Dell DL1000 Appliance Deployment Guide

Your DL1000 deployment architecture consists of local and remote components. The remote components may be optional for those environments that do not require leveraging a disaster recovery site or a managed service provider for off-site recovery. A basic local deployment consists of a backup server called the Core and one or more protected machines known as the agents. The off-site component is enabled using replication that provides full recovery capabilities in the disaster recovery site. The DL1000 Core uses base images and incremental snapshots to compile recovery points of protected agents.

Also, DL1000 is application-aware because it can detect the presence of Microsoft Exchange and SQL and their respective databases and log files. Backups are performed by using application-aware block-level snapshots. DL1000 performs log truncation of the protected Microsoft Exchange server.

The following diagram depicts a simple DL1000 deployment. DL1000 Agents are installed on machines such as a file server, email server, database server, or virtual machines are connected to and protected by a single DL1000 Core, which consists of the central repository. The Dell software License Portal manages license subscriptions, groups and users for the agents and cores in your environment. The License Portal allows users to log in, activate accounts, download software, and deploy agents and cores per your license for your environment.

Figure 1. Dell DL1000 Deployment Architecture

You can also deploy multiple DL1000 Cores as shown in the following diagram. A central console manages multiple cores.

Figure 2. DL1000 Multi—Core Deployment Architecture