Dell PowerVault DL2100 - Manual (Page 8)

ESG LAB VALIDATION
Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered by Symantec Backup Exec
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The Symantec Backup Exec management console was used to examine the configuration that had been
automatically created during the wizard-driven configuration process. ESG Lab noted that the look and feel was
exactly the same as that experienced by any existing Backup Exec customer, regardless of whether that
customer is currently backing up to tape, to disk, or a combination of both.
As shown in Figure 6, the DL2000 disk array used during ESG Lab testing (ARRAY1) was configured as two
virtual disks for disk-based backup and recovery operations (VIRTDISK1 and VIRTDISK2).
FIGURE 6. SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC DEVICE CONSOLE
The total amount of usable disk space presented to Backup Exec is used by the wizard to create one or more
virtual disks. With a maximum size per virtual disk of 2 TB, the single tray of MD1000 disk capacity in the ESG
Lab test bed was used to create two volumes, each with a capacity of 1.4 TB as shown in Figure 6. Backup
Exec managed this storage configuration detail, just as it managed all of the low level storage chores, including
RAID configuration and hot spare assignment.