HP LeftHand SAN and Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 Solution brief

HP LeftHand SAN and Microsoft® System
Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007
Solution brief
At a glance
• Eliminate backup windows
• Recover quickly without data loss from any point in time
• Ideal for Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint Server
• Highly available, inexpensive storage results in longer on-site retention and more protected applications
• Fast initial synchronisation of databases
• Restore applications quickly within the SAN
Introduction
The DPM server supports various ‘target’ devices
Driven by products such as Microsoft System Center to store its backup information. These include local
Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007, continuous
direct attached storage, tape storage and storage
data protection technologies have moved from the
area networks (SANs). DPM also supports disk-to-
cutting edge to the mainstream. By creating an
disk, disk-to-tape and disk-to-disk-to-tape storage.
affordable and highly dependable storage solution,
scalable iSCSI storage technologies are making a
Many DPM users will gravitate to using direct
significant impact on the way businesses handle and attached storage because it appears easy and
protect data.
inexpensive. However, the direct attached storage
model has limitations imposed by the fixed amount
Microsoft DPM 2007 sets a new standard for
of storage and lack of high-availability options. To
Windows® backup and recovery – delivering
protect the current data set and to al ow for any
continuous data protection for Microsoft applications planned growth, those limitations make it important
and file servers to a seamlessly integrated secondary to predict and size the DPM platform properly.
disk and tape solution on the DPM server. Focused
Failure to do so can result in either undersized
on the primary Microsoft server workloads, DPM
storage capability or wasteful, unused storage
2007 was built specifically to protect and recover
capacity.
Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Server,
virtual servers and file services. Through advanced
The power of DPM and HP LeftHand P4000 SANs
technology, DPM enables rapid and reliable
HP LeftHand SANs provide a cost-effective, easy-to-
recovery for businesses of all sizes.
manage, highly scalable and highly available iSCSI
storage environment for use as the back-end DPM
Solution overview
storage pool. Based on open platforms and SATA or
DPM is a member of the Microsoft System Center,
SAS disk technology, HP LeftHand SANs can provide
a family of management products designed to help
a wholly disk-based system for less money than most
IT professionals manage their Windows Server
tape systems. By ‘thinly provisioning’ iSCSI volumes
infrastructure. DPM works by capturing the changes
within the DPM storage pool, the system scales as
made to data in real time, and then synchronising
the data protection needs grow. HP LeftHand SANs
it every 15 minutes. DPM integrates a point-in-time
present very large volumes to DPM that are al ocated
database with existing application logs, delivering
automatically for use as an easy-to-manage and
seamless recovery of the application data.
efficient storage solution. By simply attaching new
storage nodes to the DPM storage cluster, you can
add physical storage at any time without downtime
or reconfiguration.

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DPM takes advantage of key storage management
About HP and Microsoft
infrastructures within HP LeftHand SANs. DPM
HP and Microsoft have a strong partnership,
includes a ‘custom disk’ capability that draws on
working together to provide scalable IT and business
snapshot technology and the HP LeftHand SAN
solutions for the mid-tier market. HP is a Microsoft
Remote Copy facility in environments where
Gold Certified Partner, a Microsoft Managed ISV
HP LeftHand SANs are used for both production
Partner and a Microsoft Storage Partner. HP is also
storage and the DPM repository. The time needed
contributing storage systems to the SQL Server
to create initial backup copies of large databases is Customer Lab at Microsoft corporate headquarters,
shortened dramatically, and impact on production
where the two companies col aborate on joint
applications is virtually eliminated. Should disaster
customer deployments, performance testing and
strike, the same features provide quick recovery of
best practice development.
those databases using in-SAN copy mechanisms to
restore large amounts of data quickly from the DPM
HP Services
server to the production servers.
Partner with HP Technology Services to boost
HP LeftHand SANs also contain the complete
availability and avoid costly downtime by mitigating
range of enterprise-class data protection and high-
technology-related business risks. To help take the
availability features. For mission-critical applications, worry out of deploying, supporting and managing
you can protect DPM replica and recovery point
your HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solution, we have
volumes selectively against any kind of failure.
designed a range of service options that are as
Critical backup data will be available no matter
flexible, scalable and affordable as our storage.
what type of disaster occurs.
For more information, talk with your HP sales
representative or HP-authorised Channel Partner,
Fitting perfectly in the niche between a costly,
or visit:
dedicated SAN environment built on Fibre Channel
www.hp.com/hps/storage
and NAS servers scattered in the corporate
network, HP LeftHand SANs give customers an
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SAN and DPM, administrators are able to create an HP solutions cost-effectively. For more information,
ideal backup and recovery storage environment for
please contact your HP representative or visit:
Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint Server www.hp.com/go/hpfinancialservices
application environments.
For more information
For more information on HP LeftHand SAN, visit:
www.hp.com/go/p4000
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