Administrator Guide
About the DR Series System
The Dell DR Series system is a backup and recovery solution designed to reduce your backup data footprint by using a
number of comprehensive backup and deduplication operations that optimize storage savings. The DR Series system is
available in the following models:
• DR2000v—a Virtual Machine (VM) template for ESX and Hyper-V.
• DR4000—which consists of pre-installed DR Series system software on a Dell PowerEdge R510 appliance platform.
• DR4100—which consists of preinstalled DR Series system software on a Dell PowerEdge R720xd appliance platform.
• DR6000—which consists of preinstalled DR Series system software on a Dell PowerEdge R720xd appliance platform.
This differs from the DR4100 by including a higher level of base system hardware.
• DR4300e—which consists of preinstalled DR Series system software on a modified Dell PowerEdge R730xd
appliance platform.
• DR4300—which consists of preinstalled DR Series system software on a modified Dell PowerEdge R730xd appliance
platform and offers a higher base capacity than the DR4300e.
• DR6300—which consists of preinstalled DR Series system software on a modified Dell R730xd appliance platform
and offers a higher base capacity than the DR4300.
The DR Series system consists of the following components:
• Software — System software is pre-installed, which supports record linkage and context-based lossless data
compression methods.
• Hardware/VM — The hardware and virtual appliances that support the DR Series systems are listed below:
– DR2000v system: a VM template in various capacities for ESX and HyperV that can be deployed on existing VM
infrastructure.
– DR4000 system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two
power supplies for power redundancy, and two cabled 2.5-inch SAS drives for the operating system. The
operating system is installed on two 2.5–inch internal drives that are in a RAID 1 configuration in the DR4000
system.
– DR4100 system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two
power supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.
– DR6000 system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two
power supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.
– DR4300e system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two
power supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.
– DR4300 system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two
power supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.
– DR6300 system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two
power supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.
NOTE: For the DR4000, DR4100 and DR6000 systems, there is a global hot spare for both OS and data drives.
For the DR4300e, DR4300 and DR6300 systems, there is a dedicated hot spare for data drives only (and not for
OS drives).
NOTE: For slot locations for the twelve 3.5–inch drives in the hardware appliance-based DR Series system
types, see the topic, “DR Series System and Data Operations.”
• Expansion shelf—The hardware system appliance supports the addition of external Dell PowerVault MD1200 (for
DR4000, DR4100, DR6000 systems) and MD1400 (for DR4300e, DR4300, DR6300 systems) data storage expansion shelf
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