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As long as your tape library is supported in DPM it should work fine, we use DPM 2010 SP1 for Exchange, Sql and Hyperv to disk and tape. Ehren J. Benson, MCSE Windows Systems Administrator Department of Physics and Astronomy [log in to unmask] 517-884-5469 -----Original Message----- From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 3:44 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Backup Solutions for a Relatively Small Hyper-V Shop? DPM 2010 is licensed per agent I believe. It does full image backups of Hyper-V. I have DPM 2007 deployed at a personal client and it works well. The Standard agent only backs up files / folders while the more advanced (enterprise I think?) agent is required for doing anything that would be snapshotted, like Hyper-V, SQL, Exchange, etc. There's also a desktop agent if you want to back up your workstations. Primary restriction with DPM is it's very disk-centric - tape is kind of an afterthought. If you have a tape infrastructure be aware that you'll pretty much be giving it up. Also, it manages disk itself - you'll have to assign some sort of disk to it (physical, RAID lun, etc) which it will then use as a DPM storage pool. It's very good at managing itself but it's something to be aware of. ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 1/31/11 2:52 PM, "Al Puzzuoli" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >The subject basically says it all. I need to decide whether to upgrade >our backup Exec licenses, or move to another solution. On one hand, >Backup Exec seems overly complicated, overly priced, and too >tape-centric. On the other, maybe I should just stick with the devil I >know. >I only need to worry about 2 physical servers, and several, probably no >more than 5 or 6 Hyper-V VMs. >BackupAssist http://www.backupassist.com is relatively inexpensive, >simple and Hyper-V aware. Another option I am looking at is Microsoft >System Center: Data Protection Manager; However, I need to do more >research into how it is priced and licensed before seriously >considering it. >Any thoughts? > >Thanks, > >--Al