Release Notes

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Introduction
This document describes important product information and restrictions for the Dell DL1000 Appliance.
About The Dell DL1000 Appliance
The DL1000 appliance is specifically designed for a range of environments. The short 15.5 inches depth,
low power draw, acoustics and fresh air cooling make the DL1000 ideal for space-constrained office
environments. The appliance is available in 1 TB, 2 TB, and 3 TB provisioned backup capacity (with an
option for up to two standby virtual machines) the appliance uses AppAssure backup and recovery
software.
Optimized for quick deployment and efficiency, the DL1000:
• Helps reduce your backup window.
• Creates snapshots as often as every 60 minutes.
• Cloud archive connector simplifies moving archives to a cloud storage subscription (supported
providers are Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3, OpenStack and RackSpace) allowing you to replace tape
infrastructure.
• Maintains up to two standby VMs to quickly restore critical servers (with proper edition).
• Offers integrated, inline block-level deduplication and compression, combined with optimized
backups for WAN replication.
• Provides a wizard based configuration utility to automatically provision DL1000 storage and iDRAC
Express for remote management.
About AppAssure
AppAssure is a unified and integrated backup and replication software that offers near-zero recovery
time, verified recovery, and cross-platform virtual and physical server recovery.
For more information about important product features and restrictions for AppAssure software, see the
AppAssure Release Notes at support.software.dell.com/appassure/5.4.3.
Other information you may need
NOTE: For all Dell OpenManage documents, go to dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
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