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Apr

DPM Scale-Out Protection for Hyper-V

Categories: Data Protection Manager, DPM, Hyper-V

One of the new features in service pack 1 for Data Protection Manager 2012 is the ability to scale out the protection of Hyper-V Clusters

Before SP1 there was a one to one relationship between a Hyper-V cluster and a DPM server , this had a impact of scale so the limiting factor in a Hyper-V cluster was the back engine.

There are a few limitations for this feature

It needs to be a fresh DPM install no upgraded

There is no support for DPM chaining

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj656645.aspx

On the first install DPM server we push the agents to the Hyper-V hosts

And then on each of the Hyper-V Nodes

setdpmserver –add –dpmservername dpm02

On the next DPM server go to Agents – Install

Attach Agent Computer on trusted domain

Select the hyper-v nodes

And Attach them to the second DPM server

And we can now on both DPM servers attach VM’s for protection , note that there is no logic preventing your from double protecting a VM so make sure that the VM is only protected from one DPM server

Error 3184: DPM could not run the backup/recovery job for the data source because it is owned by a different DPM server.
Data source: \Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\AZ01
Owner DPM Server: DPM02.internal.systemcenterdemo.dk.

So adding the same VM to mutiple DPM servers wont work , so adding VM’s to the DPM server should be automated to prevent fault

And after adding a DPM server more we now

have the same Hyper-V cluster protected with 3 DPM server , scale limit is 800ish VM pr DPM server but we are likely to hit the storage limit before that so scale-out is your friend.

Apr

HP 3PAR vs Operations Manager (part1)

Categories: 3PAR, Operations Manager, SCOM

Comments: No

There are several ways to monitor your HP 3PAR , both with its call home features and 3PAR monitoring console , where you can drill down to each counter and feature and monitor/tweak each setting

But for the day to day monitoring we “just” want to know if the system is healthy and leave the deep level for the storage teams

For this we can use the integration from HP Storage Management Pack and get our 3PAR shown in the same Operations Manager Console as the rest of our enterprise is looking at.

Download the newest version of the HP Storage Management Pack , download can be found at https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=SCOM ,( free login required)

For this install the Management Pack was installed directly on a management group server

Select the path for the Operations Manager install

The Management Pack have integrations for all major HP storage products , here only 3PAR is required (this is improvement from the old MP’s that imported everything)

Shouldn’t take more than a few minutes

Success ! Smile

in the 3PAR management console , create a user for monitoring purpose

3PARMonitor with the browse security role , during testing we had a issue with passwords containing some “!§ chars like this but due to time constrains we didn’t see if was the 3PAR or the Configiration Tool that had the limitation

Note the IP address for the 3PAR system

Start the HP Storage Management Pack Tool , add the IP address of the management server (in this case the same server as its installed on)

Add HP Storage System

Enter the IP address and the credentials from the newly created monitor user

Verify that the 3PAR is listed and close the tool

In Operations Manager , Object Discoveries select the two discovery rules and override and enable them

on the management server that have the configuration tool installed

After 600 seconds later we now have the the 3PAR in our diagram view , next is the integration with the SNMP traps from 3PAR more to follow

Apr

Hyper-V Recovery Manager (Preview)

Categories: Disaster Recovery, Hyper-V

Comments: No

Marcel van der Berg posted about the new Hyper-V recovery Manager

http://up2v.nl/2013/04/08/disaster-recovery-of-on-premise-hyper-v-virtual-machines-using-windows-azure-recovery-services/

Read his brilliant post and then

If you would like to be considered for this program please complete the Microsoft survey located here. Thank you in advance for your responses! We will only be contacting those of you that have been accepted to participate.

Go Click NOW Smiley

Apr

Virtual Machine Manager Error 801

Categories: Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager, VMM

Comments: No

I recently ran into a problem when deploying new machines either from a template or a “empty” machine

Error 801 Ensure the library object is valid and then try the operation again , looking at the library server there was access I could open the files no errors at all.

Bing Search to the rescue

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2756886

When performing any operation on a virtual machine (VM) in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), the job fails with the following error:
VMM cannot find the Virtual hard disk object’ error 801

That sounds like a spot on match

Resolution