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Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker Dell Engineering January 2014 - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 2
to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and/or names or their products and are the property of their respective owners. Dell disclaims proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. 2 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 3
Session between Two DR Appliances 24 4.2 Restore from Replication Target Container ...28 5 Set up the DR Series Deduplication Appliance Cleaner...32 6 Monitoring Dedupe, Compression & Performance...33 3 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 4
for other data management application best practices whitepapers at http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/04/Product/powervaultdr4100, under "Manuals & Documentation". NOTE: The DR Series Deduplication Appliance/Networker build versions and screen shots used for this paper may - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 5
and initializing the appliance. 3. Log into iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.120, or the IP that is assigned to the iDRAC interface. Use user name root, and the password calvin. 4. Launch the virtual console. 5 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 6
user administrator and the password St0r@ge! (The "0" in the password is the numeral zero). 6. Set the user- defined networking preferences. 7. View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct. 6 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 7
do not want to add DR Series Deduplication Appliance to Active Directory, see the Owner's Manual for guest login instructions. a. Select Active Directory in the tree on the left hand side of the dashboard. 7 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 8
b. Enter your Active Directory credentials. 10. Create and mount the container. a. Select Containers in the tree on the left side of the dashboard, and then click the Create link at the top of the page. 8 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 9
be used in configuring device on Networker server), and select Enable NFS. For Client Access section, choose either Open Access, or manually add clients into the allow list with having NFS Options as "rw" 9 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 10
(Not all environments will have all components): − Backup console (Networker Server) − Network Storage Nodes − Networker Clients d. Click Create a New Container. e. Confirm that the container is added. 10 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 11
supported CIFS connections per Appliance is 32, and on DR6000 model the max is 64, so there should be no more than 32 and 64 corresponding clients connected/mapped to a single DR Series Deduplication Appliance for backup at the same time. 11 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 12
node that the DR Series Deduplication Appliance export will be configured as backup device, right- click on the host and select New, then select Managed Application 3. Select Networker and click on Next 12 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 13
4. Click on Finish 5. High- light the newly created Networker application, right- click on the application and select Launch Application 13 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 14
8. On next window, Select Device storage is remote from this Storage Node, in Network Path enter DR Series Deduplication Appliance export mount point on the storage node (if name resolution works, hostname or FQDN can be used in the server portion of the network path). Choose Manually enter local or - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 15
with password to access the DR Series Deduplication Appliance export. Click on Next 9. Set the sessions attributes according to Networker section Configure the Networker Storage Node). Click on Next 15 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 16
NOTE: On DR4x00 models, the maximum supported CIFS connections per Appliance is 32, and on DR6000 model the max is 64, so there should be no more than 32 and 64 corresponding clients connected/mapped to a single DR Series Deduplication Appliance for backup at the same time. 10. The new Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 17
12. Click on Finish 13. Under Configuration tab, select Clients, right- click on the client that will be backed up, select Client Backup Configuration, then New 17 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 18
14. Go through the procedure of creating a new backup group 18 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 19
managing the DR share (please refer to step 9 above in the same section, and step 5 in Configure the Networker Storage Node section). 19 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 20
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15. Once the backup group is successfully created, start the backup 22 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 23
16. Monitor the job status through Monitoring tab 23 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 24
below screenshots show as CIFS containers, but the procedure is exact the same for NFS containers 1. Create a source container on the source DR appliance 2. Create a target container on target DR appliance 24 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 25
3. On source DR appliance, go to Replication menu, and then click Create 4. Select the newly created container as source container, then enter the target DR related info in Step 4 menu item 25 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 26
5. Click Retrieve Container(s) button, then select the newly created target container from the list 6. Click Create Replication button 26 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 27
7. Verify the replication relation between DRs is created, and Peer Status is Online 27 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 28
necessary information for the target device). After it's done, Mount the device Note: Don't label the target device 2. Unmount the source container 28 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 29
3. Go to Recover, click +, select a backup source host, then click Next 4. Select the data set to recover, click Versions to view Select Versions window, make selection on the data then click on OK 29 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 30
5. Select the Recovery Options, choose Original path or enter a New destination path to recover data to, then click Next 6. Specify a Recover name, then click Run Recovery 30 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 31
7. Check the Recovery Results 31 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 32
has completed. Performing scheduled disk space reclamation operations are recommended as a method for recovering disk space from system containers in which files were deleted as a result of deduplication. 32 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker - Dell DR4300 | EMC Networker - Setting Up the DR Series System as a NFS Backup Ta - Page 33
25- 50% total savings) on the initial backup. As additional full backup jobs complete the ratios will increase. As mentioned before backup jobs with 12 week retention will average a 15x ratio in most cases. 33 Setting up Dell™ DR Series Deduplication Appliance as NFS Backup Target on EMC Networker
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Dell Engineering
January 2014