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The DXi6500 is the disk backup solution for distributed and mid-range environments that allows users to add policy-based de-duplication, remote replication and direct tape creation to their backup strategy to increase performance, enhance data protection and reduce costs. The DXi6500 uses Quantum’s patented data de-duplication technology to reduce disk requirements by 90% or more and make WAN-based replication a practical, DR tool. Scalable to 56TB usable capacity, the Quantum DXi6500 is designed for larger sites and corporate data centers.

• Scales from 8 to 56TB usable capacity
• Data de-duplication and multi-site remote replication compatible with all Quantum DXi models
• High performance (up to 2TB per hour)
• High availability architecture eliminates all single points of failure
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Quantum DXi 6500 Product Details

The DXi6500 from Quantum offers a different kind of solution—it solves even complex backup problems simply and affordably by integrating the most advanced storage technology into a simple, pre-configured solution that includes all software licenses in the base price. The DXi6500 is a family of easily shared backup solutions that give disk-to-disk backup and restore performance with all leading backup applications using a simple NAS interface. The DXi6500’s deduplication technology reduces typical disk capacity needs by 90% or more so systems stop filling up—and it scales easily without a service visit, providing effective investment protection. For DR protection, the DXi6500 replicates encrypted backup data between sites, using global deduplication to reduce typical network bandwidth requirements by a factor of 20 or more. For long term retention, the DXi6500 is designed to provide direct tape creation in conjunction with leading backup applications, including Symantec applications using the OpenStorage (OST) API. The end result is multi-site, multi-tier protection that is easy to manage both for near-term restore and longterm retention. The DXi6500 is VM-ready, providing powerful protection for virtual environments as well as for conventional servers, and it includes backup software for VMware with every unit. With the DXi6500, IT departments improve protection, centralize management, and reduce overall costs.

Integration with Leading Backup Software

The DXi6500 integrates smoothly with all leading backup software, allowing users to solve their backup problems easily and economically without changing their existing architectures or procedures. The DXi6500’s support for Symantec and its OpenStorage API (OST) for NetBackup and Backup Exec provides a good example. The integration allows customers to set policies in the application that initiate copying data between different sites and, in the case of NBU, creating physical tape from data on disk. The actual data movement, however, instead of going through the media servers, is sent directly from one DXi system to another and directly from a DXi system to a tape library. Users have all the advantages of the DXi’s deduplication, replication, and direct tape links, but they control the entire process simply and automatically from their backup application which also provides a central catalog for all the data.

Simple Solutions to Difficult Backup Problems

The DXi6500 is a family of disk backup appliances designed specifically to provide a better disk backup solution by making the most advanced technology both affordable and easy to use. The DXi6500 models leverage the latest deduplication technology—along with Solid State Disk, advanced connectivity options, seamless scalability, and direct tape creation—in a family of five preconfigured appliance models that include all the software licenses you need—replication, OST, and VMware backup software— making them easy to select and use. Its disk-to-disk speed and deduplication technology is presented over a NAS interface that makes it easy to deploy with all leading backup applications and simple to share between different servers in any Ethernet environment. The result is improved protection that leverages existing infrastructure for fast return on investment.

Quantum’s DXI-Series disk backup solutions leverage data de-duplication technology to reduce disk requirements by 90% or more and make WAN-based replication a practical DR tool. All models are connected by a common technology base, replication capability, and management layer. This allows IT departments to connect all their sites in a comprehensive data protection strategy that boosts backup performance, and reduces or eliminates media handling.

VM-ready Design – Better Protection for Virtual Environments

Virtual environments create unique data protection problems. Installing traditional backup agents on virtual servers creates bottlenecks because multiple processes all use the same physical resources so all operations slow down. Compounding the problem is the fact that backup volumes are increased because redundant OS and application data is spread across many virtual servers. The most commonly recommended backup
solutions use extra physical servers, require cumbersome management, and fail to provide offsite protection. The DXi6500’s deduplication dramatically reduces disk use in virtual environments—typical data reduction results are greater than 95%—and its replication capability provides automated DR protection. For users that want an alternative to traditional agents, the DXi6500 appliances include Quantum’s esXpress —backup software for VMware that dynamically creates virtual servers for backup, providing fault-tolerant backup and restore without use of a proxy server, and with minimal impact to VM server, console, and network performance.

8TB	8TB - 32TB	24TB - 56TB	24TB - 56TB	24TB - 56TB
2x 1GbE	6x 1GbE	6x 1GbE	6x 1GbE	6x 1GbE
System Node	System Node + 3 expansion modules	System Node + 6 expansion modules	System Node + 6 expansion modules	System Node + 6 expansion modules
Most affordable dedupe Appliance	Scales to 32TB with increased connectivity	Scales from 24TB to 56TB	Scales from 24TB to 56TB, and provides direct path to tape (2x 8GB FC)	Scales from 24TB to 56TB, and provides direct path to tape (2x 8GB FC) and 10GbE connectivity