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Chris Butcher | Senior Support Escalation Engineer

Michael Vargo | Senior Support Escalation Engineer

One of the important features enabled in Windows 2012 is the ability to live migrate VMs anywhere.  Whether the VM migrating within a cluster, across clusters, standalone to standalone or standalone to cluster or vice versa, VM will not be paused or interrupted at the time of VM live migration.  This efficiency enables fabric administrators manage their fabric and load balance the environment and ensure that their private cloud deployments are running optimally.  While this provides freedom and flexibility for fabric administrators, this poses management problem for backup administrators.  As the fabric administrator leveraging these capabilities to optimize the fabric performance and taking these decisions independently backup administrators will not be aware of this until backup software fails to find the VM and so failing the backups.  This kind of dynamic fabric provides problems for the backup administrators. 

System Center 2012 SP1 - DPM has enabled data protection for Windows 2012 Private Cloud deployments.  Customers have been looking for a way to exclude some of the VHD/VHDX that have temp data or downloads or page files which have no value @ recovery time.  Based on this feedback, we have introduced a new feature called “exclude VHDX”, where customer can configure DPM to exclude some of the VHDs on their backup.  All backup admin has to do is run the following command on DPM server.

Hi! My name is Sai Balaji and I work with Microsoft Networking Support in Bangalore. I primarily help Premier Customers resolve their real time Windows Networking issues. The ‘push’ that I got to write this first post of mine goes back to my own experiences...(read more)