Replication begins with seeding: the initial transfer of deduplicated base images and incremental
snapshots of the protected machines, which can add up to hundreds or thousands of gigabytes of data.
Initial replication can be seeded to the target core using external media. This is typically useful for large
sets of data or sites with slow links. The data in the seeding archive is compressed, encrypted and
deduplicated. If the total size of the archive is larger than the space available on the removable media, the
archive can span across multiple devices based on the available space on the media. During the seeding
process, the incremental recovery points replicate to the target site. After the target core consumes the
seeding archive, the newly replicated incremental recovery points automatically synchronize.
Recovery
Recovery can be performed in the local site or the replicated remote site. After the deployment is in
steady state with local protection and optional replication, the DL1000 Core allows you to perform
recovery using Verified Recovery, Universal Recovery, or Live Recovery.
Recovery-as-a-Service
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) can fully leverage DL1000 as a platform for delivering Recovery As A
Service (RaaS). RaaS facilitates complete recovery-in-the-cloud by replicating customers' physical and
virtual servers. The service provider's cloud are used as virtual machines to support recovery testing or
actual recovery operations. Customers wanting to perform recovery-in-the-cloud can configure
replication on their protected machines on the local cores to an AppAssure service provider. In the event
of a disaster, the MSPs can instantly spin-up virtual machines for the customer.
The DL1000 is not multi-tenant. The MSPs can use the DL1000 at multiple sites and create a multi-tenant
environment at their end.
Virtualization and cloud
The DL1000 Core is cloud-ready, which allows you to leverage the compute capacity of the cloud for
recovery and archive.
DL1000 can export any protected or replicated machine to licensed versions of VMware or Hyper-V. With
continuous exports, the virtual machine is incrementally updated after every snapshot. The incremental
updates are fast and provide standby-clones that are ready to be powered up with a click of a button. The
supported virtual machine exports are:
• VMware Workstation or Server on a folder
• Direct export to a Vsphere or VMware ESXi host
• Export to Oracle VirtualBox
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server on Windows Server 2008 (x64)
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server on Windows Server 2008 R2
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server on Windows Server 2012 R2
You can now archive your repository data to the cloud using platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon
S3, Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, or other OpenStack-based cloud services.
Dell DL1000 deployment architecture
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
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