Dell manual Introduction, About the Dell DL4000 Appliance, About AppAssure

Introduction

This document describes important product information and additional information on the Dell DL4000 Appliance. This release has the following new features:

•Rapid Appliance Self Recovery (RASR)

•Fibre Channel configuration (optional)

NOTE: For more information on the new features in this release see the Dell DL4000 Appliance Deployment Guide at dell.com/support/home.

About the Dell DL4000 Appliance

The Dell DL4000 appliance is a fully configured backup appliance that is powered by AppAssure software. The DL4000 integrates 5.5 TB of storage capacity and standby virtual machines (VMs) with snapshot, replication, deduplication, and compression software to quickly recover applications and data.

Your appliance:

•Helps eliminate your backup window.

•Creates snapshots as often as every 5 minutes.

•Maintains up to two or four standby VMs to quickly restore critical servers.

•Offers integrated, inline block-level deduplication and compression, combined with optimized backups for WAN replication.

•Provides a wizard based configuration utility to automatically provision DL4000 storage and iDRAC for remote management.

About AppAssure

AppAssure is a unified and integrated backup and replication software that offers near-zero recovery time, verified recovery, and cross-platform virtual and physical server recovery.

For more information about important product features and restrictions for AppAssure software, see the AppAssure Release Notes at support.software.dell.com/appassure/5.4.2.

Other information you may need

NOTE: For all Dell OpenManage documents, go to dell.com/openmanagemanuals.

NOTE: Always check for updates on dell.com/support/home and read the updates first because they often supersede information in other documents.

NOTE: For any documentation related to Dell OpenManage Server Administrator, see dell.com/ openmanage/manuals.

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