Dell DL2000 manual Up and running in mere minutes, Simpler to manage, Best of both worlds

safer than “homegrown” backup-to-disk –

up and running up to 5x faster

Configuring homegrown backup-to-disk solutions can be difficult, time-consuming, and prone to errors. Dell’s answer: PowerVault™ DL2000, the industry’s only integrated solution for faster disk-based backups and recoveries. It eliminates the risk of untested “homegrown” solutions, and gets you up and running as much as 5x faster.

We designed the PowerVault DL2000 family to help small and mid-sized businesses easily protect their applications and files quickly and without complexity. The PowerVault DL2000 is the first of our TierDisk family of products designed to provide cost-optimized solutions for secondary storage environments for data protection and data management. It’s backup simplified by Dell.

up and running in mere minutes

PowerVault DL2000 solutions come factory installed with Symantec® Backup Exec™ or CommVault® Simpana® software, plus an easy wizard-driven setup and management utility. Integrated automated dynamic disk provisioning configures and sets up the disks for immediate use.

Set it up, configure storage, add more disks — it only takes a few clicks. PowerVault DL2000 solutions are fully tested and validated, sure to work together, and you can deploy them fast.

We’ve timed it: you can deploy PowerVault DL2000 and start executing your first backup in under 30 minutes, 4.5x to 5x faster than improvising a “homegrown” backup-to-disk solution.

simpler to manage

Both versions of the PowerVault DL2000 feature remote management capabilities and alerts that notify administrators of any critical issues with the systems.

Your data center administrators can use the PowerVault DL2000’s integrated management console to set backup tasks and policies and do system monitoring and maintenance from their central location. This makes the PowerVault DL2000 the ideal backup solution for remote offices that don’t have IT experts on site.

faster, More Reliable Disk-Based Backup

Managing tapes is complex and high maintenance. Backups to tape often exceed their backup window, and tape-based backups fail due to media or handling issues. Disk-based backups and restores with the PowerVault DL2000 are faster than tape and far more reliable.

the best of both worlds

Tape backup can be time consuming — it can take days to back up your ever-growing data sets. However, tape is ideal for offsite storage for disaster recovery. The PowerVault DL2000 family of solutions gives you the best of both worlds, because they’re available with the Dell PowerVault TL2000, TL4000, or ML6000 tape library integrated into the full solution. You can take advantage of backup-to-disk for rapid recovery, then transfer to tape from the same management console for off-site

disaster recovery.

better than VTL

Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) are ”point products” that can help fix backup and recovery bottlenecks in the short run. But they’re separate “boxes” that create silos of information and add management complexity because they run on proprietary software. Virtual tapes have to be created, provisioned, and managed from a separate interface, and VTL products lack alerting and reporting within the backup solution. The PowerVault DL2000 is a native, disk-to-disk solution that eliminates the need for manual setup and management. It automatically and dynamically provisions a disk, invisibly to the user, and gives you proactive monitoring, alerts, and reporting. What’s more, it’s based on software you already know and use — not unfamiliar, proprietary software that boxes you in.