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3 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as a VTL Backup Target on Microsoft® Data Protection Manager | January
2016
Table of contents
1 Executive summary ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4
2 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ....................................................................................................................... 5
3 Creating and configuring iSCSI target containers for Microsoft DPM ................................................................................. 9
3.1 Creating the iSCSI VTL container ....................................................................................................................................... 9
3.2 Configuring the Microsoft DPM Server – Windows ..................................................................................................... 11
3.3 Installing device drivers for the DR Series system iSCSI VTL ..................................................................................... 14
3.4 Configuring Microsoft DPM registry settings ................................................................................................................ 16
3.4.1 Adjusting BufferQueueSize, ConnectionNoActivityTimeout, and
ConnectionNoActivityTimeoutForNonCCJobs registry settings .........................................................................................17
3.4.2 Adding the TapeSize parameter ........................................................................................................................................ 18
3.4.3 Adding the Storport key and BusyRetryCount parameter for each tape ............................................................... 19
3.4.4 Disabling TUR ........................................................................................................................................................................ 21
3.5 Setting up Microsoft DPM to use the newly created iSCSI VTL ............................................................................... 23
4 Performing backup and restore by using the DR Series system VTL ................................................................................. 26
5 Restoring from tape ........................................................................................................................................................................ 38
6 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner ................................................................................................................................... 44
7 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance ................................................................................................ 45
A Managing VTL protocol accounts and credentials ................................................................................................................. 46
A.1 Managing iSCSI account details ........................................................................................................................................ 46
A.2 VTL default account summary table ................................................................................................................................ 47
B Managing VTL media and space usage ...................................................................................................................................... 48
B.1 General performance guidelines for DMA configuration .......................................................................................... 48
B.2 VTL space sizing and planning .......................................................................................................................................... 48
B.3 Logical VTL geometry and media sizing ......................................................................................................................... 49
B.4 Media retention and grouping........................................................................................................................................... 50
B.5 VTL media count guidelines .............................................................................................................................................. 50
B.6 Adding VTL media to a VTL container ............................................................................................................................. 50
B.7 Space reclamation ................................................................................................................................................................ 52
B.7.1 General guidelines ................................................................................................................................................................ 52
B.7.2 Product specific guidelines ................................................................................................................................................ 52