What's Smart Scale?

Smart Scale for PowerProtect Appliances was recently released. The purpose of smart scale is really about simplifying capacity management across multiple PowerProtect DD systems, but it's more than just management and reporting. While it includes analytics, insights, and recommendations around capacity needs and placement, the real value is the system pooling and management it provides.  Smart Scale leverages a DD Namespace VM (DDNVM) that's deployed from the PowerProtect DD Management Center UI.

This allows your backup applications to simply select a system pool, when backup policies are created, rather than specifying a specific DDR. Smart Scale will then manage the physical location that data is stored reducing the time you have to spend as a backup admin worrying about load balancing and capacity management.

Currently Smart Scale is supported on DD9900, DD9400 and DD6900 models and DDOS 7.8 and higher.

For a deeper dive into Smart Scale for PowerProtect Appliances, check out the Free Concepts course HERE.