Hi,
We have a 11 SharePoint servers farm we want to backup:
2 CA's, 3 WFE (Anon), 3 WFE (Edit) and 1 WFE for scanning to a cloud (in case of hackers attack) (fast 4 SharePoint is our search engine). 1 SQL Server (ent) Cluster (2 servers).
Because of Information Security and some other reasons (the subnet that the original name resides in is blocked from the farms location), the SQL Cluster uses a DNS Alias (instead of SQL Alias) to use a different subnet than the original name has.
I know that with DPM 2010 it wasn't possible to backup using an SQL DNS Alias, but im not sure about 2012 sp1.
After i configured the servers with all the prerequisites for sharepoint content backup to work, i tried to configure the backup of the farm through the management console and it tells me that "DPM cannot protect some of your datasources until you install agents on the following servers: SQLserver.mycompany.com (ID: 956).
ofcourse the agent is well configured on the SQL Cluster with all the right rights.
If i configure an SQL Alias on the WFE's, it can connect to the database through the farm but then users get "Cannot connect to content database" because of the mixture of DNS and SQL Alias.
so... does anyone knows if DPM 2012 somehow supports SQL DNS Alias or just SQL Alias?
does anyone thinks of a solution for this problem?
if you need any more information ill do my best to deliver it.
thank you very much,
Guy