www.microsoft.com/dpm

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Thankyou!
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Backup slides if demo is not available
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DEMO - 5 Simple Steps

• Install
• Protect
• Restore
• Monitor
• Report

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DPS Agent Install

• Browse Active Directory for available servers
• Select servers, and deploy agent

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DPS Protection Wizard

• Launch Data Protection wizard
• Create Protection Group to apply back up
  policies to servers in group

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DPS Protection Wizard

• Browse easily for servers, shares, volumes, and
  folders

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DPS Protection Wizard

• Set Snapshot schedule to protect the data to
  multiple points in time

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DPS Admin Recovery Screen

• Easily find data to restore through simple
  browsing or searching
• Restore data to any location with 2 clicks

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Monitor

• Monitor the health and status of your DPS server
  easliy
• Set up automatic alerts via email

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Report

• Comprehensive reports show all data protection
  activity on the network