Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on Symantec NetBackup to Use Backup Acceleration Dell Engineering May 2014 A Dell Technical White Paper
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Executive summary This paper provides information about how to set up the Dell DR Series system to run backup acceleration on NetBackup (NBU). This document is a quick reference guide and does not include all DR Series system deployment best practices. For additional data management application (DMA) best practice whitepapers, see the DR Series system documentation at http://www.dell.com/support/Manuals/us/en/19/Product/powervault-dr4100.
1 5 Install and configure the DR Series system 1. Rack and cable the DR Series system and power it on. 2. Initialize the DR Series system. Refer to the Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide under the following topics: “iDRAC Connection,” “Logging in and Initializing the DR Series System,” and “Accessing iDRAC6/iDRAC7 Using RACADM”. 3. Log in to iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.120, or the IP that is assigned to the iDRAC interface. Use the user name and password of “root/calvin”. 4.
5. After the virtual console is open, log in to the system with the user administrator and the password St0r@ge! (the “0” in the password is the numeral zero). 6. Set the user-defined networking preferences. 7. View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct.
8. Log on to the DR Series system administrator console using the IP address you just provided for the DR Series system, the username administrator, and the password St0r@ge! (the “0” in the password is the numeral zero). 9. Join the DR Series system to Active Directory. Note: If you do not want to add the DR Series system to Active Directory, see the DR Series System Owner’s Manual for guest login instructions. a.
b. Enter your Active Directory credentials. 10. Create an OST container. Select Containers in the navigation panel on the left side of the dashboard, and then click the Create at the top of the page. a. 8 Enter a Container Name and select Connection Type as RDA, and then select RDA Type as Symantec OpenStorage (OST).
b. 9 Click Create a New Container and Confirm that the container is added.
2 Set up NBU for backup acceleration on Windows 2.1 Prerequisites 2.1.1 Install OST plugin Make sure that the Dell OST plugin is installed on the DMA client that is used for NBU backup. 2.1.2 Map external_robotics and external_types files To enable the backup accelerator for DELL DR4x00/DR6X00, the external_robotics.txt and external_types.txt files must be mapped. These instructions assume that NetBackup is installed at the default location of C:\Program Files\VERITAS\.
7. Verify that the version that is now stored in the Enterprise Media Manager database is the same as what is in the file stored on the media server: C:\Program Files\VERITAS\volmgr\bin\tpext -get_dev_mappings_ver 2.2 Procedure 1.
2. Right-click on Media and Device Management -> Credentials -> Storage Server. Click New. 3. In the Storage server configuration wizard dialog box, choose OpenStorage from the list. 4. Under Storage server name, enter the DR Series system IP address or hostname. Under Storage server type, enter DELL. In the Media server list, select the media server and enter the user name: backup_user, password: St0r@ge! 5.
6. 13 Make sure the storage server creation is successful and also authentication is fine.
7. Created storage server should be listed. 8. Right-click on Media and Device Management -> Devices -> Disk Pool. Click New. 9. In the Disk Pool Configuration Wizard dialog box, select OpenStorage (DELL) for Type.
10. In the Storage server list, select the DR storage server created in steps 1-6. 11. Select the OST container created in Section 1, which will be used for Backup.
12. Enter the Disk pool name.
13. Confirm that disk pool creation is successful.
14. Make sure the disk pool is listed. 15. Right click under Netbackup Management -> Storage -> Storage Unit. Click New Storage Unit.
16. In New Storage Unit, enter a Storage unit name, Storage unit type as Disk, Disk type as OpenStorage (DELL), Storage unit configured for as Backup. Select the disk pool that was created in steps 7-13, and select the media server that will be used for backup. 17. Make sure that the Storage Unit is listed after creation.
18. Right click under Netbackup Management -> Policies. Click New Policy. 19. Enter Policy name.
20. Enter policy attributes under Attributes tab: Policy type as MS-Windows (for Windows) or Standard (for Linux); Policy storage as the DR storage unit that was created in steps 14-16; enable Collect true image restore information and check with move detection, and check Use accelerator. 21. On the Schedules tab, create two schedules: one for Full Backup, the second one for either Differential Incremental Backup, or Cumulative Incremental Backup.
. On the Clients tab, select the client(s) from which data is backed up. 23. On the Backup Selection tab, provide the data set that needs to be backed up.
24. Make sure that the policy is created successfully. 25. Activate the policy before proceeding to backup: right click on the policy and click Activate.
3 Set up NetBackup for backup acceleration on Linux 3.1 Prerequisites 3.1.1 OST plugin Make sure that the Dell OST plugin is installed on the Linux DMA client that is used for NBU backup. 3.1.2 Map external_robotics and external_types files To enable the backup accelerator for DELL DR4x00/DR6X00, the external_robotics.txt and external_types.txt files must be mapped. These instructions assume that NetBackup is installed at the default location of /usr/openv/.
3.2 Procedure To create the storage server, disk pool, storage unit and policy, follow the same steps as in the previous topic for the Windows environment. (The policy type should be standard.
4 Back up using NBU backup acceleration 1. Before running backup, make sure which backup mode you want to use: Passthrough or Dedupe. This can be done by setting the RDA mode in the DR Series system command line interface (CLI). Note: You can schedule the backups or run them at a convenient time. This procedure uses a manual backup configuration.
2. 27 Under Netbackup Management -> Policies, right click on the policy created in the previous procedure and select Manual Backup to run the backup manually.
3. Run a manual Full Backup and check the status in the Activity Monitor. Double-click on the job to see the detailed status. 4. Check the Detailed Status tab and verify that the accelerator is enabled. 5. Run one or more configured Incremental Backups.
6. Check the Detailed Status tab of the job to verify that the accelerator is enabled. 7. 8. Run another full backup. Confirm that the backup is accelerator-enabled.
9. 30 Verify the summary of the job.
5 Duplicate the backup data to the OST replication target container Note: This procedure is the same for NetBackup (NBU) on a Windows or Linux host. 31 1. Create an OST container on the target DR Series system. 2. Repeat steps 1-16 in Section 2, or follow Section 3 for adding the container as a storage unit onto NetBackup (NBU). Verify that the storage unit was created successfully. 3. Look for the job that backs up to the source OST container with backup acceleration.
4. 32 Search for the backup job ID in the catalog.
Note: You can search for all jobs in a specific date and time range by going to Catalog, selecting Duplicate under Action, selecting appropriate dates and then clicking Search Now. 5. Right-click on the job Backup ID and click Duplicate. 6. Set appropriate values for Setup Duplication Variables. a. 33 Under Storage Unit, select the target OST container.
b. c. 7. If the Primary checkbox is selected, the duplicated data on the target becomes the primary copy, which means by default the restore and data verification is run on the target container. In this example, the flag is enabled so that data verification can be run on the target container. If the Primary checkbox is deselected, the data on the source container remains the primary copy and all of the restore and data verification jobs will run on the source container.
9. 35 Under Catalog, choose Action as Verify, Disk Type as OpenStorage(DELL), click Search Now and choose the job with backup acceleration. Right-click on it and click Verify.
Note: If data on the target container is set as Primary copy, the data verification will run on target container data. In this example, you can confirm this from the media ID @aaabx, which is the media ID of the target container. The media ID of the source container is @aaabv.
10. Check the verify job details. Note: Check which container verify job is running by using the media ID. In this example, the media ID @aaabx is for the target container ‘ost_t’.
6 Monitor deduplication, compression, and performance After backup jobs have run, the DR Series system tracks capacity, storage savings, and throughput on the DR Series system dashboard. This information is valuable in understanding the benefits of the DR Series system. Note: Deduplication ratios increase over time. It is not uncommon to see a 2-4x reduction (25-50% total savings) on the initial backup. As additional full backup jobs are completed, the ratios will increase.
