White Papers
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
57 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as a CIFS or VTL Backup Target on CommVault Simpana |
April 2015
3. Select the NDMP Access Protocol. Specify the DMA Access Control by providing
the storage node or, media node IP Address or FQDN. Select the Marker Type as
Unix Dump and click Next.
4. Finalize the VTL creation by clicking Create a New Container.
Note: All of the tapes will display as having a capacity of 799 GB in CommVault. This will
not affect the use of smaller tapes. Smaller tapes will still be managed properly.