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
	This information is not yet publicly available. It will be included when this ebook is re-issued in summer 2015
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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