IDPA DP4400 Frequently Asked Questions
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS DELL EMC INTEGRATED DATA PROTECTION APPLIANCE (IDPA) DP4400 FAQ This document provides guidance on frequently asked questions for Dell EMC's Integrated Data Protection Appliance. Table of Contents What’s Integrated Data Protection Appliance? ...................................................................................................................... 2 IDPA DP4400 Cloud capabilities............................................................................................................................................ 3 IDPA DP4400 grow in place CAPACITY ............................................................................................................................... 4 General ................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Positioning and Competition .................................................................................................................................................. 6 DEDUPLICATION .................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Management .......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Replication .............................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Professional Services ............................................................................................................................................................. 8 FUTURE-PROOF Loyalty Program: ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Education ............................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Documentation ....................................................................................................................................................................... 9 1 | IDPA DP4400 FAQ © 2018 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. WHAT’S INTEGRATED DATA PROTECTION APPLIANCE? Question: What are the latest additions to the Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance portfolio? The Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) DP4400 is the latest addition to the Dell EMC IDPA portfolio. The IDPA DP4400 is a converged data protection appliance purpose-built from the ground up for mid-sized customers and their unique requirements. It is also ideally suited for remote/branch offices and department specific needs of larger enterprises. The IDPA DP4400 is easier to deploy, manage, and grow, provides enterprise-class performance in a 2U form factor, and is natively cloud enabled with support for long-term retention to the cloud and cloud disaster recovery. In addition, the IDPA DP4400 enables simpler data protection management from a single interface with the IDPA System Manager, making performance of data protection tasks, as well as monitoring and reporting, easier. In short, the Dell EMC IDPA DP4400 provides Simply Powerful data protection at lowest cost-to-protect: • Simple o Management: Simplified management via modern HTML-5 UI, integration with VMware native tools as well as SQL Management Studio, and Oracle RMAN o Deployment & Upgrade: Small, 2U form factor, customer installable and upgradable o Grow-in-place and to the Cloud: Grow from 24 TB to 96 TB without any additional hardware to purchase, configure or install, all-inclusive pricing • Powerful o Comprehensive Coverage: Combines protection storage, servers and software, search, and analytics for enterprise- class protection across the largest application ecosystem o High Performance: Delivers 55:1 average deduplication rate, powered by Dell PowerEdge 14G Server and NVMe flash – for instant access & restore. Shortens backups by up to 2x, plus delivers 7x more backup streams and uses up to 98% less bandwidth o Cloud Ready: Comes native add-on capabilities for efficient long-term retention to cloud and cloud disaster recovery with orchestration (cloud disaster recovery is to Amazon Web Services). • At Lowest Cost to Protect o Lowest Cost-to-Protect: Costs up to 80% less to protect, protects up to 4x more data with one 2U appliance, delivers up to 2X shorter backups and 20% more capacity in 2U form factor, o Guaranteed: Dell EMC Future-Proof Loyalty Program provides a 3-year Satisfaction Guarantee for the IDPA DP4400. In addition, all IDPA appliances also come with an up to 55:1 Data Protection Deduplication Guarantee. Question: What are the key ordering and availability dates? The new IDPA DP4400 will appear in MyQuotes for ordering on June 22nd, the same day as GA. External content will be updated and made available at the time of the external launch - July 11, 2018). Question: Who can sell the IDPA DP4400? The IDPA DP4400 is available through MyQuotes to all legacy EMC sales people and channel partners. The IDPA DP4400 will also be available on DSA on 6/26/18. Question: What are the key differences of the IDPA DP4400 versus the current IDPA models? Current IDPA models are full rack products. The new IDPA DP4400 delivers the same enterprise-class data protection as the other IDPA models, but in a smaller 2U form factor that is installed into a customer’s own rack. In addition, the IDPA DP4400 is customer installable and upgradable with capacity that can grow in place from 24 TB to 96 TB with no additional hardware to purchase, install or configure. Similar to the other IDPA models, the DP4400 comes with Cloud Tier add-on capability for long-term retention to the cloud and is also the first IDPA model to also provide native Cloud Disaster Recovery add-on capability for disaster recovery to Amazon Web Services. These new capabilities, along with the new IDPA System Manager for simpler system management, make the DP4400 ideal for mid-size organizations, as well as the remote/branch offices and stand-alone departments of larger enterprises. 2 | IDPA DP4400 FAQ © 2018 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. 1 Total capacity on active tier only 2 Total capacity with cloud tier for long-term retention 3 Logical capacity based on 10x to 50x deduplication IDPA DP4400 CLOUD CAPABILITIES Question: What are benefits of the IDPA DP4400’s Cloud enablement capabilities? IDPA DP4400 supports: • Cloud Tier for long-term retention to the Cloud (Public, Private or Hybrid Clouds) • Cloud Disaster Recovery (to Amazon Web Services) – NEW native capability introduced with IDPA DP4400 Question: What are the Cloud Tier capabilities of the IDPA DP4400? The IDPA DP4400 enables mid-sized organizations to more easily and cost effectively take advantage of the Dell EMC data protection’s cloud tier capabilities to extend data protection to the cloud for long-term retention. Cloud Tier is an add-on capability (purchased on a per TB basis) that is natively integrated to the IDPA DP4400. Using Cloud Tier, the IDPA DP4400 can send and manage two times its maximum usable capacity (i.e. 192 TB) to a public, private or hybrid cloud for long-term retention (customers still have to pay a cloud vendor for storage costs). The data is deduplicated before sending to the cloud for most cost efficient storage and bandwidth utilization. And, there is no need to purchase or install a separate cloud gateway or virtual appliance, which means that customers do not have to worry about any additional physical footprint or management overhead. 3 | IDPA DP4400 FAQ © 2018 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. A single IDPA DP4400 can manage up to 14.4 PB of logical capacity (based on 96 TB usable capacity and 50:1 deduplication ratio) with long-term retention to the Cloud (Please note that even if a customer has not purchased the full 96 TB in a DP4400, they can still manage the full 2X usable capacity of the appliance, 192 TB, in the Cloud via Cloud Tier). The highlights of Cloud Tier for the IDPA DP4400 are: • Native cloud-tiering: Add on capability for automated tiering directly from the IDPA DP4400 to a public, private or hybrid cloud for long-term retention • Large capacity: Manage up to 14.4 PB of logical capacity (based on 96 TB usable capacity and 50:1 deduplication ratio) with long-term retention to the Cloud • Lower TCO: Data sent to the cloud is already deduplicated to reduce cloud storage footprint and network bandwidth usage • API extensible • Data security: Data is encrypted before tiering to the cloud • Flexible cloud protection: Supports a variety of public and private clouds including Virtustream Storage Cloud and Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) Question: What Cloud Disaster Recovery capabilities does the IDPA DP4400 support? The IDPA DP4400 enables mid-size organizations to utilize the public cloud for disaster recovery. Available as an add-on capability (priced on a per TB basis), Cloud Disaster Recovery enables customers to copy backed-up VMs from their on-premises IDPA environments to the public Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. It enables orchestrated DR testing in preparation for potential disaster, orchestrated failover to cloud in the event of a disaster and failback of cloud workloads following a disaster (all with just a few clicks). In addition,