PowerProtect Data Manager 19.17 Storage Array User Guide

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PowerStore and PowerMax feature availability

The following table provides information about what PowerProtect Data Manager features and functionality are available for PowerStore and PowerMax storage arrays.

Table 1. PowerStore and PowerMax feature availabilityPowerStore and PowerMax feature availability
Feature	PowerStore	PowerMax
SAN connection required	No	Yes
Data Mover	Embedded	External protection engines
Individual volume backup	Yes	No
Force full backup	No	Yes
Storage replica awareness	Yes	No
Stream limit control per asset (backup/restore)	No	Yes
Incremental CBT restore	Yes	No
Management of local snapshots	Yes	No
Protection Rules support	Yes	No
MEDITECH integration	Yes	No
Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance	No	No
Quick Recovery	No	No
Metro configuration support	No	No
Instant access support	Yes	No
Impact on storage resources (backup/restore)	Yes	No
Performance impact with encryption over wire	High	Low
Backup/restore DDBoost streams per volume	Yes, to a maximum of 2	n/a
Backup/restore DDBoost streams per volume group/storage group	Yes, to a maximum of 4	Multiple (can be tuned by setting the stream count per asset)
DSP enabled by default for full backup	No	Yes (can be changed in the configuration file)
DSP enabled by default for synthetic full backup	No	No (can be changed in the configuration file)
Allocation bitmap enabled by default for full backup	Yes	Yes (can be changed in the configuration file)
Compressed restore	Yes	Yes
Individual volume restore from volume group backup	No	No

NOTE:For PowerMax settings that can be changed in the configuration file, refer to the section Modifying parameters used during PowerMax backup and restore operations