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1 Introduction This document describes important product information and additional information on the Dell DL4300 Appliance. NOTE: For more information on the new features in this release see the Dell DL4300 Appliance Deployment Guide at dell.com/support/manuals. This document lists the defects which you may face when you upgrade your appliance to Rapid Recovery 6.0.2 using RUU 3.0. About Dell DL4300 Appliance The DL4300 appliance is a fully configured backup appliance that is powered by Rapid Recovery software. The DL4300 integrates storage capacity and standby virtual machines (VMs) with snapshot, replication, deduplication, and compression software to quickly recover applications and data. Your appliance: • Helps eliminate your backup window. • Creates snapshots as often as every 5 minutes. • Maintains multiple standby VMs to quickly restore critical servers. • Offers integrated, inline block-level deduplication and compression, combined with optimized backups for WAN replication. • Provides a wizard based configuration utility to automatically provision DL4300 storage and iDRAC for remote management. About Rapid Recovery Software The Rapid Recovery software offers near-zero recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives. More than disaster recovery, Rapid Recovery software offers data solutions for data migration and management. You have the flexibility of performing bare-metal restore (to similar or dissimilar hardware), and you can restore backups to physical or virtual machines, regardless of origin. The Rapid Recovery software can also archive to the cloud, to a Dell DL series backup and recovery appliance, or to a supported system of your choice. With the Rapid Recovery software, you can replicate to one or more targets for added redundancy and security. For more information, see: https://support.software.dell.com. Other information you may need NOTE: For all Dell OpenManage documents, go to dell.com/openmanagemanuals. NOTE: Always check for updates on dell.com/support/home and read the updates first because they often supersede information in other documents. NOTE: For any documentation related to Dell OpenManage Server Administrator, see dell.com/openmanage/manuals. You product documentation includes: Getting Started Guide Owner's Manual Deployment Guide Provides an overview of system features, setting up your system, and technical specifications. This document is also shipped with your system. Provides information about system features and describes how to troubleshoot the system and install or replace system components. Provides information on hardware deployment and the initial deployment of the appliance. 4

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Introduction
This document describes important product information and additional information on the Dell DL4300 Appliance.
NOTE: For more information on the new features in this release see the
Dell DL4300 Appliance Deployment Guide
at
dell.com/support/manuals. This document lists the defects which you may face when you upgrade your appliance to
Rapid Recovery 6.0.2 using RUU 3.0.
About Dell DL4300 Appliance
The DL4300 appliance is a fully configured backup appliance that is powered by Rapid Recovery software. The DL4300 integrates
storage capacity and standby virtual machines (VMs) with snapshot, replication, deduplication, and compression software to quickly
recover applications and data.
Your appliance:
Helps eliminate your backup window.
Creates snapshots as often as every 5 minutes.
Maintains multiple standby VMs to quickly restore critical servers.
Offers integrated, inline block-level deduplication and compression, combined with optimized backups for WAN replication.
Provides a wizard based configuration utility to automatically provision DL4300 storage and iDRAC for remote management.
About Rapid Recovery Software
The Rapid Recovery software offers near-zero recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives. More than disaster recovery,
Rapid Recovery software offers data solutions for data migration and management. You have the flexibility of performing bare-metal
restore (to similar or dissimilar hardware), and you can restore backups to physical or virtual machines, regardless of origin. The
Rapid Recovery software can also archive to the cloud, to a Dell DL series backup and recovery appliance, or to a supported system
of your choice. With the Rapid Recovery software, you can replicate to one or more targets for added redundancy and security.
For more information, see:
.
Other information you may need
NOTE: For all Dell OpenManage documents, go to dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
NOTE: Always check for updates on dell.com/support/home and read the updates first because they often supersede
information in other documents.
NOTE: For any documentation related to Dell OpenManage Server Administrator, see dell.com/openmanage/manuals.
You product documentation includes:
Getting Started
Guide
Provides an overview of system features, setting up your system, and technical specifications. This
document is also shipped with your system.
Owner’s Manual
Provides information about system features and describes how to troubleshoot the system and install or
replace system components.
Deployment Guide
Provides information on hardware deployment and the initial deployment of the appliance.
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