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The Dell PowerProtect DP Series Appliance (IDPA) is an all-in-one backup appliance. It reduces the complexity of managing multiple data silos, point solutions, and vendor relationships by simplifying deployment and management. The PowerProtect DP Series Appliance delivers powerful, enterprise-grade data protection capabilities for small, midsize, and enterprise organizations at a low cost to protect.
The PowerProtect DP Series Appliance provides a solution for data protection administrators who are challenged by having to manage independent and disconnected applications to configure and manage data protection and storage devices.
PowerProtect DP Series Appliance System Manager enables administrators to efficiently manage the PowerProtect DP Series Appliance components from a single user interface—including monitoring, reporting, analytics, and search—to simplify the data protection experience.
The PowerProtect DP Series Appliance provides easy configuration and integration of data protection components in a consolidated solution and offers the following:
During manufacturing, each internal component in PowerProtect DP Series Appliance is assigned an IP address for internal connectivity and communications. During deployment, the system administrator or Dell Professional Service (PS) members configure PowerProtect DP Series Appliance components and the Dell switch to communicate on a public network in the customer environment. This process requires configuring the management interface of each component with a customer-supplied public IP address.
The configured PowerProtect DP Series Appliance includes the following virtual machinesServices in a vSANStorage Pool:
The vSANStorage Pool provides the following benefits: