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Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as a CIFS or VTL Backup Target on EMC® Networker® | April 2015

Revisions

Date

Description

January 2014

Initial release

April 2015

Added VTL Content for v3.2 Release

June 2015

Added content for configuring an iSCSI target for Linux

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Section	Page
1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system	5
2 Creating and configuring CIFS target container(s) for Networker	9
2.1 Creating the network share container for Networker use	9
2.2 Configuring the Networker storage node – Windows CIFS	11
2.3 Configuring Networker to use the newly created network share	12
2.4 Setting up DR Series system replication and restore from the replication target	25
2.4.1 Creating a replication relationship between two DR Series systems	25
2.4.2 Restoring from the replication target container	29
3 Creating and configuring iSCSI target container(s) for Networker	33
3.1 Creating an iSCSI VTL container for Networker use	33
3.1.1 Configuring the iSCSI Networker storage node – Windows	35
3.1.2 Configuring the iSCSI target – Linux	39
3.2 Setting up Networker to use the newly created iSCSI VTL	40
4 Creating and configuring NDMP target container(s) for Networker	44
4.1 Creating the NDMP VTL container for Networker use	44
4.2 Configuring Networker to use the newly created NDMP VTL	46
5 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner	51
6 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance	52
A Managing VTL protocol accounts and credentials	53
A.1 iSCSI account details and management	53
A.2 NDMP account details and management	54
A.3 VTL default account summary table	55
B Adding VTL media	56
B.1 Adding the VTL media to the container	56
B.1.1 VTL media count guidelines	56

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