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Best Practices Guide 2

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About This Guide

This Best Practices Guide describes the recommended VTrak E610f configurations and tips for achieving the best

performance with the VTrak E610f and the VTL appliance. It is intended for system administrators, storage architects,

system integrators, and resellers who are planning to install or qualify FalconStor VTL using Promise VTrak E610f.

Introduction

The explosive growth of data generated by businesses continues to bring challenges in the area of backup and recovery

operations. Increasing volumes of data and narrowing backup windows have made traditional tape backup increasingly

difficult to maintain. In addition, tape backup has often led to longer recovery periods, leaving more room for media and

mechanical failures. Businesses require faster and more reliable ways to back up and recover their data.

Virtual tape appliances, such as FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Storage Appliances and Enterprise Edition,

address the challenges associated with tape backup. FalconStor VTL solutions offer fast backup, data deduplication,

enterprise-wide replication, and tape integration in one solution, without requiring changes to the existing environment.

Built-in data deduplication features automatically and transparently eliminate redundant data, extending data retention and

allowing users to reduce or even eliminate investments in physical tape media.

However, FalconStor VTL solutions require massive amounts of storage that must scale both in performance and in

capacity. In the market, many existing disk array products are designed for traditional enterprise transactional computing.

They cannot provide the scalability that VTL applications require, and they are usually too expensive to deploy in large

volume.

Promise VTrak E610f external disk array subsystem was designed to work seamlessly with VTL applications, providing

exceptional input/output (I/O) performance for concurrent VTL operations like backup, restore, and deduplication with a

host of features, including:

 Aggregated 1.6Gb/s bandwidth and low

overhead implementation

 Dual 4Gb Fibre Channel host interface ports

 Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 1E, 5, 6, 50,

and 60

 Robust error recovery

 No single point of failure design  Active-active dual controllers

The VTrak E610f has 16 drive bays, and can support up to 80 SAS or SATA drives through Promise VTrak J610S

expansion units, or up to 80 terabytes (TB) of raw capacity (based on using a 1TB SATA drive). It offers a highly scalable,

reliable, and cost-effective storage solution for FalconStor VTL Appliances and Enterprise Edition, appropriate for small

and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to Enterprise customers.

The recommendations in this best practices guide were tested on the following hardware and software versions:

 Promise VTrak E610f external disk array subsystem, firmware version 3.33.0000.00 (SR 2.5)

 Promise VTrak J610s external disk subsystem, firmware version 1.07.0000.12

 FalconStor VTL Server v5.1

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