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3 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as a CIFS or VTL Backup Target on EMC® Networker® | April 2015
Table of contents
Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ....................................................................................................................... 5
2 Creating and configuring CIFS target container(s) for Networker........................................................................................ 9
2.1 Creating the network share container for Networker use ........................................................................................... 9
2.2 Configuring the Networker storage node – Windows CIFS ...................................................................................... 11
2.3 Configuring Networker to use the newly created network share ........................................................................... 12
2.4 Setting up DR Series system replication and restore from the replication target ............................................... 25
2.4.1 Creating a replication relationship between two DR Series systems...................................................................... 25
2.4.2 Restoring from the replication target container........................................................................................................... 29
3 Creating and configuring iSCSI target container(s) for Networker..................................................................................... 33
3.1 Creating an iSCSI VTL container for Networker use ................................................................................................... 33
3.1.1 Configuring the iSCSI Networker storage node – Windows .................................................................................... 35
3.1.2 Configuring the iSCSI target – Linux ............................................................................................................................... 39
3.2 Setting up Networker to use the newly created iSCSI VTL........................................................................................40
4 Creating and configuring NDMP target container(s) for Networker .................................................................................. 44
4.1 Creating the NDMP VTL container for Networker use ............................................................................................... 44
4.2 Configuring Networker to use the newly created NDMP VTL ................................................................................. 46
5 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner ................................................................................................................................... 51
6 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance ................................................................................................ 52
A Managing VTL protocol accounts and credentials ................................................................................................................. 53
A.1 iSCSI account details and management ......................................................................................................................... 53
A.2 NDMP account details and management ...................................................................................................................... 54
A.3 VTL default account summary table ................................................................................................................................ 55
B Adding VTL media ............................................................................................................................................................................ 56
B.1 Adding the VTL media to the container .......................................................................................................................... 56
B.1.1 VTL media count guidelines .............................................................................................................................................. 56
B.2 Updating Networker to identify newly added VTL media .......................................................................................... 57