Setting Up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance Disk Backup Appliance on CA ARCserve Dell Engineering January 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 Deduplication Appliance as a backup target for CA ARCserve R16. 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.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/04/Product/powervaultdr4100, under “Manuals & Documentation”.
1 Install and Configure the DR Series Deduplication Appliance 1. Rack and cable the DR Series Deduplication 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 in to iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.120, or the IP assigned to the iDRAC interface.
5. After 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 on to DR Series Deduplication Appliance administrator console, using the IP address you just provided for the DR Series Deduplication Appliance, with username administrator and password St0r@ge! (The “0” in the password is the numeral zero.). 9. Join the DR Series Deduplication Appliance to Active Directory. Note: if you do not want to add DR Series Deduplication Appliance to Active Directory, please see the DR Series Deduplication Appliance Owner’s Manual for guest login instructions.
• Enter your Active Directory credentials. Enter Active Directory Credentials 10. Create and mount the container. Select Containers in the tree on the left side of the dashboard, and then click the Create at the top of the page.
11. Enter a Container Name and select the Enable CIFS/NFS check box. Name the Container Select NFS or CIFS Enter Backup Server Info 12. Click Create a New Container. Confirm that the container is added.
13. Click Edit. Note down the container share/export path, which you will use later to target the DR Series Deduplication Appliance. 14. Click Cancel to exit.
2 Create Disk- Based Target Device on CA ARCserve 2.1 Procedure for the Windows Environment 1. 11 Open CA ARCserve Manager. In Navigation pane expand Administration, Click Device.
2. Select a Server - > Click Disk-Based Device 3. Select Windows File System Devices - >Enter a Device name, Description, DR container share path as Data File Location.
4. 2.1.4 Click on Security… Enter credentials of domain , click OK 5. 13 Click Finish.
2.2 Procedure for the Unix/Linux Environment Note: Make sure that you can mount/verify the NFS share from the UNIX/Linux client system. Please see Appendix A.1 for how to mount/verify the NFS share. The procedure for the Unix/Linux Environment is very similar to the procedure for the Windows Environment. The only difference is that DR container NFS export path is used instead of a UNC path, as described below, for Data File Location. For other details, please refer to 2.
3 Create a New Backup Job with DR Series Deduplication Appliance as the Target 1. 15 In the Navigation pane, click Quick start - > Backup. Then in right side panel, on Start tab, set Select backup types as Normal backup for both CIFS and NFS backup.
2. On Source tab, select backup source files. 3.
4. On Destination tab, select destination device that is created on DR. Click Submit. 5. 17 In Security and Agent Information window, choose an agent server, click OK.
6. Enter the backup Job Name, choose Job Execution Time, then click OK. 7. 18 When the backup job runs, check Job Queue display in Job Status window.
4 Set up DR Native Replication & Restore from Replication Target Note: Assume DR1 is the replication source DR appliance, and DR2 is the replication target DR appliance. ‘ARCsource’ is the replication source container, and ‘ARCtarget’ is the replication target container. 4.1 Create DR Native Replication Session 1. 19 Create a CIFS container 'ARCsource' on DR1; create a second CIFS container 'ARCtarget' on DR2.
2. 20 From DR1's GUI management interface, under Replication menu, click on Create. Set 'ARCsource' container as replication source, set DR2 'ARCtarget' container as replication target. Start the replication session, or make sure the replication session is Online. You can Stop and/or Delete the replication whenever it’s in INSYNC mode.
4.2 21 Restore from Replication Target 1. Restart ARCserve services. Go to Administration - > Device. Check and verify the target device. 2. Go to Quick Start - > Restore. Configure a restore job. Run the job to restore from the target device.
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 Deduplication, Compression and Performance After backup jobs have completed, the DR Series Deduplication Appliance tracks 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.
A Appendix A.1 Create a Storage Device for NFS For NFS backup using the CA ARCserve, a target folder needs to be created as NFS share directory. This is the location to which backup objects will be written. This is not required while adding CIFS share. 24 1. Mount the DR Series Deduplication Appliance NFS share onto the NFS share directory which backup objects will be written in the CA ARCserve. Check the NFS access path: 2.
