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SCDPM 2012 SP1 in a LAB – Configuration (Part A – Add Disks)

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Configure System Center Data Protection Manager – Add Disks

Adding a Physical Disk to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
NOTE: Some of these steps will need to be completed on the physical Hyper-V host, and others will be completed in the DPM VM after you have installed the Operating System.

 

In order for DPM to be able to use a hard drive for backups, it needs to be attached to the DPM system only. For example, even though we have virtual machine running DPM, we cannot use .VDHX hard drives.

 

That means we need a physical disk from the Hyper-V host to be made available to the DPM VM.

It is important to note that if you have a hard drive that is present and visible to the physical Hyper-V host, you won’t be able to connect it to the VM.

Here’s a screenshot of the Disk Management console on my physical host machine. You will note that there are 2 disks that are Offline. I am going to use one of these for my DPM backup storage.


DPM HDD 01.png


In looking at my DPM VM settings, I have added another IDE Hard Drive. I have set the drive to Physical Hard Disk, and as you can see in the screenshot, I can choose one of the 2 drives that were Offline in my physical host. If any of those drivers were Online on the host, although Unallocated, they would not appear in the selection.

DPM HDD 02.png


Now on my DPM VM system in File Explorer, you can see that although we added that physical disk in the Hyper-V settings, it is not appearing in the system.

DPM HDD 03.png


We need to launch the Disk Management console. When it opens, you will see the physical disk that we attached, but notice that it is also ‘Offline’.

DPM HDD 04.png


We need to right-click on the Offline disk, and choose ‘Online’.

DPM HDD 05.png


You will notice that even though the disk is now Online, that the space is still Unallocated. This is fine as DPM will prepare the disk when we add it to the tool.

DPM HDD 06.png




Add Disks to DPM
Now that we have a physical disk available to the VM, we need to add disk(s) to the DPM tool.

Start by launching the DPM console. Within the console, click on Management.

Add Disk To DPM 01.png


In the Management space, click on Disks.

Add Disk To DPM 02.png


In the toolbar at the top, click on Add.

Add Disk To DPM 03.png


In the Add Disks to Storage Pool dialog, locate the disk(s) you want to include, and click the Add button. When you have added all the disks you want, click OK.

Add Disk To DPM 04.png


You may encounter the following Warning message. Click Yes.

Add Disk To DPM 05.png


Once the disk(s) have been added, they will appear in the DPM console, ready for use.

Add Disk To DPM 06.png

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