PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Edition

Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Edition is the software-defined version of our industry-leading PowerProtect Data Domain appliance. It delivers the same core benefits—including powerful data deduplication, reliability, and cyber resilience.

PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Edition delivers a robust foundation for cyber resilience through a multi-layered security architecture. It helps you protect, detect, and recover from cyberattacks with confidence using features like Retention Lock, which creates immutable copies of your data that cannot be altered or deleted. This is combined with our Data Invulnerability Architecture, which continuously verifies data integrity.

PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Edition empowers your multicloud strategy by offering broad support across major public cloud providers. You can natively deploy and run Data Domain Virtual Edition in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure and Azure Government, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and VMware Cloud.

In addition to Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Edition is designed to integrate seamlessly into your existing IT ecosystem. It supports a wide range of leading enterprise backup and archiving applications, including those from Veeam, Commvault, Veritas, and Cohesity. This allows you to enhance your current data protection strategy with its industry-leading deduplication and cyber resilience capabilities without disrupting your established backup workflows or replacing your preferred software.

PowerProtect Data Domain Management Center is a powerful tool that provides centralized, one-to-many management for your entire Dell Data Domain ecosystem, including both physical appliances and Data Domain Virtual Edition instances. From a single dashboard, you can streamline operations with features such as aggregated monitoring, simplified configuration and orchestrated updates.

A software-defined Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Edition instance delivers significant environmental and cost-efficiency benefits compared to a traditional physical Purpose-Built Backup Appliance. Because it runs on your existing server infrastructure, it helps you avoid the costs of acquiring and maintaining dedicated hardware. This consolidation directly reduces data center rack space, power consumption, and cooling requirements, contributing to a lower carbon footprint and helping you achieve your corporate sustainability goals.

Data Domain Virtual Edition is an ideal choice for a wide range of use cases, particularly for organizations looking to extend enterprise-grade data protection to new environments with efficiency and simplicity. It is perfect for protecting workloads in remote or branch offices, securing cloud-native applications, and establishing a cost-effective disaster recovery solution in the public cloud. Its ability to start small and scale as your needs grow makes it a smart investment for any business.

Yes, Data Domain Virtual Edition is built with comprehensive security features to protect your critical data. It includes robust encryption for data both in-flight and at-rest, ensuring information remains secure across your environment. Data Domain Virtual Edition also features Retention Lock Compliance to safeguard data against deletion or modification through immutable storage, which is a critical defense against ransomware. For the highest level of protection, it integrates with Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery to isolate data in a secure vault.

Data Domain Virtual Edition offers exceptional deployment flexibility to fit your specific IT strategy. You can install it on any standard x86 server, on Dell PowerEdge servers, or within converged and hyperconverged infrastructure. For cloud-centric strategies, it’s available for deployment in major public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and as a VMware Cloud certified solution, providing a consistent data protection experience wherever your data lives.

A single Data Domain Virtual Edition instance is highly scalable to meet growing data demands. On-premises, it can scale up to 96 TB of usable capacity per instance. For cloud deployments, it scales even further, supporting up to 256 TB of usable capacity in a single instance. Throughput is enhanced with the Data Domain Boost protocol, which optimizes the backup process to deliver the performance needed for modern workloads.