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DPM 2007 -- Calculating Disk Allocation

When you create a new Protection Group using the “Create Protection Group” wizard, DPM internally computes and allocates volumes for storing the replica and the shadow copies. This blog post enumerates the various formulae that we use internally to generate the default size.

 

File system datasource

SC size = (dataSourceSize * recoveryRangeInDays * 2) / 100 + 1 GB;

Replica size = (dataSourceSize * 3) / 2;

 

SQL DB

Replica size = dataSourceSize * (1 + LogChange) / (AlertThreshold - .05);

SC size = 2.5 * recoveryRangeInDays * LogChange * dataSourceSize + 1 GB

 

Exchange SG

replicasize = dataSourceSize * (1 + LogChange) / (AlertThreshold - .05);

SCSize = 4.0 * recoveryRangeInDays * LogChange * dataSourceSize + 1GB

 

where

Log change = 0.06

Alertthreshold = 0.9

 

- Mukul Singh Shekawat

Published Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:36 AM by dpm

Comments

Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:17 AM by Keif

# re: DPM v2: Disk Allocation Calculations

dataSourceSize is that in MB or GB, or even bytes?

Friday, March 28, 2008 3:04 PM by GradonSilverton

# re: DPM v2: Disk Allocation Calculations

Keif,

Since we haven't seen anything to cover File, SQL, etc. like the Exchange Spreadsheet, I had to create one of my own... dataSourceSize is in GB. As an Example,

Data Size = 9.15 GB (or 9150 MB), Recovery Range = 5

Replica=(9.15*3)/2=13.73 GB

Recov. Points=(9.15*5*2)/100+1=1.92 GB

This Seems to work for me, but hopefully we will be able to get our hands on a Excel SpreadSheet that inclused File, SQL, SharePoint, Etc. along with Exchange.

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