Answered dpm disk duplicates?

  • venerdì 4 maggio 2012 20:08
     
     

    hello,

    i have two disk of 1TB each other...

    when i go to Management ---> disk (i see my two disk correctly)

    if i see "protected data source on this disk", in disk 1 and in disk 2 i see the same things

    example: AD system state, and Exchange databases are in the two disk....

    if i go to protection and i count my space allocated, gives a total of 1TB but in management --> disks.... say that i have allocated 1,8 TB

    It looks like the two disks are dupolicating the data...

    i have dpm 2010 in windows server 2008 R2 64 bits with 2gb RAM. It is NOT a virtual machine. 

    help!!

    thanks

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  • venerdì 4 maggio 2012 23:44
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     Risposta suggerita

    Hi,

    DPM will place the replica volume for a data source on one disk, and place the recovery point volume on a seperate disk for performance reasons.  The "protected data source on this disk" shown for each DPM disk does not differentiate between a replica volume and a recovery point volume, so that is why it is showing on both disks.  


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  • lunedì 7 maggio 2012 17:05
     
     

    ok, but if i calculate the volumes space(replica volume + RP volume) it is 1TB....

    and i have allocated 1.8TB

    how explain that?

    thankss

  • lunedì 7 maggio 2012 19:24
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    Hi,

    Please download and run this powershell script: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2010/06/05/space-needed-to-migrate-a-disk.aspx

    It will shows for each datasource what disk # the replica and recovery point volumes are on.  In the output, just count the volumes that are physically located on that disk, so for migrating disk-1 - just count the volumes that are on that disk.   For Disk-2, just count the volumes that are on disk2.  If you don't do that, you will get double the space because the script is designed to show the disk space required to migrate to a new disk which always migrates both replica and RP volumes regardless of what disks they reside on.

    So in my example below, I would only count volumes with <count in front of it.

    PS C:\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\bin> space-needed-to-migrate-a-disk.PS1

    MigrateSpaceNeeded v1.5 evaluating 5 DPM disks...

     ==> Checking Datasources on Disk-1

     ==> to migrate Disk-1 you need 0.00 GB on the destination

     ==> Checking Datasources on Disk-2

          Computer\System Protection on computer MJLC-DC.nwtraders.com
             Replica volume Size  -    45.00 GB - Replica on Disk   5
             Recovery volume size -    36.56 GB - Recovey on Disk   2  <count

          N1-MB2 on computer MJLC-E14-1.nwtraders.com
             Replica volume Size  -    11.01 GB - Replica on Disk   3
             Recovery volume size -     3.62 GB - Recovey on Disk   2 <count
             Recovery volume size -     8.08 GB - Recovey on Disk   2 <count


    ==> Checking Datasources on Disk-3

          S:\Mountpoint on computer MJLC-DC.nwtaders.com
             Replica volume Size  -    10.00 GB - Replica on Disk   3 <count
             Replica volume Size  -     1.01 GB - Replica on Disk   3 <count
             Recovery volume size -     1.57 GB - Recovey on Disk   5
             Recovery volume size -    10.00 GB - Recovey on Disk   5

          MJLC-DPM02\MSDPM2010\DPMDB on computer MJLC-DPM02.nwtraders.com
             Replica volume Size  -    10.00 GB - Replica on Disk   3 <count
             Recovery volume size -    37.66 GB - Recovey on Disk   5

          N1-MB2 on computer MJLC-E14-1.nwtraders.com
             Replica volume Size  -    11.01 GB - Replica on Disk   3 <count
             Recovery volume size -     3.62 GB - Recovey on Disk   2
             Recovery volume size -     8.08 GB - Recovey on Disk   2

    etc etc.

    Those totals should be accurate for allocated disk space used by DPM.


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  • martedì 8 maggio 2012 14:40
     
     

    thanks!!

    in disk 1 and in disk 2 i have the same information.... the same values... the same space allocated....

    it looks that they are duplicated!!!!

    what i have to do?

    thanks again

  • martedì 8 maggio 2012 16:23
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     Con risposta

    Hi,

    We have NEVER seen that condition occur, please open a support case to investigate the issue.


    If you want to pursue this immediatly, you can visit the following web site to open a support incident. The charge to your CC will not be processed until your case is resolved and closed, if it's a code defect in the DPM then we wave all charges.

    Solution Center: System Center Data Protection Manager
                     http://support.microsoft.com/ph/9765#tab0

    http://support.microsoft.com/select/Default.aspx?target=assistance

    In the Quick product finder, enter: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

    In the next screen, chose the option that applies.


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  • martedì 8 maggio 2012 17:23
     
     
    do you want i to post the images?