Design and deploy System Center - Configuring and Deploying a Private Cloud - page 6

TABLE 1-1 System Center high availability options
Product High availability options

VMM

■ Install VMM on an existing failover cluster. VMM supports being
installed as highly available when deployed on an existing failover
cluster. In this configuration, the Virtual Machine Manager service
account must be a domain account. You must also configure
distributed key management to store VMM encryption keys in AD DS.
■ Deploy the VMM database to a SQL Server failover cluster. This
failover cluster should be separate from the failover cluster that hosts
the VMM failover cluster.

App Controller

■ Install multiple App Controller servers behind a load balancer.
■ Deploy the App Controller database on a SQL Server failover cluster
or highly available virtual machine.

Orchestrator

■ Install multiple runbook servers.
■ Install the Orchestrator web service on multiple web servers in a load-
balanced configuration.
■ Deploy the Orchestrator database on a SQL Server failover cluster or
highly available virtual machine.
■ You cannot deploy multiple management servers. When the
management server is unavailable, you will be unable to publish
new runbooks. You will be able to start, stop, and monitor existing
runbooks using the Orchestration console.

Operations Manager

■ Deploy multiple management servers.
■ Deploy the Service Manager databases on a SQL Server failover
cluster or highly available virtual machine.

Service Manager

■ Deploy multiple load-balanced management servers.
■ Deploy the Service Manager databases on a SQL Server failover
cluster or highly available virtual machine.
■ Deploy multiple web content and portal servers.

Data Protection Manager

■ Deploy DPM on a highly available virtual machine.
■ Configure a second DPM server as a replica.
■ Deploy the DPM database on a SQL Server failover cluster or highly
available virtual machine.

Configuration Manager

■ Deploy each Configuration Manager site database on a SQL Server
failover cluster or highly available virtual machine.
■ Deploy a hierarchy of sites, with a CAS and multiple primary sites.
■ Install multiple instances of the management point, distribution point,
state migration point, system health validator point, application
catalog web service point, application catalog website point, software
update point site system roles.
■ Install multiple instances of the SMS Provider at each site.

Backing up and recovering VMM
Perhaps the simplest method of protecting System Center products is to deploy them in
virtual machines. Once you've done that, you can then configure DPM to protect those virtual
machines. When recovering a VM protected by DPM, you can choose to recover the VM, or
you can perform item level recovery. When recovering a VM, you can choose to recover the
VM to its original location or to a separate Hyper-V host that has the DPM agent deployed.