Data Domain: What’s New In 2016
Below is my notes for the What’s New in DataDomain in 2016. DataDomain continues to improve and evolve.
Cloud Enabled
- Native Tier to the Cloud
- Simple management
- No separate cloud gateway or Virtual Appliance
- Data is sent directly from DD to cloud object storage
- Protect up to 51 PB of logical capacity to the cloud
- Scales 2x the max capacity of the active tier
- Send only unique data to the cloud
- Data lands in the cloud already deduplicated
- Only recalls unique data from the cloud
- Supported with DD Encryption and Retention Lock
- Supports ECS, AWS, Azure and Virtustream
Enterprise Ready
- Secure Multi-Tenancy
- Quotas for replication as a service
- Physical Capacity Measurement
- Detailed Space Utilization
- Active/standby with automatic failover
- DD OS 5.7 has 256 active MTrees on DD9500
- DS60 Dense Shelf. Supported with DD 4200, 4500, 7200 and 9500
- Online storage migration
Software Defined
- DDVE
- 2TB/hr with DD Boost
- Logical capacity up to 800TB
- Useable up to 16TB
- Easy OVA deployment
- ROBO
- DataDomain Management Center. Manage up to 100 DD/DDVE
- Try and Buy option
Converged
- VCE Data Protection Appliance
- Pre-configured by VCE