Update Rollup 1 for SCDPM 2016

Microsoft has just released Update Rollup 1 for DPM 2016 and with that comes two announcements:


Announcing Modern DPM Storage

After you install this update, you can store backups by using Modern DPM Storage technology. Using Resilient File System (ReFS) block-cloning technology to store incremental backups, System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager significantly improves storage usage and performance. Here are some benefits:

• 30-40 percent savings in storage
• Backups that are 70 percent faster with Modern DPM Storage
• Ability to configure workloads for storage on certain volumes
• Backup storage inline with the production data source 

Announcing RCT based Hyper-V VM backups

System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager uses RCT based change tracking, by using Windows Server 2016. This makes backups more reliable, scalable, and improves backup performance. System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager also enables you to do the following:

• Meet backup SLAs during cluster operating system rolling upgrade
• Seamlessly protect and recover Shielded VMs
• Protect VMs stored on Storage Spaces Direct
• Protect VMs stored on ReFS-based SOFS clusters

Download UR1 for DPM 2016 here