Patrick Lownds

Over 60 recipes to achieve a robust and advanced backup and recovery solution leveraging SCDPMKey FeaturesAdapt to the modern data center design challenges and improve storage efficiencyEffective recipes to help you create your own robust architectural designs Solve data protection and recovery problems in your organizationBook DescriptionSystem Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to your BCDR strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data. With an increase in data recovery and protection problems faced in organizations, it has become important to keep data safe and recoverable. This book contains recipes that will help you upgrade to SCDPM and it covers the advanced features and functionality of SCDPM. This book starts by helping you install SCDPM and then moves on to post-installation and management tasks. You will come across a lot of useful recipes that will help you recover your VMware and Hyper-V VMs. It will also walk you through tips for monitoring SCDPM in different scenarios. Next, the book will also offer insights into protecting windows workloads followed by best practices on SCDPM. You will also learn to back up your Azure Stack Infrastructure using Azure Backup. You will also learn about recovering data from backup and implementing disaster recovery. Finally, the book will show you how to configure the protection groups to enable online protection and troubleshoot Microsoft Azure Backup Agent. What you will learnInstall and prepare SQL Server for the SCDPM databaseReduce backup storage with SCDPM and data deduplicationLearn about the prerequisites for supported Hyper-V Server protectionIntegrate SCDPM with other System Center products to build optimal servicesProtect and restore the SCDPM databaseProtect your data center by integrating SCDPM with Azure BackupManually create online recovery points and recover production data from AzureProtect and learn about the requirements to recover Azure Stack with SCDPMWho this book is forIf you are an SCDPM administrator, this book will help you verify your knowledge and provide you with everything you need to know about the new release of System Center Data Protection Manager.

Save time and resources by getting to know the best practices and intelligence from industry experts About This Book • This book helps you gain a fresh perspective through a recipe-based approach on the new Microsoft Server 2016 Hyper-V • Over 80 recipes to help you master the administrative tasks of Hyper-V and get to grips with advanced solutions and techniques for virtualization • These hands-on advanced recipes will help you deploy, maintain, and upgrade Hyper-V virtual machines Who This Book Is For This book is for Hyper-V administrators who are looking to take advantage of all exciting new features that Microsoft Server 2016 Hyper-V has to offer. What You Will Learn • Installing and managing Hyper-V Server in Full, Server Core, and Nano Server • Migrating and upgrading physical and virtual machines • Configuring network, memory, security, and auditing settings for virtual machines • High availability and disaster recovery • Saving time and money with PowerShell automation • The new features around network and nested virtualization, distributed storage QoS, Hyper-V Replica, and much more • Monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting with Hyper-V 2016 best practices • Deploying and automating multiple VMs and support Windows Hyper-V 2016 clusters through different installation methods In Detail Hyper-V 2016 is full of new features and updates. The second of our best-selling Hyper-V books, the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook has it all covered. Brimming with expert solutions and techniques, you'll have everything you need to master virtualization and Hyper-V Manager. This Hyper-V book is designed to help advanced-level administrators benefit fully from the new Windows Server. With over 80 hands-on recipes, the Hyper-V Cookbook gives you tips, tricks and best practices to deploy, maintain and upgrade your virtual machines. Style and approach This advanced-level book provides step-by-step recipes on real-world examples so you can get practical, hands-on experience of the subjects.

Go-to guide for using Microsoft's updated Hyper-V as a virtualization solution Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V offers greater scalability, new components, and more options than ever before for large enterprise systems and small/medium businesses. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide is the place to start learning about this new cloud operating system. You'll get up to speed on the architecture, basic deployment and upgrading, creating virtual workloads, designing and implementing advanced network architectures, creating multitenant clouds, backup, disaster recovery, and more. The international team of expert authors offers deep technical detail, as well as hands-on exercises and plenty of real-world scenarios, so you thoroughly understand all features and how best to use them. Explains how to deploy, use, manage, and maintain the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V virtualization solutions in large enterprises and small- to medium-businessesProvides deep technical detail and plenty of exercises showing you how to work with Hyper-V in real-world settingsShows you how to quickly configure Hyper-V from the GUI and use PowerShell to script and automate common tasksCovers deploying Hyper-V hosts, managing virtual machines, network fabrics, cloud computing, and using file serversAlso explores virtual SAN storage, creating guest clusters, backup and disaster recovery, using Hyper-V for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and other topics Help make your Hyper-V virtualization solution a success with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide.