Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered by CommVault A Dell White Paper CENTRALIZED DATA MANAGEMENT FOR REMOTE AND BRANCH OFFICE (ROBO) ENVIRONMENTS
CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 RETURN ON INVESTMENT OF CENTRALIZING DATA MANAGEMENT 3 APPLICATION-AWARENESS ENSURES DATA COHERENCY 4 FLEXIBLE SOLUTION OPTIONS THAT FIT ANY REMOTE SITE 5 BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION 6 CONCLUSION 7
BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2000 –POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The proliferation of remote and branch office environments continues to increase pressure on IT infrastructures and teams.
BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2000 – POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION However, until now, this type of approach has been too complex for many organizations to deploy. In particular, IT teams with limited resources have been reluctant to change what they have done to protect remote site data because of concerns with network costs and security of the data, and because adding replication software required to centralize data from remote sites has not been simple enough.
BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE POWERVAULT DL2000 – POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION RETURN ON INVESTMENT OF CENTRALIZING DATA MANAGEMENT The combination of backup‐to‐disk, data deduplication and remote replication solves the typical problems associated with managing data at remote sites.
BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2000 – POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION Example of a comprehensive solution: When sufficient knowledge of the remote clients and applications is built into the replication stream, then comprehensive management of centralized data is possible. CommVault Simpana software tracks replication to individual clients and applications, and includes these systems and data in standard backup and recovery reports generated at the central location.
BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2000 – POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION How does Deduplication work with Remote Replication? CommVault Simpana software is built from a common set of re‐usable services which have been optimized for modern data management. These include advanced data backup and recovery, archive, encryption, compression and deduplication. Each individual service and capability offers its own compelling advantage.
BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2000 – POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION APPLICATION-AWARENESS ENSURES DATA COHERENCY For supported applications, Continuous Data Replicator (CDR) will assist in configuring Replication Pair content by discovering directories that should be replicated (logs, databases, and so forth) to protect the application's data. After data for these applications has been replicated, you can browse and access the Live Copy of the data.
BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2000 – POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION CONTINUOUS DATA REPLICATOR (CDR) RECOVERY POINTS High availability of protected data in a consistent state is also available by creating Recovery Points, through the use of snapshots created on the destination machine. These Recovery Points can be mounted, shared as a volume on the network, or recovered using Copyback.
BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2000 – POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION FLEXIBLE SOLUTION OPTIONS THAT FIT ANY REMOTE SITE Data Replication is the process of copying specified, file‐level content from one computer, the source computer, to another, the destination computer. This is achieved through an initial transfer of the specified data, after which the replicated copy is kept updated in nearly real time with any changes that are made to the data on the source computer.
BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2000 – POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION The Remote Office Backup solution is designed to seamlessly replicate data from remote offices to a centralized data center, where it is stored on a magnetic library (disk) for ready access. Consolidating all backup data at the centralized data center provides redundancy for disaster recovery, as well as an alternate source for normal data recovery operations.
BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2000 – POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION A typical Remote Office Backup solution is shown in the illustration. Software is deployed on a MediaAgent located at a remote office, and a MediaAgent located at the centralized data center. Thus, there is no impact on end users and client computers, since all operations involve MediaAgents only.
CONCLUSION Working with CommVault, Dell has created an integrated storage solution with replication capabilities that enable better management for data from remote and branch office sites. Centralizing this data for management enables backup systems and devices to be retired from branch environments, along with maintenance contracts and tape rotation services, for immediate dramatic cost savings.
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