DELL EMC² DATA PROTECTION SOLUTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE

Company Name & Address:

Contact (Name/E-mail/Phone):

Current Backup Application(s), version, and OS: # Backup servers? # Backup clients?

Define your current backup target(s) (local disk, Tape, SAN, NAS, etc.)?

Are you backing up any NAS? What vendor(s)? Using NDMP?

Do you currently encrypt (yes/no) or compress (yes/no) your backups? How?

Desired backup window in hours: Full backup: Incremental backups:

After implementing disk-based backup, will you still write to tape (yes/no)? If yes, how often?

Do you plan to replicate backups to a DR site (yes/no)? What is the available bandwidth between sites?

Number of total sites? Do other sites have unique data to protect (yes/no)? If so, please complete additional tables.

How Virtualized are you (%)? Virtualization platform & version (VMWare, HyperV)? # Hosts? # VMs? #Sockets per Site

Do you perform guest or image level backups (or both)? VMs (yes/no)? BMR (yes/no)?

Are desktop/laptop backups parts of this project (yes/no)? If yes, please include as a separate dataset in table.

Are you utilizing Cloud services (Dell EMC ECS, Virtustream, Amazon, Azure)? If yes, please list vendor and purpose.

Top 3 challenges around Backup/DR environment today?

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For table below: Amount in GB is for the size of a SINGLE FULL BACKUP (before compression).
Please complete all sections with your best possible estimates. Incomplete sections will cause delays for additional info-gathering efforts.

Backup Details
Data-Sets Amount in
Full Inc/Diff Daily Annual
backups a backups a Change Growth Desired Retention
(Primary Site) GB
Week week Rate % Rate %

(EXAMPLE) Unstructured File Data 300 1 5 3 10 10Daily/4Weekly/12Monthly

Unstructured File Data

Rich Media
(images, video, audio, PDF, etc.)

SQL

Exchange

SharePoint

Other database (please specify)

VMs (OS only)

Other (please specify)

 Total Backup

ADDITIONAL SITE INFORMATION

For table below: Use an additional table for each remote office environment you plan to protect.
Please complete all sections with your best possible estimates. Incomplete sections will cause delays for additional info-gathering efforts.

Backup Details
Data-Sets Amount in
Full Inc/Diff Daily Annual
backups a backups a Change Growth Desired Retention
(Secondary Site) GB
Week week Rate % Rate %

(EXAMPLE) Unstructured File Data 300 1 5 3 10 10Daily/4Weekly/12Monthly

Unstructured File Data

Rich Media
(images, video, audio, PDF, etc.)

SQL

Exchange

SharePoint

Other database (please specify)

VMs (OS only)

Other (please specify)

Total Backup

Describe your RTO/RPO requirements and your method of meeting these today:

Describe possible bottlenecks in your Backup Infrastructure (tape, network, server resources, etc.):

What OS versions are you currently running that would require a backup agent?

What versions of Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, etc. do you use that require backups?

Estimated budget range for Backup/Disaster Recovery Project?

Upcoming IT initiatives in the next year; five years?

Please add any additional information that you feel may better help us understand your environment (for example, any issues you are
trying to address, network diagram of the backup architecture, etc.):