If you do a full backup of everything you need to protect, how many TB does that come to?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s it. That’s\u00a0all<\/em> there is to it. If that number comes to say, 20TB, then\u00a0you add around 5% (or whatever you believe your growth rate for a year will come to) and you get yourself NetWorker Capacity Licensed to say, 21TB.\u00a0At that point you can go and do a full backup every day of every system if you wanted\u00a0and your licenses are still\u00a0covered. It’s not about the\u00a0amount of back-end space you utilise for your backups, but simply the front-end space\u00a0of a single full backup of everything.<\/p>\nThe big advantage \u2013 no, the\u00a0huge<\/em> advantage \u2013 here is that once you’ve got that license, you can pretty much\u00a0work with any NetWorker feature you want. If\u00a0someone comes up and says they need to backup an Oracle database but forgot to\u00a0ask for licensing, you can languidly sit back and say “sure”. If someone comes up and says\u00a0they’re about to virtualise 100 traditional clients and turn them all into virtual clients, you can languidly sit back and say “sure”. If someone decides the business needs to deploy a dozen storage nodes, one for each security zone in a DMZ, you can languidly sit back … well, you get\u00a0the picture.<\/p>\nNetWorker capacity licensing grants you\u00a0flexibility to adjust what you backup based on\u00a0changes to the business requirements. In a world where IT\u00a0has to adapt faster and faster, NetWorker capacity licensing\u00a0gives you the power to change.<\/p>\n
And then there’s DPS licensing. This is the\u00a0awesome-sauce<\/em>\u00a0licensing model because it gives\u00a0you more than just\u00a0NetWorker.\u00a0DPS licensing is capacity based as well: if a full backup of everything in your environment you want to protect is 200TB, then you again look at say, 5% for growth and get a DPS capacity license for say, 210TB and then…<\/p>\n…you can back it up with NetWorker<\/em><\/p>\nor<\/p>\n
…you can back it up with Avamar<\/em> and NetWorker<\/em><\/p>\nor<\/p>\n
…you can back it\u00a0up with NetWorker and Data Domain\u00a0Enterprise Applications<\/em><\/p>\nor<\/p>\n
…you can back it up with NetWorker, Avamar, and Data Domain Enterprise Applications<\/em><\/p>\nor<\/p>\n
…you can back it up with NetWorker, Avamar, and Data Domain Enterprise Applications\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0report on it using DPA<\/em>.<\/p>\nDPS licensing for backup is\u00a0the ultimate flexibility for a data protection environment. If you’re licensed for 200TB and your company acquires another business that’s got a bunch of remote offices, you can just go right ahead and deploy some Avamar\u00a0Virtual Edition systems to look\u00a0after those. If you want to have centralised monitoring and reporting for your data protection activities\u00a0and<\/em> provide chargeback pricing to business units, you can do it by folding Data Protection Advisor in. If you\u00a0want to give your DBAs the option of backing up to\u00a0your Data Domain systems but they\u00a0want to use their own scheduling system, you can just point them at\u00a0the Data Domain\u00a0Boost plugin and let\u00a0them get to work.<\/p>\nDPS is the\u00a0Swiss Army Knife of data protection licensing.\u00a0What’s more, it’s the landing place for new features in\u00a0the EMC data protection universe as they come out. For instance, EMC CloudBoost and EMC Data Protection Search were\u00a0both\u00a0added automatically<\/em> into\u00a0the licensing options for existing DPS customers at no extra charge. So suddenly those\u00a0customers can, if they want,\u00a0provide a central search system for all their backups, or push long term retention backups out to the Cloud without having\u00a0to adjust their licensing.<\/p>\nGood (Traditional) \u2013 Better (NetWorker Capacity) \u2013 Best (DPS Capacity). They’re the three\u00a0licensing options for NetWorker. And there’s a model that suits everyone.<\/p>\n
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