Current Solution

What is the Existing Tool used for Data Protection

Do you backup across all locations / Data Centers
Do you replicate Backup data between Data Centers for DR Copy
Do you backup to tapes (direct to tape or Disk to Disk to Tape)
Are you using backup to Disk
What is the Disk Backup Target - Purpose Built Device / General Purpose Storage
Do you send Tapes Offiste / DR Data Center for Compliance
What is the current Backup Window
Are you backing up all workloads - Physical / Virtual and End points
Do you do Application Aware Backups with granular recovery capabilities
Any Challenges with the Current Solution (for e.g. Slower Recovery Speed, etc)
Current Backup Policy
For e.g. Daily Incremental - Retention of 7 days, Weekly full - Retention of 5
Weeks, Monthly full - Retention for 12 Months, etc)
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No. of Data Centers
No. of Servers Running Hypervisors

Total Number of CPUs across all servers

Type of Hypervisor(s)

No. of VMs at each location

Applications running on Virtual Application

Total Storage utilized by Virtual Machines

No. of VMs with RAW Disks Attached

No. of VM which have Application clusters

(like SQL Always On) or OS Clusters like
Windows Cluster
External Storage used for VM Workload
( SAN / NAS)
Would you like to send data to tapes (Disk
to Disk to Tape)
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Operational Efficiency Yes / No

Would you like to implement Application Level granular backup
and recovery capabilities for Apps running on virtual Infra and
reduce RTO

Would you like to replicate virtual workloads between Data

centers for Achieving DR without any dependance on hardware
across sites
Would you like to use any existing storage device as backup to
disk target
Would you like to leverage De-duplication and Compression for
backup to Disk and Cloud repositories

Would you like to optimize your current Virtual Infra by

identifying over utilized and under utilized resources

Do you have a plan to backup to a Cloud repository like Azure /

AWS
Is there is a need for monitoring / Capacity planning of the
virtual infrastructure
Would you like to present SLA based reporting for higher
management / audit purposes
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No. of Physical Servers (non-
Virtualized)

Operating system of physical servers

Applications running on Physical
servers
Any server running application / OS
Cluster
Total Storage Utilizd by Physical
Servers
Physical Server Data on Internal Disks
or Networked Storage
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No. of End points to be protected
Operating System on End points (windows / Linux)
Any MAC OS End points in the setup
No. of Users to be backed up over LAN
No. of Roaming users to be backed up over WAN