Reference Guide

Chapter 1 Introducing the Dell™ PowerVault™ DL Backup to
Disk Appliance and the Backup Exec Storage
Provisioning Option ........................................................ 7
About the Dell™ PowerVault™ DL Backup to Disk Appliance and the
Backup Exec Storage Provisioning Option .................................... 8
About the DL Appliance configuration states and configuration
policies .................................................................................. 9
About the Backup Exec license keys ................................................. 11
About creating a Backup Exec services account .................................. 11
About virtual disks in the Storage Provisioning Option ....................... 12
About hot spares in the Storage Provisioning Option .......................... 14
Chapter 2 Installing and configuring Backup Exec by using
the Storage Provisioning Option ................................ 15
Completing the Backup Exec installation by using the Dell™
PowerVault™ DL Backup to Disk Appliance Configuration
Wizard ................................................................................. 15
Configuring virtual disks and configuring the Intelligent Disaster
Recovery Option .............................................................. 16
Creating a bootable CD image for the DL Appliance ...................... 18
Best practices for protecting data on the DL Appliance .................. 18
About configuring virtual disks during initial startup ......................... 19
About using the Backup Exec Command Line Applet with the Storage
Provisioning Option ............................................................... 20
About recovering the DL Appliance using the Intelligent Disaster
Recovery option ..................................................................... 24
Chapter 3 Viewing general properties, components, and
virtual disks in Backup Exec ....................................... 25
About viewing storage array components in Backup Exec ................... 25
Viewing storage array components in Backup Exec ...................... 26
Viewing general properties for a storage array ............................ 26
Changing or viewing general properties of virtual disks on storage
arrays ............................................................................ 29
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