Deployment checklist

 

Updated: May 14, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager

This checklist includes the tasks required to deploy DPM

Task	Reference
Make sure you’ve read through System Requirements and the planning guides	System requirements  Plan DPM server deployment  Plan DPM storage  Plan for data backup and protection  Plan for data recovery
Set up data storage—Set up tapes for long-term and short-term storage. Set up disks, and optionally Azure, for short-term storage. Be sure you have prerequisites in place before you begin deployment.	Set up data backup storage
Get the protection agent installed and running on computers and servers you want to protect.	Set up the protection agent
Organize the data sources into protection groups. After protection groups are created initial replication of sources you want to protect occurs, and then backup and synchronization between source data and replicas will begin in accordance with data types and protection group settings. The deployment section has walkthroughs for creating protection groups for specific Microsoft workloads.	Configure protection groups