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Along with the native replication options provided with physical Dell Unity systems, RecoverPoint is also supported. RecoverPoint is used for disaster recovery and data loss protection, protecting organizations from site outages due to unforeseen circumstances and data loss due to corruption or human error. RecoverPoint also helps in data migration solutions, providing the ability to move data between data centers and supported systems. RecoverPoint provides a DVR-like roll back function which allows data recovery to any point-in-time. RecoverPoint uses physical or virtual RecoverPoint appliances to replicate data locally within the same Dell Unity system, or to remote systems. Replication solutions are designed to ensure the integrity of the replicated data at local and remote sites. Performance is also not compromised when using RecoverPoint with Dell Unity. By using proprietary software called the RecoverPoint Splitter, incoming write operations are split and sent to the local and remote storage system. This ensures there is minimal performance impact on the storage system when replicating data.
RecoverPoint can be configured to replicate Dell Unity LUNs, VMware VMFS Datastores, and thin clones. Destination storage resources can be created locally within the same system, or on a remote system supported with RecoverPoint. Dell Unity includes the RecoverPoint Basic license for free, allowing replication between Dell Unity, VNX, and VNXe systems. Through RecoverPoint’s own user interface, replication can be configured quickly and easily. For more information about which systems are supported, please view Error! Reference source not found..
When configuring RecoverPoint, LUNs, VMware VMFS Datastores, and thin clones already replicated with Dell Unity native replication software are not supported. Also, RecoverPoint should not be configured to use the Dell Unity Synchronous Replication Port on either storage processor. The Synchronous Replication Port is discussed in the Synchronous Replication Interfaces section of this paper.
For more information about RecoverPoint, including RecoverPoint specific concepts and management, refer to the RecoverPoint Administrator’s Guide found on Dell Online Support