Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on BridgeHead® Healthcare Data Management Dell Engineering April 2015 A Dell Technical White Paper
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Table of contents Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 3 1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ....................................................................................................................... 5 2 Setting up BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management.................................................................
Executive summary This paper provides information about how to set up the Dell DR Series system as a backup to disk target for BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management (HDM) 12B. For additional information, see the DR Series system documentation and other data management application best practices whitepapers for your specific DR Series system at: http://www.dell.
1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system 1. Rack and cable the DR Series system, and power it on. 2. Initialize the DR Series system. NOTE: For instructions on initializing the systm, see the Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide topics: “iDRAC Connection”, “Logging in and Initializing the DR Series System”, and “Accessing IDRAC6/Idrac7 Using RACADM.” 3. Log on to iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.
5. After the virtual console is open, log on to the system (with the username: administrator and password: St0r@ge! where the “0” in the password is the numeral zero). 6. Set the user-defined networking preferences as needed. 7. 6 View the summary of preferences and confirm that the settings are correct.
8. Log on to the DR Series system administrator console using the IP address you just provided for the DR Series system (with the username administrator and password St0r@ge! where the “0” in the password is the numeral zero). 9. Join the DR Series system to Active Directory by completing the following steps. NOTE: If you do not want to add the DR Series system to Active Directory, please see the DR Series System Owner’s Manual for guest logon instructions. a.
b. Enter your Active Directory credentials. 10. Create and mount the container by completing the following steps: a. In the left navigation area of the GUI, click Storage > Containers, and then click Create at the top of the page.
b. In the first page of the Container wizard, enter a Container Name, and click Next. c. Select the Storage access protocol, and then click Next. d. Select the CIFS or NFS check box to enable the appropriate access protocol (BridgeHead HDM supports both CIFS and NFS protocols.) e. Select the Marker type, and then click Next.
f. For NFS, select the preferred client access credentials, and click Next. g. For CIFS, select the preferred client access credentials, and click Next.
Note: For improved security, Dell recommends adding IP addresses for the backup console (BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management Server, BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management Clients). Not all environments will have all components. h. Check the configuration summary, and then click Create a New Container.
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2 Setting up BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management 2.1 For Windows environments 1. Open the BridgeHead HDM Management Console, click Backup Node > Configuration, and then double-click the Configuration File to open it (in a text editor). 2. In the configuration file, search for “Staging_Area,” and then enter the following information for the staging area entries: Staging Area Path - Enter the DR container share UNC path. Staging Area Name - Enter a name for the staging area.
3. Save the configuration file. Note: The Backup Node for BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management requires appropriate permissions to the DR Series system CIFS Share for the remaining steps to complete successfully. See Appendix A for setting up the BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management Backup Node account correctly. This should be done before proceeding to the next step.
2.2 For Unix/Linux environments The procedure for setting up the Unix/Linux environment is similar to the procedure for the Windows environment. One difference is that the configuration file for the Backup Node is named, ht_media.def; and the default location for the file is /etc/ht_media.def. Make sure that you can mount/verify the NFS share from the UNIX/Linux backup node. Refer to Appendix B for information on how to mount/verify the NFS share.
3 Creating a new backup job with a DR Series system as the target 1. In the BridgeHead HDM Management Console, click Control Node > Schedule Manager, and then double-click the Schedule Manager to open it. 2. In the Create Schedule dialog box, select the option, Template schedules contain suitable defaults for various job types, and then click OK.
3. In the Template Schedules dialog box, click None, and then click OK. 4. In the Schedule Manager dialog box, enter information for the required fields, and, then under Media Management, select Media Manager, and click New.
5. In the General dialog box, in the Media Management drop-down list, select Disk, and then click Advanced. 6. In the Run Dates dialog box, specify the required schedule options, and then click Next.
7. In the Media Properties dialog box, enter the following information, and then click Finish: Stage Area Name – Enter the stage area name. Application - Enter BACKUP. 8. In the Schedule Manager dialog box, click OK.
9. In the BridgeHead HDM Management Console, click Control Node > Object Manager, and then double-click the Object Manager to open it. 10. In the Create Object dialog box, select the option, Template objects contain default settings for particular tasks such as platform or database backups, storage policy application or reporting, and then click Next.
11. In the template list, click WIN and then click Next. 12. Enter the required credentials information for the service node, including the valid file path of the backup data source, and then click Next.
13. Enter the required user information for the Backup Node, and then click Add/Edit password(s). 14. Enter the password information for the Backup Node, and then click OK.
15. Click Next. (See Appendix A for information about the user and password information.) 16. For mail configuration, accept the default, and then click Next.
17. Select Mail Recipients, and then click Next. 18. Select the Schedule, and then click Next.
19. For start times, accept the defaults, and click Next. . 20. For queue names, accept the defaults, and click Next.
21. Enter the name of the object to create, and then click Finish. 22. In the Object column, right-click the object and then click Save or Run to run the backup.
23. In the Save or Run Operation dialog box, click Start On-Line to start the backup. 24. Ensure the backup is successful. The Object Manager Operation Log window displays the progress of the backup session. Operation status shows details of the backup job.
4 Setting up DR Series native replication and restore from the replication target container 4.1 Build the replication relationship between DR Series systems 1. On the source DR, in the GUI, click Storage > Replication, and then click Create. 2. In the Create Replication dialog box, do the following: a. Select a local container as the source container. b. Click Container from remote system, enter the target DR Series system information, and then click Retrieve Remote Containers, c.
3. Verify that the replication is created successfully 4. Ensure that the Status checkbox is marked for the replication session.
4.2 Back up to the source DR Series system (Optional: When no backed up data exists on source container) 1. Add both the source DR Series system and target DR Series system as the Stage Area in BridgeHead HDM, and then create a new backup job with the source DR Series system as the target. 2. Ensure the backup is successful and close the Object Manager Operation Log dialog box.
3. Click Configuration of Backup Node, and then double-click the configuration file to open it.
4. Modify the Stage Path to point to the target DR Series system container path, and then save the changes. 5. Go to Backup Node > Service Manager, and then restart the Backup Node Service.
4.3 Restore from the replication target 1. In the BridgeHead HDM Management Console, open the Object Manager, and in the list of objects, right-click the object, and click Restore. 2. Select the Saveset, and then click Start On-Line.
3. Verify that the restore job completes successfully.
5 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner Performing scheduled disk space reclamation operations is recommended as a method for recovering disk space from system containers in which files were deleted as a result of deduplication. The system cleaner runs during idle time. If your workflow does not have a sufficient amount of idle time on a daily basis, then you should consider scheduling the cleaner to force it to run during a scheduled time.
6 Monitoring 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.
A Creating a storage device for CIFS There are two scenarios for BridgeHead HDM to authenticate to a DR Series system through CIFS. 1. DR is joined into an Active Directory Domain: Integrate BridgeHead HDM and DR Series system with Active Directory a. Ensure the Active Directory user has appropriate ACLs to the DR Series system container share. b. When creating an object, set the Backup Node of BridgeHead HDM to run with this AD user . 2.
B Creating a storage device for NFS For NFS backup using the BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management platform, a target folder needs to be created as an NFS share directory. This is the location to which backup objects will be written. (This is not required when adding a CIFS share.) 1. Mount the DR Series system NFS share on the NFS share directory to which backup objects will be written in the BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management environment. 2. Verify the NFS share.
