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See Also

Calculating Capacity Requirements

Defining Custom Volumes

In DPM 2007, you can assign a custom volume to a protection group member, in place of the

DPM storage pool. A custom volume is a volume that is not in the DPM storage pool and is

specified to store the replica and recovery points for a protection group member.

Although the DPM-managed storage pool is sufficient for most business needs, you might want a

greater amount of control over storage for specific data sources. For example, you have critical

data that you want to store using a high-performance logical unit number (LUN) on a storage area

network.

Any volume that is attached to the DPM server can be selected as a custom volume in the Create

New Protection Group Wizard, except the volume that contains the system and program files. To

use custom volumes for a protection group member, two custom volumes must be available: one

volume to store the replica and one volume to store the recovery points.

DPM cannot manage the space in custom volumes. If DPM alerts you that a custom replica

volume or recovery point volume is running out of space, you must manually change the size of

the custom volume by using Disk Management.

You cannot change the selection of storage pool or custom volume for a protection group

member after the group is created. If you must change the storage location for a data source's

replica or recovery points, you can do so only by removing the data source from protection and

then adding it to a protection group as a new protection group member.

See Also

Calculating Capacity Requirements

Planning the Tape Libraries Configuration

You can add tape libraries and stand-alone tape drives to DPM to enable short-term and long-

term data protection on tape. The tape libraries and stand-alone tape drives must be physically

attached to the DPM server.