SCDPM 2012 R2 High Avalibility Design?

Question

Hello Everyone,
Can we Install SCDPM 2012 R2 in High Availblity Mode?
If yes What's the Design for SCDPM high availibility?
Thnks.......

Answer 1

Hello Everyone,
Can we Install SCDPM 2012 R2 in High Availblity Mode?
If yes What's the Design for SCDPM high availibility?
Thnks.......
Hi,
There is not a High Availability solution for DPM such as clustering DPM servers. The options you do have are 
Primary and Secondary DPM servers, DPM chaining, or
Cyclic protection. Here is a breakdown of each:
Primary to secondary protection: The database and replicas stored on a primary DPM server can be backed up to a secondary DPM server. If the primary server fails the secondary server continues to back up protected workloads.
For more on Primary to secondary protection:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj244598.aspx
DPM chaining: A chain of DPM servers provide protection, and each server protects the next one in in the chain. For example:
    DPM1 is protected by DPM2 (DPM1 is the primary and DPM2 is the secondary).
    DPM2 is protected by DPM3 (DPM2 is the primary and DPM3 is the secondary)
To setup chaining:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh758194.aspx
Cyclic protection: One DPM server is backed up by another DPM server, and vice versa. So that DPM1 protects DPM2, and likewise DPM2 protects DPM1.
More on Cyclic protection:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj244597.aspx#BKMK_Cyclic
I hope this adds some clarification around this.
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