Installing Dell DR Series System Rapid CIFS and Rapid NFS on Windows and Linux Client Machines Dell Engineering September 2015 A Dell Technical White Paper
Revisions Date Description January 2014 Initial release July 2015 Updated to support all DR Series systems September 2015 Updated locations for downloading the Dell Rapid plugins as well as updated prerequisites for Linux. THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. © 2015 Dell Inc. All rights reserved.
Table of contents Executive summary .............................................................................................................................................................................. 4 1 Installing Rapid CIFS (RD CIFS) ....................................................................................................................................................5 1.1 Prerequisites ...............................................................................................
Executive summary This document provides information about installing Dell DR Series system CIFS and NFS protocol accelerators (called Rapid CIFS and Rapid NFS, respectively) on Windows and/or Linux client machines. This paper 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 by selecting your specific product at: http://dell.
1 Installing Rapid CIFS (RD CIFS) 1.1 Prerequisites The client OS must be the 64-bit version of Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 2012. The DR container share must be mapped on the client machine. NOTE: For the accelerator to work properly, the backup traffic must go over CIFS directly to the DR Series system and not pass through a media server. If that is the case, you should install the RD CIFS on the media server. 1.2 Steps for installing Rapid CIFS 1.
Installing Dell DR Series System Rapid CIFS and Rapid NFS on Windows and Linux Client Machines | September 2015
3. Verify that the “rdcifsfd” driver is loaded using the command fltmc.
1.3 Features of Rapid CIFS 1.3.1 Load and unload Rapid CIFS 1.3.
1.3.3 View the log of Rapid CIFS 1.3.
1.3.5 View the policy setting for Rapid CIFS Note: These settings should not be changed, unless requested by the DR Engineering team.
1.4 Uninstalling Rapid CIFS Open Programs and Features, select CIFS accelerator, and then click Uninstall.
2 Installing Rapid NFS (RDNFS) 2.1 Prerequisites The client OS must be the 64-bit version of CentOS or SUSE. The FUSE module should already be installed, as follows: On NFS client machine, run the command below and verify the command output: # rpm -qa | grep fuse fuse-2.8.3-4.el6.x86_64 gvfs-fuse-1.4.3-15.el6.x86_64 fuse-libs-2.8.3-4.el6.x86_64 2.2 The plug-in must be installed on the designated Linux-based media server in the following directory, /usr/openv/lib/.
2.3 Features of Rapid NFS 2.3.
2.3.2 View Rapid NFS stats 2.3.
2.3.4 View the Rapid NFS version 2.4 Uninstalling Rapid NFS Run the installer with the uninstall option. 15 ./DellRapidNFS-3.0.0101.1-centos5.7-x86_64.
