About DPX

General overview

Catalogic DPX delivers unprecedented speed and savings with a single unified data protection solution making backup and disaster recovery smarter, faster, and more efficient. It is uniquely designed to handle the most common data protection use cases that are challenging for IT departments.

You can deploy Catalogic DPX quickly and it scales easily to match the needs of rapidly growing cloud infrastructures. Additionally, the software exploits modern server virtualization and is optimized for the backup and recovery of virtual systems.

Catalogic DPX Block Data Protection provides rapid and efficient backup, restore, Bare Metal Recovery, application protection and tape archiving. A complex backup environment can have multiple backup Enterprises, each with more than one secondary system, including NetApp storage and Catalogic DPX Open Storage.

Environment structure

A basic DPX environment consists of a DPX Master Server, a DPX Client and a storage device.

The master server is typically deployed on a virtual machine. It manages data transfer between the machines from which data are backed up, and the devices where backed up data are stored and where they are restored from.

The DPX Client is an agent deployed on the machine (either physical or virtual) containing data you are backing up. It allows the DPX Master Server to access the data on the machine to create backups and restore data.

There is also a method to back up virtual machines under a hypervisor without backup agents on the virtual machines. This backup method is called agentless.

Each machine, whether physical or virtual, is referred to as a node. The master server is a DPX node that contains DPX software, including the Catalog and modules that control scheduling, media management, and distributed processing. There is one master server per data protection Enterprise. Any machine the master server communicates with must be added to the Enterprise as a node. Nodes where DPX Client is installed are called client nodes. The master is also visible as a node and thus can back up data from itself.

User interfaces

The Catalogic DPX environment features two graphical user interfaces for managing backup and restore activities called jobs. One interface is a Java-based desktop application. To run it, you need to install the Java environment first. The other interface is an HTML5-based web application that does not require additional installation apart from a supported web browser.

The desktop interface provides access to most DPX features but is gradually replaced with the new web interface and will be deprecated in the future.

The web interface only requires a web browser to run. This interface covers most typical DPX functionalities and is continuously developed to finally replace the old desktop application.

Important considerations

Some features described in this guide are optional and separately licensable. For inquiries regarding licensing of optional features, contact your data protection account representative.

Catalogic DPX data protection software does not currently support Unicode for DPX-specific objects such as jobname, devicepath, qtree name, etc. Use the English character set only.

Note. Screen illustrations shown in this guide may not exactly match those found in your product implementation due to variations in customization or updates.