Dell DL1000 Deployment Manual page 21

Option
Monthly
3. Click Next.
The Storage Provisioning page is displayed.
Storage provisioning
Your appliance allows you to provision its internal storage to create Virtual disks (VDs) to host repositories
and Virtual Standby, archives or other purposes.
1. On the Storage Provisioning page, select the following configuration options for your storage.
The Repository Name is displayed as Repository 1 by default.
NOTE: The size of the repository depends on the license applied during registration of your
appliance.
• If you had applied trial license while registering your appliance there is no restriction in the
repository size.
• If you had applied purchased license while registering your appliance, the size of the
repository corresponds to the model. For example: In DL 1000 1 TB Appliance, repository of
size 1 TB is created.
2. Select Allocate a portion of your storage for Virtual Standby, archives, or other purposes.
3. Allocate the percentage of storage space that is available after creating the repository by using the
slider. You can also use Size box to specify the exact size.
A virtual disk of specified capacity for hosting virtual standby VMs, archives, other purpose is created.
4. Click Next.
The initial repository is created and the VDs for hosting VMs or other purposes are created.
The Retention Policy page is displayed.
Configuring Retention policy and update options
Retention policies enforce the periods of time in which backups are stored on short-term (fast and
expensive) media. Sometimes certain business and technical requirements mandate extended retention
of these backups, but use of fast storage is cost prohibitive. In your appliance, retention policies can be
customized to specify the length of time a backup recovery point is maintained. As the age of the
recovery points approaches the end of their retention period, the recovery points age out and are
removed from the retention pool.
NOTE: If the retention policy license restriction is default, the retention policy cannot be configured
to set the retention time period greater than three months. If you try to do so, you see an error
message.
1. The following options let you define the length of time the backup snapshots of protected machines
are stored and modify the rollup process of merging and deleting old backups. The Retention Policy
page displays the following options:
Description
Backs your configuration settings every month beginning every Sunday at
12:01 AM
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