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  DPM design for Hyper-V :

•  Incremental Backups Only – full only once
•  No More Backup Window – online backups
• Application consistency via VSS
• Protect Live Migration VMs in CSV clusters
• Protect whole VM, recover individual items
• Auto Protection of new VMs
• Routine backups – nightly or more frequently

Strategy to Deply DPM 2010 in Hyper-V/CSV environment :

1. Plan:

• Identify Project Requirements and scope
• Simulate using Hyper-V Calculator
• Review Hyper-V design guidelines & Best Practices
• Acquire VSS Hardware Provider & check environment with SDPM SAN Testing Tool:
  • Verify that the SAN supports hardware snapshots & is certified for DPM. 
  • http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2010/02/05/tested-hardware-vss-provider-table.aspx
  • Install the VSS hardware provider
  • Self Certifying your SAN. If your SAN is not in the certified list & you have a SAN, run the SCDPM SAN Testing Tool : StartCSVTests.cmd /run ( to be realeased yet )
• Validate a Pilot Environment
• Ready for Deployment
  • Integration components should be updated on both VMs.
  • Ensure that Live Migration is functional

  2. Deploy : Protected CSV server

• Install all recommended prerequisites:

• Failover Cluster Validation
• Enable Automount : Enable Auto mount on the host for successful child partition backups :  MOUNTVOL /E
• Install Hardware Provider:Ensure that VSS hardware providers are installed : vssadmin list providers
• Validate Hardware snapshots
• Use DSConfig Tool to serialize backups (for software snapshots providers only) : 
  ·   Problem:With software snapshots, simultaneous triggering of VM backups (especially scale deployments) will cause backup jobs to time out and fail.
  ·   Enable Per CSV LUN Serialization:This serialization limits the number of virtual machine backups happening on a single CSV LUN.Create a DataSourceGroups.xml file by running the DSConfig.ps1 script on any one node of a cluster containing CSV.Place the file in the DPM server at %PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft DPM\DPM\Config.Repeat step 1 for every cluster that is protected by a DPM server.The DataSourceGroups.xml file needs to be updated only when virtual machines are added, deleted, or modified in the cluster and protection is configured for them.

 3. Deploy  : DPM 2010 server

• Enable Hyper-V Role on DPM Server :DPM supports item-level recovery (ILR), which allows you to do granular recovery of files, folders, volumes, and virtual hard disks (VHDs) from a host-level backup of Hyper-V virtual machines to a network share or a volume on a DPM protected server. You must have the Hyper-V role enabled on the DPM server to perform item-level recoveries. During item-level recovery, DPM has to mount the VHDs of the protected virtual machines
• Install DPM server pre-requisites
• Install DPM 2010
• Turn off “TCP Chimney offload”For better throughput, TCP Chimney Offload should be turned off.
• Allocate Storage Pool & Deploy Agents
• Datasourcegroups.xml file:
  • Merge the DatasourceGroups.XML file for all CSVs protected by DPM server. This is applicable when software providers are used on the CSV cluster.
  •  Copy the <Group> tags from all the DataSourceGroup.xml files generated and add the text between the <DataSourceGroup> tags. The DataSourceGroups.xml file will now contain one <header> tag, one <DataSourceGroup> tag, and <Group> tags from all CSV clusters.
    

• Configure Protection Groups
  • DPM2010 provides Datasource caching for faster enquiry.
  •  Remember  to clear cache if new VMs have been added
• Enable AutoProtection:
  Script to Auto-add VMs : http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2009/12/03/hyper-v-protection-with-dpm-2010-beta-how-to-automatically-protect-new-virtual-machines.aspx