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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) offers near-continuous backup and rapid recovery for environments centered on Microsoft technology. SCDPM provides small and mid-size organizations application-aware protection for key workloads such as Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint. SCDPM can be used to back up Windows and Linux virtual machines and supports VMs hosted on Hyper-V and VMware. SCDPM can back up and restore files, folders and volumes and can replicate and restore data between separate localities. For streamlined offsite backup, SCDPM can take advantage of Microsoft Azure Backup for temporary backup and the Azure Recovery Services vault for low-cost, long-term archival backup. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft Azure planning and cloud integration consulting services.)
Current versions of SCDPM include support for Windows Server 2019, SQL Server 2019, Exchange 2019, and SharePoint 2019. Current releases also feature greater storage efficiency, higher performance with tiered storage, support for ReFS volumes, offline Backup using Azure Data Box, and enhanced security.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can help businesses to plan, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot a backup system built on System Center Data Protection Manager. Progent can assist you to upgrade from prior versions of Data Protection Manager or from a different backup platform, and Progent can tune your SCDPM environment for on-premises, hosted, cloud-based, or hybrid deployment models. Progent offers remote or onsite consulting expertise and can deliver as-needed help in resolving your most challenging issues, or end-to-end project management or co-management services to ensure your Data Protection Manager initiative is successfully completed on schedule and on budget.
Data Protection Manager Architecture
Microsoft designed Data Protection Manager with special attention to protecting Microsoft servers and workloads. By supporting Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) and other key protection features built into Microsoft servers and applications, SCDPM can transparently back up and rapidly restore Microsoft-specific entities such as Exchange DAG groups, the distributed components of SharePoint farms, and Windows Hyper-V Clustered Shared Volumes (CSVs). This allows administrators who are not experts in any or all of these technologies to recover data easily and accurately. SCDPM continuously protects the core Microsoft server workloads to a SCDPM server, which then allows disk-based recovery and tape-based, long-term archival storage for a complete backup and recovery solution. A single SCDPM server can support up to 800 virtual machines of 100 GB each and 3,000 Windows client computers.
Using System Center Data Protection Manager with Microsoft SQL Server
SCDPM can protect Microsoft SQL Server including SAP workloads, and handles advanced SQL Server cluster configurations. For enhanced reliability and performance, SCDPM supports the use of clustered SQL Server nodes for its database. DPM supports SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) using Cluster Shared Volume (CSV). SCDPM includes the ability to protect an entire instance of SQL Server so all new databases are protected automatically, expanded capacity to handle up to 2,000 databases, and a self-service restore capability that allows administrators to restore their own databases.
SCDPM can back up regular data files as well as the system state of a server, and it also works efficiently with servers that maintain databases/transactional log files. SCDPM is especially efficient as a backup and restore mechanism for Microsoft SQL Server because it intelligently integrates with the SQL Server VSS writers. Since SCDPM uses core VSS services, it will back up all files, open or not, to at least a snapshot recovery level. As a result, you never have to worry about open file issues. SCDPM can also protect SQL Server databases that use the AlwaysOn feature, including database clusters and SharePoint farm databases with SQL Server AlwaysOn enabled.
In between express full copy captures, the standard SQL Server transaction logging mechanism is used to offer up-to-the-minute protection. The log files themselves are replicated by SCDPM. In case a recovery is required, the most recent SCDPM differential backup can be combined with the most recent set of transaction logs to provide rapid restoration.
For information about Progent's Microsoft-certified support services for SQL Server, refer to Microsoft SQL Server Consulting.
Using System Center Data Protection Manager with Microsoft Exchange Server
Current versions of SCDPM support Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 and 2016, and can protect Exchange database availability groups (DAGs). SCDPM includes the ability to provide tailored, application-aware protection for Exchange Server and addresses a granularity problem that has historically been a major headache for Exchange administrators. Exchange backup APIs are designed to back up entire databases. However, if you want to restore an individual mailbox or public folder, you have in the past had two choices: either restore the entire database or switch to third-party mailbox-level backup tools. SCDPM allows you to protect one or more storage groups as a whole, while still giving you the ability to restore individual mailboxes.
SCDPM also offers 'lossless recovery' of Exchange Server data. This means that after SCDPM has restored your email databases to the latest recovery point, and updated all of the synchronized transaction logs, SCDPM can automatically reapply the surviving Exchange transaction logs from the production server to the very last committed email message, bringing the Exchange server completely forward.
SCDPM improves the performance of your Exchange Server by offloading the typical ESEUTIL operations that most backup applications impose on the production server. The SCDPM server takes car of this on the redundant data, conserving the bandwidth on the production Exchange Server.
To learn more about Progent's support for Microsoft Exchange Server, see Microsoft Exchange Server Consulting.
Using Data Protection Manager with Virtual Servers
SCDPM offers continuous protection for virtual machines (VMs) powered by Windows Server Hyper-V and through integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) can provide consistent protection even during a Hyper-V Live Migration process. For users of VMware, a way to reduce disaster recovery time drastically is to build an SCDPM server with enough CPU and RAM resources to create a system that allows you quick recovery from a failed virtual machine host server. Since the SCDPM server always has an exact replica of all the virtual machine guest files, in the event the virtual machine host fails, and by having a virtual server installed on the SCDPM server, you can choose to boot those replica images as running machines and take your time in restoring the original failed virtual machine host server. This means you could be up in minutes with all your virtual machine guests even with a complete failure of the original virtual machine host. Adding to the time savings, the entire operation can be accomplished remotely.
How Progent Can Help You Benefit from Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Progent's Microsoft-certified Data Protection Manager consultants can help you create practical recovery plans, design an affordable fault-tolerant network infrastructure, deploy a SCDPM-based backup and restore solution, thoroughly test your system, show your IT staff how to manage Microsoft SCDPM, or handle complete IT outsourcing services including off-site hosting of virtual or physical SCDPM servers in Progent's datacenter.
Progent's consultants can use industry best practices to help you:
- Define your recovery goals and establish a protection policy to meet them
- Design an efficient multi-site plus cloud network topology for SCDPM
- Configure Windows Server SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint to run with SCDPM
- Configure Protection Groups and Storage Pools
- Calculate and allocate disk space for backup
- Define custom volumes
- Install Protection Agents on computers inside and outside your firewall
- Integrate SCDPM with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
- Integrate SCDPM with Microsoft's Azure Backup for cloud-based protection
- Optimize backup and recovery performance
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Non-stop Solutions Offered by Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts can help you to build an efficient, fault-tolerant environment that addresses key issues encompassing a broad array of infrastructure technologies and operations including:
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery planning engineers can help you create a business continuity strategy that will allow you to resume IT operations in the event of an IT network catastrophe. Progent can help you to create a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that includes scheduled disaster recovery evaluations and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also help you create an affordable, zero-downtime network architecture that addresses reliability issues involving a broad range of infrastructure technologies and procedures. For details, visit Workplace Recovery Consulting Services.
CRISC-Certified Network Risk Control
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. To learn more, go to CRISC-Premier IT risk mitigation experts.
Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 introduced important improvements in scale, performance, management, cybersecurity, app compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes networking, and hybrid integration of local and cloud-hosted resources. Top new features of Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management of hybrid on-premises/cloud resources, System Insights for utilizing modern predictive intelligence to manage on-premises networks, Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for building and managing large high-availability scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from outdated editions of Windows Server. For more information, see Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Support.
Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity consultants can help you to plan and deploy a disaster recovery solution based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies such as Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using low-cost equipment, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for enhancing the performance and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while minimizing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, economical deployment of a stretch cluster quorum witness. To learn more, go to Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Help.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you orchestrate, automate and verify a consistent process for recovering services quickly following a breakdown. SRM supports centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, and non-disruptive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports non-intrusive testing for site recovery, upgrades and patches and can generate audit reports to verify full service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to assist your organization to design, deploy, test and administer a DR system powered by VMware Site Recovery Manager.
NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that combines failover storage clustering with replication to deliver rapid, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters located up to 185 miles away from one another. Progent offers access to a NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help your business to plan, deploy, administer, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select a topology for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your functional requirements and IT budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster solution by providing guidance with procedures like assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, arranging plexes layout, provisioning NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, setting up a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your storage clusters, and verifying your disaster recovery system to show adherence with industry standards and regulatory mandates.
Fault Tolerant Load Balancing
Progent offers high availability load balancing support that addresses system load balancing, load balanced applications, network backbone routing, and content dispatching products such as Cisco Content Engine. Non-stop load balancing solutions for which Progent can provide consulting expertise include Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Presentation Server, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Distributed Director and Cisco CDN Software, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. For details, visit Fault Tolerant Load Balancing.
High-Availability Internet Data Centers
Progent's Data Center professionals can show you how to select fault-tolerant data centers that match the specific requirements of your business. High availability co-location sites are especially appealing to small and mid-size businesses because of their low cost and convenience in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to create an on-site data center that offers even a basic degree of fault tolerance is too costly for most small organizations. Progent is ready to help you reap all the advantages of high-availability colocation facilities by providing a full range of consulting and maintenance services. To read more, go to Fault Tolerant Internet Data Centers Consulting.
Fault Tolerant Interoffice Networking
Progent's multi-site network infrastructure engineers can help businesses create zero-downtime inter-site connectivity through redundant networks with automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can design and implement ultra-reliable Inter-office connections based on non-stop EIGRP network routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how redundant connections and automatic fail-over offers affordable non-stop interoffice networking. To learn more, go to Fault Tolerant Interoffice Connectivity.
High Availability Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-certified network consultants can show you how to design an economical, fault tolerant Internet configuration solution that can deliver 24x7 Internet access via a wide range of high availability Internet access solutions including high availability BGP, transparent fail-over, and multiple Internet Service Providers. Progent offers CCIE professionals to help you apply the most up-to-date techniques for fault tolerant Internet access to build an affordable, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to create fault tolerant Internet connections. For details, go to 24x7 Internet Access Solutions.
Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting and Support Services
Progent offers economical remote support from consultants with expertise in a wide range of utilities and services that provide solutions for protecting Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and workstations plus laptops and handhelds. Progent offers expertise for all major backup products including Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take, MozyPro, Retrospect, Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and Solaris FLARs. Progent's consultants can assist your company to deploy, upgrade, or maintain data backup solutions for a range of topologies such as on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud-based, or hybrid. To learn more, visit Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting.
Barracuda Backup On-premises and Cloud Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription-based backup and disaster recovery platform for small and medium-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can include a purpose-built hardware appliance built by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with comparable functionality but which utilizes your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup protects critical company data produced on-premises, at one or multiple remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster recovery, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a physical or virtual Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts can provide a broad range of consulting services to help your business to design, integrate, operate and repair a backup and disaster recovery solution built on Barracuda Backup. For additional information, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting and management.
ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup Software for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Hornetsecurity's Altaro VM Backup provides small businesses a reliable and affordable solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, remote, distributed, and cloud-hosted architectures and also supports cost-effective backup to Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup includes advanced capabilities such as Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced protection from ransomware. Progent is a Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and can provide a broad range of online or on-premises consulting services to assist you to plan, install, optimize and debug a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery system based on Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a fully managed backup/recovery service powered by on Altaro VM Backup software. For details, see Altaro VM Backup consulting services.
ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides simple archiving but does not have integrated support for crucial data protection capabilities such as Exchange backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup delivers a full-featured BDR solution for automatic backup and rapid restoration of all your organization's M365 mailboxes, Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive data, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) 365 Total Backup to deliver comprehensive management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup provides an affordable backup-as-a-service (BaaS) solution that guards M365 components against data loss or corruption resulting from human or software error, malevolent sabotage, and cyber assaults such as ransomware. For more information, visit ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.
Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS ECHO automates your backup processes and allow rapid recovery of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class support to configure ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed backup and recovery.
ProSight DPS 360 Backup Solutions
Progent can assist you to design, deploy and troubleshoot a backup plan built around MSP360 software. MSP360 offers file/folder or image backup/restore for virtual machines and physical computers, works with all popular public clouds, and permits businesses to create a backup ecosystem with a low Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a defined RPO. With ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup, Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup environment to protect against data loss caused by human miscues, system errors, malicious insiders, and malware attacks like ransomware. To read more, see ProSight DPS 360 Backup services.
Consulting Services Double-Take Software for Backup/Restore
Double-Take Software offers a family of products intended to deliver small businesses a variety of cost-effective alternatives for replicating and restoring vital workloads including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning experts have in-depth backgrounds integrating Double-Take products into small business IT networks to achieve a high level of fault tolerance and disaster recovery capability at a budget-friendly price. To read more, go to Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Partner and offers professional application expertise for a wide variety of business software programs, Progent is able to help customers to find efficient IT solutions that substantially enhance the business value of your network. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent offers the services of premier engineers and specialists with experience in designing, installing and maintaining infrastructure environments based on Cisco products. The depth of Progent's IT know-how and Progent's familiarity with the needs of small and midsize businesses make Progent the ideal resource for creating and running an affordable, dependable information system.
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