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2 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as a CIFS or VTL Backup Target on CommVault Simpana |
April 2015
Table of contents
1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system for use with CommVault Simpana ............................ 5
1.1 CommVault Simpana software prerequisites ...................................................................................... 5
1.2 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ................................................................................ 5
2 Configuring CIFS and NFS containers for CommVault Simpana .............................................................. 9
2.1 Creating containers in the DR Series system ...................................................................................... 9
2.2 Adding the target container(s) to CommVault Simpana ................................................................. 12
2.2 Setting up a single system environment (DR Series system as NFS disk library)...................... 14
2.3 Setting up a replicated system environment ..................................................................................... 16
2.4 Using the continuous data replicator to replicate client data to a DR Series container ........ 24
3 Configuring VTL for CommVault Simpana ................................................................................................... 36
3.1 Creating and configuring iSCSI target container(s) for CommVault Simpana ......................... 36
3.1.1 Create the iSCSI VTL container for CommVault Simpana ............................................................. 36
3.1.2 Configure the iSCSI Target - Windows ............................................................................................... 38
3.1.3 Configure CommVault to use the newly created iSCSI VTL .........................................................44
3.2 Creating and configuring NDMP target container(s) for CommVault Simpana ...................... 56
3.2.1 Create the NDMP VTL container for CommVault Simpana .......................................................... 56
3.2.2 Configure CommVault to use the newly created NDMP VTL ...................................................... 58
4 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner ....................................................................................................... 83
5 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance ....................................................................84
A VTL configuration guidelines ............................................................................................................................ 85
A.1 Managing VTL protocol accounts and credentials .......................................................................... 85
A.1.1 iSCSI account details and management ............................................................................................. 85
A.1.2 NDMP account details and management ..........................................................................................86
A.2 VTL default account summary table ....................................................................................................86
A.3 Managing VTL media and space use ................................................................................................... 87
A.3.1 General performance guidelines for DMA configuration .............................................................. 87
A.3.2 Physical space sizing and planning ...................................................................................................... 87
A.3.3 Logical VTL geometry and media sizing .............................................................................................88
A.3.4 Media retention and grouping...............................................................................................................89
A.3.5 VTL media count guidelines ..................................................................................................................89