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Sizing the PowerProtect DP Series Appliance is the most important activity to complete before the installation process. Sizing the appliance provides the system administrator with a holistic view of the compute, bandwidth, and storage consumption for the workloads that the customer wants to protect using the PowerProtect DP Series Appliance.
To facilitate the sizing process, the system administrator (SE) and Professional Service (PS) team members can use the Solution Builder tool (Dell Technologies internal access only). This tool can generate the sizing report for the PowerProtect DP Series Appliance based on customer inputs and workloads that would be protected using the PowerProtect DP Series Appliance.
The PowerProtect DP Series Appliance models are designed to scale up to accommodate changing needs. See the section “Expanding storage capacity” in the Dell PowerProtect DP Series Appliance Product Guide for more information about how to add storage capacity.
Table 12 details the configuration for the PowerProtect DP Series Appliance models.
Table 12. Configuration of PowerProtect DP Series Appliance models
Model | Minimum capacity | Maximum capacity |
DP4400 | 8 TB | 24 TB |
24 TB | 96 TB | |
DP5800 | 96 TB | 288 TB |
DP8300 | 192 TB | 720 TB |
DP8800 | 624 TB | 1 PB |