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PowerProtect DP Series Appliance supports many ecosystems. Table 14 depicts the workloads that PowerProtect DP Series Appliance supports out of the factory and other workloads that require RPQ approval.
Use case | DP4400S and DP4400 | DP5800 | DP8300 | DP8800 |
Single vLAN | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Flat network or no vLAN | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Separated backup or management (< 2.5) | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ |
Separated backup or management (> 2.5) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Separated replication | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ |
Multiple backup networks using separate NICs | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ |
Multiple backup networks using vLAN tagging | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ |
Re-IP of PowerProtect DP Series Appliance components | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ |
Direct backups to DD Series with DD Boost | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Client-side NAT | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ |
VTL support (filed upgrade FC SLIC) | No | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ |
DDBEA support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BoostFS support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Third-party CIFS, NIFS direct to embedded DD Series | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ |
Rerack PowerProtect DP Series Appliance into customer rack (all models) | Yes | RPQ | RPQ | RPQ |
Manage multiple PowerProtect DP Series Appliances from external DPC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Monitor/report multiple PowerProtect DP Series Appliances from external Reporting & Analytics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Re-IP of PowerProtect DP Series Appliance system by Professional Services | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Physical NDMP accelerator node (with initial setup) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |