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PowerProtect DD Series

PowerProtect DD Series
Formerly Dell EMC Data Domain

Overview

What is PowerProtect DD Series?

PowerProtect DD (a next-generation appliance replacing Dell EMC Data Domain) is a suite of hardware appliances used for data protection, backup, storage and deduplication. PowerProtect appliance offerings are cloud-enabled and vary by organization size, capable of supporting small business and enterprises. PowerProtect appliances…

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Data Domain is widely used in various backup scenarios and data storage environments. One of its primary use cases is as the data storage …
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Protection to your DATA

9 out of 10
December 06, 2022
Incentivized
We had huge data of ourselves along with our partner ecosystem, and our end customers for whom we do the deployment and using PowerProtect …
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Tried and True

7 out of 10
October 28, 2019
Incentivized
DD is used as an on-premise backup storage target in coordination with a Veeam backup environment. It is used to backup VM's running …
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Popular Features

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  • Multiple backup destinations (11)
    9.3
    93%
  • Incremental backup identification (10)
    8.7
    87%
  • Business application protection (11)
    8.3
    83%
  • Universal recovery (10)
    8.3
    83%
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What is PowerProtect DD Series?

PowerProtect DD (a next-generation appliance replacing Dell EMC Data Domain) is a suite of hardware appliances used for data protection, backup, storage and deduplication. PowerProtect appliance offerings are cloud-enabled and vary by organization size, capable of supporting small business and…

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Product Details

What is PowerProtect DD Series?

PowerProtect DD (a next-generation appliance replacing Dell EMC Data Domain) is a suite of hardware appliances used for data protection, backup, storage and deduplication. PowerProtect appliance offerings are cloud-enabled and vary by organization size, capable of supporting small business and enterprises.

PowerProtect appliances are separated into two categories: entry-level to midrange, and enterprise.

Entry-Level to Midrange Backup Appliances

PowerProtect DD3300

  • Designed for SMBs
  • 2U protection storage appliance with comprehensive coverage
  • Cloud-compatible for long-term retention and disaster recovery
  • Starts at 4TB, can manage up to 4.8PB of logical capacity with Cloud Tier offering

PowerProtect DD6300

  • Up to 24 TB/hour throughput
  • Up to 8.9PB of logical capacity
  • Start with single-enclosure footprint

PowerProtect DD6800

  • Up to 32 TB/hour throughput
  • Up to 43.2PB of logical capacity support with Cloud Tier
  • High-availability configurations

Enterprise Backup Appliances

PowerProtect DD9300

  • Up to 41 TB/hour throughput
  • Up to 108PB logical capacity support with Cloud Tier
  • High availability option

PowerProtect DD9800

  • Largest and fastest Data Domain appliance model
  • Up to 68 TB/hr throughput
  • Up to 150PB logical capacity support with Cloud Tier

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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Data Domain is widely used in various backup scenarios and data storage environments. One of its primary use cases is as the data storage component for Avamar backup solution, providing reliable and efficient storage for backups. Users appreciate the seamless integration of Data Domain into storage and backup strategies, eliminating the need for tape backup. Additionally, Data Domain's deduplication feature is highly valued as it helps save disk space and avoid data duplication.

Another important use case of Data Domain is its role as a local backup target and cross-replication system for geodiverse data storage. By setting up backup and data lifecycle policies on the console, users can streamline their work processes effectively. Furthermore, Data Domain offers a high scale and efficient storage solution, contributing to agility and security in data management.

In terms of performance, PowerProtect DDs are utilized as targets for enterprise backups, ensuring reliable offsite backups. The compression factor of PowerProtect DD allows users to store a large amount of data on physical disks with optimal utilization. This makes it ideal for businesses looking to protect, manage, and recover their data efficiently.

For individuals and professionals alike, PowerProtect DD offers confidence in restoring backups and minimizing data loss disruptions. The user-friendly interface makes regular data backups easy to complete. Moreover, field technicians find PowerProtect DD valuable as it enables them to access data backups whenever needed, enhancing their productivity.

Overall, Data Domain's versatility makes it suitable for a wide range of industries and settings where effective data management and protection are crucial. It provides reliable storage solutions, efficient deduplication capabilities, seamless integration into existing systems, and easy-to-use interfaces that cater to the needs of both businesses and individual users alike.

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December 06, 2022

Protection to your DATA

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Deduplication of data coming from different sources
  • Provides highly secure and efficient storage ecosystem
  • Backup and Restoration is fasten up
  • HA is achieved within independent stacks making the TCO reduced
  • Implementation of the product is complex and time taking, which needs to be improved.
  • If you have different data sources coming into the system, then installation needs to be carried away by a professional.
October 28, 2019

Tried and True

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It writes backups quickly. DDBoost add-on is very useful as well for improving backup speeds.
  • DD is very efficient in its use of capacity. It dedupes and compresses very well.
  • It spans to large capacity amounts.
  • It is very slow to restore from. Backup times are great, restores can be terribly slow.
  • It doesn't offload to cloud storage natively. You need to purchase an expensive license to enable this feature.
  • The management interface is very basic, but it works fine.
  • The new air gap solution seems to be just replication an on/off switch. I'd prefer to see them leverage AI on the existing device instead of requiring
  • A second device is purchased and securing by toggling the connectivity off.
Sam Majam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The deduplication is fantastic. We are currently seeing total compression factors in the mid to upper 50s.
  • The platform is very reliable and stable.
  • It backs up a wide variety of enterprise apps (e.g. legacy applications, UNIX, iSeries, open systems etc) or your primary storage.
  • It can be expensive to implement, especially when used in conjunction with other applications/hardware such as Avamar.
  • The TCO can be high, especially when it needs its storage expanded.
  • Recovery speeds can be slow (compared to other solutions) for when recovery is time sensitive.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • High data ingestion rate. For inline dedupe, these devices can ingest a saturated Gigabit Ethernet line, plus a FibreChannel from an AS/400.
  • High reliability. In ten years of having at least two units and ingesting 1.5 to 2TB/night of backups, we've replaced maybe three disk drives.
  • Scalability. Dedupe ratios are very good (11:1 for us for all data), and the DD2500 models allow addition of disk trays to expand capacity.
  • Ease of use. Management interface is good, the free Data Domain Management Center Appliance is even better.
  • Dedupe ratios on a per-folder or per-CIFS share basis would be nice, we can only see the ratio per partition (MTree). So it's not possible to see what ratio we get from Tivoli data vs vRanger data, for instance, because they're in the same MTree.
  • The VTL option seems inordinately expensive given it's only software. We held off a long time because of the cost, and only went down that road because the IBM iSeries is inherently unable to do a DR recovery from disk only.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • MTree replication to another Data Domain system. The Data Domain performs the replication every 15 minutes, so our offsite data is never more than 15 minutes out of sync with production.
  • DDBoost provides a faster way to back up our data.
  • Data encryption at rest. This allows us to protect our database data.
  • Depending on the model of Data Domain, there is a limit to the number of NFS/SMB threads that can run concurrently. When this limit is reached, the system is slow to respond to client requests.
  • Data Domain support is very slow to turn out new features and bug fixes in their code.
  • OS upgrades are very slow and disruptive.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cross-site replication.
  • Easily maintained, organized and replicated backup schedules and policies.
  • Deduplication is amazing, we are seeing in some cases with OS and file 22:1 dedupe.
  • VMware integration from a restoration perspective.
  • Initial ingestion for data can get bloated at first it would be nice to see a better estimation of what you most likely will see after dedupe and compression completes.
  • Better data aging and deletion capabilities, we see periodic bloating with lower retention policies.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Data Domain is very good at data reduction of database backups (IBM DB2, SAP HANA, Oracle).
  • Data Domain is an excellent choice for WAN optimized long distance DR data replication.
  • Data Domain is extremely reliable and stable.
  • Restore speed could be improved. Restores are much slower than backups.
  • It would be nice if there were multi-controller larger capacity configurations.
  • Increased large environment remote management functionality would be a welcome addition.
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