Home » Dell Manuals » Storage Devices » Dell DR4300e » Manual Viewer

Dell DR4300e NetVault Backup - Setting Up the DR Series System as an RDA or VT - Page 31

Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance

Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals

Page 31 highlights

5 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance After backup jobs have run, the DR Series system tracks capacity, storage savings, and throughput on the DR Series system dashboard. This information is valuable in understanding the benefits of the DR Series system. Note: Deduplication ratios increase over time. It is not uncommon to see a 2-4x reduction (25-50% total savings) on the initial backup. As additional full backup jobs are completed, the ratios will increase. Backup jobs with a 12-week retention will average a 15x ratio, in most cases. 31 Setting Up the Dell DR Series System as an RDA or VTL Backup Target for Dell NetVault Backup

Section	Page
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

Match case Limit results 1 per page

Setting Up the Dell DR Series System as an RDA or VTL Backup Target for Dell NetVault Backup

Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance

After backup jobs have run, the DR Series system tracks capacity, storage savings, and throughput on the DR

Series system dashboard. This information is valuable in understanding the benefits of the DR Series system.

Note

: Deduplication ratios increase over time. It is not uncommon to see a 2-4x reduction (25-50% total

savings) on the initial backup. As additional full backup jobs are completed, the ratios will increase. Backup

jobs with a 12-week retention will average a 15x ratio, in most cases.