Setting Up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance on BridgeHead® Healthcare Data Management Dell Engineering January 2014 A Dell Technical White Paper
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Executive summary This paper provides information about how to set up the Dell DR Series Deduplication Appliance as a backup to disk target for BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management 12B. This paper is a quick reference guide and does not include all DR Series Deduplication Appliance deployment best practices. See the DR Series Deduplication Appliance documentation for other data management application best practices whitepapers at http://www.dell.
1 Install and Configure the DR Series Deduplication Appliance 1. Rack and cable the DR Series Deduplication Appliance, and power it on. 2. Please refer to Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide, under sections of “iDRAC Connection”, “Logging in and Initializing the DR Series System”, and “Accessing IDRAC6/Idrac7 Using RACADM” for using iDRAC connection and initializing the appliance. 3. Log in to iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.120, or the IP that is assigned to the iDRAC interface.
5. After the virtual console is open, log in to the system as user administrator and the password St0r@ge! (The “0” in the password is the numeral zero). 6. Set the user- defined networking preferences. 7. 6 View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct.
8. Log on to DR Series Deduplication Appliance administrator console, using the IP address you just provided for the DR Series Deduplication Appliance, with username administrator and password St0r@ge! (The “0” in the password is the numeral zero.). 9. Join the DR Series Deduplication Appliance to Active Directory. Note: if you do not want to add DR Series Deduplication Appliance to Active Directory, please see the DR Series Deduplication Appliance Owner’s Manual for guest login instructions.
• Enter your Active Directory credentials. 10. Create and mount the container. Select Containers in the tree on the left side of the dashboard, and then click the Create at the top of the page.
11. Enter a Container Name and select Connection Type, select the Enable CIFS or Enable NFS check box. BridgeHead HDM supports both CIFS and NFS protocols. Name the container Select CIFS or NFS Enter Backup Server Info 12. Select the preferred client access credentials.
13. Click Create a New Container. Confirm that the container is added. 14. Click Edit. Note down the container share/export path, which you will use later to target the DR Series Deduplication Appliance.
15. Click Cancel to exit.
2 Set Up BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management 2.1 Procedure for the Windows Environment 1. 12 Open Bridge HDM Management Console. Under Backup Node, click Configuration. Double click to open the Configuration File.
2. Search Staging_Area in text editor. Use DR container share UNC path for the Staging Area Path, define a Staging Area Name. Save the Configuration file. Note: The Backup Node for BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management requires appropriate permissions to the DR Series Deduplication Appliance CIFS Share for the step below to complete successfully. See Appendix A for setting up the BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management Backup Node account correctly. This should be done before the next step.
2.2 Procedure for Unix/Linux Environment Notes: Make sure that you can mount/verify the NFS share from the UNIX/Linux backup node. Please see Appendix B for how to mount/verify the NFS share. The procedure for the Unix/Linux Environment is very similar to the procedure for the Windows Environment. One difference is that the configuration file of Backup Node is ht_media.def, the default location for the file is “/etc/ht_media.def ”.
3 15 Create a New Backup Job with DR Series Deduplication Appliance as the Target 1. Open Bridge HDM Management Console. Click Schedule Manage under Control Node. Double click to open the Schedule Manager. 2. Choose Template schedules contain suitable defaults for various job types. Click OK.
3. Choose None the click OK 4. Populate all the required fields and choose Media Manager under Media Management, click New.
5. Choose Disk in Media Management option then click Advanced. 6.
7. Enter Stage Area Name, Application as BACKUP, click Finish. 8. Click OK.
9. On Bridge HDM Management Console, click Object Manager under Control Node, which displays the Object Manager in the list. Double click to open the Object Manager on right- hand side pane. 10. Choose Template objects contain default settings for particular tasks such as platform or database backups, storage policy application or reporting, click Next.
11. Choose WIN in the template list then click Next. 12. Enter the Service Node related info with the valid file path for backup data source, click Next.
13. Enter Backup Node related info, click Add/Edit password(s) 14.
15. Click Next. Please refer to Appendix A for User and Password. 16. Accept the defaults and click Next.
17. Select Mail Recipients, click Next. 18. Choose the Schedule, click Next.
19. Accept the defaults and click Next . 20. Accept the defaults and click Next.
21. Enter the Name of Object then click Finish to save it. 22. The backup object summary is displayed on the Object list. Right- click the object to run the backup.
23. When Save or Run Operation window opens, click Start On-Line to start the backup. 24. The Object Manager Operation Log window displays the progress of the backup session. Operation status has details of the backup job.
4 Set up DR Native Replication & Restore from Replication Target Container 4.1 Build Replication Relationship between DRs 27 1. On source DR, select Replication from the menu panel on the left side of the management interface, click Create. 2. Select a local container as source container, select Map to container on remote system, enter Target DR related info, click Retrieve Containers, select populated target container from the list, click Create Replication.
3. 28 Verify that the replication is created successfully. Make sure Peer Status is Online for the replication session.
4.2 Backup to Source DR (Optional: only when there is no backed up data on source container) 1. 29 Add both source DR and target DR as Stage Area on Bridge HDM, create a New Backup Job with source DR as the Target. Make sure the backup is successful.
2. Click Configuration of Backup Node, which displays Configuration File, Double click to open the Configuration File. 3.
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4.3 32 Restore from Replication Target 1. On Bridge HDM Management Console, open Object Manager, the backup object summary is displayed under Object list. Right- click the object and choose Restore 2. Select the Saveset, then click Start On-Line.
3. 33 Verify that the restore job completes successfully.
5 Set Up the DR Series Deduplication Appliance Cleaner The cleaner will run during idle time. If you workflow does not have a sufficient amount of idle time on a daily basis then you should consider scheduling the cleaner which will force it to run during that scheduled time. If necessary you can do the following procedure as described in the screenshot to force the cleaner to run. Once all the backup jobs are setup the DR Series Deduplication Appliance cleaner can be scheduled.
6 Monitoring Deduplication, Compression and Performance After backup jobs have completed, the DR Series Deduplication Appliance tracks capacity, storage savings and throughput on the DR Series Deduplication Appliance dashboard. This information is valuable in understanding the benefits the DR Series Deduplication Appliance. Note: Deduplication ratios increase over time; it is not uncommon to see a 2- 4x reduction (25- 50% total savings) on the initial backup.
A Appendix A.1 Create a Storage Device for CIFS There are two options for BridgeHead HDM to authenticate to DR Series Deduplication Appliance through CIFS. 1. DR is joined into an Active Directory Domain: Integrate BridgeHead HDM and DR Series Deduplication Appliance with Active Directory a. Ensure the AD user has appropriate ACLs to the DR Series Deduplication Appliance Container share b. When creating an object, set the Backup Node of BridgeHead HDM to run with this AD user 2.
A.2 Create a Storage Device for NFS For NFS backup using the BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management, a target folder needs to be created as NFS share directory. This is the location to which backup objects will be written. This is not required while adding CIFS share. 1. 2. 37 Mount the DR Series Deduplication Appliance NFS share onto the NFS share directory which backup objects will be written in the BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management environment. Verify the NFS share.
