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VCE Vblock™ Systems Series 700 Architecture Overview
Data protection
Vblock Data Protection overview
This section presents the following information:
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Defines data protection
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Describes the optional VCE Vblock Data Protection capabilities
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Illustrates and describes the typical, standard data protection configurations for backup and recovery
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Illustrates and describes the typical, standard data protection configurations for business continuity
and workload mobility
The information in this section assumes prior knowledge of EMC Avamar, EMC Data Domain, and EMC
VPLEX.
Data protection defined
Data protection encompasses a wide range of different technologies, techniques and methodologies used to
ensure the integrity, availability, and currency of both the data and the underlying delivery systems in an IT
environment. For Vblock systems, data protection is defined as:
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Backup and recovery: Minimum required data insurance.
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Provides protection against data corruption, accidental data deletion, storage component failure,
and site disaster.
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Ensures backups are fully recoverable, point-in-time copies of data that are typically done once
per day.
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Replication of data snapshots: Additional data insurance.
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Provides additional level of data protection on top of daily backups since replication cannot always
protect against data corruption.
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Takes multiple snapshots, or nearly continuous snapshots, throughout the day to reduce worst
case data loss from 24 hours to time of last snapshot.
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Business continuity: Application availability insurance
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Ensures zero data loss and near-zero recovery time for business-critical data.
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Provides additional level of data protection on top of daily backups since replication cannot always
protect against data corruption.
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