Streamline backup and recovery operations.
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Optimize your data management while reducing reliance on tape backups with the Dell™ DR4000 disk-based data protection and recovery solution.
- Protect your investment — all inclusive licensing model with no hidden costs.
- Enhance workflow performance with target-based deduplication, helping reduce bandwidth requirements for data transfer by up to 15 times.
- Simplify your IT operations by making data preservation and recovery significantly easier.

Common data types that would be backed up to the DR4000 target appliance —Exchange, SQL, Oracle, VM's, etc.
| Streamline backup | Eliminate redundant data | Cost-effective |
| DR4000 is a fast, disk-based backup, data protection and recovery solution appliance that helps reduce workflow processes. | Help ease the pain of data growth and reduce disk capacity requirements by up to 93 percent. | Its all-inclusive licensing model helps ensure future features and additional benefits at no additional cost. Replication capability is included with DR4000. |
Advanced data protection and disaster recovery
DR4000 has built-in data protection safeguards in both hardware and software to verify backup integrity. The non-volatile RAM (NV-RAM) is designed to ensure data protection in case of a power loss and proactively detects corruption due to faulty hardware. The DR4000 target appliance has a RAID 6 configuration, allowing for up to two simultaneous hard drive failures without service interruption. Early Write software feature continuously validates data integrity.Improved disaster recovery capability is provided by the DR4000 through deduplicated replication. Replication enables better disaster tolerance without the operational costs associated with transporting data offsite on physical tape. Replication can be scheduled to occur during non-peak periods and prioritizes ingest data over replication data to ensure optimal back up windows. Deduplication coupled with replication can minimize the costs and inefficiencies associated with distributed backup environments.
Manage with simplicity
| The DR4000 data reduction and backup appliance is a turnkey solution designed to drop in to any backup workflow environment. Simple to install and simple to manage, the DR4000 supports industry-leading backup software applications*, making deployment a breeze. The DR4000 can deliver fast, daily full backups more efficiently than traditional tape methods, providing a cost-effective disaster recovery solution which also helps reduce the burden on staff and eliminates tape requirements at remote offices. The result is a simple disaster recovery solution that also helps reduce capital and operational costs typically associated with backup and recovery. Find Out More |
Effective management is critical for obtaining full value from deduplication deployments. The DR4000 provides a graphical interface giving an overview of the system, including system status, hardware and software alerts, storage capacity and savings, and important system information such as system and software versions. The DR4000 automatically monitors the health of the hardware and verifies the integrity of the system software.
*Please see Technical Specifications for more information regarding certifications of backup software vendors.
Future-proof your data center
A cornerstone technology of the Dell Fluid Data Architecture, Dell's deduplication and compression technology found in the DR4000 delivers a data reduction and protection solution with the future built-in. By accelerating and streamlining the backup process the DR4000 ensures that information restores are delivered in a timely and accurate manner — in time with business needs. Less data and less management processes frees up administrator time to work on more strategically important initiatives, at the same time that protection against downtime and disaster has been augmented. The DR4000 changes the economics of disk-based data protection.Please see Technical Specifications for more information regarding certifications of backup software vendors.
Form Factor
- 2U
Storage
- Internal Storage: 12 3.5’ drives, Near Line SAS - Hardware RAID 6 Configuration (11 drives +1 Hot Spare) 300GB or 600GB SAS or 2TB Near Line Drives
Capacity points
Available in 3 configurations:
2.7TB post-RAID (35TB logical)
5.4TB post-RAID (70TB logical)
9.0TB post-RAID (130TB logical)
18.0 TB post-RAID (270TB logical)
Protocols
- Protocol Support: NFS, CIFS
Certifications
- CommVault Simpana
- Symantec Backup Exec
- Symantec Netbackup
Networking
4 Port 1GbE (10BaseT), 2 Port 10GbE (10BaseT) per node node or 2 Port 10GbE (SFP+) per node
Systems Management
- iDrac 6 Enterprise
Remote Management
- DRAC
Dimensions
- Physical Dimensions: 2U rack-mountable chassis or 26.17” (66.46cm) D x 17.53” (44.52cm) W x 3.42” (8.67cm) H with bezel attached
Rack Weight: 63.80 lbs. (29.0 kg), maximum configuration
Wattage
750 W (redundant power supply)
Voltage
100 VAC to 240 VAC, autoranging, 50Hz to 60HzHeat
Dissipation
2450 BTU/hr (maximum)
Regulatory Model
E13S Series


