Modifying Workloads

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

DPM offers several methods that you can use to modify protection workloads to improve performance. The following table lists the methods you can use and indicates what you can expect from each method.

Methods for Modifying Protection Workloads

Method	Impact
Network bandwidth usage throttling	Causes jobs to use less bandwidth, but they take longer to complete.
On-the-wire compression	Reduces size of data transfer but increases CPU utilization on the DPM server and the protected computers.
Staggering synchronization start times	Balances the loads of synchronization jobs across protection groups.
Scheduling consistency checks during off-peak hours	Prevents DPM from interfering with regular business use of protected computers.
Creating replicas manually	Might make replica creation faster. There is no performance load on the protected computer or network resources. However, the first consistency check will impact performance of the protected computer.

In This Section

Using Network Bandwidth Usage Throttling

Using On-the-Wire Compression

Staggering Synchronization Start Times

Scheduling Consistency Checks

Creating Replicas Manually

See Also

Concepts

Increasing Capacity
Managing Performance