CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT DELL POWERVAULT DL 2000 POWERED BY SYMANTEC
Centralized Management EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The PowerVault DL2000– Powered by Symantec Backup Exec offers the industry’s only fully integrated backup-to-disk solution with software factory installed. Dell and Symantec have codeveloped this offering to give you easier management capabilities of the backup-to-disk environment. It’s an ideal way for any IT department to achieve faster, more reliable backups and restores.
Centralized Management PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS The Central Admin Server Option (CASO) creates a one‐to‐many relationship between a central administration server (CAS) and the managed media servers. This dramati‐ cally reduces administration time, while increasing the resiliency and visibility of Backup Exec software in a Windows environment.
Centralized Management HOW IT WORKS CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW The Backup Exec Central Admin Server Option transforms your stand-alone Backup Exec media server–based environment into a centrally managed data protection solution. In the CASOenabled environment, the central administration server provides a single point of management and administration for the Backup Exec environment. The CAS is where you make decisions on what data and servers are to be protected in your environment.
Centralized Management HOW IT WORKS CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW (CONT.
Centralized Management FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF CASO (CONT.) Figure: Centralized Console Prior Version Support CASO maintains N-1 backward compatibility with existing Backup Exec and PowerVault DL Backup-to-Disk deployments in the environment. The Central Admin Server must be running the latest version of Backup Exec and can manage media servers running the prior version (N-1) of Backup Exec.
Centralized Management FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF CASO (CONT.) RESILIENCY Disconnected managed media server To reduce network traffic, or if there is no persistent network connection with the CAS, managed media servers can be configured to operate independently from the CAS while maintaining a level of centralization. This is ideal for remote branch offices where network connectivity may be intermittent.
Centralized Management FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF CASO (CONT.) • Replicated—All catalog files are replicated from the managed media server to the CAS. Both the managed media server and the CAS store the catalog produced by the managed media server. Replicated catalogs provide high availability by keeping the complete catalog structure in two separate locations.
Centralized Management FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF CASO (CONT.) Deploying CASO in remote branch offices As an organization’s business becomes distributed using the remote office model, so does their valuable data. The data at these remote locations is changing constantly and must be protected daily. The organization’s IT management needs a backup and restore solution that will protect the data at these remote sites with the same high degree of reliability they have achieved in the data center.
Centralized Management DEPLOYMENT IN AN EXISTING CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION ENVIRONMENT Your PowerVault DL2000can be deployed in an existing Backup Exec Central Administration Environment. Before deploying your appliance in this environment, the Backup Exec Central Administration Server must be running the equivalent version number for Backup Exec as the version of Backup Exec running on your appliance. For example, appliances running Backup Exec 12.
Centralized Management DESIGNATING YOUR POWERVAULT DL2000AS A CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION SERVER Your PowerVault DL2000can be deployed as a Central Administration Server in your backup environment. Deploying your appliance as a Central Admin Server provides the appliance with the ability to manage and monitor other appliances in your environment as well as Backup Exec media servers.
Centralized Management REMOTE OFFICE DEPLOYMENT Your PowerVault DL2000can be deployed in a remote office and centrally monitored and managed from a Central Admin Server in the main office. When deploying your appliance in this environment, it may be necessary to set your appliance as a Disconnected Media Server if a slow or non-persistent network connection is present between the Central Admin Server and the appliance.
Centralized Management SUMMARY In an era of continuing data growth, organizations need simple, centralized, and scalable management. The PowerVault DL2000– Powered by Symantec Backup Exec with the Central Admin Server Option gives Windows based organizations a flexible, powerful solution to manage backups and restores across a distributed organization whether the servers are in one campus or distributed among many remote offices.
