Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker Dell Engineering January 2014
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Executive Summary This paper provides information about how to set up the Dell DR Series Deduplication Appliance as a backup target for EMC Networker™ software. This paper is a quick reference guide and does not include all DR Series Deduplication Appliance deployment best practices. See the DR Series Deduplication Appliance documentation for other data management application best practices whitepapers at http://www.dell.
1 Install and Configure the DR Series Deduplication Appliance 1. Rack and cable the DR Series Deduplication Appliance appliance, and power it on. 2. Please refer to Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide, under sections of “iDRAC Connection”, “Logging in and Initializing the DR Series System”, and “Accessing IDRAC6/Idrac7 Using RACADM” for using iDRAC connection and initializing the appliance. 3. Log into iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.
5. Once the virtual console is open, log in to the system as user administrator and the password St0r@ge! (The “0” in the password is the numeral zero). 6. Set the user- defined networking preferences. 7. 6 View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct.
8. Log into the DR Series Deduplication Appliance administrator console, using the IP address you just provided for the DR Series Deduplication Appliance, user administrator and the password St0r@ge! (The “0” in the password is the numeral zero). 9. (Optional) Join the DR Series Deduplication Appliance to Active Directory - - - only when the DR is also providing CIFS access to backup servers.
b. Enter your Active Directory credentials. 10. Create and mount the container. a. Select Containers in the tree on the left side of the dashboard, and then click the Create link at the top of the page.
b. Enter a Container Name, select Networker as Marker Type, and select the NFS/CIFS check box for Connection Type. c. 9 Under NFS section, note down the NFS access path (this will be used in configuring device on Networker server), and select Enable NFS.
Note: For improved security, Dell recommends adding IP addresses for the following (Not all environments will have all components): − Backup console (Networker Server) − Network Storage Nodes − Networker Clients d. Click Create a New Container. e. Confirm that the container is added.
2 Configure the Networker Storage Node 1. Log into the networker storage node and run the command as shown, to display the NFS exports on DR Series Deduplication Appliance 2. Make a mount point on the Networker Storage Node and mount the DR Series Deduplication Appliance export 3. Test writing to the DR Series Deduplication Appliance export, make sure it completes successfully 4.
3 12 Set up Networker 1. Open the Networker Management Console (NMC) 2. Click the Enterprise menu button, high- light the storage node that the DR Series Deduplication Appliance export will be configured as backup device, right- click on the host and select New, then select Managed Application 3.
4. Click on Finish 5.
6. A new Devices window will open. On left side panel right- click on Device, select New Device Wizard 7. Select Advanced File Type Device (AFTD) 8. On next window, Select Device storage is remote from this Storage Node, in Network Path enter DR Series Deduplication Appliance export mount point on the storage node (if name resolution works, hostname or FQDN can be used in the server portion of the network path).
with password to access the DR Series Deduplication Appliance export. Click on Next 9. Set the sessions attributes according to Networker administration document. If Client Direct feature will be used, enter each of the client machine DR export mount points as a separate line into the Client Direct Paths list (Please refer to step 5 of last section Configure the Networker Storage Node).
NOTE: On DR4x00 models, the maximum supported CIFS connections per Appliance is 32, and on DR6000 model the max is 64, so there should be no more than 32 and 64 corresponding clients connected/mapped to a single DR Series Deduplication Appliance for backup at the same time. 10. The new Networker device should have Backup as Pool Type, click Next 11.
12. Click on Finish 13.
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Note: Pay special attention to the following step while setting the other options appropriately according to the backup environment: Deduplication should be set as None; Target Pool should be set as the pool that has DR Series Deduplication Appliance device included; Client Direct can be enabled if client directly backing up data to DR is preferred, thus bypassing the storage node managing the DR share (please refer to step 9 above in the same section, and step 5 in Configure the Networker Storage Node sect
Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker
Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker
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4 Set up DR Native Replication & Restore from Replication Target 4.1 Create Replication Session between Two DR Appliances Note: below screenshots show as CIFS containers, but the procedure is exact the same for NFS containers 24 1. Create a source container on the source DR appliance 2.
3. On source DR appliance, go to Replication menu, and then click Create 4.
5. Click Retrieve Container(s) button, then select the newly created target container from the list 6.
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4.2 Restore from Replication Target Container 1. Add the target container onto NetWorker Storage Node (Right- Click Device - > New Device Properties, then fill in necessary information for the target device). After it’s done, Mount the device Note: Don’t label the target device 2.
3. Go to Recover, click +, select a backup source host, then click Next 4.
5. Select the Recovery Options, choose Original path or enter a New destination path to recover data to, then click Next 6.
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5 Set up the DR Series Deduplication Appliance Cleaner The cleaner will run during idle time. If you workflow does not have a sufficient amount of idle time on a daily basis then you should consider scheduling the cleaner which will force it to run during that scheduled time. If necessary you can do the following procedure as described in the screenshot to force the cleaner to run. Once all the backup jobs are setup, the DR Series Deduplication Appliance cleaner can be scheduled.
6 Monitoring Dedupe, Compression & Performance After backup jobs have run the DR Series Deduplication Appliance will track Capacity, Storage Savings and Throughput on the DR Series Deduplication Appliance dashboard. This information is valuable in understanding the benefits the DR Series Deduplication Appliance. NOTE: Deduplication ratios increase over time, it is not uncommon to see a 2- 4x reduction (25- 50% total savings) on the initial backup.
