Setting Up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as Backup Target on CommVault SimpanaTM 10 Dell Engineering January 2014 A Dell Technical White Paper
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Table of Contents 3 1 Install and Configure the DR Series Deduplication Appliance........................................................................................... 5 2 Set up CommVault Simpana 10 ............................................................................................................................................ 13 2.1 Single System Environment (DR as CIFS Disk Library) ............................................................................................ 13 2.
Executive summary This paper provides information about how to set up the Dell DR Series Deduplication Appliance as a Backup device for CommVault Simpana 10. 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.
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.
Setting Up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as Backup Target on CommVault SimpanaTM 10 | January 2014
11. Enter a Container Name, select the 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. High- light the container and click Edit. Note down the container share/export path, which will be used later as the Disk Library for CommVault Simpana.
15. Click Cancel to exit.
2 Set up CommVault Simpana 10 2.1 Single System Environment (DR as CIFS Disk Library) 1. Open Simpana Administrative Console, expand Storage Resources, right- click on Libraries, select Add – > DiskLibrary… 2. In Add Disk Library window, enter the name for the Disk Library and the information of DR container, and Click OK.
3. Confirm that the library is created, its status is Ready. 4.
2.2 Single System Environment (DR as NFS Disk Library) 1. Mount DR container NFS export onto Unix/Linux Media Agent. Create a new directory Mount DR NFS Share 2.
3. In Add Disk Library window, enter the name for Disk Library and mount path of DR container export, and Click OK. Name the library Enter the mount path 4. Confirm that the library is created, its Status is Ready.
2.3 Replicated System Environment NOTE: The replicated system environment includes minimum of 2 DR systems that are connected to 2 different Media Agents. CommVault manages data replication between the replication pair. For more details, please refer to CommVault books online : http://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/release_10_0_0/books_online_1/english_us/prod_in fo/flr.htm 1. On CommCell Console, click Storage then Library and Drive. 2.
3. Click OK to continue. 4. Click Shared Disk Device tab. 5.
6. In Add Sharing Folder dialog box, enter source DR container share/export information and then Click OK. Select the name of MediaAgent accessing this mount path Linux MediaAgent can only select local path Windows MediaAgent can select both local and network path Note: This Device is replication source. Device information is based on which protocol the container is exposed to the MediaAgents.
7. The system displays the device information with the MediaAgent that can access the device in Library and Drive Configuration window. 8.
9. In Add Sharing Folder dialog box, enter target DR container share/export information and then Click OK. Select the name of MediaAgent accessing this mount path Linux MediaAgent can only select local path Windows MediaAgent can select both local and network path Note: This Device is the destination of replication. Device information is based on which protocol the container is exposed to the MediaAgents.
10. The system displays the device information with which MediaAgent can access the device in Library and Drive Configuration window. 11. From Libraries tab, click Start menu, select Add - > Replica Disk Library.
12. In the Add Disk Library dialog box, enter Alias and check Enable replication checkbox. Name of the disk library Unselected to use DR replication/selected to use CV replication NOTE: Enable Replication: 23 • For Disk Library Replication solution, select this option to use ContinuousDataReplicator to replicate data between the source (shared folder added in Step 7) and the destination (shared folder added in Step 10) mount paths.
13. In Share Mount Path dialog box, select the device configured in step 5- 10, which has two sharing folders on both the replication source an replication target, and then click OK: Select the disk device that you wish to associate as the mount path 14. Verify the disk Library is configured.
2.4 Use Continuous Data Replicator to replicate client data to a DR container NOTE: ContinuousDataReplicator (CDR) replicates data from a source computer to a destination computer, with both computers support same network transfer protocol. In this configuration, CDR replicates between a client and a DR container. CDR package should be installed on both media agents associated with this configuration. For more details, please refer to Commvault books online : http://documentation.commvault.
2. In Create New Replication Set window, Enter Name for the Replication Set, select Destination Host from dropdown list. That’s the client machine that has DR container mounted (CIFS or NFS). Click OK. 3.
5. In Common Base Folder, enter the path pointing to DR container share/export, Click Add- > select the Destination Path. Click Close. Destination Paths :NFS mounted path/CIFS path 6. Right click on the managed pairs under the replication set. Choose Start/Start Full Resync. Monitor the State.
2.5 28 Create backup job with DR Series Deduplication Appliance as the target 1. Expand the client to be backed up, right- click the target iDataAgent, select All Tasks – > Create New Backup Set 2. Enter New Backup Set Name.
3. Set appropriate Backup Schedule 4.
5. 30 Enter Subclient name on General tab.
6. Select Storage Device tab, click Create Storage Policy 31 7.
• Enter Storage Policy Name • Select the DR disk library created in Section 2 as default library • Select MediaAgent Setting Up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as Backup Target on CommVault SimpanaTM 10 | January 2014
• Enter Number of Device Streams and retention policy Max is 32. If each client can write backup data close to 100MB/s, this number can be set as 5 for current DR firmwersions.
8. Disable Software Compression under Storage Device - > Data Transfer Option 9.
10. Under Content tab, select data for backup by clicking Browse. 11.
12. Make selection under Select Backup Type and Click OK. 13.
3 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 described in the screenshot to force the cleaner to run. Once all the backup jobs are setup the DR4x00 cleaner can be scheduled.
4 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.
