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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
98 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as a CIFS or VTL Backup Target on CommVault Simpana |
April 2015
11. Click Yes if you want to erase the media.
12. Watch the progress of the erase from the Job Controller tab.
13. Once the reconciliation process has been completed on the CommVault software.
From the DR initiate a cleaning cycle either via the UI or via the command line. For
example:
> maintenance --filesystem --reclaim_space
Successfully started cleaner.
14. Check to make sure the space has now been reclaimed via the UI or via the
command line. The Cleaner Status should transition from
Running
to
Pending
at
which time the statistics should change to reflect the reclaimed space. For
example:
> stats --system
Capacity Used : 22.0 GiB
Capacity Used in GB : 23.666
Capacity Free : 7970.4 GiB
Capacity Free in GB : 8558.199
Read Throughput : 0.00 MiB/s
Write Throughput : 0.00 MiB/s
Current Files : 66
Current Bytes : 33595753405
Post Dedupe Bytes : 24926224990
Post Compression Bytes : 22734553886
Post Encryption Bytes : 0
Post Encryption Bytes in GiB : 0.0 GiB
Compression Status : Done