1Introduction to Dell DL4000 ApplianceThis chapter provides an introduction and overview of DL4000. It describes the features, functionality,and architecture, and consists of the following topics:• Core technologies• True Scale architecture• Deployment architecture• Product featuresYour appliance sets a new standard for unified data protection by combining backup, replication, andrecovery in a single solution that is engineered to be the fastest and most reliable backup for protectingvirtual machines (VM), physical machines, and cloud environments.Your appliance is capable of handling up to petabytes of data with built-in global deduplication,compression, encryption, and replication to any private or public cloud infrastructure. Server applicationsand data can be recovered in minutes for data retention (DR) and compliance.Your appliance supports multi-hypervisor environments on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-Vprivate and public clouds.Your appliance combines the following technologies:• Live Recovery• Verified Recovery• Universal Recovery• True Global DeduplicationThese technologies are engineered with secure integration for cloud disaster recovery and deliver fastand reliable recovery. With its scalable object store, your appliance is uniquely capable of handling up topetabytes of data very rapidly with built-in global deduplication, compression, encryption, and replicationto any private or public cloud infrastructure.AppAssure addresses the complexity and inefficiency of legacy tools through its core technology andsupport of multi-hypervisor environments including those running on VMware vSphere and MicrosoftHyper-V, which comprise both private and public clouds. AppAssure offers these technological advanceswhile dramatically reducing IT management and storage costs.Core technologiesDetails about the core technologies of AppAssure are described in the following topics.10
