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DATA DOMAIN VIRTUAL EDITION ON DELL POWEREDGE SERVERS

The combined power of Dell servers and Data Domain.

ABSTRACT This white paper provides an overview of the new Dell EMC® data protection

solutions that highlight the combined power of Dell EMC Data Domain Virtual

Edition® and Dell PowerEdge® servers for efficient protection of VMware®

and Hyper-V® environments leveraging pre-qualified and pre-tested

configurations.

February, 2018

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WHITEPAPER

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Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................................................... 4

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................ 4

AUDIENCE ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4

DATA DOMAIN OVERVIEW .................................................................................................................................................. 4

THE DATA DOMAIN OPERATING SYSTEM .................................................................................................................... 4

High speed deduplication ............................................................................................................................................... 4

Seamless integration ...................................................................................................................................................... 5

Network-efficient replication ........................................................................................................................................... 5

Reliability and security ................................................................................................................................................... 5

Cloud readiness ............................................................................................................................................................. 5

DATA DOMAIN SOFTWARE ............................................................................................................................................. 5

Data Domain Boost ........................................................................................................................................................ 5

Data Domain Replicator ................................................................................................................................................. 5

Data Domain Cloud Tier................................................................................................................................................. 6

DATA DOMAIN VIRTUAL EDITION ...................................................................................................................................... 6

DD VE FEATURE SET....................................................................................................................................................... 7

DD VE USE CASES ........................................................................................................................................................... 7

DELL POWEREDGE SERVER TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................... 8

DELL POWEREDGE SERVER TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW ........................................................................................... 8

DELL POWEREDGE SERVER MODELS ......................................................................................................................... 8

Dell PowerEdge R540 server feature set....................................................................................................................... 9

Dell PowerEdge R740xd server feature set ................................................................................................................. 10

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................... 11

DATA PROTECTION SOLUTION .................................................................................................................................... 11

DELL EMC RECOMMENDED DATA PROTECTION CONFIGURATIONS ........................................................................ 11

DD VE CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES ................................................................................................................... 12

VMWARE NETWORK CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES .......................................................................................... 12

HYPER-V CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES .............................................................................................................. 13

CONCLUSION & CUSTOMER BENEFITS ......................................................................................................................... 13

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ................................................................................................................................................ 13

APPENDIX: DELL EMC PRE-TESTED DATA PROTECTION CONFIGURATIONS .......................................................... 14

4TB DD VE ON DELL POWEREDGE R530 SERVER SOLUTION ................................................................................ 15

Configuration details .................................................................................................................................................... 15

Test results ................................................................................................................................................................... 15



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Test results ................................................................................................................................................................... 16



Test results ................................................................................................................................................................... 17

16TB DD VE ON DELL POWEREDGE R730XD SERVER SOLUTION ......................................................................... 18


Test results ................................................................................................................................................................... 18



Test results ................................................................................................................................................................... 19



Test results ................................................................................................................................................................... 20



Test results ................................................................................................................................................................... 21

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This white paper provides the reader with background information about the technical differentiation of Data Domain,

Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE), and Dell PowerEdge servers. Specific Dell PowerEdge servers were tested with

Data Domain Virtual Edition for efficient protection of VMware and Hyper-V environments. Best practices for

configuration are documented in this paper since DD VE is not limited to only the tested Dell server configurations.

INTRODUCTION

Data Domain protection storage has been a technology leader for many years providing industry first features and cost

effective data protection for the masses. EMC announced Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) in 2016 giving customers

the benefits of the world’s most trusted protection storage and the simplicity, flexibility and efficiency of a software-defined

solution. The combined power of Dell and EMC now gives customers tested and proven solutions where the end result

value for the customer is more than 1 + 1.

This white paper provides background information, configuration information, best practices recommendations, test

results, and highlights all the customer benefits of new Dell EMC data protection solutions for VMware and Hyper-V.

AUDIENCE

This white paper is intended for presales engineers, technical architects, implementation specialists, technical

consultants, Dell and EMC Partners, and individuals interested in leveraging Dell EMC integration of Dell and EMC

products and emerging technologies.

DATA DOMAIN OVERVIEW

Dell EMC Data Domain systems reduce the amount of disk storage needed to retain and protect data by ratios of 10-30x

and greater. Data Domain Virtual Edition can scale up to 96TB in a single instance and Data Domain purpose built

backup appliances can scale up to 150 PB of logical capacity in a single system to protect data for longer retention

periods. The Data Domain Operating System (DD OS) is the intelligence behind Data Domain that makes it the industry’s

most reliable and cloud-enabled protection storage.

THE DATA DOMAIN OPERATING SYSTEM

The Data Domain Operating System (DD OS) is the intelligence that powers Dell EMC Data Domain. It provides the

agility, security and reliability that enables the Data Domain platform to deliver scalable, high-speed, and cloud-enabled

protection storage for backup, archive and disaster recovery.

The Data Domain Operating System powers Data Domain to deduplicate data during either the backup or archive

process, which maximizes performance while minimizing disk storage requirements. Deduplicated data can be stored

onsite for immediate restores and longer term retention on disk. The deduplicated data can also be replicated over the

WAN to a remote site or a service provider site in the cloud for disaster recovery operations, eliminating the need for

tape-based backups, or for consolidating tape backups to a central location. Data Domain provides the capability to

consolidate both backup and archive data on the same infrastructure allowing greater consolidation by eliminating silos of

backup and archive storage and associated overhead.

The key that enables DD OS to provide industry-leading performance while minimizing disk requirements is the EMC

Data Domain Stream-Informed Segment Layout (SISLTM) scaling architecture. Specifically, SISL leverages the

continued advancement of CPU performance to continuously increase Data Domain system performance by minimizing

disk accesses required to deduplicate data. SISL deduplicates data by identifying duplicate data segments in memory,

which minimizes disk usage. This enables Data Domain throughput to be CPU-centric, not “spindle bound.”

HIGH SPEED DEDUPLICATION

The EMC Data Domain Operating System delivers industry-leading speed and efficiency through variable-length

deduplication. Organizations can meet the most challenging backup windows while reducing backup and archive storage

requirements by 10 to 30 times, making disk a cost-effective alternative to tape

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SEAMLESS INTEGRATION

DD OS enables Data Domain systems to integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructures including leading backup,

archive, and enterprise applications. A Data Domain system can protect the entire enterprise including backup for Oracle,

Microsoft, VMware, IBM i, open systems, big data and mainframe environments as well as file and email, database,

enterprise content management, and virtual machine archiving.

NETWORK-EFFICIENT REPLICATION

With DD OS, organizations can replicate backup and archive data off-site faster, with minimal bandwidth for safe, tape-

free disaster recovery. Data Domain systems provide flexible replication topologies to optimize backups such as full-

system mirroring, selective, bidirectional, many-to-one, one-to-many, and cascaded.

RELIABILITY AND SECURITY

The Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture is built into every system, providing the industry’s best defense against

data integrity issues. Inline write-and-read verification, continuous fault detection, and self-healing ensure that backup

and archive data is accurately stored, retained, and recoverable or accessible throughout its lifecycle on a Data Domain

system. Combined with the ability to meet compliance regulations and security requirements, no other storage system

provides this level of protection. Data Domain is designed as the storage of last resort – built to ensure you can reliably

recover your data with confidence.

CLOUD READINESS

DD OS provides secure multi-tenancy, which delivers data isolation for enterprises and service providers looking to

deploy Data Domain systems in a private or public cloud. With secure multi-tenancy, a Data Domain system logically

isolates tenant data, ensuring that each tenant’s data is only visible and accessible to them. Multi-tenant management

and monitoring enables chargeback, trending, and tenant-level reporting.

DATA DOMAIN SOFTWARE

Data Domain software components enhance the value of a Data Domain system allowing customers to benefit from

advanced integration with backup and enterprise applications, simple and cost-effective tiering to the cloud, network-

efficient replication, inline encryption, long-term backup retention, governance and compliance, and the ability to easily

and efficiently replace physical tape.

DATA DOMAIN BOOST

EMC Data Domain Boost software delivers an advanced level of integration with backup applications and database

utilities, enhancing performance and ease of use. Rather than sending all data to the Data Domain system for

deduplication processes, DD Boost enables the backup server or application client to send only unique data segments

across the network to the Data Domain system. This reduces the amount of data transferred over the network by 80 to 99

percent. The Data Domain Boost software provides:

Faster more efficient backups: Distributes parts of the deduplication process to backup server or application

client - 50% faster backups and up to 99% less network bandwidth required.

Simplified Disaster Recovery: Enables application to control Data Domain replication process with full catalog

awareness

Advanced Load Balancing and Failover: Aggregates transport links for transparent load balancing and

automatic link failover.

DATA DOMAIN REPLICATOR

DD OS replicates only unique compressed data across the network, requiring a fraction of the time, bandwidth and cost

of traditional replication methods. With cross-site deduplication only unique data is transferred across any of the WAN

segments. This reduces WAN bandwidth requirements up to 99%, making network-based replication fast, reliable and

cost-effective. For the highest level of security, data being replicated between Data Domain instances can be encrypted

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using the standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Data Domain provides flexible replication topologies including

full system mirroring, bi-directional, many-to-one, one-to-many, and cascaded.

DATA DOMAIN CLOUD TIER

With Data Domain Cloud Tier, DD OS can natively tier data to a public, private or hybrid cloud for long-term retention.

Only unique data is sent directly from Data Domain to the cloud and data lands on the cloud object storage already

deduplicated. With deduplication ratios of 10 – 30x, the storage footprint is greatly reduced lowering overall TCO. DD

Cloud Tier can scale up to 2x the max capacity of the active tier for long term retention in the cloud. With DD Encryption,

data in the cloud remains secure. A broad ecosystem of backup and enterprise applications and a variety of public and

private clouds are supported with DD Cloud Tier including EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) and Virtustream Storage

Cloud.

DD OS also provides secure multi-tenancy, which enables large enterprises and service providers to deliver data

protection as a service with Data Domain in a private or hybrid cloud. With secure multi-tenancy, Data Domain logically

isolates tenant data, ensuring that each tenant’s data is only visible and accessible to its owner. Secure multi-tenancy

allows for tenant self-service by allowing tenants visibility only to the resources they are privileged to and catering to their

needs for monitoring their resources. Physical capacity measurement allows you to capture how much physical capacity

is being consumed at a file, directory, MTree, tenant, or tenant-unit level. This serves as an effective mechanism for

managing shared Data Domain protection storage capacity between individual departments or tenants.

DATA DOMAIN VIRTUAL EDITION

Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) leverages the power of DD OS to deliver software-defined protection storage. DD

VE is fast and simple to download, deploy and configure - and can be up and running in minutes. DD VE requires the

hypervisor to be installed, runs in VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5, 5.0, & 6.5, Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012 R2, & 2016),

and supports VMware vSphere High Availability and Fault Tolerance to meet the availability needs of customers. It also

supports VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), allowing VMware to balance workloads for optimal

performance. DD VE provides customers with the benefits of the world’s most trusted protection storage and the

simplicity, flexibility and efficiency of a software-defined solution as shown in Figure 1 below.

DD VE can run on standard hardware so existing infrastructure can be utilized to deploy virtual protection storage. An

assessment tool can be run during deployment to check the underlying infrastructure and ensure it meets recommended

requirements. A single DD VE instance can scale from .5 TB to 96 TBs. Capacity can be easily moved between virtual

systems and/or locations and can be purchased in 1 TB increments allowing you to grow capacity as the business

demands it. DD VE maintains the core DD OS features and includes DD Boost, DD Encryption and DD Replicator.

Configure and manage a DD VE instance using DD System Manager and centrally manage multiple DD VE instances

through DD Management Center.

Figure 1: Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE)

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DD VE maintains the core Data Domain features that differentiate it as the industry-leading protection storage. This

includes high-speed, variable length deduplication for a 10 – 30x reduction in storage requirements, unparalleled data

integrity to ensure reliable recovery, and seamless integration with leading backup and archiving applications. DD VE

also comes with DD Boost, which speeds backups by up to 50%, DD Encryption for enhanced security of data, and DD

Replicator, which enables network efficient replication for faster time-to-DR readiness.

DD VE FEATURE SET

DD VE features include:

Scalability: Up to 96TBs per instance, licensed in 1TB increments

Hypervisors: VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V

Protocols supported: NFS, CIFS, DD Boost, BoostFS

Manageability: DD System Manager, DD Management Center

Replication: DD VE to physical, DD VE to DD VE, physical to DD VE (Restore)

Security: DD Boost (in-flight encryption), Data-At-Rest Encryption (DARE), Data Domain Invulnerability

Architecture

Supportability: Call home support to Dell EMC

DD VE in Cloud: Please refer to Azure and AWS marketplaces

Data Domain advanced features supported: Data Domain Cloud Tier, Secure Multi-tenancy

Data Domain features not supported with DD VE: DD VTL, DD Extended Retention, FC, DD Retention Lock,

ProtectPoint

Deployment assessment tool: simplifies deployment checks if customer environment infrastructure meets

requirements

For the most up to date list of supported features, please talk to your Dell EMC account representative or review the

Administrative guide.

DD VE USE CASES

DD VE is flexible in size and in powerful in its capabilities. Figure 2 below shows four example use cases where the DD

VE solution can be a perfect fit.

1. Remote offices

2. Small or mid-sized data centers

3. Backup as a service (BaaS)

4. Replication as a service (RaaS)

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DD VE enables customers to gain the benefits of the world’s most trusted protection storage with the agility, flexibility and

efficiency of a software-defined solution.

DELL POWEREDGE SERVER TECHNOLOGY

DELL POWEREDGE SERVER TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW

Dell PowerEdge servers let you construct and manage highly efficient infrastructures for data centers and small

businesses. Accelerate time-to-production with automated deployment processes that use fewer manual steps and

reduce the potential for error. Improve IT productivity with innovative at the-server management tools like iDRAC Direct

and iDRAC Quick Sync to deliver in-depth system health status and speed deployment, Optimize data center energy

usage with improved performance-per-watt and more granular control of power and cooling.

The Dell OpenManage system management portfolio includes innovative solutions that simplify and automate essential

server lifecycle management tasks – making IT operations more efficient and Dell servers the most productive, reliable

and cost effective in the industry. Leverage the incomparable agent-free capabilities of the PowerEdge embedded

integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller technology to streamline server deployment,

configuration, and updates across the OpenManage portfolio and integrate with third-party management solutions.

Monitoring and control of Dell and third-party data center hardware is provided by OpenManage Essentials and with

anytime, anywhere mobile access, through OpenManage Mobile. OpenManage Essentials now also delivers Server

Configuration Management capabilities that automate one-many PowerEdge bare-metal server and OS deployments,

quick and consistent replication of configurations and ensure compliance to a predefined baseline with automated drift

detection. The next section provides an overview of the Dell server technology used in this solution.

DELL POWEREDGE SERVER MODELS

The data protection configurations described in this paper will focus on two specific server models: the R540 and the

R740xd which are described in more detail in the following sections.

Figure 2: Data Domain Virtual Edition Use Cases

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DELL POWEREDGE R540 SERVER FEATURE SET

Designed for data centers that need an affordable, virtualization-ready, two-socket rack server, the PowerEdge R540 is

an excellent platform for a wide range of common business applications and small scale virtualization. The R540 is also

highly attractive as a dedicated development or backup server.

The Dell R540 server accelerates performance across a wide range of workloads with up to two of the latest generation

Intel® Scalable Xeon® processors. The R540’s 16 DIMM slots and DDR4 memory drive greater memory performance.

The R540 supports Up to 5 x Gen3 slots (2 x 16) to maximize performance and flexibility.

The Dell R540 server easily accommodates data growth with support for up to 14 x 3.5” hard drives. Select from a range

of RAID options for data protection and optimized performance. Adapt to changing workload conditions with an

expandable platform, which is ready for virtualization and high-availability clustering.

The following table highlights the Dell PowerEdge R540 server Technical Specifications:

Form Factor 2U rack server

Processor Up to two latest generation Intel® Scalable Xeon® processors

Memory 16 DDR4 DIMM slots, 512GB max, speeds up to 2666MT/s

I/O Slots Support for Up to 5 x Gen3 slots (2 x 16)

Internal Storage Up to 12 (front bays) & 2 (rear bays) x 3.5” SAS, SATA, drives

RAID Controller Internal controllers: PERC S140 (SW RAID), PERC H330, PERC H730p, PERC H740p

Network Controller 2 x 1GE LOM (optional) OCP 2 x 10GE SFP+ or BaseT or 2 x 1GE

Power Supplies 495W, 750W, 1100W hot-plug PSU; -48V DC 1100W hot-plug PSU; 450W cabled PSU.

Rack Support

ReadyRails™ II sliding rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes

or tooled mounting in 4-post threaded hole racks, with support for optional tool-less cable management

arm.

Figure 3: Dell PowerEdge R540 Server (front)

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DELL POWEREDGE R740XD SERVER FEATURE SET

Designed with an incredible range of configurability, the PowerEdge R740xd meets the needs of many different

workloads with up to two Intel® Xeon® SP processors, with up to 28 cores per processor, 24 DIMMS of high-

performance DDR4 memory and a broad range of local storage options. When configured with 2.5” drives, the R740xd

provides up to 153TB of rapidly accessible storage for databases, business intelligence, and HPC applications.

With two latest generation Intel® Scalable Xeon® processors, each with up to 28 cores, and state-of-the-art DDR4

memory drives peak compute performance across a wide variety of workloads. The R740xd can be an excellent

database server delivering more than one million IOPS performance. Scale quickly and easily with front-accessible

devices ranging from low-cost SATA hard drives to 1.8” ultra-fast, low-latency PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe

SSDs.

With 24 DIMMs of high-capacity, low-power DDR4 memory, eight PCI Express® (PCIe) 3.0 expansion slots, and highly

scalable local storage, the R740xd is extremely flexible. The R740xd versatility is highlighted with the ability to mix any

drive type to create the optimum configuration of NVMe, SSD and HDD for either performance, capacity or both.

The following table highlights the Dell PowerEdge R740xd server Technical Specifications:

Form Factor 2U rack server

Processor Up to two latest generation Intel® Scalable Xeon® processors, up to 28 cores per processor

Memory Up to 24 DDR4 DIMM slots, 3TB max, speeds up to 2666MT/s

I/O Slots Up to 8 x Gen3 slots (4x16)

Internal Storage Up to 32x 2.5” SAS, SATA drives max 153TB

Up to 18 x 3.5" SAS, SATA drives max 120TB

RAID Controller Internal controllers: PERC H730p, H740p, HBA330, Software RAID (SWRAID) S140

Network Controller 4 x 1GE or 2 x 10GE + 2 x 1GE or 4 x 10GE or 2 x 25GE

Power Supplies Titanium 750W, Platinum 495W, 750W, 1100W, 1600W, and 2000W

Rack Support

ReadyRails™ II sliding rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes

or tooled mounting in 4-post threaded hole racks, with support for optional tool-less cable management

arm.

Figure 4: Dell PowerEdge R740xd Server (front)

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REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW

DATA PROTECTION SOLUTION

By running Dell EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition on Dell PowerEdge servers, customers gain the unique value of using

DD VE software on pre-certified Dell PowerEdge Servers. So, they are assured the infrastructure will meet the

requirements to deploy their software-defined protection storage. This combination gives customers cost optimized,

flexible one-stop sales and support for their virtualized data protection. The recommended configurations have been

sized at 4TB, 8TB, 16TB, 32TB, 48TB, and 96TB.

Data Domain Virtual Edition with qualified Dell Servers allows for two best of breed products to be brought together for

customers who prefer software solutions for their infrastructure deployed in a standard non-proprietary hardware for data

protection.

DD VE with Dell servers are intended for Remote Offices with scalability in the 4TB – 16TB range and for small and

medium sized offices or for data centers with scalability in the 32TB – 96 TB range.

DELL EMC RECOMMENDED DATA PROTECTION CONFIGURATIONS

Dell EMC recommends the 6 configurations which are shown below and discussed in more detail in the following

sections. These configuration are not tested but these are the Dell 14G server equivalents of the 13G servers that were

tested earlier for performance. We expect all the 14G configurations to perform the same or better than the 13G server

configurations.

1) For the 48TB DD VE, if RAID 6 configuration is used for the physical hard disks, the usable raw capacity for DD VE

would be 47.2 TiB. The virtual data disks would be 3x12 TiB and 1x11TiB.

We recommend to configure the physical disks in the RAID 6 configuration.

To know the configuration requirements of DD Cloud Tier please refer to DD VE 3.1 Installation and Administration guide

https://www.emc.com/collateral/TechnicalDocument/docu85603.pdf

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DD VE CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES

DD VE uses virtual hardware version 9. It is recommended not to upgrade virtual hardware version. The chart below

shows the DD VE configuration best practice requirements.

Virtual Hardware Maximum Storage Capacity (TB)

4 8 16 32 48 96

CPU Number of CPUs 2 4 8

Reservation 2 x 1.5 GHz 4 x 1.5 GHz 8 x 1.5 GHz

Memory Size (GB) 6 8 16 24 36 64

System Disks 1 x 250 GB root disk & 1 x 10 GB NVRAM disk

Virtual Data Disk Minimum Size of First Data Disk 200 GB 500 GB

Recommended Data Disk Size 1 x 4TB 1 x 8TB 1 x 16TB 2 x 16TB 4 x 12TB 6 x 16TB

CPU settings except reservation and limit must not be changed. Memory settings except memory size and reservation must not be

changed. DD VE requires “Reserve all guest memory (All locked)” option checked. DD VE uses open source Vmtools version 10.0.0.

VMWARE NETWORK CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES

Below are some Do’s and Don’ts of VMware networking for Data Domain Virtual Edition:

To the extent possible separate the VM Kernel port group traffic and DD VE port group traffic. Possibly onto

different physical NICs of the ESXi host. This prevents VM Kernel control traffic from being impacted at peak DD

VE traffic times.

The same rule applies to vmNICs, separate traffic so that one can effectively utilize all the physical interfaces.

This helps to even out the traffic distribution amongst the interfaces so that some are not overloaded whilst

others are idle.

Please be aware that there are automatic rollbacks that are performed on ESXi when a configuration is not valid.

For example on a distributed switch changing MTU to invalid number, or changing parameters of teaming, traffic

shaping that are invalid, then automatic rollback of the configuration may occur.

To disable automatic rollback on VMware infrastructure, please refer to the following link.

For more information on VMware Networking policies, please refer to the following link.

For more information on VMware MAC address management, please refer to the following link.

For more information on VMware network best practices, please refer to the following link.

For more information on VMware packet capturing, please refer to the following link.

To Test drive a .5TB prepackaged Data Domain Virtual Edition Try and Buy license go to the following link.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-C50DBAAC-89A7-4BF9-A7F8-70EAB37E53C7.html

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-B5218294-9838-475F-8B28-B7EA077BE45C.html

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-1C9C9FA5-2D2D-48DA-9AD5-110171E8FD36.html

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-B57FBE96-21EA-401C-BAA6-BDE88108E4BB.html

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-5CE50870-81A9-457E-BE56-C3FCEEF3D0D5.html

http://dellemc.com/ddvetrial

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HYPER-V CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES

Below are some Do’s and Don’ts of Microsoft Hyper-V configuration.

To the extent possible separate the Hyper-V port group traffic and DD VE port group traffic. Possibly onto

different physical NICs of the Hyper-V host. This prevents Hyper-V Kernel control traffic from being impacted at

peak DD VE traffic times.

The same rule applies to vmNICs, separate traffic so that one can effectively utilize all the physical interfaces.

This helps to even out the traffic distribution amongst the interfaces so that some are not overloaded whilst

others are idle.

CONCLUSION & CUSTOMER BENEFITS

Dell EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition running on Dell PowerEdge servers offers a unique value to customers by allowing

them to use DD VE software on pre-certified Dell’s PowerEdge Servers. This combination gives customers cost

optimized, flexible one-stop sales and support for their virtualized data protection. Data Domain Virtual Edition with a

qualified Dell Server allows for two best of breed products to be brought together for customers who prefer software

solutions for their infrastructure deployed in a standard non-proprietary hardware for data protection.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Dell PowerEdge R540 Specification Sheet

Dell PowerEdge R740 Specification Sheet

Dell PowerEdge R740xd Specification Sheet

Data Domain Virtual Edition 3.1 Installation and Administration Guide

DD VE 3.1 Best Practices on VMware

DD VE 3.1 Best Practices for Hyper-V

Back to Basics: Data Domain Systems overview Video with slides

Data Domain SISL Scaling Architecture – A Detailed Review white paper

Data Domain Replicator – A Detailed Review white paper

Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture – A Detailed Review white paper

Data Domain SMT Integrating Replication as a Service (RaaS) Solution Brief white paper

Data Domain Virtual Edition Overview – Lightboard Video

Why you Should be Looking at EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition – ESG Analyst Video

Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture – Lightboard Video

A Hands On Look at EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition - ESG Analyst Video

Why Data Domain – Business Value paper

Why DD Boost – Business Value paper

Why Data Domain Secure Multi-tenancy – Business Value paper

http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/PowerEdge-R540-Spec-Sheet.pdf

http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/poweredge-r740-spec-sheet.pdf

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/shared-content~data-sheets~en/documents~poweredge-r740xd-spec-sheet.pdf

https://www.emc.com/collateral/TechnicalDocument/docu85603.pdf

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-59452

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-59453

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MDqFRjIuFI

http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h7221-data-domain-sisl-sclg-arch-wp.pdf

http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h7082-data-domain-replicator-wp.pdf

http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h7219-data-domain-data-invul-arch-wp.pdf

http://www.emc.com/collateral/white-papers/h14474-dd-smt-replication-service-solution-brief.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya5F3NHB9MI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X5ydkTqifw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDsSY0uUXRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbC2LdP8dOE

http://www.emc.com/collateral/white-papers/h11534-why-data-domain.pdf

http://www.emc.com/collateral/white-papers/h12937-why-data-domain-secure-multi-tenancy-wp.pdf

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APPENDIX: DELL EMC PRE-TESTED DATA PROTECTION CONFIGURATIONS

Dell EMC has pre-qualified and pre-tested 7 configurations which are shown below and discussed in more detail in the

following sections. In all cases the performance testing was done using Perfload/SWIFT tools with single stream and

multi-stream writes into multiple Data Domain MTrees with a data change rate of 11.05%. The testing used DD VE 3.0

running with VMware & Hyper-V on Dell PowerEdge 13G servers. We expect the same or better performance with the

new Dell PowerEdge 14G servers with DD VE 3.1

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4TB DD VE ON DELL POWEREDGE R530 SERVER SOLUTION

This section summarizes the testing of a 4TB Data Domain Virtual Edition configuration running on a Dell PowerEdge

R530 server.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

The configuration details of the pre-tested 4TB DD VE on Dell R530 server were:

Dell PowerEdge R530 server

DD VE 3.0, 4TB DD VE capacity

VMware ESXi6.0, Hyper-V

Virtual CPU: 1 Socket with 2 cores

Virtual Memory 6GB

Disk: 8x1TB Data Disk (on DAS) with 7200RPM SAS drives, RAID5

Virtual Data Disk for DD VE: 1 x 4TB

Ports: 2x10Gbe VMXNET3 vNICs

TEST RESULTS

4TB DD VE Dell PowerEdge R530 server configuration testing was done using Perflow/SWIFT for single stream and

multiple streams to 6 MTrees. Peak write performance observed for this configuration was as high as 140MB/s single

stream and 551MB/s with 16 streams using the DD Boost protocol. However, in the real world you should expect to see

sustained performance similar to the chart below.

DD VE 3.0 (4TB) on Dell PowerEdge R530

Sustained Throughput

Single-S Write Multi-Stream Write

Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Min

Streams

CIFS 4x1GbE 72 0.26 160 0.57 8

NFS 4x1GbE 83 0.30 145 0.52 16

DD Boost 4x1GbE 112 0.40 441 1.59 16

Single-S Read Multi-Stream Read


Streams

CIFS 4x1GbE 61 0.22 74 0.27 4

NFS 4x1GbE 20 0.07 46 0.17 8

DD Boost 4x1GbE 61 0.22 78 0.28 4

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R730 server.




DD VE 3.0, 4GB DD VE capacity



Virtual Memory: 6GB




TEST RESULTS









Streams

CIFS 4x1GbE 161 0.58 248 0.89 8

NFS 4x1GbE 162 0.58 223 0.80 16

DD Boost 4x1GbE 110 0.40 444 1.60 16



Streams

CIFS 4x1GbE 59 0.21 73 0.26 4

NFS 4x1GbE 27 0.10 56 0.20 8

DD Boost 4x1GbE 61 0.22 74 0.27 4

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This section summarizes the testing of an 8TB Data Domain Virtual Edition configuration running on a Dell PowerEdge

R730 server.







Virtual Memory: 8GB




TEST RESULTS









Streams

CIFS 4x1GbE 165 0.60 262 0.94 8

NFS 4x1GbE 220 0.79 246 0.88 16

DD Boost 4x1GbE 171 0.62 736 2.65 16



Streams

CIFS 4x1GbE 86 0.31 86 0.31 4

NFS 4x1GbE 80 0.29 82 0.29 8

DD Boost 4x1GbE 74 0.27 86 0.31 4

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16TB DD VE ON DELL POWEREDGE R730XD SERVER SOLUTION


R730xd server.


The configuration details of the pre-tested 16TB DD VE on Dell R730xd server were:

Dell PowerEdge R730xd server




Virtual Memory: 16GB




TEST RESULTS

16TB DD VE Dell PowerEdge R730xd server configuration testing was done using Perflow/SWIFT for single stream and

multiple streams to multiple MTrees. Peak write performance observed for this configuration was as high as 246MB/s

single stream and 995MB/s with 64 streams using the DD Boost protocol. However, in the real world you should expect

to see sustained performance similar to the chart below:

DD VE 3.0 (16TB) on Dell PowerEdge R730xd




Streams

CIFS 2x10GbE 169 0.61 478 1.72 8

NFS 2x10GbE 284 1.02 523 1.88 8

DD Boost 2x10GbE 197 0.71 796 2.87 64



Streams

CIFS 2x10GbE 55 0.20 59 0.21 8

NFS 2x10GbE 49 0.18 60 0.21 8

DD Boost 2x10GbE 41 0.15 64 0.23 64

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R730xd server.











TEST RESULTS



single stream and 2,216MB/s with 64 streams using the DD Boost protocol. However, in the real world you should expect






Streams

CIFS 2x10GbE 166 0.60 540 1.94 8

NFS 2x10GbE 309 1.11 622 2.24 8

DD Boost 2x10GbE 201 0.72 1773 6.38 64



Streams

CIFS 2x10GbE 69 0.25 83 0.30 8

NFS 2x10GbE 58 0.21 88 0.32 8

DD Boost 2x10GbE 58 0.21 90 0.32 64

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R730xd server.








Disk: 12x4TB + 12X2TB Data Disk (on DAS) with 7200RPM SAS drives, RAID5



TEST RESULTS









Streams

CIFS 2x10GbE 171 0.62 549 1.98 8

NFS 2x10GbE 308 1.11 611 2.20 8

DD Boost 2x10GbE 198 0.71 2934 10.56 64



Streams

CIFS 2x10GbE 101 0.36 145 0.52 8

NFS 2x10GbE 65 0.23 141 0.51 8

DD Boost 2x10GbE 73 0.26 138 0.50 64

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R730xd server.








Disk: 28x4TB + 12X2TB Data Disk (on DAS) with 7200RPM SAS drives, RAID5



TEST RESULTS









Streams

CIFS 2x10GbE 242 0.87 872 3.14 8

NFS 2x10GbE 307 1.11 980 3.53 8

DD Boost 2x10GbE 205 0.74 4686 16.87 64



Streams

CIFS 2x10GbE 150 0.54 263 0.95 8

NFS 2x10GbE 164 0.59 263 0.95 8

DD Boost 2x10GbE 112 0.40 260 0.94 64

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