Installing Dell DR6000 Rapid CIFS and Rapid NFS on Windows and Linux Client Machines Dell Engineering January 2014 A Dell Technical White Paper
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Executive summary This paper provides information about installation of Dell DR6000 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 at http://www.dell.com/support/Manuals/us/en/19/Product/powervault-dr4100.
1 Installing Rapid CIFS (RDCIFS) 1.1 Prerequisites • • • 1.2 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. Only DR6000 supports the CIFS accelerator (RDCIFS). Steps for installing Rapid CIFS 1. 5 Download the MSI to the client box using the following steps: a. On the client Windows machine, launch the DR Series system GUI management interface through a web browser. b.
2. Run the MSI and follow the instructions. .
Installing Dell DR6000 Rapid CIFS and Rapid NFS on Windows and Linux Client Machines | January 2014
3. Verify that the “rdcifsfd” driver is loaded using the command fltmc. 1.3 Features of Rapid CIFS 1.3.
1.3.2 View Rapid CIFS status while running a backup job on the DMA 1.3.
1.3.4 View the version of Rapid CIFS 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. Only DR6000 supports Rapid NFS (RDNFS). 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 Steps for installing Rapid NFS 1.
2. On the NFS client machine, assuming that the current working directory has the installation package named DellRapidNFS-3.0.0101.1-centos5.7-x86_64.bin.gz, run the following commands in order: • gunzip ./ DellRapidNFS-3.0.0101.1-centos5.7-x86_64.bin.gz • chmod a+x ./DellRapidNFS-3.0.0101.1-centos5.7-x86_64.bin • Run the installer ./DellRapidNFS-3.0.0101.1-centos5.7-x86_64.
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. • ./DellRapidNFS-3.0.0101.1-centos5.7-x86_64.
