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Dell EMC Data Protection for VMware
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Introduction

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Introduction

  • VMware has been at the forefront of the shift towards the modern data center, enabling organizations to take advantage of the unprecedented agility provided by the software-defined data center (SDDC) and the delivery of all infrastructure-as-a service (IaaS). This data center evolution has resulted in an increasingly converged and software-driven environment that empowers IT and organizational transformation.

    However, protecting VMware workloads (applications and their data) in this new model is more complex, creating challenges that are not easily met by data protection solutions built for legacy SAN-based architectures:

    • Virtual machine (VM) sprawl due to the growth of data, virtualization, and the ease of spinning up new VMs
    • Increasingly stringent protection requirements, such as government regulations, compliance, and more critical applications running in virtual environments, etc.
    • Shrinking protection/backup windows
    • The lack of data protection solutions architected and ready for the SDDC

    Many of today’s data protection solutions are limited by their inability to provide holistic data protection, which forces trade-offs between key requirements. Bottom line, common data protection architectures such as the traditional hardware and software model and initial approaches to converged hardware and software don’t work well for larger VMware environments and are not designed to support the SDDC.

    Dell EMC data protection integration benefits

    Dell EMC data protection integration provides:

    • Seamless Integration—Enable VM admins to manage data protection directly from native vSphere UI
    • Simplified Proxy Management—Automated to minimize and virtually eliminate manual effort and the potential for mistakes
    • Policy Management—Age-based policy management, dynamic policies, and multi- system management
    • Protection Storage—Leverage Dell EMC DD series appliances, Dell EMC DD Virtual Edition (DDVE), or the Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) within the SDDC
    • Simplified Networking Automation—Enable automation throughout the entire VMware data protection stack via native dynamic protection