About the dr series system, Drive and available physical capacities – Dell PowerVault DR2000v User Manual
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About the DR Series System
The Dell DR Series system is a solution designed to reduce your backup data footprint using a number of comprehensive
backup and deduplication operations that optimize storage savings. Collectively, the DR Series system comes in the
following types:
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DR2000v: This is a Virtual Machine (VM) template for ESX and Hyper-V.
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DR4000 system: This is preinstalled DR4000 system software on a Dell PowerEdge R510 appliance platform.
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DR4100 system: This is preinstalled DR4000 system software on a Dell PowerEdge R720xd appliance platform.
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DR6000 system: This is preinstalled DR6000 system software on a Dell PowerEdge R720xd appliance platform. This
differs from the DR4100 by including a higher level of base system hardware.
The DR Series system consists of the following components:
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Software — The system software supports record linkage and context-based lossless data compression methods.
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Hardware/VM — Following are the hardware and virtual appliance types that support the DR Series:
– DR2000v system: a VM template in various capacities for ESX and HyperV that can be deployed on our existing
VM infrastructure.
– DR4000 system: Includes twelve 3.5 inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two power
supplies for power redundancy, and two cabled 2.5-inch SAS drives for the operating system. The operating
system is installed on two 2.5–inch internal drives that are in a RAID 1 configuration in the DR4000 system.
– DR4100 system: Includes twelve 3.5 inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two power
supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.
– DR6000 system: Includes twelve 3.5 inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two power
supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.
NOTE: For slot locations for the twelve 3.5–inch drives in the hardware appliance-based DR Series system
types, see
DR Series System and Data Operations
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Expansion shelf—The hardware system appliance supports the addition of external Dell PowerVault MD1200 data
storage expansion shelf enclosures. Adding an expansion shelf provides additional data storage for the DR Series
system and also requires a license. Each added expansion shelf enclosure must be equal to or greater than each DR
Series system internal drive slot capacity (0–11). For more information, see “Expansion Unit Limits” in the
Dell DR
Series System Interoperability Guide
and see
in this guide. For more general information
about the supported storage enclosures, see “DR Series Expansion Shelf” in
DR Series System and Data Operations
Drive and Available Physical Capacities
The DR Series system comes in the following types:
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DR2000v—which is a Virtual Machine template for ESX and Hyper-V.
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DR4000 system—which consists of pre-installed system software on a modified Dell R510 appliance platform.
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DR4100 system—which consists of pre-installed system software on a modified Dell R720xd appliance platform.
•
DR6000 system—which consists of pre-installed system software on a modified Dell R720xd appliance platform. This
differs from the DR4100 by including a higher level of base system hardware.
Table 1 below defines the internal system drive capacity and available physical capacity (in decimal and binary values)
in the hardware DR Series systems. The capacity values listed in Table 2 below represent the available capacities per
virtual machine OS for the DR2000v.
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