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Table of contents Executive summary .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Prerequisites & Assumptions.............................................................................
Executive summary Data backup and recovery solutions continue to challenge IT administrators. Traditional data backup and recovery technologies are limited in ability to protect both physical and virtual hybrid environments and struggle to cost effectively meet the demands of data growth.
Introduction This whitepaper provides guidance for implementing a DL4000 in fibre channel storage environments. The DL4000 high-capacity edition offers a fibre channel HBA storage option allowing for creation of repositories using fibre channel storage arrays. Once integrated, the DL4000 protects servers, applications and its data over the LAN in a highly efficient manner utilizing the AppAssure backup and recovery engine.
Technical Resources The following table shows additional documentation available for reference.
3. Install the Fibre Channel Storage Array Multi-Path Software on the DL4000 The MD3600f provides a DSM for the DL4000 MPIO driver. This DSM gives the DL4000 storage array specific information needed to optimize connectivity such as IO-path load balancing and failover. To load the MD3600f DSM on the DL4000: 1. Insert the PowerVault MD series resource media and install the MDSM software. 2. Select to install the Host Core software on the DL4000.
2. Within the console, select Port 1 and Port 2 and inventory their port WWNs. QLogic 2562 HBA Port 1 Port 2 21-00-00-24-FF-59-e9-1C 21-00-00-24-FF-59-E9-1D Identify and document the WWN’s of the MD3600f storage array. The MD3600f has four fibre channel ports on both controller-1 and controller-2. 3. Within MSDM, select the Summary Tab, then select View Storage array Profile. Select the Hardware tab, then the RAID Controller Modules sub-tab. Scroll down and catalog the port WWNs of each controller.
4b. Zone the fibre channel fabric to allow the DL4000 to access the storage array Zoning logically partitions a fibre channel SAN fabric such that devices can access each other. There are many methods and approaches to zoning, thus consult your SAN administrator for zoning practices used in your environment. The following steps describe single initiator and target zoning using a Brocade 6505 fibre channel switch. A zone created in this example use port WWN’s to allow the DL4000 to access only the MD3600f.
4. Add the 4 newly created zones into a Brocade zone configuration and enable it. 5. 10 i. Select the Zone Config tab. ii. Select New Zone Config and enter a zone configuration name. ‘DL_MD3000config’ was used in this example. iii. Highlight the four zones created in step-3, then press the arrow key to add them in the Zone Config Members list. iv. Save the new zone configuration by selecting Save Config. v. Enable the zone configuration by selecting Enable Config.
5. Create a Fibre Channel LUN to be assigned and used as a DL4000 repository NOTES: The DL4000 high-capacity edition capacity points are 20, 40, 60 and 80TB. Create your fibre channel storage capacities according to your licensed capacity point. Configure the SAN storage using appropriate number of disk, speed and raid and to support the recommended sustained throughput for your environment.
1. Open up the MDSM storage management tool to configure the SAN storage. 2. Select ‘Create Storage’ to create a LUN or configure Disk Pools or Disk Groups. 12 i. Select Yes for the recommended configuration. ii. Select No within the Virtual Disk Automatic Configuration window. iii. Create a virtual disk. Select the Storage & Copy Services tab -> right click Free Capacity -> Create Virtual Disk.
3. Define the capacity for the DL4000 repository and name the LUN. Do not create a thin virtual disk. 4. Assign the newly created LUN to the DL4000: i. Select the Host Mappings tab -> Right click the newly created LUN -> then select Add LUN Mapping. 13 Document Classification (for non-Titus systems) | DL4XXX - Fibre Channel Implementation | Document numbers, revision numbers, and other document identifiers can be placed in the footer.
ii. Now, map the newly created LUN to the DL4000. In this example, the DL4000 is named Host JAV19. The newly created LUN is named DL4000_Repository. Choose a Logical unit number greater than 0. 6. Mount the newly assigned fibre channel storage LUN to the DL4000 1. At the DL4000 desktop, launch Server Manager -> File and Storage Services -> Disks. Right click the DL4000 and choose Rescan Storage.
2. Right-click the newly added LUN and then choose Bring Online. 3. Initialize the LUN as a GPT disk. 15 Document Classification (for non-Titus systems) | DL4XXX - Fibre Channel Implementation | Document numbers, revision numbers, and other document identifiers can be placed in the footer.
4. Right-click New Volume to launch the New Volume Wizard, and then define a drive letter for newly assigned LUN while using the default wizard settings. 5. 16 When the New Simple Volume Wizard has been completed, the Volumes display should look similar to the following diagram. The mounted fibre channel volume is ready to be configured for a DL4000 repository.
7. Configure the DL4000 fibre channel storage as a backup repository The following steps configure the fibre channel storage to be used by the DL4000 as a repository. For additional DL4000 repository creation details, please refer to KB119910. 1. Launch the DL4000 Core Console. Select Configuration -> Repositories -> + Add new to begin the process of creating a new repository. 2. Select + Add Storage Location to introduce the SAN storage for DL4000 repository configuration.
3. Select ‘Add file on local disk’. In this example, the DL4000 \Data and \Metadata folders are configured to use the fibre channel storage identified by drive letter R: Select how much of the SAN LUN will be consumed by the repository (20, 40, 60 or 80TB capacities). Save the configuration. 4. Select Create to add the new repository. 5. 18 To confirm the repository has been created, select the Repository option within the Configuration tab, and then select Refresh.
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