Data Protection Manager 2006 System Requirements

Data Protection Manager 2006 Server Requirements

Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006 is designed to run on a dedicated, single-purpose server. The server must not be a domain controller or application server, and must not double as the host for the DPM Management Pack.

The DPM server must have at least two disks installed: one that is dedicated to the system and DPM installation files, and one that is dedicated to the storage pool. The DPM server must be running Windows Server 2003 (Standard or Enterprise Edition) with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or later installed.

File Server Requirements

DPM 2006 can protect stand-alone file servers only; clustered file servers cannot be protected. Protected file servers can have only one of the following operating systems installed:

• Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later

• Windows Storage Server 2003 with SP1 or later

• Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 (SP4) and Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4 installed (This includes the configuration of Windows 2000 Server on Windows Powered Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices)

Note: For information about Windows 2000 Update Rollup Pack 1, see Frequently Asked Questions About the Windows 2000 Update Rollup Announcement.

DPM can protect file servers running Services for UNIX or Services for Network File System, providing that case insensitivity for file names has not been disabled on the server. For information about case insensitivity, see Windows Help and Support.

DPM requires enough free space on each protected volume on the file server to store the DPM synchronization log. By default, the synchronization log is 10 percent of the total capacity of the protected volume, or at least 500 MB. The file server must also have free space for installation of the DPM file agent, approximately 1 MB.

DPM supports using any of the following sources for file server storage capacity:

• Direct attached storage (DAS).

• Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN).

• Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage device or SAN; the iSCSI target must have received Windows Hardware Certification.

Network Requirements

• The DPM server and the file servers it protects must be members of the same Active Directory domain.

• The domain controllers must be running either Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Server.

• If you plan to enable end-user recovery in a Windows 2000 domain, the domain controller must be running Service Pack 3 or later with schema modifications enabled.

End-User Recovery Requirements

To enable the end-user recovery feature, a member of the Schema Admins group on the domain must configure Active Directory.

DPM 2006 supports end-user recovery on computers running the 32-bit or the 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), and computers running the 32-bit, 64-bit, or Itanium-based version of Windows Server 2003. For more information about the shadow copy client software for DPM, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 903234.