Installing Your Dell Dl1000; Introduction; Available Configurations; Installation Overview - Dell DL1000 Deployment Manual

Installing your Dell DL1000

Introduction

The DL Backup to Disk Appliance allows:
• Faster backups, as well as quicker recovery scenarios over conventional tape devices and backup
methodologies
• Optional deduplication capability
• Continuous data protection for data center and remote office servers
• Quick and easy deployment experience that reduces the time required to begin protecting critical
data

Available configurations

The DL appliance comes in the following configurations:
Table 1. Available configurations
Capacity
1 TB with no VMs
2 TB with no VMs
3 TB with no VMs
3 TB with 2 VMs
Each configuration includes the following hardware and software:
• Dell DL1000 system
• Dell PowerEdge RAID Controllers (PERC)
• Dell AppAssure software

Installation overview

The DL1000 installation involves installing the Rapid Recovery Core and Rapid Recovery Agent services
on the systems that have to be protected. If additional cores are set up then Rapid Recovery Central
Management Console Services must be installed.
Hardware Configuration
2 TB drive with a 200 GB operating system/
software partition and 1 TB usable repository space
3 TB drive with a 200 GB operating system/
software partition and 2 TB usable repository space
4 TB drive with a 200 GB operating system/
software partition and 3 TB usable repository space
4 TB drive with a 200 GB operating system/
software partition, a 300GB partition for VM
storage, and 3 TB usable repository space
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