Configuring Deduplication for High Performance A Dell Technical White Paper Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered By CommVault
Introduction The Dell PowerVault ™ DL2000 – Powered by CommVault ® Simpana ® 8 Advanced Deduplication Edition delivers end-to-end block-based deduplication to significantly reduce MediaAgent disk storage requirements. This technical note discusses how to configure deduplication for primary storage policy copies on the PowerVault DL2000 magnetic library to achieve high performance.
Enabling deduplication and specifying a deduplication store Create a new primary storage policy copy with deduplication enabled by using the Storage Policy Wizard: 1. From the CommCell Browser right-click the Storage Policies node and select New Storage Policy from the shortcut menu. The Storage Policy Wizard will launch and guide you through the process of creating a storage policy. 2. Select Yes for deduplication in the Storage Policy Wizard. 3. Browse to a magnetic library mount path under C:\ DiskStorag
desired block size in the Block Level Deduplication Factor field. Select 64K for storage policies that backup file data and 128K for storage policies that backup databases. 3. Click OK to save the changes. Enabling subclient software compression and deduplication To enable software compression for all subclients associated with a primary storage policy copy: 1. From the Copy Properties dialog box select the Copy Properties (Deduplication - Advanced) tab. 2.
Applying the Spill and Fill Mount Path Policy To apply the Spill and Fill mount path allocation policy to the PowerVault DL2000 magnetic library: 1. From the CommCell Browser right-click the magnetic library for which you wish to establish the mount path allocation policy, and then click Properties. 2. Click the Mount Paths tab. 3. Click the Spill and fill mount paths options. 4. Click OK to save the information.
following updates: a. QoperationUpgrade(11370) b. OESLinuxGWDBSupport(11612) c. 11659 d. qBackupWithAppID(12062) e. SIPerformanceEnhancementCS(12441) f. SIPerformanceEnhancementMA(12476) g. 12480 4. Click OK to exit out of the MediaAgent Properties If the Deuplication Performance Pack is not installed on the system it can be obtained using the Automatic Update feature of CommVault Simpana 8. For further information on configuring and using Automatic Updates in your environment visit http://documentation.
