Hi,
Some clarification about the 10K mailbox limit.
DPM 2012 (and later versions) have a storage pool size limit of 120 terabytes (TB). There is an 80 TB limit for DPM replica volumes and a 40 TB limit for recovery point volumes. When protecting a large Exchange deployment, it’s important to know
the user mailbox size limit and the number of users or mailboxes. This information determines the maximum size or number of Exchange databases that can be protected by a single DPM server and keeps you within the supported limits.
Use the number of users assigned to a database and their mailbox limits to calculate the maximum size possible for each Exchange database. For example, if the maximum size of a user’s mailbox is 8 GB, a single DPM server can protect up to 10,000 mailboxes.
If the maximum size of a user’s mailbox is > 8 GB, or if you need to protect more than 10,000 users’ mailboxes, the Exchange server must be configured using DAG and requires additional DPM servers to provide full protection. Be aware that an Exchange
node can only be protected by a single DPM server; therefore, the number of Exchange nodes should be equal to or greater than the number of DPM servers required to protect all Exchange databases.
Now - if you want to move protection for some databases on a certain NODE to another DPM Server this is easily done by performing the following steps.
1) On DPM1 - Stop protection of the exchange databases that are being protected on the NODE you want to protect with DPM2. Retain replica so recoveries can be made if needed until the new DPM2 server starts protection.
2) For the NODE you just removed from protection for, disable the DPM agent on DPM1 so it no longer tries to refresh the agent. You can switch back later if you need do a restore.
3) On the NODE you want to protect with DPM2, open an administrative command prompt and CD to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\bin" folder.
4) Run: Setdpmserver -dpmservername DPM2
5) On DPM2 - Attach the NODE agent.
6) Start protection of the databases hosted on NODE.
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