Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on Symantec NetBackup to Use Virtual Synthetic Backup Dell Engineering February 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 Virtual Synthetic Backup on NetBackup (NBU). This document is a quick reference guide and does not include all DR Series system deployment best practices. See the DR Series Deduplication Appliance documentation other data management application best practices whitepapers for additional information.
1 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. 6 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. Enter a container name and select the connection type as RDA. Then select the RDA type as Symantec OpenStorage (OST). b. Click Create a New Container and confirm that the container was added.
2 Set up NetBackup for Virtual Synthetic Backup on a Windows or Linux client Note: Make sure that the Dell OST plugin is installed on the DMA client that is used for NetBackup (NBU) backup. 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 and click Next.
4. Under Storage server name, enter the DR Series system IP address or hostname. Under Storage server type, enter DELL. 5.
6. Make sure the storage server creation is successful and that authentication is fine. 7. 13 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 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. 21. On the Schedules tab, create three schedules: one for Full Backup, a second one for either Differential Incremental Backup or Cumulative Incremental Backup, and a third one for Full Backup with the Synthetic backup option enabled.
Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on Symantec NetBackup to Use Virtual Synthetic Backup | February 2014
22. 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.
. Make sure that the policy is created successfully. 25. Activate the policy before proceeding to backup. Right click the policy and click Activate.
3 Back up using NetBackup virtual synthetic backup 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. 26 Under Netbackup Management - > Policies, right click on the policy created in the previous procedure and select Manual Backup to run the backup manually.
3. 27 Run a manual Full Backup and check the status in the Activity Monitor. Double- click on the job to see the detailed status.
4. Run one or more configured Incremental backups to generate a set of backups that can make a synthetic full backup. 5. Then finally run a Full Backup with synthetic backup option enabled. 6. Confirm that the final full backup is synthesized.
7. 29 Throughput of final backup should be much faster as it synthesizes the full and incremental backups.
4 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.
