Upgrade to System Center 2012 R2 - DPM
Updated: May 13, 2016
Data Protection Manager (DPM) running on System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) can be upgraded to Data Protection Manager (DPM) running on System Center 2012 R2. This topic describes prerequisites and deployment steps for the upgrade.
Warning
If you are upgrading two or more System Center components, you must follow the procedures that are documented in the Upgrade Sequencing for System Center 2012 R2 topic.
The order in which you perform component upgrades is very important. Failure to follow the correct upgrade sequence might result in component failure for which no recovery options exist. The affected System Center components are:
- Orchestrator
- Service Manager
- Data Protection Manager (DPM)
- Operations Manager
- Configuration Manager
- Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
- App Controller