Virtualization And Cloud; Alerts And Event Management; License Portal; Web Console - Dell DL4000 User Manual

appliance solves the big data problem by managing the retention of large amounts of data with complex
retention policies and performing rollup operations for aging data using efficient metadata operations.
Backups can be performed with an interval of a few minutes. As these backups age over days, months,
and years, retention policies manage the aging and deletion of old backups. A simple waterfall method
defines the aging process. The levels within the waterfall are defined in minutes, hours, days, weeks,
months, and years. The retention policy is enforced by the nightly rollup process.
For long-term archiving, your appliance provides the ability to create an archive of the source or target
core on any removable media. The archive is internally optimized and all data in the archive is
compressed, encrypted, and deduplicated. If the total size of the archive is larger than the space available
on the removable media, the archive spans across multiple devices based on the available space on the
media. The archive also can be locked with a passphrase. Recovery from an archive does not require a
new core; any core can ingest the archive and recover data if the administrator has the passphrase and
the encryption keys.

Virtualization and cloud

The Core is cloud-ready, which allows you to leverage the compute capacity of the cloud for recovery.
Your appliance can export any protected or replicated machine to a virtual machine, such as licensed
versions of VMware or Hyper-V. You can perform a one-time virtual export, or you can establish a virtual
standby VM by establishing a continuous virtual export. With continuous exports, the virtual machine is
incrementally updated after every snapshot. The incremental updates are very fast and provide standby
clones that are ready to be powered up with a click of a button. The supported virtual machine export
types are VMware Workstation/Server on a folder; direct export to a vSphere/VMware ESX(i) host; export
to Oracle VirtualBox; and export to Microsoft Hyper-V Server on Windows Server 2008 (x64), 2008 R2,
2012 (x64), and 2012 R2 (including support for Hyper-V generation 2 VMs)
Additionally, you can now archive your repository data to the cloud using Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3,
Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, or other OpenStack-based cloud services.

Alerts and event management

In addition to HTTP REST API, your appliance also includes an extensive set of features for event logging
and notification using e-mail, Syslog, or Windows Event Log. email notifications can be used to alert users
or groups of the health or status of different events in response to an alert. The Syslog and Windows
Event Log methods are used for centralized logging to a repository in multi-operating system
environment. In Windows-only environments, only the Windows Event Log is used.

License portal

The License Portal provides easy-to-use tools for managing license entitlements. You can download,
activate, view, and manage license keys and create a company profile to track your license assets.
Additionally, the portal enables service providers and re-sellers to track and manage their customer
licenses.

Web console

Your appliance features a new web-based central console that manages distributed cores from one
central location. MSPs and enterprise customers with multiple distributed cores can deploy the central
console to get a unified view for central management. The central console provides the ability to
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