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Data is often one of the most valuable assets to an organization. It is being accessed constantly by the various applications, users, and sometimes directly by customers of the organization. This makes data a crucial part of the day-to-day operations of an organization. Outages can happen at any time, and can be restricted to a single system, or an entire data center or location. Whether they are planned outages, such as regular maintenance, or unplanned such as a power outage, ensuring that data critical to the organization is available at all times is a top priority. A business continuity plan for critical data is suggested to prevent costly outages. To protect against the different scenarios, an organization should plan and implement a data protection strategy. A data replication solution can ensure business continuity, high availability, and data protection. Dell Unity provides native and non-native solutions that will help you protect your data and meet the goals of your business for both data availability and protection.
Dell Unity systems provide synchronous and asynchronous replication solutions which allow you to replicate data locally within the same system, or to other systems, whether they are located at the same site or a remote facility. Having remote replicas of data protects you against outages on the main system and allows you to recover quickly and easily on a destination system with minimal to no data loss depending on the replication method selected.
This white paper describes the following replication technologies for Dell Unity:
Native Synchronous Block Replication
Native Asynchronous Block and File Replication
Dell EMC® RecoverPoint®
Dell Unity also supports native file synchronous replication. For information about native file synchronous replication and MetroSync Manager, reference the Dell Unity: MetroSync white paper on Dell Technologies Info Hub.
Synchronous Block Replication, Asynchronous Block and File Replication, and Manual Replication can easily be configured and managed in Unisphere, Unisphere CLI, or REST API. Unisphere is a simple and intuitive HTML5 web-based interface which not only allows users to configure and manage their replication setup, but also provides a visual representation of the configuration.
Dell EMC RecoverPoint is an appliance-based product providing an alternative solution for Block Replication for Dell Unity systems. Configuring RecoverPoint protection is done through the intuitive Unisphere for RecoverPoint interface. RecoverPoint allows for the recovery of data for any point-in-time and replicate to other supported Dell storage systems.