Dell app assure 5 datasheet
- 1. AppAssure® 5 The next generation of backup, replication and recovery software IT environments are increasingly complex, with virtual and physical machines spread across local, offsite and—increasingly—cloud resources. With all this complexity, it’s no wonder backups no longer fit into short backup windows or that data can’t be retrieved quickly when a system goes offline or a critical file or email is lost. AppAssure 5 helps organizations respond to these challenges by delivering fast and reliable backup that is easy to use. As a new data protection element of Dell’s Fluid Data™ Architecture, AppAssure 5 controls cost, optimizes performance and enhances protection by unifying backup, replication and recovery within a single solution. Backup and replication in one product AppAssure 5 combines backup and replication into a unified data protection product. Unlike legacy physical machine backup and first-generation virtual machine backup software, AppAssure 5 is built from the ground up with these capabilities to protect virtual, physical and cloud environments through a single management console. Scalable architecture - New Recovery Assure™: Highly reliable recovery AppAssure 5’s snapshot-based architecture makes it possible Be confident of achieving highly reliable recovery of your backup to protect very large amounts of data, into the Exabyte file with Recovery Assure verification technology. Automatically range, perfect for managing the demands of “Big Data” without test and verify backup integrity and assure the recoverability of impacting application performance. It leverages dynamic, the backup itself. Proactive health checks of Exchange, SQL multi-core optimized pipeline storage systems to deliver and SharePoint applications within the backup archive assure line-speed performance with scale-up and scale-out recoverability. capabilities. It’s powerful enough to efficiently store and manage rapidly growing data and to deliver RTOs of seconds and RPOs of mere minutes. Universal Recovery™: To any VM or server AppAssure 5 provides full bare metal recovery to dissimilar hardware and VM servers whether they’re located in your server True global deduplication - New room, private cloud or offsite disaster recovery environment. Eliminate redundant data from your backups not just locally, Supports all virtualization platforms including VMware, Hyper-V but across your network and save substantially on storage costs. and XenServer. Integrated, inline block-level deduplication and compression combined with optimized backups for WAN replication use up to 80% less storage than legacy backup products. Data off-siting and disaster recovery Live Recovery™: Instant recovery WAN-optimized replication Restore an entire server from a backup with an RTO of seconds WAN-optimization and deduplication-aware replication simplify and up to 288 recovery points a day to deliver an RPO of minutes! off-siting data to public or private clouds. All data in-flight is Users resume the use of the server directly from the backup replicated over SSL connections. without waiting to extract the full backup or waiting for it to completely restore to production storage. It’s the fastest instant recovery on the market for both virtual and physical servers.
- 2. Encryption Management AppAssure 5 provides built-in encryption for data-at-rest at line speed using 256-bit advanced encryption standard (AES). Centralized Web-based user interface AppAssure 5 features a new Web-based user interface, compatible Retention policies with all industry standard browsers, allowing you to manage your Retention policies can be customized for different business systems from any location. The management console provides full and compliance requirements without compromising the access to all of AppAssure 5’s functionality and reporting functions. availability and the integrity of the backups. PowerShell scripting Virtual standby A comprehensive client SDK for PowerShell scripting enables Create and maintain an up-to-date virtual standby machine for administrators to automate administration and management fast disaster recovery for all of your Windows workloads including of AppAssure 5 resources by direct or scripted commands. Exchange, SharePoint and SQL. The bootable virtual machine is an exact clone of the production server as of the last snapshot. License portal The AppAssure 5 licensing portal provides an easy-to-use tool for Fail-over and fail-back downloading, deploying, activating, viewing, and managing licenses. AppAssure 5 supports fail-over and can recover instances from replicated machines and immediately commence protection Event log monitoring/management on the failed-over machines. Once the primary site is restored, the core can “fail-back” protection to machines at the primary site. AppAssure 5 allows administrators to create automated server, task or event notifications for ongoing tasks. These are delivered to administrators using mail or sent to a syslog server. Long-term data retention Support services Archiving AppAssure 5 archiving feature enables long-term data retention Premium Software Support for SLA and regulatory compliance. The backup archives can be stored on low-cost storage. Archive data is deduplicated, AppAssure 5 includes Dell ProSupport™ with access to expert compressed and encrypted, and spans across multiple devices. back-up and recovery technicians around the clock and around the globe. Customers receive 24x7 phone support* around the world from more than 30,000 technicians supporting over 100 countries Application recoveries in 55 languages. Remote Installation Services. AppAssure software is easy to install Incremental forever backups for virtual and but if you’re feeling like you could use some extra hands, our expert technicians can help. We’ll get you up and running quickly with physical servers minimal effort with our remote installation package options: Basic After a base image snapshot has been established, AppAssure Remote Installation Service or Advanced Remote Installation Service. 5 uses an incremental-forever approach, moving only data Remote Advisory Services. Consultation with a highly-qualified blocks that have changed, making AppAssure’s back up process certified expert regarding upgrades or system updates is also the fastest and most resource-efficient on the market today. available via our HYPERLINK “http://content.dell.com/us/en/ enterprise/d/services/support-services-remote-advisory.aspx” Support for Microsoft applications Remote Advisory Services. AppAssure 5 detects the presence of Microsoft Exchange and SQL with respective databases and log files. It automatically groups these volumes with dependency for comprehensive protection so you can ensure successful granular and complete application recoveries. Clustering support AppAssure adds significant clustering support for VMware and Hyper-V environments to meet the backup needs of mid-size and larger companies. Support is now available for database availability groups, single copy clusters, SQL single copy clusters.
- 3. Technical Requirements AppAssure AppAssure 5 agent Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Operating system Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtualization platforms VMware ESX/ESX (i), Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer Architecture ® 32-bit or 64-bit Memory 4 GB or Higher Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 5 or later, Microsoft Exchange 2010, Support for Database Microsoft Exchange support Availability Groups, Support for Single Copy Clusters, Support for Cluster Continuous Replication Microsoft SQL support SQL Server 2005 or higher, Support for SQL Clusters AppAssure Core Operating system Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Architecture 64-bit only 8 GB or Higher. AppAssure highly recommends using ECC Memory, to ensure optimum Memory performance of AppAssure core servers Processor Quad-Core or higher recommended for better performance Storage Direct Attached, Storage Area Network (SAN) or Network Attached Storage (NAS) AppAssure 5 central management console Operating system Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Architecture 64-bit only * Availability and terms of Dell Services vary by region. For more information, visit www.dell.com/servicedescriptions or contact your sales representative. Manage data differently at DellStorage.com © 2012 Dell Inc. All Rights Reserved. Dell, the Dell logo, and AppAssure are trademarks of Dell Inc. SSAPAS_022312_060612_060712