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2014-15DEDUPLICATING

BACKUP APPLIANCEBUYERS GUIDEBy Charley McMaster and Tim Anderson

The Insider's Guide to EvaluatingDeduplicating Backup Appliances

E M P O W E R I N G T H E I T I N D U S T R Y W I T H A C T I O N A B L E A N A L Y S I S W W W . D C I G . C O M


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Table of Contents

17 Dell DR4100 Disk Backup Appliance

18 Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance

19 EMC Data Domain DD160







26 ExaGrid EX1000

27 ExaGrid EX200028 ExaGrid EX3000

29 ExaGrid EX4000

30 ExaGrid EX5000

31 ExaGrid EX7000

32 ExaGrid EX10000E

33 ExaGrid EX13000E

34 ExaGrid EX21000E

35 ExaGrid EX32000E

36 FalconStor FDS SA304



39 FalconStor HDS-FS-FDS-220S

40 FalconStor HDS-FS-FDS-H150

41 FalconStor VTL SAM16

42 FalconStor VTL SAP16

43 HDS Sepaton

S2100-ES3-Series-2925

64 Product Rankings Dashboard

Appendices

A-1 Appendix ADefinitions, Explanations and Terminology

B-1 Appendix BVendor Contact Information

C-1 Appendix CAuthor Contact Information

1 Introduction

3 Executive Summary

6 How to Use this 2014-15 Deduplicating

Backup Appliance Buyers Guide

7 Disclosures

7 Midrange Deduplicating Backup Appliance

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

7 The Eight-Step Process Used to

Score and Rank the Deduplicating

Backup Software Solutions

8 DCIG Comments and Thoughts on

8 Virtual Appliances

9 Scale-up and Scale-out Architectures

10 Pricing

10 Observations and Recommendations

10 General Observations About All

Deduplicating Backup Appliances

10 Best-in-Classand

RecommendedRankings

11 ExcellentRanking

12 GoodRanking

12 BasicRanking

13 Deduplicating Backup Appliance

Scores and Rankings

14 Overall Scores and Rankings

16 Deduplicating Backup Appliance Models

44 HP StoreOnce 2700





49 IBM Storage System TS7620

ProtecTIER Deduplication

Appliance Express

50 NEC HYDRAstor HS3-410

51 NEC HYDRAstor HS8-4001S-(

52 NEC HYDRAstor HS8-4001S-953 NEC HYDRAstor HS8-4002S-9

54 NEC HYDRAstor HS8-4002S-1

55 NEC HYDRAstor HS8-4006R-7

56 NEC HYDRAstor HS8-4104R-7

(104HN+61SN)

57 Quantum DXi4700 Deduplicatio

Appliance

58 Quantum DXi6701 DXi6702


Appliance


Appliance


Appliance

62 Symantec NetBackup 5030

Deduplication Appliance

63 Symantec NetBackup 5230

Backup Appliance


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Introduction Ever-increasing data volumes driven by the constant growth in both structured and unstruc-tured data coupled with the ever decreasing costs of storage capacity on a per GB basisare continuing to put a strain on corporate backup abilities. While other backup and data

optimization technologies offer some relief, deduplicating backup appliances have become

the go to solution. They provide a quick, largely non-disruptive plug-and-play solution that

alleviates backup pain, reduces storage consumption by up to 20x and have become a

proven frontrunner in the ongoing battle to improve the backup experience.

DCIG once again looks at deduplication in its2014-15 Deduplicating Backup Appliance

Buyers Guiderefreshing last years guide on this same topic. The introduction of new

technologies and updating existing technologies in these appliances over the past year have

again served to shift the deduplicating backup appliance landscape as many previously

available deduplication appliances are now gone as vendors continually refresh their product

lines and bring out new models.

However, it is also possible that the growth of deduplicating backup appliances is at a

tipping point. After rapid growth for years to become a multi-billion segment of the broader

data protection and recovery industry, in the most quarter for which numbers are avail-

able, revenue in this market slipped. According to the IDC analyst firm, Q1 2014 revenue of

worldwide purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) declined 2.5 percent from a year ago

to $664.5 million.1

Anticipating a maturing of this market, new options have emerged to set themselves apart.

These include:

Archiving. Some providers have modified their deduplicating backup appliances to give

organizations more flexibility to use these appliances for data archiving, whether that be

for production data or long term retention of backup data.

Controller heads.After discontinuing is controller-only option of its Data Domain product

line years ago, EMC re-introduced this an option that frees organizations to acquire the

controller head apart from the back end storage.

Fewer appliance models. Consolidating the number of appliance models that they

make available for a particular market, whether that be for small, midsized or large

enterprises, to simplify the buying decision for these organizations.

Improved management and monitoring.Almost without exception every vendor has

enhanced the core technologies found on its appliances to make their ongoing manage-

ment and monitoring simpler and more effective.

Deduplicating backup appliances also continue to set themselves apart from backup soft-

ware that offers deduplication. As these appliances have always done, they offload the over-

head associated with deduplicating data from the client or media server to the appliance.

What is new are some of the ways in which they are accelerating backup. Technologies

such as Data Domain Boost and Symantec OpenStorage Technology (OST) have been

available for a number of years. These options use proprietary protocols to accelerate

backup traffic over LAN connections between the media server and the attached dedupli-

cating backup appliance. However, some providers such as Dell now offer Rapid CIFS and

Rapid NFS technology that accelerate backup traffic to its backup appliances using existing

1. RTT Staff Writer. "IDC: Worldwide PBBA Market Revenue Drops 2.5% In Q1 - Quick Facts." Quick Facts. RTT News,

20 June 2014. Web. 3 Nov. 2014.


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Introduction (continued)

file sharing protocols. Technologies such as these two eliminate the need for organizationsto deploy proprietary protocols and may, in theory, be used with any backup software with-

out additional software licensing required (though many organizations may want to wait until

Dell has certified and officially supports this technology with their specific backup software.)

It is in this context that DCIG presents it 2014-15 Deduplicating Backup Appliance Buyers

Guide.The level of detail in this Buyers Guide, combined with DCIGs consistent scoring and

ranking system, helps organizations in two key ways: First, it provides a powerful yet concise

method to evaluate each deduplicating backup appliance so organizations can understand

the overall strengths and weaknesses of each one. Using this information, they can better

align the specific needs of their environment with the features available on each appliance.

Second, this Buyers Guide provides a set of scores and rankings across the multiple

features on each product as well as a data sheet for each deduplicating backup appli-

ance. The data sheets drill down into the specifics of each product to provide information

on backup technology, management, restore and support features. They also examine

supported features and implementation. These areas contribute to specific category scores

as well as an overall score for each deduplicating backup appliance.

Please note that this Buyers Guide is NOT intended to be a substitute for internal test-

ing. DCIG encourages any organization that is considering the purchase of a deduplicating

backup solution to do its own in-house testing if at all possible as it is impossible for DCIG to

predict how well the appliance will perform in every environment.

As a supplement to the downloadable Buyers Guides, DCIG makes all the data collected for

the guides available in the DCIG Analysis Portal. This powerful online data visualization tool

enables subscribers to quickly develop side-by-side comparisons of the products and the

specific features that matter most to them and gives subscribers access to all DCIG BuyersGuides. See http://portal.dcig.com to learn more about the DCIG Analysis Portal.

We hope this Buyers Guide meets its intended purposes in your environments and serves

as a helpful aid in supplementing and expediting your organizations normal decision making

and product evaluation process.
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ExecutiveSummary

The only constant is change and, in the area of deduplicating backup appliances, theconstant of change is certainly in play. While deduplicating backup appliances still do what

they always dodeduplicate backup datachange is certainly evident in these appliances.

In this third release of the DCIG 2014-15 Deduplicating Backup Appliance Buyers Guide,

DCIG tracks and highlights these changes while continuing to provide visibility into the core

technologies that make these deduplicating backup appliances tick.

The beauty of deduplicating backup appliances is that they largely ship as plug-and-play

solutions. By installing directly into corporate LANs with minimal or no changes to the exist-

ing environments, organizations may need to as little as plug them into the wall, connect

them to the corporate LAN, configure the backup software to use the appliance as a backup

target and start backing up and deduplicating data. In this respect, nearly every one if not all

of the appliances covered in this Buyers Guide delivers on this ideal.

Of course, as with all technologies, the devil is in the details and once you can go beyond

the baseline plug-n-play setup, differences in feature functionality in deduplicating backup

appliances emerge that determine their suitability for deployment in enterprises of all sizes.

These differences include:

Backup acceleration software.Todays standard file sharing protocols make it very easy

for any size organization to quickly and easily deploy one of these appliances into their

environment and start backing up to it. However, standard file sharing protocols are NOT

optimized for moving large amounts of data quickly.

This shortcoming of existing file sharing protocols has led to almost every deduplicating

backup appliance to minimally support third party backup software accelerators such as

Symantec OpenStorage Technology (OST) as well as deliver their own proprietary backup

software acceleration software that accelerates backup data movement to and from their

own deduplicating backup appliance.

Deduplicating algorithms.When deduplicating backup appliances first shipped,

ideological wars raged over which approach to deduplicating data was betterinline or

post-process. While these wars have largely since abated as it is now recognized that

certain types of application data deduplicate better using different deduplication algo-

rithms, few if any appliances may offer all of the deduplicating algorithms that they need

to optimally deduplicate their application data. This behooves organizations to first

understand what deduplicating algorithm option or options each deduplicating backup

appliance offers, how it is implemented and if they can live with the trade-offs, if any,

that this implementation method may mean for their environment.

Public storage cloud connectivity.After data is backed up and deduplicated, many if not

most organizations want to automate getting a copy of it offsite on a regular basis (maybe

weekly or monthly.) Achieving this ideal makes a deduplicating backup appliances connectivity

to a public storage cloud provider highly desirable since copies of data can be scheduled to be

automatically sent offsite without manual intervention or the need for a secondary data center.

Replication. Most organizations of any size have multiple sites that each have data that

they need to backup. Further, most organizations of this size want to centralize backup

and bring all data in remote sites back to one central data central. To accommodate this

objective, many deduplicating backup appliances offer replication software that replicates

data from remote sites back to their main data center.


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Executive Summary (continued)

Executive Summary (continued)However how replication software is implemented varies widely from appliance toappliance. Some charge extra for this software while others include it with the purchase

price of the appliance. The number of replication configurations supported by each

appliance also varies. While most support 1:1 and N:1 fan-in replication configurations,

not all appliances support fan-out replication configurations which organizations may want

to leverage to prepopulate remote sites with previously deduplicated data. Organizations

should also verify how many remote sites that want to setup to replicate back to one

central sites as the maximum N in the N:1 part of the equation can vary by appliance.

Finally, organizations should verify how both the appliance and its replication software

handles deduplicated data. In almost all cases, replication software can only replicate

data after the data is deduplicated which may delay how quickly data can be replicated,

especially if the appliance uses post-process deduplication. Also, organizations should

verify if the replication software only transmits new, unique chunks of deduplicated data

as opposed to all data. By only transmitting new, unique chunks of data, organizations

can generally use lower bandwidth, lower cost WAN links to remote offices.

Scale-out versus scale-up architectures.In todays environment of rapid and unpre-

dictable data growth, deduplicating backup appliances provide two architectures to add

more storage capacityscale-up and scale-out with some appliances supporting both

options. Appliances that support scale-up architectures are largely self-contained and

either offer room to add more shelves for more internal hard disk drives (HDDs) or, in some

cases, they provide the flexibility to use either FC or SCSI connections to external HDDs.

Appliances that use a scale-out architecture grow by adding nodes that come preconfig-

ured with fixed amounts of processor, memory and storage and are then collectively

configured and managed as one logical appliance.

Virtual appliances.As organizations virtualize small and remote offices, they also want

to virtualize any appliances deployed into them. This has given rise in the past year for

the need for vendors to make their deduplicating backup appliances as virtual appliances

to eliminate the need to deploy a new physical machine into offices are now entirely or

mostly virtualized.

It is in this context that DCIG presents its 2014-15 Deduplicating Backup Appliance Buyers

Guide.As prior Buyers Guides have done, it puts at the fingertips of organizations a

comprehensive list of deduplicating backup appliances and the features they offer in the

form of detailed, standardized data sheets to assist in this important buying decision.

This Buyers Guide is the result of several months of communication with multiple providers

and evaluation of over one hundred features nearly 50 deduplicating backup appliances.

Each provider was given the opportunity to complete a survey with over 100 questions that

examined how its solution delivered on features associated with deduplication, manage-

ment, hardware, scalability and support.

In instances where vendors did not respond, DCIG completed the surveys on the vendors

behalf and then gave the vendor the opportunity to review it before any material about its

appliance(s) were published. In each case, every vendor had the opportunity to review and

respond to the survey and the information regarding their product displayed on the data

sheets included in this Buyers Guide.


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The DCIG 2014-15 Deduplicating Backup Appliance Buyers Guideaccomplishes thefollowing objectives:

Provides an objective, third-party evaluation of deduplicating backup appliances that

evaluates and scores their features from an end users perspective;

Scores and ranks the features of each deduplicating backup appliance based upon

criteria that matter most to end users;

Presents results in easy-to-read tables with product scores and rankings so users can

quickly ascertain which appliance best suits their needs;

Provides a standardized data sheet for each of the 47 deduplicating backup appliance

solutions from ten different deduplicating backup appliance providers, allowing quick

comparison of features that are or are not supported with each product; and

Gives any organization a solid foundation for getting competitive bids from different

deduplicating backup appliance vendors.

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How to Use this 2014-15 DeduplicatingBackup Appliance Buyers GuideIn determining how best to use the information contained in

this Buyers Guide, it should be noted that it is intended to

help users in their purchase process. It is NOT intended to tell

users exactly which product(s) to purchase. Rather, it is to help

guide them in coming up with a list of competitive products

that have comparable features that meet their specific needs.

It is also important to note that the highest score or ranking

does not automatically mean that it is the right product for

every organization. If anything, due to the scope of products

evaluated and analyzed, some models may have featuresthat are too robust for the needs of an individual department

or organization.

Features as displayed on each product data sheet repre-

sent the opinion of DCIG. DCIG encourages and strongly

recommends every organization verify the functionality of the

features that are of particular interest to them before making

a buying decision. To help in that decision, this Buyers

Guide gives organizations a sense of how included products

compare with each other, as well as giving additional insight

into what other product offerings are available on the market

and the specific features they offer.

DCIG recommends that companies use this Buyers Guide in

the following seven ways:

1. Eliminate the painstaking research associated with

coming up with a short list of products that meet

their needs.This Buyers Guide ranks, scores and

contains data sheets for 47 different products from ten

different providers. Each product is scored and then

ranked as Best-in-Class, Recommended, Excellent,

Goodand Basicbased upon its score. In each product,

over 100 different features were evaluated, weighted,

scored and then ranked. All an organization has to do is

look at the scores and features of each solution in order

to come up with a short list for consideration.

2. Do apples-to-apples comparisons of products from

different vendors. In todays crowded deduplicating

backup appliance market, it behooves organization to

get competitive bids from multiple vendors. After all,

when they compete, you win! But that tactic only works

well when organizations know that they are receiving

competitive bids on products that are roughly compa-

rable. Using this Buyers Guide, organizations can do a

better job of accomplishing that objective.

3. Separate the apples from the oranges. Just asimportant as doing apples-to-apples comparisons is

identifying when an orange is thrown into the mix.

Sometimes it is very difficult for an organization to

know if it is truly getting a good deal when bids come

in from vendors that include different products. Now

organizations can refer to the scores and rankings

of each product on this guide so they know when

they are getting it a good deal, a great deal or just

a so-soone.

4. Gain perspective on how products from less well

known vendors compare against established and

better known brands.Anyone involved with backupat all has probably at least heard of Dell, EMC, HP,

IBM or Symantec. This creates a certain built-in level

of comfort when buying products from these vendors

and a corresponding built-in resistance to buying

products from vendors that are perceived as

unknown quantities.

This Buyers Guide helps to remove some of that

apprehension about buying from a less well known

vendor or even a less well known model from an

established vendor. Using this Buyers Guide, organiza-

tions can see how these products from lesser known

vendors as well as lesser known products from estab-lished vendors stack up.

5. Normalize complex terminology. Every industry has a

proclivity to adopt acronyms and jargon that is

specific to it but the technology industry seems to go

out of its way to use unfamiliar terms as well as refer

to the same technology in different ways. This Buyers

Guide sifts through the acronyms and jargons and

terms and normalizes them. This minimizes or even

eliminates the need for users to try to understand all

of the different technology terms.

6. Take advantage of standardized data sheets.Product data sheets available from different vendors

are rarely laid out in the same way or contain the

same information. Some vendors even have data

sheet formats that vary from product to product

within their own portfolio. This Buyers Guide tackles

this problem by creating a standard, easy to read

data sheet for every product. In this way, product

data sheets for individual products can be printed

out, laid down side by side and then the features on

them quickly compared.


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7.Help justify buying recommendations to businessteams. Nothing is easier for those on the business side

to understand than a number when doing comparisons.

At the top of every product data sheet, a product score

is included so the business side of the house can quickly

see how the different product models compare.

DisclosuresOver the last few years the general trend in the US has been

for both large and boutique analyst firms to receive some or

all of their revenue from vendors.

DCIG is no different in that respect as it also receives paymentfor the different services it performs for vendors. The services

that DCIG provides include blogging, case studies, product

reviews, executive white papers and special reports.

In the interest of being transparent, a number of the vendors

included in this DCIG Buyers Guide are or have been DCIG

clients. This is not to imply that they were given preferential

treatment in the Buyers Guide. It simply means DCIG may

have had more knowledge of their products and that DCIG

would considertheir product for inclusion in this Buyers Guide.

In that vein, there are a number of important facts to keep

in mind when considering the information contained in this

Buyers Guide and its merit.

No vendor paid DCIG any fee to develop this

Buyers Guide.

DCIG did not guarantee any vendor that its product

would be included in this Buyers Guide.

DCIG did not imply or guarantee that a specific

product would receive a good score on this Buyers

Guide, before or after completion.

All research was based upon one or more of the

following: publicly available information, information

provided by the vendor and/or the expertise of those

evaluating the information.

Because of the number of features analyzed, how

these features were weighted and then how these

products were scored and then ranked, there was no

way for DCIG to predict at the outset how individual

products would end up scoring or ranking.

DCIG wants to emphasize that no vendor was privy to

how DCIG did the scoring and ranking of the products

and that the information presented in this Buyers Guide

reflects the opinion of DCIG. In every case, the vendor

only found out the scores and rankings of its productafter the analysis was complete.

Midrange Deduplicating Backup ApplianceInclusion and Exclusion Criteria

As DCIG prepared this release of its2014-15 Deduplicating

Backup Appliance Buyers Guide,numerous variables were

taken into account to determine which solutions to include

and exclude. The criteria for inclusion in DCIG guides, much

like the deduplicating backup appliance market itself, are

constantly evolving. An appliance that may seem to rightfully

belong in this guide might have just barely fallen outside ofthe parameters for inclusion.

For the purposes of this Buyers Guide, the following criteria

were used when determining whether or not to include

specific deduplicating backup software products:

The solutions main purpose is for the deduplication

of backup data

Its primary function is target-based deduplication of

backup data

It includes a NAS (network attached storage)interface

and supports the CIFS (Common Internet File System)

or NFS (Network File System)protocols

It supports a minimum of two (2) hard disk drives and/or

a minimum raw capacity of eight terabytes

It ships prior to July 30, 2014

Some providers elected not to respond to DCIGs inquiries or

requests. While those products are still covered in this Buyers

Guide, the information may be incomplete or not represent

all of the products capabilities. In such cases, a notation is

included at the bottom of the data sheet of those products

indicating that all information is drawn from publicly available

sources and the knowledge and expertise of the analyst.

The Eight-Step Process Used to Scoreand Rank the Deduplicating BackupSoftware Solutions

To score and rank each appliance included in this Buyers

Guide, DCIG went through an eight-step process to come

to the most objective conclusion possible.

1.A list of products that met the DCIG definition for

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This list was used to determine which vendors to contactfor inclusion of their products in this Buyers Guide.

2.A list of features to be evaluated was established.

The terms on this list were then normalized so a

common name for each feature included in the Buyers

Guide could be established. In cases where a feature

could not be objectively defined or understood, it was

excluded from consideration.

3. Each feature had a weighting associated with it.

The weightings were used to reflect if a feature was

supported and potentially how useful and/or important

the feature was to end users. As an example, based on

experience from previous Buyers Guides and through

monitoring user preferences, DCIG now assigns more

weight to those products that support virtual deduplica-

tion appliance deployment than those that do not.

4. The features were broken into four (4) general

categories. The features included in this Buyers

Guide were broken down into four general categories:

Deduplication, Hardware, Management and Support.

These categories reflect the general features that

organizations evaluate when seeking out deduplicating

backup appliance solutions.

5.A survey for each solution was sent to each vendorto complete.DCIG contacted representatives of the

vendors included in this Buyers Guide to enlist their

support in completing it. In those instances where

vendors did not complete the survey, DCIG completed

the survey on their behalf, sent it to them and gave them

the opportunity to respond with any corrections or edits

to the DCIG-completed survey. In every case, every

provider had the opportunity to review and respond to

any DCIG-completed survey.

6. Features were scored based on the information

gathered from the surveys.Features were marked

as either supportedor unsupportedand then scoredaccordingly. In some cases, additional points were awarded

for how the feature was supported or implemented.

7. Product data sheets were created and sent out to

the vendors for review before publication.Due to the

large number of product features that DCIG evaluated,

all information could not be included on the data sheets.

Only the features deemed most important are included in

the published version. The full list of product features

may be accessed in the DCIG Interactive Buyers Guide

available through DCIGs website: www.dcig.com.

However, all information on each data sheet (minustheir scores and rankings)included in this published

version of the Buyers Guide was sent to the vendors

prior to publication for their review and feedback. In

every case, each provider had a chance to review the

content included on its respective data sheet.

8. Each deduplicating solution was awarded one of

five (5) different designations.One of the goals of this

Buyers Guide was to make clear, objective distinctions

between different deduplicating backup appliances.

To accomplish this goal , the mean(or average) score

for each category was determined as well as the

standard deviation. The mean and standard deviationwere calculated from the scores of all deduplicating

appliances. DCIG then developed a ranking for each

appliance using these calculations as a guide:

The deduplicating appliance scores that were 0.5 or

greater standard deviations below the mean were

given the rank ofBasic.

The deduplicating appliance scores that were 0.5

standard deviations above or below the mean were

assigned the rank of Good.

The deduplicating appliance scores that were

0.5 1.5 standard deviations above the mean wereranked as Excellent.

The deduplicating appliance scores that were greater

than 1.5 standard deviations above the mean were

ranked as Recommended.

The deduplicating appliance that had the overall top

score as well as the top score in each category was

given the designation Best-in-Class. If there was no

topscore in a category(i.e.multiple products had

the same top score)no Best-in-Classaward was given.

For these reasons, the number of deduplicating backup

appliances that achieved a certain ranking varied betweencategories.

DCIG Comments and Thoughts on

Virtual Appliances

Deduplicating backup appliances come in two forms:

physical and virtual. While this Buyers Guide covers physi-

cal deduplicating backup appliances which offer hardware

and software as one SKU, virtual appliances utilized for

deduplication represent a growing trend. This year, DCIG
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chose to examine which physical deduplicating appliances arealso available as virtual appliances as part of the overall survey.

Three of the vendors in this release of the Buyers Guide sell

virtual appliances: Quantum in its DXi V1000 and V4000; HP

with HP StoreOnce VSA; and Dell sells the DR2000v. Some

virtual appliances geared for deduplication may operate as a

standalone solutions while others can only be deployed with

a physical deduplicating backup appliance.

For example, Dells DR2000v may only be used when it is

deployed in conjunction with either its DR4100 or DR6100

models. In every case where a vendor offers a virtual

appliance option, it can interact with physical deduplicat-

ing backup appliances in that vendors family of products,

providing most if not all of the same deduplication and

management capabilities as the physical appliance.

Small and midsized enterprises (SMEs) often have remote

and small offices that are now highly virtualized and require

an easy to deploy, easy to manage and cost effective dedu-

plication target. This is where virtual appliances comes into

play. When the last DCIG Buyers Guide on deduplicating

backup appliances was produced, the only option remote

and small offices had with the exception of Quantum was to

use smaller, physical deduplicating backup appliance (which

are still available and are covered in this Guide.)

Now, instead of purchasing a physical appliance for these

offices, they can purchase a virtual appliance which are

generally available at a lower cost. At time of publication,

the Dell DR2000v virtual appliance listed for $4,200 which

includes one terabyte of licensed storage capacity, $7,500

for two terabytes of licensed storage capacity and $13,500

for four terabytes of licensed storage capacity. The HP

StoreOnce virtual appliance with four terabytes and ten tera-

bytes of licensed, usable capacity is priced at about

$2,000 and $5,000, respectively.

One benefit of the virtual appliance is it removes the need for

any additional physical hardware. Virtual appliances supportthe leading hypervisors such as VMware ESX and Microsoft

Hyper-V and may be installed on existing hypervisor servers.

Scale-up and Scale-out Architectures

Two methods for adding storage capacity to a deduplicating

backup appliance exist: scale-up and scale-out. Some appli-

ances are even capable of both which give organizations

the flexibility to scale up by adding internal storage and then

adding more nodes to scale-out while remaining in a single

logical configuration for simplified administration.

Deduplicating backup appliances that only offer a scale-uparchitecture have a wide range of usable capacity going from

single or low double-digit terabytes of capacity to more than

100 terabytes. This compares to deduplicating backup appli-

ances that only offer a scale-out architecture where nodes

with preconfigured amounts of storage capacity are added

to the existing configuration.

Each architecture has its benefits and limitations. Using a

scale-out architecture, organizations purchase nodes as

they need them. Each time they add a node to the solution,

it provides more storage capacity, network interfaces and

processing power. In a scale-up configuration, each compo-

nent (processing, networking ports and capacity) are scaledincrementally. As such, the number of processors does not

necessarily increase as more storage capacity is added.

One benefit of using a scale-out architectures is that the

nodes are viewed and treated as one single logical entity by

the solution. However just because they are all managed as

a single, logical solution does not necessarily mean all of the

nodes work together as one. Organizations need to verify

that a deduplicating backup appliance that uses a scale-out

architecture also offers global deduplication which dedu-

plicates data across all of the nodes in a multi-node system.

If it does not offer this feature, data is still deduplicated but

only on each node so data deduplication is not optimized.

Another potential drawback to using a scale out architecture

is the possibility of node sprawl as adding nodes is easy

to do but it may not be the most optimal way to grow. To

counter this, organizations may want to purchase individual

nodes with more capacity and processing power.

ExaGrid and NEC are two notable providers that offer a

scale-out architecture as part of their solution. ExaGrid

recently increased the number of appliances available in

a grid format from ten to 14 with its 4.7 software release,

which increased its limits across its product line.

Instead of ten ExaGrid EX21000E appliances in a single gridfor 480 terabyte raw capacity, it can combine 14 ExaGrid

EX21000E appliances for 672 terabytes of raw capacity.

NEC, which sells its products in blocks under set SKUs

depending on the market segment, uses hybrid and storage

nodes in various configurations to scale from as little as

12 terabytes to 7.9 petabytes.

With the consolidation of vendor lineups, a similar change is

happening to models with scale-up architecture. For exam-

ple, instead of selling several appliances into the mid-market

datacenter market, Quantum now just sells one model for


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eachthe DXi 4700 for the midrange and the DXi6900 forenterpriseby providing a wide range of scale-up options.

The DXi 4700 scales from five terabytes to 135 terabytes

and the 6900 ranges from 17 terabytes to 510 terabytes

of usable backup storage.

Pricing

DCIG purposely does not provide in-depth analysis on

appliance pricing and software licensing due to the intrica-

cies and ever changing models. However, several recent

changes are hard to miss.

EMC revamped its Data Domain lineup by introducing the

DD2200, DD4200, DD4500 and DD7200 appliances. Eachof these is based on a data-less head where the controller

is sold with minimal to no storage. Existing or new stor-

age shelves can be connected to the controller purchased,

detaching the pricing of the storage from the controller.

Quantum took another approach consolidating its lineup

to sell one appliance aimed at each market segment. For

the midrange, it is the DXi 4700; and, for the enterprise, the

DXi6900. Quantum achieved this by extending the storage

range of each model. The DXi 4700, for example, scales to

over 100 terabytes of usable capacity.

Licensing has always been tricky when it comes to dedupli-

cating backup appliances. Fortunately, vendors are aware and

have simplified the models. Many now have an all-inclusive

software licensing model where deduplicationand all

needed softwareis included in the base cost of the system.

However, some only loosely adhere to this model charging

more for replication, various forms of encryption and new

features such as archiving. For example, Symantec charges

additional fees for all software ranging from deduplicationthe

core purpose of the applianceto replication and encryption.

When figuring a software pricing model, another big question

is this: Is software licensing based on front- or back-end

capacity? With some models capable of data reductions ofmore than 20:1, this can make a sizable difference. If the

system does not achieve anticipated results, you may pay

more. Not including all software licenses in the base cost of

the appliance can also lead to unexpected charges down the

road as administrators look to use features such as replica-

tion, archiving and encryption.

Some include all software licenses but tie these to the

amount of storage capacity in the appliance. Quantum

recently introduced software key licensing, where systems

are sold with set capacities. Then, using a software key,

administrators can access additional onboard capacity tomove from, say, four to eight or more terabytes.

Quantums newer systems follow this pay-as-you-go pric-

ing model. The DXi4700 offers software capacity licensing

breaks at the 11 terabyte, 19 terabyte and 27 terabyte

levels. The DXi6900 follows a similar pricing model with

software licensing tiered to specific levels of storage capac-

ity. However no extra software licensing is needed past its

34-terabyte licensing key upgrade.

Observations and Recommendations

General Observations About AllDeduplicating Backup Appliances

General observations on all products in the DCIG 2014-15

Deduplicating Backup Appliance Buyers Guideinclude

the following:

Virtually all systems compress data after it is deduplicated.

All offer acceleration software with Symantecs OST the

most prevalent. Other options include Accent, AIR and

Dells Rapid Data Access (RDA).

All deduplicating backup appliances deduplicate incoming

data while concurrently replicating to another system.

Almost all bundle deduplication with their backupappliance at no extra charge

Most appliance vendors sell their deduplicating backup

appliances with all needed software licenses. Some still

do not. One vendor sells just its hardware and licenses

the software

Best-in-Class and

Recommended Rankings

Observations

HP StoreOnce 6500 earned the Best-in-Classranking,

closely followed by three in the Recommendedgrouping

Quantum DXi6900 and two NEC HYDRAstor appliances:

the HS8-4104R-7920 and HS8-4006R-720. The products

that earned Best-in-Classand Recommendedrankings

in the2014-15 Deduplicating Backup Appliance Buyers

Guidegenerally shared the following characteristics:

Offer global deduplication where groups of multiple nodes

and/or controllers work together with one controller

allocating the deduplicated data across multiple nodes.


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Scale out to multiple nodes

Offer a virtual appliance option that may be run

on multiple different hypervisors.

Include three year warranties

Use 4TB HDDs

Offer erasure coding apart from RAID 6

for data protection.

Recommendations

It was neck-in-neck for the top spot in this years guide.

HP and its updated StoreOnce 6500 appliance line

narrowly edged out Quantum and NEC that came

about as a result of its improved software, hardware

and management capabilities.

The HP StoreOnce 6500 is one of the few that scales into

the multiple petabytes of raw capacity. Offering an architec-

ture that combines scale up and scale out, each node scales

up to 280 terabytes of raw storage capacity. By grouping as

many as eight nodes together, the appliance scales out to

2.59 petabytes. The enterprise level capabilities of the newly

launched StoreOnce 6500 combined with its virtual appli-

ance option contributed to it achieving the Best-in-Class

ranking in this years Guide.The availability of a deduplicating virtual appliance from both

HP and Quantum contributed to their respective high rank-

ings in this Guide. As more enterprises look to protect data in

highly virtualized remote offices, the availability of the dedupli-

cating backup appliance as a virtual appliance became a new

option that was evaluated as part of this years Guide. These

virtual appliances offer most if not all of the same features as

their hardware appliance counterparts and are primarily used

in conjunction with a hardware appliance.

The HP StoreOnce 6500s software management features

and storage networking options were the final two items

that put it over the top in this years Guide. Using the

StoreOnce 6500, enterprise administrators can select data

to bypass deduplication; potentially handle thousands of

concurrent backup streams; use a mix of Ethernet and FC

storage networking protocols and provide data encryption.

It is by delivering the best of the new features that dedupli-

cating backup appliances have to offer such as global dedu-

plication, high availability, scale-out and scale-up options

and virtual appliance along with its continued attention to

deduplication, management and flexibility of deployment

that propelled the HP StoreOnce 6500 to the top spot inthis years Guide.

ExcellentRanking

Observations

The nine models that achieved an Excellentranking in the

DCIG 2014-15 Deduplicating Backup Appliance Buyers

Guidegenerally shared the following characteristics:

Did inline deduplication

Provide erasure coding for data protectionapart from RAID 6

Offer wide area network (WAN)optimization of

a replicated stream with products like Silver Peak,

Blue Coat, Riverbed, and Cisco WAS

Recommendation

The HP StoreOnce 4900 is among those few appliances

ranked as Excellent that provide virtual appliance function-

ality. This option helps to make these two solutions well-

positioned for use in small and midsized enterprises that

may have up to a few hundred terabytes of data to protect

as well as highly virtualized remote and branch offices.

The EMC Data Domain lineup of DD990, DD4500 and

DD7200 appliances provide higher levels of processing and

storage capacity options than its prior generations. Build on

a scale-up architecture, EMCs appliances continue to be in

broad favor with end-users though the EMC Data Domain

appliances are starting to lag other solutions in their breadth

of feature functionality.

The two NEC deduplicating backup appliances in this

category scale to 96 and 192 TBs of capacity respec-

tively with their global deduplication and high availability

features options continuing to set NEC appliances apart

from the competitors. NEC also differentiates itself by

using a combination of processing and storage nodes to

give enterprises the flexibility to add the most appropriate

node to its system to improve performance or increase

storage capacity.

Lacking in both the EMC and NEC deduplicating backup

appliance lines was no virtual appliance option. The lack

of this feature will necessitate that enterprises continue to

deploy some physical appliance from each of the broader

families of these provider into remote offices.


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GoodRanking

The 21 products that earned a Goodranking in the2014-

15 Deduplicating Backup Appliance Buyers Guide gener-

ally shared the following features in common:

Provide IPMI or Remote Access port for

console-level access

Provide encryption of data at rest though

only fifty percent offer encryption in flight

Offer an encryption solution that remains "on"

in multiplex/multi-streamed database backup

environments

Support the use of native database backup tools

such as Oracle RMAN for bckup

Provide 1:1 and N:1 replication fan-in options

Offer bandwidth throttling during replication

Recommendation

Nearly half of the models in the DCIG 2014-15 Deduplicating

Backup Appliance Buyers Guideachieved the ranking of

Good.Enterprises choosing deduplicating backup appli-

ances with a Good category will often get the management

capabilities they need to effectively deploy and operate adeduplicating backup appliance for their environments.

Notably, most vendors offer the deduplication and manage-

ment features on all of the appliances in their product line.

The primary limitation of products with a Goodranking is

their scalability as the upper capacity and performance

limits of many of these appliances may restrict their deploy-

ments to enterprises with under 100 TBs of data to protect.

ExaGrid is one exception to this rule as the scalability of its

products exceeds most of the others with a Goodranking.

For example, the ExaGrid EX32000E with 72 terabytes on

a per node basis of raw capacity scales to more than one

petabyte of raw capacity in a scale-out configuration with

14 nodes. Factoring in ExaGrids levels of management

and support with these high levels of capacity made it its

appliances prime candidates for enterprises with multiple

backup capacity and throughput requirements.

Two cautionary notes with the ExaGrid appliances are that

they cannot be configured with one controller exclusively

doing replication or deduplication, nor does ExaGrid offer

a virtual appliance option. This dictates that enterprisesexercise some caution in how they setup and deploy

ExaGrid appliances in their environments.

BasicRanking

The 13 products that achieved a Basicranking in the

2014-15 Deduplicat ing Backup Appliance Buyers Guide

generally shared the following characteristics:

Have settings to let some data bypass the

deduplication process

Verify data integrity after the data is deduplicated

Offer more than one deduplication algorithm

with variable-length block and SHA-1 hashing

as the most prevalent

Offer 10Gb Ethernet networking interfaces

Provide hot swappable drives

Are single controller systems with limited or

no flexibility to scale-up or scale-out

Recommendation

Scalability is biggest concern among those appliances

with a Basicranking. Primarily available as single-control-ler systems, many only offer storage capacity in the single

digit raw terabytes range. While some do scale to higher

levels of capacity, these lack the full range of features

found in higher level categories.

The upside is that those with a Basicranking largely come

bundled with the necessary deduplication and management

software and, where applicable, is similar or the same as

higher ranked products in the same product family.

All models with a Basicranking can deduplicate incoming

data while concurrently replicating to another system as

well as encrypt data while replicating it. Most also follow an

all-inclusive licensing model where deduplication, replication

and encryption are included with the appliances base cost.

Together, these factors contribute to making these appli-

ances most well suited for small and midsized offices with

20 TBs of data or less to protect.


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DEDUPLICATINGBACKUP APPLIANCESCORES AND RANKINGS

The scores and rankings for the deduplicating backup appliances

contain the following information:

A chart that includes the scores and rankings for all of the products

The mean and the standard deviation that were used to establish

how each deduplicating backup appliance was ranked

A summary of the primary findings


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OVERALL SCORES AND RANKINGS

DEDUPLICATING BACKUP APPLIANCES SCORE RANKING

1. Hewlett Packard HP StoreOnce 6500 100.87 Best-in-Class

2. Quantum DXi6900 100.42 Recommended

3. NEC HYDRAStor HS8-4104R-7920 (104HN+61SN) 100.37 Recommended

4. NEC HYDRAstor HS8-4006R-720 93.96 Recommended

5. Quantum DXi8500 92.43 Excellent

6. Quantum DXi6802 90.53 Excellent

7. HDS Sepaton S2100-ES3-Series-2925 88.90 Excellent

8. NEC HYDRAstor HS8-4002S-192 84.22 Excellent

9. EMC Data Domain 7200 83.56 Excellent



12. NEC HYDRAstor HS8-4002S-96 81.02 Excellent

13. Hewlett Packard HP StoreOnce 4900 80.98 Excellent

14. Quantum DXi4700 80.75 Good

15. Symantec NetBackup 5230 Backup Appliance 79.47 Good

16. EMC Data Domain 4200 79.06 Good


18. Symantec NetBackup 5030 Deduplication Appliance 78.21 Good

19. ExaGrid EX32000E 77.80 Good




23. Dell DR6000 75.36 Good

24. Hewlett Packard HP StoreOnce 4700 75.28 Good

25. ExaGrid EX5000 73.94 Good




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OVERALL SCORES AND RANKINGS (continued)

Total Number of Products 47

Highest Score 100.87

Lowest Score 44.39

Average (Mean) 74.42

Standard Deviation 12.47

Recommended 93.96 100.87

Excellent 80.98 92.43

Good 68.60 80.75

Basic 44.39 68.42

Rankings

DEDUPLICATING BACKUP APPLIANCES SCORE RANKING

29. NEC HYDRAstor HS8-4001S-96 71.58 Good

30. Dell DR4100 70.22 Good


32. Hewlett Packard HP StoreOnce 4500 69.20 Good

33. Quantum DXi6701/DXi6702 69.00 Good

34. IBM Storage System TS7620 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance Express 68.60 Good

35. NEC HYDRAstor HS8-4001S-(12-48) 68.42 Basic

36. ExaGrid EX2000 68.40 Basic

37. ExaGrid EX1000 66.90 Basic

38. NEC HYDRAstor HS3-410 66.65 Basic

39. EMC Data Domain 160 66.08 Basic

40. FalconStor VTL SAM16 61.56 Basic

41. FalconStor VTL SAP16 60.61 Basic

42. FalconStor FDS SA623 60.36 Basic


44. Hewlett Packard HP StoreOnce 2700 57.04 Basic


46. FalconStor HDS-FS-FDS-H150 50.38 Basic

47. FalconStor HDS-FS-FDS-220S 44.39 Basic


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DEDUPLICATINGBACKUP APPLIANCEMODELS


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OVERALLSCORE Deduplication Hardware Management Support

70.22 7.50 15.08 30.82 16.82GOOD GOOD BASIC GOOD EXCELLENT

HARDWARE

Raw Storage CapacityMIN / MAX

3.6 TB / 108

Ethernet portsMAX

6

FC PortsMAX

Storage Networking Interfaces 1/10Gb Ethe

Max # Storage Networking Ports 6

Hot Swappable Drives

FC Support

Concurrent FC/Ethernet Mix

Max HDDs 36

5.4K RPM SATA HDDsMAX


3 TB NL SA

SSDs

FC / SAS HDDS

Concurrent HDD Mix

CacheMAX

32 GB

Processor CoresMAX

12

ControllersMAX

1

Storage Networking ProtocolsTOTAL #

3

VTL Interface

PartitionsMAX

32

Concurrently Present NAS/VTL

Controller Configurations Single

Global Deduplication

Deduplication HA

Storage Capacity Expansion Scale-up

RAID Levels 1, 6

IPMI Remote Management

MANAGEMENT (CONT'D)

Backup Software OptimizedTOTAL #

5

Cloud ProvidersTOTAL #

NDMP

Backup Software StreamsRecognized TOTAL #

16

Concurrent Deduplication/Replication

Compress/Encrypt Replicated Data

Replication Status by Backup Job

Replication TypesTOTAL #

2

Display Real Time Deduplication Ratio

Deduplication Index ProtectionTOTAL #

2

Replication OptionsTOTAL #

3

Replication Bandwidth Throttling

Replication Throttling by Stream

WAN Optimization Options

Data OptimizationTOTAL #

1

Single Controller Replication

Single Controller Deduplication

SUPPORT

Backup Software Option / Extra #7

Software Licenses Included 7 / Extra #0

Real Time ReportsTOTAL #

3

Warranty 3 Year

24x7x365

Access MethodsTOTAL #

5

Alerting OptionsTOTAL #

1

Battery Backup/UPS

DEDUPLICATION

Deduplication Included

Compress Deduplicated Data

Deduplication Level / TypeVariable Length

Block, Sliding Scale

Bypass Deduplication

Verify Data Integrity / Rate

Inline Deduplication

Post Process Deduplication

Inline / Post Process Option

Deduplication Ratios by Backup Job

Deduplication AlgorithmsTOTAL #

1

MANAGEMENT

Management InterfacesTOTAL #

3

Max Concurrent Backup Streams 256

Encryption OptionsTOTAL #

2

Virtual Appliance/Capacity 4 TBs

VA FeaturesTOTAL #

4

VA CDP

VA HypervisorsTOTAL #

2

Appliance Backup to VA

Instant VM Recovery

Encryption EKMTOTAL #

2

Multi-stream Encryption

Encryption MethodsTOTAL #

2

Native DB BackupsTOTAL #

2

Backup Accelerator OptionsTOTAL #

3

Backup Accelerator FeaturesTOTAL #

4

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HARDWARE


12 TB / 240

Ethernet portsMAX

6

FC PortsMAX

Storage Networking Interfaces 1/10Gb Ethe



FC Support


Max HDDs 60



4 TB NL SA

SSDs

FC / SAS HDDS

Concurrent HDD Mix

CacheMAX

48 GB

Processor CoresMAX

16

ControllersMAX

1


3

VTL Interface

PartitionsMAX

64




Deduplication HA


RAID Levels 1, 6


MANAGEMENT (CONT'D)


11


NDMP


16





2



2


3





1



SUPPORT




3

Warranty 3 Year

24x7x365


5


1

Battery Backup/UPS

DEDUPLICATION




Block, Sliding Scale








1

MANAGEMENT


3



2

Virtual Appliance/Capacity 4 TBs

VA FeaturesTOTAL #

4

VA CDP


2


Instant VM Recovery


2



2


2


3


6

Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance Approximate Starting List Price: $50,000 $100,000


75.36 8.00 17.87 31.72 17.77GOOD GOOD BASIC EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED


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HARDWARE


6 TB / 6 TB

Ethernet portsMAX

6

FC PortsMAX

2

Storage Networking Interfaces1 Gb Ethern

4 Gb FC



FC Support


Max HDDs 12



SSDs

FC / SAS HDDS

Concurrent HDD Mix

CacheMAX

6 GB

Processor CoresMAX

2

ControllersMAX

1


4

VTL Interface

PartitionsMAX

100




Deduplication HA

Storage Capacity Expansion Scale-Up

RAID Levels 6


MANAGEMENT (CONT'D)


6


NDMP


18





3



1


4





2



SUPPORT




3

Warranty 1 Year

24x7x365


5


5

Battery Backup/UPS

DEDUPLICATION




Block








2

MANAGEMENT


7



2

Virtual Appliance/Capacity

VA FeaturesTOTAL #

VA CDP



Instant VM Recovery


1



2


5


3


2

EMC Data Domain DD160 Approximate Starting List Price: $10,000 $20,000


66.08 6.50 12.08 31.98 15.52BASIC BASIC BASIC EXCELLENT GOOD

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HARDWARE


30 TB / 720

Ethernet portsMAX

16

FC PortsMAX

Storage Networking Interfaces1/10Gb Ethernet,

Mgmt Port, 4x1



FC Support


Max HDDs 285



3 TB

SSDs

FC / SAS HDDS

Concurrent HDD Mix

CacheMAX

256 GB

Processor CoresMAX

2

ControllersMAX

1


4

VTL Interface

PartitionsMAX

100


Controller Configurations Single Contro


Deduplication HA


RAID Levels 6


MANAGEMENT (CONT'D)


6


NDMP


18





2



1


4





2



SUPPORT




3

Warranty 1 Year

24x7x365


5


5

Battery Backup/UPS

DEDUPLICATION




Block








2

MANAGEMENT


7



2


VA FeaturesTOTAL #

VA CDP



Instant VM Recovery


1



2


5


3


2

EMC Data Domain DD990 Approximate Starting List Price: Over $250,000


81.44 6.75 27.72 32.45 14.52EXCELLENT BASIC GOOD EXCELLENT GOOD



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69.88 6.50 17.14 31.42 14.82GOOD BASIC BASIC EXCELLENT GOOD

HARDWARE


10.5 TB / 24

Ethernet portsMAX

14

FC PortsMAX

4

Storage Networking Interfaces1/10Gb Ether

8Gb FC



FC Support


Max HDDs 12



SSDs

FC / SAS HDDS 2 TB

Concurrent HDD Mix

CacheMAX

6 GB

Processor CoresMAX

2

ControllersMAX

1


4

VTL Interface

PartitionsMAX

100




Deduplication HA


RAID Levels 6


MANAGEMENT (CONT'D)


6


NDMP


18





3



1


4





1



SUPPORT




3

Warranty 1 Year

24x7x365


5


5

Battery Backup/UPS

DEDUPLICATION




Block








2

MANAGEMENT


7



2


VA FeaturesTOTAL #

VA CDP



Instant VM Recovery


1



2


5


3


2




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78.35 6.50 23.61 33.20 15.04GOOD BASIC GOOD EXCELLENT GOOD

HARDWARE


10 TB / 171

Ethernet portsMAX

24

FC PortsMAX

6

Storage Networking Interfaces1/10Gb Ether

8Gb FC



FC Support


Max HDDs 45



SSDs

FC / SAS HDDS 3 TB

Concurrent HDD Mix

CacheMAX

12 GB

Processor CoresMAX

4

ControllersMAX

1


4

VTL Interface

PartitionsMAX

100




Deduplication HA


RAID Levels 6


MANAGEMENT (CONT'D)


6


NDMP


18





3



1


4





2



SUPPORT




3

Warranty 1 Year

24x7x365


5


5

Battery Backup/UPS

DEDUPLICATION




Block








2

MANAGEMENT


7



2


VA FeaturesTOTAL #

VA CDP



Instant VM Recovery


1



2


5


3


1




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79.06 6.50 23.81 33.53 15.22GOOD BASIC GOOD EXCELENT GOOD

HARDWARE


30 TB / 240

Ethernet portsMAX

24

FC PortsMAX

8

Storage Networking Interfaces1/10Gb Ethernet,

10GBase-



FC Support


Max HDDs 95



3 TB

SSDs

FC / SAS HDDS

Concurrent HDD Mix

CacheMAX

36 GB

Processor CoresMAX

4

ControllersMAX

1


4

VTL Interface

PartitionsMAX

100




Deduplication HA


RAID Levels 6


MANAGEMENT (CONT'D)


6


NDMP


18





3



1


4





2



SUPPORT




3

Warranty 1 Year

24x7x365


5


5

Battery Backup/UPS

DEDUPLICATION




Block








2

MANAGEMENT


7



2


VA FeaturesTOTAL #

VA CDP



Instant VM Recovery


1



2


5


3


2




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