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Traditionally, organizations used physical servers to run applications. There was no way to define resource boundaries for applications in a physical server, and this caused resource allocation issues. As a solution, virtualization was introduced, making it possible to run multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical server’s CPU. It also enabled applications to be isolated within VMs and provided a level of security.
Modern infrastructure is being transformed by containers. Containers are like virtual machines but have relaxed isolation properties to share the operating system. The container has its own file system, CPU, memory, and process space. Agile application creation, continuous development, environmental consistency across development, application-centric management, efficient resource allocation, and resource isolation are the key benefits of containers. Kubernetes is an open-source container management platform that unifies a cluster of machines into a single pool of compute resources.
With a distributed container deployment, it is important to protect your workloads. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager protects the Kubernetes workloads and ensures high availability, and consistent and reliable backup and restore capabilities for Kubernetes workloads or for a disaster recovery (DR) situation. PowerProtect Data Manager offers centralized management, automation, multicloud options, and advanced integration to simplify managing workloads.