Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Manual (Page 7)

ESG LAB VALIDATION
Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered by CommVault
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FIGURE 5. INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING THE POWERVAULT DL2000
Figure 5 depicts the deployment timeline of the PowerVault DL2000 Powered by CommVault. ESG Lab was
able to deploy, configure, provision storage, and begin performing backups within twenty minutes.
Why This Matters
When asked by ESG to identify the greatest challenges with respect to their storage environments, survey
respondents cited a need to improve backup and recovery processes as their top storage-related issue.
ESG research has also indicated that these respondents are turning to disk-based backup appliances to
address backups and recoveries that are failing to meet service level agreements, poor backup and
recovery reliability, and tape media management issues.
The PowerVault DL2000 Powered by CommVault is a simple, disk-based appliance that ESG Lab was
able to deploy, configure, and begin using in less than twenty minutes. The easy wizard-driven setup and
management utility required no effort, just basic networking and user credential information to complete the
installation process. Integrated dynamic disk provisioning configured and set up pools of storage and
automatically configured them for use with CommVault Simpana.
By integrating Dell hardware and automated storage provisioning with CommVault Simpana software,
users now have an affordable, customer-installable disk-based backup appliance that can be quickly
deployed and easily managed from a single easy to use console.