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Table Of Contents
- 1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system for use with CommVault Simpana
- 2 Configuring CIFS and NFS containers for CommVault Simpana
- 2.1 Creating containers in the DR Series system
- 2.2 Adding the target container(s) to CommVault Simpana
- 2.2 Setting up a single system environment (DR Series system as NFS disk library)
- 2.3 Setting up a replicated system environment
- 2.4 Using the continuous data replicator to replicate client data to a DR Series container
- 3 Configuring VTL for CommVault Simpana
- 4 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner
- 5 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance
- A VTL configuration guidelines
- A.1 Managing VTL protocol accounts and credentials
- A.2 VTL default account summary table
- A.3 Managing VTL media and space use
- A.3.1 General performance guidelines for DMA configuration
- A.3.2 Physical space sizing and planning
- A.3.3 Logical VTL geometry and media sizing
- A.3.4 Media retention and grouping
- A.3.5 VTL media count guidelines
- A.3.6 Adding the VTL media to the container
- A.3.7 Updating CommVault to identify newly added VTL media
- A.3.8 Space reclamation
- B Glossary
Revisions
Date
Description
January 2014
Initial release
March 2014
Updated for missed DR replication step.
April 2015
Added VTL Content for v3.2 Release
July 2015
Added content for configuring an iSCSI target on Linux
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