This Technical Report describes the benefits of using SAN storage with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 (DPM), a server software application that provides near-continuous data protection and optimizes disk-based backup and recovery operations. Intelligent PS Series storage arrays provide fast setup, automated management, easy scalability, multipath I/O support, SAN boot support, and remote volume replication. This makes a PS Series group an iSCSI SAN consisting of one or more arrays connected to an IP network an excellent choice for the storage pool resources used in DPM configurations. Not only does a PS Series SAN improve storage utilization efficiency and availability, it also delivers flexibility and ease-of-management regardless of SAN scale.
