Dell DR4300e NetVault Backup - Setting Up the DR Series System as an RDA or VT - Page 3

Table of contents Executive summary...5 1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system for use with NetVault Backup 6 1.1 NetVault software prerequisites ...6 1.2 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ...6 2 Creating and configuring the RDA target container(s) for NetVault Backup 10 2.1 Adding the RDA target container(s) for NetVault Backup 11 2.2 Configuring transport modes for NetVault Backup...14 2.2.1 Setting the mode using the CLI ...14 2.2.2 Setting the mode using the GUI ...14 2.3 Configuring a backup job for NetVault Backup...16 3 Configuring VTL ...17 3.1 Creating and configuring iSCSI target container(s) for NetVault Backup 17 3.1.1 Create an iSCSI VTL container for NetVault Backup ...17 3.1.2 Configure the iSCSI target - Windows...19 3.1.3 Configure NetVault Backup to use the newly created iSCSI VTL 23 3.2 Creating and configuring NDMP target container(s) for NetVault Backup 25 3.2.1 Create the NDMP VTL container for NetVault Backup 25 3.2.2 Set up NetVault Backup to use the newly created NDMP VTL 27 4 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner...30 5 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance 31 A VTL configuration guidelines ...32 A.1 Managing VTL protocol accounts and credentials ...32 A.1.1 iSCSI account details and management ...32 A.1.2 NDMP account details and management ...33 A.1.3 VTL Default Account Summary Table:...34 A.2 Managing VTL media and space use ...34 A.2.1 General performance guidelines for DMA configuration 34 A.2.2 Physical DR space sizing and planning...34 A.2.3 Logical VTL geometry and media sizing...35 A.2.4 Media retention and grouping ...36 A.2.5 VTL media count guidelines ...36 A.2.6 Adding media to the VTL container...37 A.2.7 Updating NetVault Backup to identify newly added VTL media 37 3 Setting Up the Dell DR Series System as an RDA or VTL Backup Target for Dell NetVault Backup