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High-speed, scalable
deduplication DELL EMC DATA DOMAIN
• Reduces protection storage requirements
by up to 55x
• Up to 3x restore performance
OPERATING SYSTEM
• CPU-centric scalability

Data invulnerability Powering Dell EMC protection storage

architecture
The Data Domain Operating System (DD OS) is the intelligence that powers
• Inline write/read verification, continuous
fault detection
Dell EMC Data Domain. It provides the agility, security and reliability that
• Dual disk parity RAID 6 enables the Data Domain platform to deliver scalable, high-speed, and cloud-
enabled protection storage for backup, archive and disaster recovery. And
Seamless integration now Data Domain is even faster with the latest enhancements in DD OS that
• Supports leading enterprise backup and delivers up to 3x faster restore performance.
archive applications
• Tightest integration with Dell EMC data
protection suite family
High-speed scalable deduplication
Backup and archive
consolidation The Data Domain Operating System powers Data Domain to deliver industry-
leading speed and efficiency with up to 68 TB/hour throughput, enabling more
• Efficiently protect backup and/or archive
data backups to complete sooner and reducing pressure on backup windows. DD
• Meets governance policies and OS employs source-side variable-length deduplication to minimize disk
compliance regulations for archive data requirements and ensures data lands on disk already deduplicated. This
Data Domain Virtual Edition reduces backup and archive storage requirements by up to 55x, making disk
• Software-defined protection storage on-
a cost-effective alternative to tape. Data on disk is available online and onsite
premises and in-cloud for longer retention periods and restores and retrievals become faster and
• Scales up to 96TB in-cloud more reliable. This efficiency enables Data Domain to protect up to 50PB
Cloud-enabled logical capacity on a single system, with the ability to natively-tier another
100PB of deduplicated data to the cloud for long-term retention with Data
• Simple and efficient long-term retention
to a public, private or hybrid cloud Domain Cloud Tier. As a result, months of retention on disk is possible using
• Secure multi-tenancy provides logical the same number of “floor tiles” that traditionally provided only a couple of
isolation of user data days of disk staging.
• Low-cost disaster recovery to the cloud

Fast and efficient disaster

recovery
• Reduce bandwidth requirements by up to
98%

Instant access and Instant

Restore
• Boot VMs from Data Domain directly as
well as from protection copies
• Up to 40,000 IOPS and 20ms latency

Operational simplicity
• Lower administrative costs
• Single point of management of all Data
Domain appliances by Data Domain
Management Center (DD MC)

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CPU-Centric storage enables leading performance and storage efficiency
DD OS powers Dell EMC Data Domain to deduplicate data during either the backup process or archive process, which
maximizes performance while minimizing disk storage requirements. Deduplicated data can be stored onsite for
immediate restores and longer-term retention on disk. The deduplicated data can also be replicated over the WAN to a
remote site or a service provider site in the cloud for disaster recovery operations, eliminating the need for tape-based
backups, or for consolidating tape backups to a central location. Data Domain provides the capability to consolidate both
backup and archive data on the same infrastructure allowing greater consolidation by eliminating silos of backup and
archive storage and associated overhead.
The key that enables DD OS to provide industry-leading performance while minimizing disk requirements is the Dell EMC
Data Domain Stream-Informed Segment Layout (SISLTM) scaling architecture. Specifically, SISL leverages the
continued advancement of CPU performance to continuously increase Data Domain system performance by minimizing
disk accesses required to deduplicate data. SISL deduplicates data by identifying duplicate data segments in memory,
which minimizes disk usage. This enables Data Domain throughput to be CPU-centric, not “spindle bound.

CPU-Centric Storage
Data Domain Stream Informed Segment
Layout (SISL) scaling architecture takes the
pressure off of disk I/O as a bottleneck, so
the remaining system design is CPU-
Centric. Other deduplication methods require
more disks to increase their throughput
speeds.

Data invulnerability architecture

Data Domain is designed as the storage of last resort – providing you with the confidence that you can reliably recover
your data. The Dell EMC Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture is built into DD OS to provide the industry’s best
defence against data integrity issues. Inline write and read verification protects against and automatically recovers from
data integrity issues during data ingest and retrieval.
Capturing and correcting I/O errors inline during the backup process eliminates the need to repeat backup jobs, ensuring
backups complete on time and satisfy service-level agreements. In addition, unlike other enterprise arrays or file
systems, continuous fault detection and self-healing ensures data remains recoverable throughout its lifecycle on Data
Domain.

End-to-end data verification

End-to-end data verifications reads data after it is written and
compares it to what was sent to disk, proving that it is reachable
through the file system to disk and that the data is not corrupted.
Specifically, when the Data Domain Operating System receives a
write request from backup software, it computes a checksum over
the data. After analyzing the data for redundancy, it stores the new
data segments and all of the checksums. After all the data is
written to disk, the Data Domain Operating System verifies that it
can read the entire file from the disk platter and through the Data
Domain, and that the checksums of the data read back match the
checksums of the written data. This confirms the data is correct
and recoverable from every level of the system.

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Backup and archive data stored on a Data Domain system can be protected with encryption performed inline—before the
data is written to disk. For advanced security of data-at-rest, Data Domain’s inline encryption uses industry-standard
RSA® BSAFE FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic libraries. Data Domain supports internal encryption key management
on each system or external key management through RSA Data Protection Manager, to deliver a robust encryption key
lifecycle management solution for the entire enterprise.

Performance and capacity

DDVE1 DD3300 DD6300 DD6800 DD9300 DD9800

MAXIMUM
Up to 4 TB/hr Up to 4.2 TB/hr Up to 8.5 TB/hr Up to 14 TB/hr Up to 20 TB/hr Up to 31 TB/hr
THROUGHPUT

MAXIMUM
THROUGHPUT Up to 11.2 TB/hr Up to 7.0 TB/hr Up to 24 TB/hr Up to 32 TB/hr Up to 41 TB/hr Up to 68 TB/hr
(DD BOOST)

LOGICAL
Up to 4.8PB 200TB – 1.6PB 1.8 – 8.9 PB 2.8 - 14.4 PB 7.2 -36 PB 10-50 PB
CAPACITY

W/ DD
EXTENDED - - - 5.6 - 28.8 PB 14.4 - 72 PB 20 - 100 PB
RETENTION2

W/ DD
Up to 14.8PB 600TB – 4.8PB - 8.4 – 43.2 PB 21.6 - 108 PB 30 - 150 PB
CLOUD TIER2

1. Throughput drawn running DD VE in the following environment with 96 TB instance: Host server: 2x Intel Xeon CPU (6 Cores each) @ 2GHz, 128GB
memory, 2x10GbE NIC; Storage: DAS with 3TB 7200RPM SAS Drives, RAID6, Battery Powered HBA Cache Enabled, Disk Cache Disabled.
2. DD Cloud Tier and DD Extended Retention are mutually exclusive long-term retention solutions.

Capacity is based on a mix of typical enterprise backup data (file systems, databases, email, developer files). The low
end of capacity range represents a full backup weekly or monthly, incremental backup daily or weekly, to system
capacity. The top end of the range represents full backup daily to system capacity. All capacity values are calculated
using Base10 (i.e., 1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes).

Seamless integration
Data Domain integrates easily with existing infrastructures and can be used seamlessly with leading backup and
archiving applications. Integrating a Data Domain system into your environment does not require any change in process
or infrastructure, so you can realize the value of deduplication quickly and efficiently. In addition, Data Domain can
integrate directly with leading enterprise applications such as Oracle RMAN or write directly over CIFS or NFS to support
a variety of workloads.
For a complete data protection solution, leverage the powerful combination of Dell EMC data protection software with
Data Domain protection storage. Experience reduced risk of data loss, industry-leading deduplication, and superior
performance when using the Data Protection Suite Family with Data Domain.
Since Data Domain can simultaneously support multiple access methods including NFS, CIFS, VTL, NDMP and Data
Domain Boost™ all applications and utilities can be supported in the same Data Domain system at the same time to
enable greater protection storage consolidation. A system can present itself as a file server, offering NFS, CIFS access
over Ethernet; as a virtual tape library (VTL) over Fibre Channel; as an NDMP tape server over Ethernet; or as a disk
target using application specific interfaces like Data Domain Boost. Data Domain VTL is qualified with leading open
systems and IBM i enterprise backup applications.

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Backup and archive consolidation
The flexibility of DD OS enables Data Domain to be the only protection storage to simultaneously support backup and
archive data. This enables Data Domain to reduce overall total cost of ownership (TCO) by sharing resources across
backup and archive data. Specifically, a single Data Domain can be used for backup and recovery of the entire enterprise
(including Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, and VMware®, as well as IBM i and mainframe environments) as well as protecting
archive data (including file, e-mail, enterprise content management, database and Virtual Machine archiving). Data
Domain cost-effectively protects archive data through integration with industry-leading archiving applications including
Data Protection Suite for Archive and Veritas Enterprise Vault. By consolidating to a common protection storage platform,
you can eliminate silos of storage and associated overhead - including management, floor space, power and cooling. In
addition, with Data Domain Retention Lock software, Data Domain systems can meet internal governance policies or
compliance regulations for archive data including SEC 17a-4(f). Data Domain Retention Lock allows storage
administrators, backup administrators, and compliance officers to meet data retention requirements for data stored on a
Data Domain system. DD Retention Lock prevents files from being modified or deleted for a user-defined retention
period. This feature enables secure file locking of archive data at an individual file level; enabling these files to be
intermixed with unlocked files on the same Data Domain system – thereby allowing for a broader consolidation of backup
and retention based archive data.
Data Domain Virtual Edition
Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) leverages the power of DD OS to deliver software-defined protection storage on-
premises and in-cloud. DD VE is fast and simple to download, deploy and configure - can be up and running in minutes.
DD VE can be deployed on any standard hardware, converged or hyper-converged, and runs in VMware vSphere,
Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, as well as in the cloud with AWS, AWS GovCloud, VMware Cloud, Azure, Azure Government
Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform. DD VE is also certified with VxRail and Dell PowerEdge servers. An assessment tool
can be run during deployment to check the underlying infrastructure and ensure it meets recommended requirements. A
single DD VE instance can scale up to 96 TB in-cloud. Capacity can easily be moved between virtual systems and/or
locations and can scale in increments of 1 TB allowing you to grow capacity as the business demands. DD VE maintains
the core DD OS features and includes DD Boost, DD Encryption and DD Replicator. You can configure and manage a
DD VE instance using DD System Manager and centrally manage multiple DD VE instances through the Data Domain
Management Center.

Cloud enabled
With Data Domain Cloud Tier, DD OS can natively tier data to a public, private or hybrid cloud for long-term retention.
Only unique data is sent directly from Data Domain to the cloud and data lands on the cloud object storage already
deduplicated. It supports AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud. With deduplication ratios of up to 55x,
storage footprint is greatly reduced lowering overall TCO. DD Cloud Tier can scale up to 2x the max capacity of the
active tier of a Data Domain appliance. With DD Encryption, data in the cloud remains secure. A broad ecosystem of
backup and enterprise applications and a variety of public and private clouds are supported with DD Cloud Tier including
Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) and Virtustream Storage Cloud.

Data Domain Cloud DR (DD Cloud DR) also allows enterprises to copy backed-up VMs from their on-premises Data
Domain environments to the public cloud (AWS, Azure) and to orchestrate DR testing and failover of workloads to the
cloud in a disaster scenario with end to end orchestration – failover in 3 clicks and failback in 2 clicks. In addition, DD
Cloud DR also supports failover of workloads to VMware CloudTM on AWS for even simpler management and
orchestration.

Multi-tenancy supported
DD OS also provides secure multi-tenancy, which enables large enterprises and service providers to deliver data
protection as a service with Data Domain in a private or hybrid cloud. With secure multi-tenancy, Data Domain will
logically isolate tenant data and network isolation provides strict data access isolation between tenants ensuring that
each tenant’s data is only visible and accessible to them and allowing for tenant self-service. SSL Certificate
authentication ensures secure replication. Physical capacity measurement allows you to capture how much physical
capacity is being consumed at a file, directory, MTree, tenant, or tenant-unit level. This serves as an effective mechanism
for managing shared Data Domain protection storage capacity between individual departments or tenants.

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 Fast, efficient and scalable disaster recovery
As data lands on Data Domain, it can immediately begin replicating it to a disaster recovery site. To meet strict DR
requirements, Data Domain Replicator software can replicate at 52 TB/hr over a 10 GbE network connection. DD OS
replicates only unique compressed data across the network, requiring a fraction of the time, bandwidth and cost of
traditional replication methods. With cross-site deduplication only unique data is transferred across any of the WAN
segments. This can reduce WAN bandwidth requirements up to 98%, making network-based replication fast, reliable and
cost-effective. For the highest level of security, data being replicated between Data Domain instances can be encrypted
using the standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Data Domain provides flexible replication topologies including
full system mirroring, bi-directional, many-to-one, one-to-many, and cascaded. In a many- to-one deployment, data from
up to 540 remote offices can be replicated to a single DD9800.

Operational simplicity
Data Domain is very simple to install and manage resulting in lower administrative and operational costs. Administrators
can access the Data Domain Operating System through command line over SSH or through Data Domain System
Manager, a browser-based graphical user interface. Multiple Data Domain systems can be managed and monitored
through a single interface through Data Domain Management Center. Customizable dashboards provide visibility into
aggregate status and the ability to drill-down to system-level details. Role based access allows different levels of access
via assigned user roles for various levels of expertise within the organization. Simple scriptability as well as SNMP
monitoring provides additional management flexibility.
In addition, Data Domain has an automatic call-home system reporting called autosupport, which provides email
notification of complete system status to Dell EMC support and a selected list of administrators. This non-intrusive
alerting and data collection capability enables proactive support and service without administrator intervention, further
simplifying ongoing management.

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