Dell PowerVault DL2100 - Manual (Page 2)

Introduction
The Dell PowerVault ™ DL2000 – Powered by Symantec Backup Exec
is a flexible, cost-effective backup solution for simple, manageable
data protection.
This whitepaper evaluates the throughput performance capabilities
of the PowerVault DL2000 in its two hardware configurations – Value
Series and Performance Optimized
1 . With this information, the
end-user will be able to accurately size their backup infrastructure
to meet backup window requirements by scaling the number of
DL2000s needed for their environment and by optimizing backup
schedules and balancing backup workloads.
The PowerVault DL2000 Performance Optimized version was
evaluated in a six (6) Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) port configuration and
the DL2000 Value Series version was evaluated in both a six (6) GbE
port and a two (2) GbE port configuration. The backup client system
infrastructure consisted of a Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007
environment and a Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 environment as
illustrated in Figure 1 below.
1 The DL2000 – Powered by Symantec also comes in four (4) different software editions but they have no
impact on backup throughput, and hence are not compared in this whitepaper.
Figure 1 - Backup Infrastructure Environment