Users Guide

Roadmap for configuring the Core
Configuration includes tasks such as creating and configuring the repository for storing backup snapshots, defining encryption
keys for securing protected data, and setting up alerts and notifications. After you complete the configuration of the Core, you
can then protect agents and perform recovery.
Configuring the Core involves understanding certain concepts and performing the following initial operations:
● Create a repository
● Configure encryption keys
● Configure event notification
● Configure retention policy
● Configure SQL attachability
Repositories
This section describes how to work with repositories. It discusses the deduplication volume manager repository and describes its
features and attributes. It describes types of deduplication used in Rapid Recovery, and how deduplication is used throughout
the application. Then this section describes how to manage DVM repositories, including creating a repository, viewing and
editing its details, and deleting a repository. You can learn how to open a repository from one Core on another Core. Finally, this
section describes how to migrate recovery points manually from one repository to another.
Managing a DVM repository
Before you can use Rapid Recovery, you need to set up one or more repositories on the Rapid Recovery Core. A repository
stores your protected data; more specifically, it stores the snapshots that are captured from the protected machines in your
environment.
Managing a DVM repository involves the following operations:
1. Creating a DVM repository. Before creating a repository, consider the appropriate technology type.
For information about repositories, see Understanding repositories on page 14.
For information about creating a DVM repository, see Creating a DVM repository on page 60.
2. Adding a new storage location. For more information on adding a new storage location to a DVM repository, see Adding a
storage location to an existing DVM repository on page 64.
3. Modifying repository settings. For more information about modifying repository settings for a repository, see Viewing or
modifying repository details on page 64
4. Checking a repository. For more information about checking a DVM repository, see Checking a repository on page 67.
5. Performing a repository optimization job. For more information about the repository optimization job, see About the
Repository Optimization Job on page 67. For steps to optimize an existing DVM repository, see Optimizing a DVM
repository on page 68.
6. Deleting a repository. For more information about deleting a repository, see Deleting a repository on page 70.
Creating a DVM repository
This process describes how to create a repository on your Core using the Deduplication Volume Manager (DVM) repository
technology.
● You must have administrative access to the machine on which you want to create a DVM repository.
● This repository type requires a minimum of 150GB of storage space available on the volume you define as the storage
location.
● The storage location for a DVM repository must be on a local drive attached to the Core server.
● The Core server can be any DL series appliance (including the DL1000) or can be any software-based Windows server
meeting system requirements.
NOTE:
It is recommended to create the repository through Appliance tab. For more information, see Provisioning storage
on page 110 section.
Complete the following steps to create a DVM repository.
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Working with the DL Appliance Core