Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance on Dell vRanger Pro 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 vRanger Pro Backup & Replication software. 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 other data management application best practices whitepapers for additional information.
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 that is 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.). 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. 9. Join the DR into Active Directory domain.
• Enter your Active Directory credentials. Enter Active Directory Info 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, select Enable CIFS or Enable NFS check box. Symantec NetBackup supports both CIFS and NFS protocols. Name the container Select CIFS or NFS Enter Backup Server Info 12. Select the preferred client access credentials.
13. Click Create a New Container. Confirm that the container is added. 14. Click Edit. Note down the container share/export path, which you will use later to target the DR Series Deduplication Appliance.
15. Click Cancel to exit. NOTE: For NFS backup using vRanger, a target folder needs to be created under NFS share directory. This is a sub- directory of the DR container NFS Export directory. This is the location to which savepoints will be written. This is not required while adding CIFS share. Mount the NFS share onto any of the NFS clients available in the environment. Create a directory using mkdir command inside the mounted directory.
2 Set up vRanger NOTES: • To maximize the DR Series Deduplication Appliance- vRanger storage capacity savings, it is highly recommend following the exact below setup settings. • The backup formats differ completely when setup settings are changed. Hence, all savings on vRanger installations that had settings changed in between are null and void. 1. 12 For backing up virtual machines, open vRanger Backup & Replication Console.
• Adding ESX host • Adding Virtual Center Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance on VRanger Pro
2. For backing up physical machines, go to My Inventory - > Physical - > Add Select ‘Install Physical Client on machine?’ flag. By default Physical client is installed on the physical machine at ‘c:\programs Files\Quest Software\’. 3. • Mapping CIFS/NFS share to vRanger. vRanger supports both CIFS and NFS protocols. Mapping CIFS share : My Repository - > Add - > Windows Share (CIFS) - > Enter required details and then OK.
NOTE : While creating repository (CIFS/NFS), for better savings DO NOT enable encryption. • Mapping NFS export : My Repository - > Add - > NFS - > Enter required Credentials - > OK NOTE : In ‘Export Directory’ just mention export directory and not the whole share path [i.e should not provide IP/hostname of DR Series Deduplication Appliance]. And in ‘Target directory’ just mention the target directory name which was created under share directory [Mentioned above in chapter 2 ]. 4.
5. Selecting a Virtual or Physical machine for backup 6. This opens the Backup Wizard. Select Included Hard Disks in Virtual Machine Hard Disk Inclusion. Then click Next to get to Repository Selection. Select the repository to which the machine is to be backed up.
7. Select the appropriate Transport type according to the set up. If not sure, select ‘Automatic Transport Selection’ 8.
• For Physical Machine NOTE: Always Disable ‘Check destination for free space’ as DR Series Deduplication Appliance supports deduplication and so overall space occupied is lesser. Always enable ABM (Active Block Mapping) for better overall results from both vRanger and DR. vRanger recommends to Enable ‘Guest quiescing’ on VM backups, in case of backing up a database (Eg : Exchange server). Disable ‘compress backed up files’ for better savings.
9. Retention Policy Selection: Define the type of backup as Full/Incremental/Differential, set Retention Policy. 10. Schedule the backup and then provide mail server details for sending mail. 11. Verify backup Summary page. Click Finish.
3 DR Native Replication Setup & Restore from Target Container 3.1 Build Replication Relationship between DRs 1. Create a source container on source DR 2.
3. On source DR, go to Replication page, and then click Create 4.
5. Click Retrieve Containers, then select the target container on the list 6.
7. Verify the replication relation between DRs is created. NOTE: Make sure the replication session has Peer Status as Online. If restore from replication target is needed, Make sure the replication is in INSYNC state from Replication Statistics menu, and Stop or Delete the replication. Make sure the replication target has CIFS/NFS connection(s) enabled when restoring from it.
3.2 Restore data from target DR 8. Add the target DR container into vRanger repository. Follow the same steps as described under Section 2 in Step#3. 9. Create a restore job from this target container. Go to My Repositories, select the container repository. In the Working Repository pane click to select a savepoint to restore. Click the Restore icon on the toolbar, or right- click the savepoint and click Restore. 10. Monitor the job and verify it completes successfully.
4 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.
5 Monitoring Dedupe, Compression & Performance After backup jobs have run the DR Series Deduplication Appliance will track 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 (2550% total savings) on the initial backup.
