Dell PowerVault DL2100 - Manual (Page 5)

ESG LAB VALIDATION
Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered by Symantec Backup Exec
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ESG Lab Validation
ESG Lab performed hands-on evaluation and testing of Dell
‘s PowerVault DL2000 Powered by Symantec
Backup Exec at Symantec‘s Austin, Texas facility. The test bed used by ESG Lab is shown in Figure 3.
Physical and virtual servers were connected to the Dell PowerVault DL2000 over a gigabit Ethernet LAN. Four
physical servers were in the environment: three servers running Microsoft Windows 2003 (SP2) and one server
running VMware ESX managed by a VMware Virtual Infrastructure server. The three physical servers were
running Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft file services. The VMware ESX server housed
four virtual machines, each running Windows 2003 (SP2) as a guest OS.
FIGURE 3. ESG LAB TEST BED
Dell hardware and Symantec software, packaged and pre-installed at the Dell factory, were combined to create a
total backup, recovery, and data management solution. The hardware used to protect and recover physical and
virtual server data was composed of a DL2000 server and a PowerVault MD1000 disk enclosure housing eight
500 GB SATA disk drives. The Dell PowerVault DL2000 is powered by Backup Exec 12.5, the latest version of
the field
–proven data management software solution from Symantec. 3
3 Configuration details are documented in the Appendix.