Dell PowerVault DL2100 - Manual (Page 3)

SafER THaN “HomEGRowN”
Backup-To-DiSk –
up aND RuNNiNG up To 5x faSTER
Configuring homegrown backup-to-disk solutions can be difficult, time-consuming, and prone to errors.
Dell’s answer: PowerVault™ Dl2000, the industry’s only integrated solution for faster disk-based backups
and recoveries. it eliminates the risk of untested “homegrown” solutions, and gets you up and running as
much as 5x faster.
we designed the PowerVault Dl2000 family to help small and mid-sized businesses easily protect their
applications and files quickly and without complexity. the PowerVault Dl2000 is the first of our tierDisk
family of products designed to provide cost-optimized solutions for secondary storage environments for
data protection and data management. it’s backup simplified by Dell.
up aND RuNNiNG iN mERE miNuTES
PowerVault DL2000 solutions come factory installed
with Symantec
® Backup Exec™ or CommVault ® Simpana ®
software, plus an easy wizard-driven setup and
management utility. Integrated automated dynamic
disk provisioning configures and sets up the disks for
immediate use.
Set it up, configure storage, add more disks — it only
takes a few clicks. PowerVault DL2000 solutions are
fully tested and validated, sure to work together, and
you can deploy them fast.
We’ve timed it: you can deploy PowerVault DL2000 and
start executing your first backup in under 30 minutes,
4.5x to 5x faster than improvising a “homegrown”
backup-to-disk solution.
SimplER To maNaGE
Both versions of the PowerVault DL2000 feature
remote management capabilities and alerts that notify
administrators of any critical issues with the systems.
Your data center administrators can use the PowerVault
DL2000’s integrated management console to set
backup tasks and policies and do system monitoring
and maintenance from their central location. This makes
the PowerVault DL2000 the ideal backup solution for
remote offices that don’t have IT experts on site.
faSTER, moRE REliaBlE DiSk-BaSED Backup
Managing tapes is complex and high maintenance.
Backups to tape often exceed their backup window,
and tape-based backups fail due to media or handling
issues. Disk-based backups and restores with the
PowerVault DL2000 are faster than tape and far
more reliable.
THE BEST of BoTH woRlDS
Tape backup can be time consuming — it can
take days to back up your ever-growing data sets.
However, tape is ideal for offsite storage for disaster
recovery. The PowerVault DL2000 family of solutions
gives you the best of both worlds, because they’re
available with the Dell PowerVault TL2000, TL4000,
or ML6000 tape library integrated into the full
solution. You can take advantage of backup-to-disk
for rapid recovery, then transfer to tape from the
same management console for off-site
disaster recovery.
BETTER THaN vTl
Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) are ”point products” that
can help fix backup and recovery bottlenecks in the
short run. But they’re separate “boxes” that create
silos of information and add management complexity
because they run on proprietary software. Virtual
tapes have to be created, provisioned, and managed
from a separate interface, and VTL products lack
alerting and reporting within the backup solution.
The PowerVault DL2000 is a native, disk-to-disk
solution that eliminates the need for manual setup
and management. It automatically and dynamically
provisions a disk, invisibly to the user, and gives you
proactive monitoring, alerts, and reporting. What’s
more, it’s based on software you already know and
use — not unfamiliar, proprietary software that
boxes you in.