EMC Data Domain Deduplication in CA SRM

EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems drastically reduce the amount of disk storage to retain and protect enterprise data enabled by Data Domain. By identifying redundant data, Data Domain devices provide a storage footprint that is five to 30 times smaller, than the original data set, making disk a cost-effective over a tape.

The following list provides the benefits of the Data Domain deduplication:

Ensures data integrity and provides multiple levels of data compression, reliable restorations and multipath configurations.
Protects multiple terabytes of logical capacity in a single system to retain data online and onsite for longer retention periods and provides faster and more reliable restores.
Integrates easily into existing environments and are qualified with enterprise backup software and archiving applications.

EMC Data Domain is an SRM agent that collects information about the EMC Data Domain Dedupe device using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Command Line Interface (CLI).

CA SRM collects data and populates the details of the EMC Data Domain device in the SRM database. The zooms in CA SRM lets you follow the logical relation between the dedupe objects and external relation to other models (disk arrays) in SRM.

You can generate reports on precompression and postcompression of backed up data and can analyze the compression ratio.

This section contains the following topics:

Generate Backup Compression Reports Using EDD Deduplication