Deduplication Appliance Integration

NAKIVO Backup & Replication supports different deduplication appliances as backup targets and delivers full integration with the native deduplication protocols used by Dell EMC Data Domain (DD Boost), HPE StoreOnce (Catalyst) and NEC HYDRAstor (Universal Express). With a special repository type designed for the best backup performance on deduplication appliances, you can maximize the backup speed and lower space consumption.

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Key Features at a Glance

Smooth Integration

Use a special backup repository optimized for deduplication appliances

Faster Backup / Replication

Boost speeds and reduce bandwidth usage

Storage Space Savings

Reduce disk space required with source-side deduplication

Deduplication Appliance Integration in NAKIVO Backup & Replication

How Deduplication Appliances Work

Deduplication appliances reduce data size by excluding repeated data at the source. They are usually optimized for receiving data in fewer data streams and work best with sequential I/O and large I/O block sizes.

Storage Optimized for Source-Side Deduplication

NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers a special repository type optimized for deduplication appliances. The repository’s architecture is based on sequential read/write operations through a limited number of data streams.

Best Performance

Using deduplication appliances as backup targets can significantly reduce backup data size with source-side deduplication. Achieve optimal performance with:

Lower storage space usage by 20 times or more
Less bandwidth consumption
Higher backup and replication speed. NAKIVO customers reach backup speeds of up to 3.2 GB/s when using deduplication appliances as backup targets. This speed is 53 times higher than the average speed of VM backups to regular repositories.

Incremental with Full Backups

The optimized repository in NAKIVO’s solution allows you to create incremental backups with periodic full backups. Full backups can help you achieve faster recovery and better storage management with the entire backup data set stored as a single file.

Ransomware Resilience

Make backups stored in NEC HYDRAstor systems immutable. NAKIVO’s solution uses HYDRAstor’s native WORM technology and enables you to apply immutability for a specified period of time. This creates secure and tamper-proof backups, which nobody, not even the root user, can change or delete.

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