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    DR Series - Best Practice Guide Part 1: Setup, Replication and Networking Dell Data Protection Group
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide This document is for informational purposes only and may contain typographical errors and technical inaccuracies. The content is provided as is, without express or implied warranties of any kind. © 2016 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Dell and its affiliates cannot be
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide Contents Introduction ...4 DR Series Manuals ...4 Other DR Series Documentation...4 Case Studies ...5 System Setup ...5 Networking ...15 Supported Network Cards ...15 Network Interface Card Bonding ...16 Secure Network Separation...18 Troubleshooting ...39 Cleaner...39
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    to all DR series models including the DR Virtual appliance. Note, this guide is not a replacement for the administrator's guide. In most cases, this guide provides only a high level description of the problem and solution. Please refer to the administrator guide for the specific options and steps
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide Case Studies Monrif Group Durham Region Police Service Nissan DCIG - Dell Encryption and VTL for shelf/shelves and then connect it to the DR appliance. After connected to the appliance, power on the DR appliance and ensure the expansion license(s) are available or ready
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    Guide Password Reset The DR appliance has the ability to allow the administrator to reset the administrator password. To ensure security, administrators should setup password reset immediately. This ensures that in the future if the admin password backup the selected AD default, model of DR appliance
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide 4. Markers are set at the container level 5. OST quotas are set on a container into different containers Robert also has a VM infrastructure that he wishes to protect using Dell vRanger. This is in addition to his other DMA which is used to protect their physical servers.
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide Recommendation: Create a fifth container for vRanger data. This will allow the most flexibility in terms of locking down the NFS/CIFS share for vRanger, it also allows for the most flexibility in terms of replicating the data offsite in the future. 8
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    to connect to that container. Marker Support Many DMAs add metadata into the backup stream to enable them to find, on a container level and are set to auto by default. This allows all known detected markers to be stripped before problem, the proper marker should be set on containers from the start. 9
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    backup appliance. As always, the information provided below are guidelines and best practices and are meant to be supplemental to the information provided in the DR administration guide. Replication considerations  Different DR models 10MB TCP window by default. Contact support if this is needed to
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    Guide data that will be replicated. A common method is to view current backup jobs and log files to determine the amount of data being backed up https://code.google.com/p/iperf/). The following steps provide the command line instructions to calculate bandwidth: a. Run iperf -s -w 5M on a support 11
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    for this. In such instances please contact the Dell Support department, and they will assist in custom tuning the appliance, or many sources are replicating to a single target appliance, the backup window may be negatively impacted when backups occur during the replication process. If the backup
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    make sure it happens during non-business hours. Also, make sure to account for the backup window when the daily backups are being stored to the DR appliance. 2. In situations where the bandwidth of the impacted services is well known, the bandwidth available to the replication process can be reduced
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    via routing the backup, management, and replication traffic to separate network interfaces. The DR appliance also supports a multiple Series login screen. The list of supported network card configurations for each DR model can be found within the Dell DR Series System Interoperability Guide. 15
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    Guide Network Interface Card Bonding Network interface card (NIC) bonding provides additional throughput and/or failover functionality in the event a link is lost. The DR4100 supports selection support 802.3ad Dynamic link. Dynamic link aggregation Adaptive load balancing (Mode 6 or ALB), the default
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    . This is a result of ALB use of (ARP) which is subnet-specific and a router's inability to send ARP broadcast and updates. Adaptive load balancing By default, the DR4100 sets up bonding on its fastest interfaces. If the appliance is configured with NIC combo 3 (see Table 1) the 2x 10GB interfaces
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    between sites with dedicated interfaces Scenario 4: Multiple appliance replication Scenario 5: Backup to different IPs on a single DR appliance Traffic segmentation Segment Traffic Management GUI /Telnet/ SSH Replication Replication/OST & RDA Op-dupe Backup CIFS/NFS/RDA/OST/iSCSI/NDMP 18
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide Scenario 1: Leverage separate interfaces for management, replication and backup traffic Sarah, a network administrator, has an office located in Boston and another located in New York (See Figure 3). At each office she has a DR appliance and wishes to configure separate
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide Hardware configuration  DR1- 2x 1GB interfaces and bond0 as as bond0 members and free the 10GB interfaces for backup traffic. a) Perform a factory reset of the network and then reboot the appliance: network --factory_reset --auto_bonding_speed 1G system --reboot 20
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    Series Best Practice Guide Example administrator@DR1 > network --factory_reset --auto_bonding_speed 1G WARNING: This will stop all system operation and will reset the network configuration to factory settings and will require a system reboot. Existing configuration will be lost. Password required to
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide 3. Break bond0 to create the following configuration:  Bond0 with single 1GB interface to be used for management.  A single 1GB interface to be used for replication traffic.  A bonded 2x 10GB interface to be used for backup traffic. a) Delete eth1 from bond0 using
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    administrator@DR1 > system --mgmt_traffic --add --type Telnet --interface bond0 Successfully added application telnet. Restarting telnet service ... done. b) Dedicate bond1 to CIFS and NFS backup traffic using the following commands: system --backup_traffic --add --type < NFS|CIFS|OST|NDMP|ISCSI|RDS
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide Example administrator@DR1 > system --backup_traffic --add --type CIFS --interface bond1 WARNING: This operation requires replication between DR1 and DR2 by running the following CLI command: replication --add --name backup --role source --peer DR2-replication --peer_name
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide Example administrator@DR2 > replication --add --name backup --role source --peer DR2replication --peer_name backup-from-DR1 Enter password for administrator@DR2-replication: Replication entry created successfully. Replication Container : backup Replication Role
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    and OST traffic. He wants to use the 10GB interfaces for backup traffic only. Robert will need to do the following to accomplish his goals:  Verify that all interfaces are detected by the DR appliance.  Issue a factory reset with default bonding set to the 1GB interfaces. This will ensure that the
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide 1. Set bond0 to 1GB using the following command: network --factory_reset [-- . Factory reset will remove all application interface settings. Password required to proceed. Please enter the administrator password : administrator@DR1 > System --reboot 2. Use the
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide 3. Create a bond for the 2x 10GB interfaces using the following command: network DNS Update 10.250.xxx.x: IP already updated. 4. Use the instructions in Step # 4 in Scenario #1 to configure Management, Replication, and Backup OST traffic for the respective interfaces. 28
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    Guide Scenario 3: Replication between sites with dedicated interfaces Daniel has two sites, each with a DR appliance that he wishes to configure as a replication pair over dedicated links. Each DR appliance 3 topology In the default configuration of the DR, the default route for the system is
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide Note: The above is an example of a default route. The command above is not accessible to customers. In order for the two DRs to replicate over the dedicated links, static routes should be
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide network --create_eth --nwif --static --ip --netmask network --show Example administrator@DR2> network --create_eth --nwif eth2 --static --ip 172.20.21.2 -
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide Example administrator@DR1 > network --route --add --network 172.20.21.2 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 172.20.21.1 --interface eth2 administrator@DR1 > network --route --add --
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide Scenario 4: Multiple appliance replication Jose has one DR4100 appliance located at his Seattle site and two DR4100s located at his Lansing site. He wants to replicate data from his Seattle site (Seattle1) to his
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide 1. On Lansing1 create a bond on the 1GB ports using the following command: network --create_bond --bondif --static --nwif --mode --
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide 6. Establish replication from Seattle1 to Lansing1 using the following command: replication --add Example administrator@Seattle1 > replication --add --name backup --role source --peer --replication_traffic
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide Scenario 5: Backup to different IP's on a single DR appliance Michelle is in Los Angeles and has a Netbackup media server that she wishes to have backed up to her DR appliance via different IP addresses. Her appliance is running an older firmware and needs to be upgrade
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    DR Series Best Practice Guide 1. Upgrade the DR appliance to the latest 3.2 firmware. 2. After the upgrade, two additional 1 GB netmask 255.255.255.0 --name dr-cifs.local --restart Note: Bond0 will maintain the default name given to it at time of setup. 6. Use the following command to verify network
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    the interface's DNS name (dr-cifs.local). Note: If complete Netbackup setup and configurations steps are needed, refer to the following document: NetBackup Setup Guide. 2. Create a storage unit on the Media server with the UNC path to the DR's CIFS (or NFS if using an NFS Media server) container
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    Guide Troubleshooting Follow the steps bellow to troubleshoot connectivity problems between source and target DRs. a) Issue the following command to the target command to troubleshoot connectivity: replication -- troubleshoot telnet Cleaner The DR appliance cleaner is process that is
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    Other Resources Dell Support http://support.dell.com Dell TecCenter http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/ DR Series Best Practice Guide 40
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Dell Data Protection Group
DR Series - Best Practice Guide
Part 1: Setup, Replication and Networking