DPS DD VE - a great license package for start!

DPS DD VE - video:
         https://youtu.be/e8zMkouyBu8

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What if we need a backup solution for start:

• for couple of servers

• best of breed technology

• easy

And of course at the great price!

It makes sense to have a look at DPS DD VE package, which includes top backup solutions on the market:

• Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE) - backup medium

• Avamar - backup software

• RecoverPoint for Virtual Machine (RP4VM) - backup/DR solution recovering VMs to any point from the past

• DP Search (Search) - finding any info in backups, great for GDPR

• DP Central / DP Advisor (Central/Advisor) - monitoring / reporting

Licensing

DPS DD VE is licensed per number of physical processors (occupied sockets).

So to get the price for DPS DD VE for our environment we need to perform 2 simple steps:

• Count all the physical processors in protected environment 
        We should know it easily
• Multiply “single processor price” by “number of physical processors”
        We can get single processor price from our integrator / distributor

And that is all. We have the price for DDVE / Avamar / RP4VM / Search / Central / Advisor for our environment. Those solutions have included all possible features & modules!

What is the price for a single processor in DPS DD VE package?

I checked and… I was shocked! Really makes sense to ask IT integrators / distributors for DPS DD VE single physical processor price.

For those who know the super price-attractive DPS4VM license package (https://youtu.be/MUWO46p4iy8), I can tell you that DPS DD VE is lots of cheaper!

How does the typical backup architecture look like when using DPS DD VE?

Let's consider the below environment:

In the above example, we have 2 sites and totally we have in both locations:

• 5 physical servers with Virtual Machines (number of virtual machines does not matter)

• 3 standalone servers

• 16 physical processors totally (16 occupied sockets) - This is the only important thing from licensing perspective

• 14TB data to backup

Having:

• DPS DD VE for 16 physical processors in our environment

• storage space for Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE)

• providing 2 virtual machines per site (for Avamar / DDVE)

we have a full backup solution with best features on the market:

Avamar & Data Domain Virtual Edition – which are included within DPS DD VE – they have all possible features and functions. Dell EMC did not limit anything that Avamar / DDVE provides. For example, we can enjoy:

• Automatic backup of newly created virtual machines

  https://youtu.be/iIXs1CzqSiI

• Disaster Recovery with minimal data transfer (1%)

• 100 - 1000 virtual machines FULL backup per hour

• Restore a single file, restore of single email, restore of single SQL table image level backups

• Simultaneous image backup / guest backup at no additional cost (global de-duplication)

• Backup of physical servers with all available Avamar agents

• The highest performance on the market

• Incredible NAS backup/recovery
   https://youtu.be/SWG1ejldgMw

• Finding any phrase in backed up documents (Search module – GDPR ready)

• Over 300 ready reports in DPA

• ...

Additionally, apart from the above, the package contains all functionalities of RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (RP4VM) - another top market solution.

What exactly do we get within DPS DD VE package?

DPS DD VE is license package calculated per physical processor. We need to purchase DPS DD VE for number of processors that we have in protected environment.

When purchasing DPS DD VE license we get the following solutions:

• DDVE (Data Domain Virtual Edition) - 2TB DDVE for each physical processor

For example if we buy DPS DD VE for 10 processors, we get 20 TBs of  Data Domain Virtual Edition

• Avamar

All functionalities, all modules, all possibilities for a protected environment

2 Avamar backup servers: one for Primary Site and one for Disaster Recovery site

• RP4VM (RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines)

15 VMs per each physical processor

For example if we buy DPS DD VE for 10 processors, we can protect 150 VMs with RP4VM.

• Search

Find phrases in backuped documents (GDPR)

• DPA (Data Protection Advisor) / DPC (Data Protection Central)

Monitoring, reporting, warning, single pane of control

What if my environment grow?
If we grow from 15 servers to 40 servers - no problem. It is just enough to purchase missing physical processor.
Having bigger environment, we have bigger expectations towards backup. We can attach Data Domain appliance instead of using DDVE. And we can enjoy:

• ransomware protection
• starting VMs from Data Domain with SSD speed (no recovery required)
• separate backup medium from production
• ...

So in future, while growing, no change to our environment  - just replacing media. Backup software, interface, all features - it stays with us. We already have the enterprise ones!

Who shall be interested within DPS DD VE?

In my opinion, the package is great for:

• Environments having 1-20 physical servers with any number of Virtual Machines
• New companies, just creating their infrastructure
• Remote offices
• F.e. we do not want to invest a lot in remote office or we do not want to put any additional backup hardware to remote office
• Separated environments from main Data Centers required their own infrastructure
• Environments required protection with minimal investments
• VxRail, Nutanix, any hyper converged infrastructures …

Infrastructure as a Service

I think that especially Cloud Providers shall have a close look at this package. Why? DPS DD VE is

• Extremely cost effective
• Powerful
• Easy to divide for tenants

I have talked with my friend from Cloud Provider. He compared DPS DD VE against another solution. DPS DD VE was 25K Euro cheaper for 5 years assuming 20 physical processor customer. And he said that DPS DD VE functionalities are absolutly #1.

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Again. Have a close look at DPS DD VE - a very strong package.

And the price? Check, you can be surprised…

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Video describing DPS DD VE backup licenses:
         https://youtu.be/e8zMkouyBu8
Presentation about DPS DD VE package
         http://gurago.com/mat/DPS_DDVE.pdf

Only successful recoveries!

BackupRecoveryGuy

Avamar 7.5 - what is new?

The latest version of Avamar 7.5 provides a lot of new features in virtualization / cloud / application backup and more.

Presentation with a full list of news in Avamar 7.5:

http://gurago.com//avamar/7_Avamar7.5_WhatIsNew.pdf

Video with a discussion of the newest in Avamar 7.5:

http://dell.mywebinarplace.com/index.php?cmp=attendx_meeting&mt_number=22419936

              

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Avamar 7.5 appears on the market exactly half a year after the previous version. The speed of development is impressive!

Some of the new features in Avamar 7.5:

• OpenStack image backupFull backups with reading delta from disk Avamar 7.5 implements its own CBT mechanism that reads only changed data since the last backup. Anyhow we can enjoy the full backup.
  Full backup in couple of minutes with no load of OpenStack.
     

• HyperV image backup
  Restoring single objects of Exchange / SharePoint / MSSQL from HyperV image level backups
     

• VMware image backups
  Skipping pagefile.sys during VMware image backups
  It does not make sense to backup pagefile as it is as new one (from scratch) after restore.
  pagefile can be even 16GB large.
  By skipping pagefile Avamar saves money (less backup storage required) and speeds up the backup.
     

• Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Avamar can clone backups to the cloud.
  We can restore data or start our applications in the Cloud for tests or in case of Disaster Recovery.
     

• Moving old backups to S3 storage Avamar can move old backup to cheap S3 storage (local or in the cloud) via Data Domain Cloud Tier.
  It saves money and allows efficient use backup storage.
     

• VMware application consistent backups Avamar backups VMware images and guarantees that SQL backup is consistent.
  We have full backups, backup of logs only, …
  We can restore the image of VM, just SQL databases, or recover database to point in time.
  Cool!
     

• Restoring only rights of files from VMware image backup
     

• Tight integration with VMware vCenter
     

• ...

More information news in Avamar 7.5 in presentation:

http://gurago.com//avamar/7_Avamar7.5_WhatIsNew.pdf

and in the video from CEE partner session:

http://dell.mywebinarplace.com/index.php?cmp=attendx_meeting&mt_number=22419936