EMC is preparing for the full release of Data Domain Virtual Edition
It is unclear why the EMC² corporate blog is silent (although I admit that I could have overlooked the news from them), but much more detailed information about Data Domain Virtual Edition appeared . And the talk is not about the virtual presentation inside the Data Domain itself, when customers could have a separate Data Domain instance under their own management managed, and not about tape library virtualization, but about a full-fledged virtual Data Domain deployed on the basis of VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0
The event itself is another turn in the race between vendors, for example, HPE has been presented for a long time
Much more encouraging news is the availability of a free Community Edition for Data Domain Virtual Edition with a 500 gigabyte storage limit. In reality, using the Data Domain is more than enough for the SMB sector.
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From the description of DD VE:
- VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0 support
- Up to 0.5 TB for Community Edition: Large capacity in paid version
- Supports NFS, CIFS and DD Boost protocols
- Includes DD Boost functionality, DD Replicator, and DD Encryption
- Different types of replication: virtual to physical, virtual to virtual, and virtual to virtual
- VMware vSphere High Availability and Fault Tolerance support
- Management support through Data Domain System Manager
Requirements for equipment, in my opinion, very, very modest:
- From 2 vCPU, each at least 1.5 GHz
- From 6 GB of RAM
- Storage with a write speed of 40 MB / s with a speed of 300 IOPS based on RAID5 / 6
- System drives - one for 250 GB for the main disk and 10 GB for the NVRAM disk
- Supports up to 4 network adapters and SCSI controllers.
Summarizing.
After the release of the free EMC ScaleIO , the implementation of the Data Domain Virtual Edition Community Edition makes the competition / competition / vendor battle in this niche much more saturated. In any case, we remain the winner.
The event itself is another turn in the race between vendors, for example, HPE has been presented for a long time
StoreOnce VSA
In July 2013 virtual version of the library - StoreOnce VSA. This is software that runs under the VMware hypervisor and turns a regular x86 server into a StoreOnce disk library. The solution is intended for SMB and branches of large organizations when there is no budget for a dedicated library. The license allows you to use up to 10 TB of pure disk capacity of the server and add up to 200TB of deduplicated information onto it. This option will be much cheaper than the iron solution, in addition, the license includes HP technical support, replication capability, and HP StoreOnce Catalyst (more about it later). Of course, VSA has a number of limitations, which does not allow using the solution in large installations: the backup speed reaches a maximum of 300 Gb / h (with HP Catalyst - 500 Gb / h), the system works only with iSCSI, and with the file backup only CIFS is supported. The license itself is only valid for 3 years, then it must be re-purchased (or, if your business has grown, switch to a hardware solution).
HP Store Once Source
HP Store Once Source
Much more encouraging news is the availability of a free Community Edition for Data Domain Virtual Edition with a 500 gigabyte storage limit. In reality, using the Data Domain is more than enough for the SMB sector.
')
From the description of DD VE:
- VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0 support
- Up to 0.5 TB for Community Edition: Large capacity in paid version
- Supports NFS, CIFS and DD Boost protocols
- Includes DD Boost functionality, DD Replicator, and DD Encryption
- Different types of replication: virtual to physical, virtual to virtual, and virtual to virtual
- VMware vSphere High Availability and Fault Tolerance support
- Management support through Data Domain System Manager
Requirements for equipment, in my opinion, very, very modest:
- From 2 vCPU, each at least 1.5 GHz
- From 6 GB of RAM
- Storage with a write speed of 40 MB / s with a speed of 300 IOPS based on RAID5 / 6
- System drives - one for 250 GB for the main disk and 10 GB for the NVRAM disk
- Supports up to 4 network adapters and SCSI controllers.
Summarizing.
After the release of the free EMC ScaleIO , the implementation of the Data Domain Virtual Edition Community Edition makes the competition / competition / vendor battle in this niche much more saturated. In any case, we remain the winner.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/390205/
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