Information Technology Reference
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You have deployed System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. Which of the fol-
lowing tools can you use to automatically apply software updates to VM images stored
in the VMM library?
a.
Virtual Machine Servicing Tool
B.
Service management automation runbook
C.
WSUS
D.
Configuration Manager
3.
Although it is likely that the fabric upon which you are running your private cloud is highly
redundant, with VMs hosted on failover clusters that use redundant storage and network
resources, it's still important to ensure that you regularly back up important workloads. This
is because while redundant resources minimize the chance that you'll lose important data to
hardware failure, it's still possible to lose data due to data corruption, malware, or an adminis-
trator making an unforced error.
This section covers the following topics:
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Understanding Data Protection Manager
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Deploying DPM agents
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Configuring DPM storage
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Creating DPM protection groups
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Performing recovery
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Integrating Microsoft Azure Online Backup
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Using DPM Orchestrator integration pack
System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (DPM) is Microsoft's data protection and re-
covery solution. You can use DPM to backup and recover workloads including Exchange, SQL
Server, SharePoint, Windows server role services and features, and virtual machine running
under Hyper-V. DPM supports backup to disk, to take, and to Microsoft Azure.
When discussing DPM, it's important to understand the following terms:
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A recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which you want to recover
data. For example, you might need to recover a database to a specific RPO that repre-
sents the state it was in 45 minutes ago.
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A recovery time objective (RTO) is the amount of time you have to recover to the RPO.
This is the amount of time it would take to recover the database to the state it was in
45 minutes ago.
