Data Protection Manager
Continuous data protection technologies have moved from the cutting edge of data protection deployments to the mainstream, driven, in part, by products such as Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007. Storage technologies also are making a big impact on the way businesses manage data protection, and one of the most important is scalable iSCSI.
DPM 2007 delivers continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers to a seamlessly integrated secondary disk and tape solution on the DPM server. Focused on the primary Microsoft server workloads, DPM 2007 was specifically built to protect and recover Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Server, Virtual Servers and Windows file services.
A LeftHand SAN provides iSCSI storage environment for use as the back end DPM storage pool that is:
- Cost effective
- Easy to manage
- Scalable
- Highly available
Based on open platforms and SATA disk technology, LeftHand can provide an entirely disk-based system for less money than most tape systems. LeftHand SANs are modular and flexible, easily scaled as your data protection needs grow.
DPM takes advantage of the storage management infrastructure within the LeftHand SAN to enable rapid and reliable recovery for enterprises of all sizes. In environments where LeftHand SANs are used for both production storage and the DPM repository, the time to create initial backup copies of large databases is dramatically shortened, and the impact on production applications of this copy is virtually eliminated. The same features provide quick recovery of those databases if disaster strikes, utilizing in-SAN copy mechanisms to rapidly restore large amounts of data from the DPM server to the production servers.