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The Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection 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 IDPA delivers powerful, enterprise-grade data protection capabilities for small, midsize, and enterprise organizations at a low cost to protect.
The IDPA 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.
IDPA System Manager enables administrators to efficiently manage the IDPA components from a single user interface—including monitoring, reporting, analytics, and search—to simplify the data protection experience.
The IDPA provides easy configuration and integration of data protection components in a consolidated solution and offers the following:
During manufacturing, each internal component in IDPA is assigned an IP address for internal connectivity and communications. During deployment, the system administrator or Dell EMC Professional Service (PS) members configure IDPA components and the Dell EMC 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 IDPA includes the following virtual machines in a vSAN:
The vSAN provides the following benefits: