Dell PowerVault DL2100 Powered by CommVault A Dell White Paper BACKUP-TO-DISK AND RECOVERY WITH DEDUPLICATION
CONTENTS 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 THE DELL PV DL2100 POWERED BY COMMVAULT 3 CAPITAL AND OPERATIONAL COST SAVINGS WITH DEDUPLICATION 4 WHAT IS DEDUPLICATION? 5 EASY INSTALLATION AND MANAGEMENT IDEAL FOR SMB’S 6 IMPROVED BACKUP PERFORMANCE DECREASES BACKUP WINDOW REQUIREMENTS 7 ELIMINATE THE VIRTUAL TAPE LIBRARY TAX 7 RECOVER INDIVIDUAL FILES AND EMAILS 8 CONTROL PRODUCTION STORAGE COSTS BY MOVING INFREQUENTLY ACCESSED FILES TO THE DL2100 9 BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH COMMVAULT SIMPANA R
BACKUP-TO-DISK AND RECOVERY WITH DEDUPLICATION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A growing number of IT managers are concerned that traditional backup methods aren’t keeping up with the needs of the business. Existing backup and recovery operations often fail due to media management issues and human error associated with legacy tape backup methods. As data continues to explode within environments, IT is having trouble meeting backup windows with standard tapebased solutions.
BACKUP-TO-DISK AND RECOVERY WITH DEDUPLICATION Branch A Branch B SQL or Exchange Server To meet high recovery SLA’s within your branch office. PowerVault DL2100 Powered by CommVault Eliminates tapes at remote offices using CommVault Replication to create a copy on a centralized DL2100. PowerVault DL2100 Powered by CommVault Central Site Single Console to manage replication, backup and archive FEATURE 4 BENEFITS Scalable Backup-to-Disk Up to 1.
BACKUP-TO-DISK AND RECOVERY WITH DEDUPLICATION CAPITAL AND OPERATIONAL COST SAVINGS WITH DEDUPLICATION Easy-to-Quantify Capital Cost Savings Although the acquisition cost of disk is still higher than tape, low-cost, high density SATA drives have reduced the price difference significantly.
BACKUP-TO-DISK AND RECOVERY WITH DEDUPLICATION WHAT IS DEDUPLICATION? Easy-to-Quantify Capital Cost Savings Backups are notorious for containing a tremendous amount of duplicate data. The same data continues to get backed up day after day, unnecessarily consuming large amounts of storage space. For example, consider a Word document sitting in a file share folder that is part of a completed project. Chances are that it will not be altered ever again.
BACKUP-TO-DISK AND RECOVERY WITH DEDUPLICATION EASY INSTALLATION AND MANAGEMENT IDEAL FOR SMB’S Traditional backup-to-disk solutions have required multiple products from different vendors, often overwhelming smaller IT organizations. Configuring such solutions can be difficult, timeconsuming and prone to errors. The PV DL2100 powered by CommVault is an appliance that incorporates both hardware and software.
BACKUP-TO-DISK AND RECOVERY WITH DEDUPLICATION IMPROVED BACKUP PERFORMANCE DECREASES BACKUP WINDOW REQUIREMENTS Managing tapes is a complex, high-maintenance process fraught with the potential for errors. Backups to tape often exceed their backup window, and a high percentage of tape-based backups fail due to media or handling issues. Worst yet restores stretching over many tapes drives longer and longer recovery windows.
BACKUP-TO-DISK AND RECOVERY WITH DEDUPLICATION RECOVER INDIVIDUAL FILES AND EMAILS Recovering a single file from tape can take several minutes to several hours. For example, recovery performance is greatly impacted by tape availability (e.g. whether it is within the tape library or offsite in a box somewhere). In addition, traditional backup and recovery applications will require the recovery of entire systems – even if only one file is needed.
BACKUP-TO-DISK AND RECOVERY WITH DEDUPLICATION CONTROL PRODUCTION STORAGE COSTS BY MOVING INFREQUENTLY ACCESSED FILES TO THE DL2100 CommVault Simpana offers a singular platform that delivers complete information management from one product and interface. As a result, customers can easily add CommVault Simpana Archive to their DL2100 investment to seamlessly add archiving policies to control the size and growth of the production environment.
BACKUP-TO-DISK AND RECOVERY WITH DEDUPLICATION Branch Office Consolidation with CommVault Simpana Replication Backup and recovery of company data at primary sites typically places high demands on the resources of a company’s IT department. The result is that data protection is neglected at the smaller, remote sites even though information at these regional offices or branch offices may be as important as that found at the primary data center.
BACKUP-TO-DISK AND RECOVERY WITH DEDUPLICATION Integrated Tape Support for Disaster Recovery and Vaulting Tape can still play a valuable role in your protection strategy when it is no longer the primary data copy to service your recovery window. Demands for offsite DR protection or selective vaulting for compliance requirements can drive the need to seamlessly integrate tape copies directly into your backup retention policies.
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