Dell EMC PowerProtect DP5900 Appliance
Simply Powerful Data Protection

Overview:

The DP series, the next generation of the Integrated Data Protection Appliance, simplifies deployment and management, while delivering powerful, enterprise-class data protection capabilities for mid-size and enterprise organizations at a low cost-to-protect than competing solutions. It is an integrated solution that offers complete backup, replication, recovery, deduplication, instant access and restore, search & analytics, seamless VMware integration—plus, cloud readiness with disaster recovery and long-term retention to the cloud—all in a single appliance. The DP series delivers a low cost-to-protect, is guaranteed under the Future-Proof Program and is part of the Dell Technologies APEX program.

Data protection is becoming more complex

Organizations need to efficiently protect an ever-increasing amount of data in a growing distributed ecosystem of applications and workloads — all while improving time-to-value, reducing overall cost and complexity, and planning for growth. Organizations also need to seamlessly incorporate cloud into data protection strategies.

This is not easy to accomplish with many of today’s data protection solutions which sacrifice performance for simplicity or require multiple products and vendors—resulting in lengthy and time-consuming deployment while delivering complex and expensive management of fragmented data protection environments.

PowerProtect DP series appliance: Simple, efficient and agile data protection

The DP series is an all-in-one backup appliance that reduces the complexity of managing multiple data silos, point solutions and vendor relationships. The DP series simplifies deployment and management—while delivering powerful, enterprise-grade data protection capabilities for small, mid-size and enterprise organizations at a low cost-to-protect4. It is an integrated solution that offers complete backup, replication, recovery, deduplication, instant access and restore, search & analytics, seamless VMware integration — plus, cloud readiness with disaster recovery (DR) and long-term retention (LTR) to the cloud — all in a single appliance.

With the DP series, customers reduce their time-to-protect and become more agile with a solution that’s fast, protected more efficiently, can be recovered quickly and is reliable.

Simple to deploy, scale and manage

The DP series enables organizations to protect a broad ecosystem of applications quickly with a single system management console, consolidating workload protection, and eliminating infrastructure or data sprawl. The easy-to-use System Manager simplifies backups and automates daily tasks, including monitoring, management, reporting, analytics and search.

The DP series delivers all-in-one data protection: protection storage and software, search and advanced monitoring and analytics, combined with cloud extensibility. It offers integration with VMware, SQL and Oracle management tools so that admins can use familiar UIs.

Powerful cloud, performance and efficiency

The DP series can scale to fit the needs of enterprises with the ability to protect up to 195 PB (logical) of data to the public, private or hybrid clouds with Cloud Tier, with no additional hardware. Plus, native Cloud DR with end-to-end orchestration allows enterprises to copy backed-up VMs from on-premises DP series environments to the public cloud with AWS, Azure, or VMware Cloud on AWS —3 clicks to failover and 2 clicks to failback.

The DP series provides support for modern applications like MongoDB and MySQL and is optimized for VMware. It provides fast, single-step recovery of individual files, dynamic policies for VMs as well as complete VMware images, which can be instantly accessed and migrated live from the DP series appliance back to the production environment (using vMotion) while still running, further simplifying and optimizing VM recovery. Plus, instantly access up to 64 VMs with up to 60,000 IOPS to meet the strictest SLAs.

Data protection search simplifies file-level-recovery (FLR) activities with an easy-to-use search interface. The DP series is also built on the industry-proven Data Invulnerability Architecture (DIA), for encryption, fault detection, and healing.

Dell Technologies APEX

Dell Technologies APEX delivers a range of inclusive consumption models for PowerProtect appliances that combine flexible payment solutions with value-added services. Our innovative, all-encompassing solutions enable you to:

• Pay as you go – Make predictable payments over an agreed upon cycle – and grow over time at a pre-determined rate
• Pay as you use – Measure actual usage, set baseline capacity needs with the flexibility to elastically scale on demand
• Provided as-a-Service – Let us manage and maintain the technology, aligned to SLAs, and bill as resources are consumed

Benefits:

Simple

• Integrated protection storage and software
• Easy to deploy, scale and manage via single pane of glass across broad application ecosystem
• Save time with single vendor solution for data in hybrid multi-cloud, edge and core

Efficient

• Improved compression with higher performance – typically 65x deduplication and 30% higher data compression¹
• Improve SLOs – up to 38% faster backup and up to 45% faster restores²
• NVME flash for faster instant access and restore up to 60K IOPS and 64 VMs³
• Protection for modern applications and optimized for VMware virtual environments
• VMware File-level Recovery, dynamic policies for VMs, application-consistent VM image backups
• Automated monitoring, analytics, reporting, plus search capabilities

Agile

• Extends data protection to private and public clouds with Cloud Tier for LTR and Cloud DR — with no additional hardware
• Reduces costs for LTR capacity management with space estimator tool

Density and performance

• Up to 864 TB (usable), 56.1 PB (logical) capacity with cloud tier⁶
• Up to 31K IOPS for instant access and restore for up to 20 VMs³

Energy Efficiency on Dell Storage

• Dell is committed to improving energy efficiency in our storage portfolio with each generation

Enterprise applications

• Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, MS SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, MongoDB, Pivotal Greenplum, IBM DB2, Lotus Notes, and more
• Hypervisors supported: VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM
• All major file systems, including Windows, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Mac OS and more

Native Cloud-Tier

• Supported cloud providers include: Amazon Web Services, Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure, VMware, IBM Cloud Object Storage, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud and Ceph

Native Cloud Disaster Recovery

• Orchestrated via AWS, Microsoft Azure, or VMware Cloud on AWS

Cyber Recovery Integration

• Highest levels of protection, integrity and availability against cyber attacks for on-premises and multi-cloud environments
• Available on DP4400 & DP5900

Dell Technologies APEX

• Flexible payment options including pay as you go, pay as you use, and provided as-a-Service options

¹ Based on Dell internal testing and field telemetry data. March 2022. Actual results may vary
² Based on Dell internal testing compared to the previous generation, March 2022. Actual results may vary..
³ When using DDOS 7.5 and later on the DP5900. Based on Dell internal testing. Actual results may vary. August 2022
⁴ Analyzing the Economic and Operational Benefits of the Dell EMC Data Protection Portfolio Report, Enterprise Strategy Group, September 2020.
⁵ According to Dell Internal Testing. March 2022.
⁶ Total capacity with cloud tier for long-term retention.
⁷ Dell EMC Information Technology Equipment is compliant with all currently applicable regulatory requirements for Electromagnetic Compatibility, Product Safety, and Environmental Regulations where placed on market. Regulatory information and verification of compliance is available at Dell Regulatory Compliance site. http://dell.com/regulatory_compliance

Technical Specifications:

	DP4400	DP5900
Performance and Capacity
Maximum Throughput1	Up to 9.0 TB/hr	Up to 33 TB/hr
Maximum Logical Capacity1,2	4.8 PB	18.7 PB
W/ Cloud Tier	14.4 PB2	56.1 PB
Maximum Usable Capacity	8 to 96 TB3	96 to 288 TB
W/ Cloud Tier	Up to 288 TB2	Up to 864 TB
Processor	Intel Xeon	Intel Xeon
Drive Type	SAS 12 TB	SAS 4 TB
Built-in Networking	8x RJ45 or 8x SFP Optical links (only two req’d)3	4x40GbE Customer uplinks; Each Quad SFP port can be split to 4x10GbE uplinks; Only two required
Dimensions	17.09 x 28.17 x 3.42 (inches WDH) 434 x 715.5 x 86.8 (mm WDH)	40U rack Height: 75 in (190.8 cm); Width: 24.0 in (61.1 cm); Depth: 39.0 in (99.2 cm)
Weight	72.8 lbs5	450 lbs
Power (100-120 / 200-240 V ≈ 50/60 Hz)	475 VA (MAX @ 35°C)	Up to 2,830 VA (200-240 V only)
Thermal Rating	1620 BTU / HR	9,300 BTU / HR
Operating Temperature/Altitude	10°C to 35°C, 35°C at 7,500 ft	10°C to 35°C, 35°C at 7,500 ft
Non-operating (Transportation) Temperature	-40°C to +65°C (-40°F to +149°F)	-40°C to +65°C (-40°F to +149°F)
Operating Humidity	10% to 80% relative humidity with 29°C (84.2°F) maximum dew point	20% to 80% non-condensing

DP Series Rack

Power configuration

• DP4400: Two single-phase inlet connections. All power connections redundant.
• All other systems: Single phase is standard, optional 3-phase. For rack 1, four power inlet connections for single phase. Two power inlet connections for 3-phase. For rack 2, if required, two power inlet connections. All power connections redundant.

Plug types

• Single phase: NEMA L6-30p or IEC 60309 332P6
• 3-phase: Consult your local Dell representative

Power requirements

• Refer to table above

AC protection

• 30A site circuit breaker on each power domain

Dimensions

• 40U available rack capacity
• Height: 75 in (190.8 cm); Width: 24.0 in (61.1 cm); Depth: 39.0 in (99.2 cm) Weight: 380 lbs. (173 kg) when empty

¹ Top-end values are maximums – actual capacity & throughput depends on application workload, deduplication, and other settings.
² Mix of typical enterprise backup data (file systems, databases, email, developer files). The low end of capacity range represents a full backup weekly or monthly, incremental backup daily or weekly, to system capacity. The top end of the range represents full backup daily, to system capacity. All capacity values are calculated using Base10 (i.e., 1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes).
³ If starting at less than 24TB, hardware upgrade kit is required to bridge from 24TB to larger capacities. The upgrade is expected to take up to 90 minutes to complete.
⁴ RJ45 or SFP retrofit option will provide flexibility for existing DP4400 customers to better accommodate to their lab networking requirements. These network cards are customer installable and configurable.
⁵ Weight is of a fully populated DP4400
⁶ Dell EMC Information Technology Equipment is compliant with all currently applicable regulatory requirements for Electromagnetic Compatibility, Product Safety, and Environmental Regulations where placed on market. Regulatory information and verification of compliance is available at Dell Regulatory Compliance site. http://dell.com/regulatory_compliance

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Documentation:

Dell PowerProtect DP Series Datasheet (.PDF)

Dell PowerProtect DP Series Spec Sheet (.PDF)