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MS DPM 2010 Client install ports

31 Jan

After installing the DPM server you need to add clients to protect. You will need to install the client on the computer you want to protect. You can do this from the DPM server but it requires that you add the following incoming firewall rules.

Protocol Port Details
DCOM 135/TCP
Dynamic		 The DPM control protocol uses DCOM. DPM issues commands to the protection agent by invoking DCOM calls on the agent. The protection agent responds by invoking DCOM calls on the DPM server.

TCP port 135 is the DCE endpoint resolution point used by DCOM.

By default, DCOM assigns ports dynamically from the TCP port range of 1024 through 65535. However, you can configure this range by using Component Services. For more information, see Using Distributed COM with Firewalls(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=46088).
TCP 5718/TCP
5719/TCP		 The DPM data channel is based on TCP. Both DPM and the protected computer initiate connections to enable DPM operations such as synchronization and recovery.

DPM communicates with the agent coordinator on port 5718 and with the protection agent on port 5719.
DNS 53/UDP Used between DPM and the domain controller, and between the protected computer and the domain controller, for host name resolution.
Kerberos 88/UDP 88/TCP Used between DPM and the domain controller, and between the protected computer and the domain controller, for authentication of the connection endpoint.
LDAP 389/TCP
389/UDP		 Used between DPM and the domain controller for queries.
NetBIOS 137/UDP
138/UDP
139/TCP
445/TCP		 Used between DPM and the protected computer, between DPM and the domain controller, and between the protected computer and the domain controller, for miscellaneous operations. Used for SMB directly hosted on TCP/IP for DPM functions.
 
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MS DPM 2010 Evalution

31 Jan

In the past I have used Retrospect (now owned by Roxio) as a backup for servers and workstations. It’s OK. It does backup the data and I have successfully restored data with it. But the interfaces is poor. As of 01/2011 Retrospect does not support Exchange 2010 database backups.

A good looking alternative is Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager, DPM 2010. You must set up an additional server to run DPM. Then download and install the 180-day trial here.

DPM offers volume and system state backups as well as bare metal restore. It’s also application aware, Exchange, MS SQL, SAP, Sharepoint.

It sounds great and from my experience so far it is very easy to use. Cost is much lower than some other 3rd party utilities with similar features.

 
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Configure NFS for VM datastore

28 Jan

If you are trying to add a datastore to vCenter and receive the error:

Call “HostDatastoreSystem.CreateNasDatastore” for object ….

it is likely due to permissions. You can check the log on the ESX host /var/log/vmkernel

On the NFS server check the configuration of /etc/exports

You will want to make sure you give full access to the ESX host that will use this datastore.

Example – Setting permissions on the directory /backups, allowing the network 192.168.0.1/24, read write permission without root squashing (allow the client to map and act as root):

/backups 192.168.0.1/24(rw,no_root_squash)

After you will need to commit these changes.

service nfs-kernal-server restart
exportfs -a

Now attempt to map the NFS datastore through vCenter again. If it still fails you may want to make sure you aren’t blocking any specific IP address in the /etc/hosts.deny config file.

 
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Windows 7: Quick access to network adapters

25 Jan

In Windows XP there were quite a few ways to access your network adapters. In Windows 7, it seems you have to go Network and Sharing center and then to Change Adapter Settings.

Well a quicker way is to go to Start > Run and run the command ncpa.cpl

You can also use windows search to locate ncpa.cpl and create a shortcut to it on your desktop.

 
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NK2 edit and import – Outlook 2003 2010

18 Jan

Outlook has a nice feature that auto completes addresses that you have used in the past. There are a couple of reasons why you would want to edit this list.

- Some address you rarely type is very similar to and address you type a lot but the one you don’t use comes up first.
- If you recreate a mailbox in Exchange the system address may change and the cached address will no long work.
- You may have typed an email address wrong and now both the correct and incorrect email addresses are stored.

Outlook 2010 does not use the .nk2 file. Before importing the old .nk2 file into Outlook 2010 you may want to clean up the entries per the reasons above. To do this you need to download/install NK2 Editor

Make the changes to the file that you need and then save.

To import the NK2 file, Close outlook. Copy it from C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook on the old profile/system to C:\%user name%\%appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook on the new profile/system

Open a run dialog and start outlook with the following command:
outlook.exe /importnk2

 
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