Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
Organizations of all sizes depend on Microsoft Windows®-based communication, collaboration, data management, and processing applications to run their most critical business operations. Establishing a comprehensive data protection strategy across this the wide range of services can be extremely challenging. Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM 2007) provides a common backup and recovery platform for key applications such as SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint. DPM 2007 and EqualLogic PS series iSCSI SANs deliver seamless scalability, high availability, and comprehensive data protection for Microsoft deployments.
Protect your Data, Protect your Business
Comprehensive data protection for Microsoft environments
For short-term retention and quick recovery of Microsoft data, the PS Series offers advanced features such as snapshots, clones, and replicas. These features are complemented by the long-term backup and recovery features of DPM 2007 and the tight integration between DPM 2007, the primary Microsoft server workloads, and EqualLogic’s PS Series.
One storage platform for simplified management and on-demand scalability
By consolidating storage for Microsoft applications and DPM servers on a PS Series iSCSI SAN, you can take greater advantage of EqualLogic’s auto-load balancing and storage tiering and pooling features. Business critical Microsoft applications can be placed on
high-performance storage resources, while the DPM protected volumes can be hosted on a lower storage tier. You gain the simpler management of a centralized storage platform while minimizing costs. In addition, the PS Series’ seamless scalability automatically adjusts to growth needs of DPM Servers and Microsoft applications without service disruption.
Rapid setup and recovery
DPM 2007 leverages the PS Series’ volume cloning and replication features to simplify the initial DPM setup. This saves hours of effort and valuable networking resources that are normally required to copy large data sets from protected application servers. DPM also leverages
PS Series snapshots to significantly accelerate data recovery for Microsoft SQL, Exchange, and SharePoint servers in case of data loss or corruption.
Higher availability and disaster tolerance
The PS Series provides a fully redundant,
highly available storage platform for DPM servers and Microsoft applications that can be serviced online without disrupting operations. Moreover, by
booting DPM and other application servers from the PS Series SAN, server hardware can be quickly replaced in the event of a hardware failure. This eliminates the need to re-install software packages and recover data from backup copies, dramatically increasing disaster tolerance and reducing recovery time.