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3 Setting up Dell™ vRanger™ on the
Dell DR Series System | April 2015
Table of contents
Revisions ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ....................................................................................................................... 5
2 Configuring an NFS share for backup using vRanger ............................................................................................................ 14
3 Configuring an RDA container for backup ................................................................................................................................ 15
3.1 Create an RDS container .................................................................................................................................................... 15
3.2 Configure the Dell RDA device in vRanger .....................................................................................................................17
4 Setting up vRanger .......................................................................................................................................................................... 19
5 Viewing a history of optimized copies in the DR Series system GUI ................................................................................. 27
6 Configuring replication at the source ........................................................................................................................................ 28
6.1 Create an RDS container in the Dell DR Series system for the replication target ............................................... 28
6.2 Configure replication at the target container in vRanger .......................................................................................... 29
7 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner ................................................................................................................................... 30
8 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance ................................................................................................ 31