Boosting ROI with Multi-Vendor Virtualization

Protecting virtualized environments can be costly and complex, putting your organization at risk of downtime and data, productivity and revenue loss. Virtual machine (VM) sprawl and increased resource contention caused by hyperdense consolidated environments can hamper backup and recovery. Traditional backup tools do not provide instant online recovery, while legacy tools do not integrate and automate end-to-end processes.

Overcome barriers in implementing and protecting virtualized environments with Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage area networks (SANs). These Internet SCSI (iSCSI) SANs virtualize all storage resources to help simplify deployment and automatically manage and optimize disk, controller and network utilization. Comprehensive online recovery tools ― the EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware® Edition and Microsoft® Edition ― are tightly integrated with VMware vStorage™ APIs and Microsoft® Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) technologies. Through tight integration with the hypervisor, OS and application layers, the Auto-Snapshot Manager tools schedule, create, manage and recover snapshots, clones and replicas of production volumes for:

• Online protection in both physical and virtual environments
• Rapid cloning for test, development and reporting operations
• Simple and efficient SAN-based replication for off-site disaster recovery

Protect your primary storage using backup-to-disk technology with the Dell PowerVault™ DL Backup to Disk Appliance powered by Symantec™ Backup Exec™ 2010. Seamlessly integrated with EqualLogic SANs, this appliance enables you to:

• Simplify and automated end-to-end backup and recovery with factory-installed software on industry-standard Dell server and storage technology
• Provide network-efficient backups, with source and target-based deduplication for controlling storage costs and reducing the amount of backup data
• Provide a single console management, user self-service and granular recovery, and automated compression, encryption and archiving for offline storage