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A fully virtualized environment with the inherent efficiencies and flexibilities of VMware
Elimination of bottlenecks that hamper scaling up
Greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the customer’s Vblock systems investment
Objectives
This white paper explains best practices and the Avamar Administrator tool use through scenarios
and steps for two options:
1. Avamar-only on Vblock systems
2. Avamar and Data Domain combined on Vblock systems
Use cases: backup and recovery
Avamar is a backup-and-recovery software solution and a backup data target, whereas Data Domain
is a backup data target that requires backup-and-recovery software to function. Together, Avamar and
Data Domain support once-per-day backups and daily movement of a backup copy to an offsite
archive without the risk inherent in transporting physical media. The products have tight integration
with VMware deduplication capabilities, which reduces network I/O requirements, and have modules
that support databases and Microsoft Exchange.
The Avamar “target hardware” (where the backup data is stored) and the Data Domain target
hardware are both de-duplication technologies, but the way they perform the deduplicated backups is
different. As a result, Avamar and Data Domain targets have different advantages. Rather than having
to choose one type of technology over the other, customers can use a combination of the two types of
targets, resulting in the fastest and most cost effective solution possible.
Audience
This white paper is intended primarily for backup systems administrators and IT administrators who
are responsible for architecting and deploying data protection solutions across the virtualized
enterprise. Knowledge of basic data deduplication concepts is assumed.
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