DR4300 Disk Backup Appliance

Microsoft DPM - Setting Up the DR Series System as a VTL Backup Target on Microsoft Data

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... separate media as incremental data and they in the left navigation area of Tapes supported LTO-4 800GiB 2000 B.6 Adding VTL media to the Dell DR Disk Backup Appliance Capacity Sizing Guide: A Dell Technical White Paper or contact a support or sales specialist for assistance. VTL media count guidelines Type Capacity Max number of the DR Series...

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting up VTL Containers and NetVault Backup nVTL

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... up data to define the best technique users can deploy for the DRs owns native Virtual Tape Library (VTL Container), and a NetVault Backup nVTL. Executive Summary This document provides detailed information about setting up a Dell™ DR Series Disk Backup Appliance as a target for backing up Dell VTL Container or NetVault Backup native virtual tape library (nVTL)

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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Best Practices for Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on a DR Disk Backup Appliance A Dell Technical White Paper

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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... ...6 1.3 NetVault Setup /configuration Best Practices ...6 2 Install and Configure the DR4X00 ...9 3 Configure the Backup Server and Install NetVault SmartDisk 16 4 Configure NetVault SmartDisk ...21 4.1 Windows ...21 4.2 Linux/Unix...28 5 Set up the DR4X00 Cleaner ...35 6 Monitoring Dedupe, Compression & Performance...36 Appendix A Additional Resources...37 3 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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... and NetVault SmartDisk solution. 4 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on disk and online longer can help organizations reduce the complexity associated with backup. Introduction The Dell™ DR4X00 is a high-performance, disk-based backup and recovery appliance that enables core backup data to remain on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance Combined with the power of this paper is to own...

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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...the version of the DR4X00 operating system.  See NetVault DR Series Backup Appliance Application notes, DR4X00 and NetVault SmartDisk documentation for additional information. 5 Setting up a Dell™ DR Series Disk Backup Appliance as a target for NetVault® SmartDisk software. Figure 1: DR4X00-NetVault ...using the storage footprint made available by containers hosted on the DR4X00 backup appliance. This enables the user to set up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance See Figure 1 below which illustrates the DR4X00-NetVault SmartDisk Scenario....

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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... Storage Container. o All authentication requirements fulfilled such as Domain name, username and password for users setup on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance o For each SmartDisk instance should run within its own container.  Users should be defined to run within said container... during backup, access during installation as the UNC network path of this guide NOTE: For NetVault SmartDisk, native DR4X00 ...

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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... the SmartDisk instance must be disabled before the environment is create, following commands: 7 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance The goal is to consolidate these two object stores and define them to run anytime, and configuring block size settings depending... on the DR4X00 backup appliance. This will be in order to tune the software for the stage and store spaces, a set ...

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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Once the configuration settings have been verified and the configuration has been deemed fit for use within a given NetVault Backup domain. These settings should be restarted. Verification of the SmartDisk instance run the following command: Smartdisk Home >> foundation >> ... to 32 and the webdav port to set before data protection operations are configuring SmartDisk on a CIFS / UNC path hosted on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance In order to 37543. Smartdisk Home >> foundation >> bin >> smartdisk(.sh/.bat) config --add --gc-window Anytime Smartdisk Home >> foundation...

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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Launch the virtual console. 4. 2 Install and Configure the DR4X00 1. Log into iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.1, user name root, and the password calvin. 3. Rack and cable the DR4X00 appliance, and power it on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance Once the virtual console is open, log in to the system as user administrator and the password St0r@ge! (The "0" in the password is the numeral zero.). 9 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on . 2.

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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5. Set the user-defined networking preferences. 6. View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct. 10 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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7. Join the DR4X00 to Active Directory, see the Owner's Manual for the DR4X00, user administrator and the password St0r@ge! (The "0" in the tree on the left hand side of the dashboard. 11 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance NOTE: if you just provided for guest login instructions. Log into the DR4X00 administrator console, using the IP address you do not want to add DR4X00 to Active Directory. a. Select Active Directory in the password is the numeral zero.). 8.

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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b. Create and mount the container. c. Select Containers in the tree on the left side of the dashboard, and then click the Create link at the top of the page. 12 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance Enter your Active Directory credentials. 9.

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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Select the client access credentials preferred. For improved security, Dell recommends adding IP addresses for the following (Not all environments will have all components): 13 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance e. d. Enter a Container Name and select the Enable CIFS check box.

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Click Create a New Container.  Backup console (NetVault Server)  Hyper-V hosts (on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance g. Confirm that the container was added. 14 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on -host proxy for Hyper-V environments)s  Off-host proxies (for Hyper-V environments)  Backup proxies (for vSphere environments) f.

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Click Cancel to target the DR4X00. h. Click Edit, and write down the container path, which you will use later to exit. 15 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance i.

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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Click Map network drive. 3. Select the Reconnect at logon check box. 16 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR4X00. 4. 3 Configure the Backup Server and Install NetVault SmartDisk 1. For Folder, enter the path to the container on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance Log into the media server and click on StartMy Computer. 2.

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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Download or copy the NetVault install application to accept the license agreement. 17 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance When prompted, enter the DR4X00 login credentials. 6. l. Click Next to start the installation, and select to the backup server. The DR4X00 container is now mounted to your backup server. 7. In the DR container, create two folders - Stage and Store. 8. Click install. k. Install NetVault SmartDIsk. 5. j.

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... will be used as a non-privileged account for SmartDisk. Enter the full path to access the folder. 18 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance n. q. Enter the User account name and Password of a local user that you created in the DR4X00 container, along with the user name and password...

NetVault Backup - Best Practices for Setting Up NetVault SmartDisk on the DR Series System

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Enter the full path to the Store folder that was created in the DR4X00 container, along with the user name and password required to confirm the installation 19 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance t. s. Enter the non-privileged user information that you created in step D. Click Next to access the folder. u. r. When prompted to enable SmartDisk WebDAV, select Yes.

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