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Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as a CIFS or VTL Backup Target on EMC® Networker® | April 2015
Table of contents
Executive summary
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4
1
Installing and configuring the DR Series system
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5
2
Creating and configuring CIFS target container(s) for Networker
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9
2.1
Creating the network share container for Networker use
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9
2.2
Configuring the Networker storage node – Windows CIFS
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11
2.3
Configuring Networker to use the newly created network share
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12
2.4
Setting up DR Series system replication and restore from the replication target
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25
2.4.1
Creating a replication relationship between two DR Series systems
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25
2.4.2
Restoring from the replication target container
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29
3
Creating and configuring iSCSI target container(s) for Networker
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33
3.1
Creating an iSCSI VTL container for Networker use
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33
3.1.1
Configuring the iSCSI Networker storage node – Windows
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35
3.1.2
Configuring the iSCSI target – Linux
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39
3.2
Setting up Networker to use the newly created iSCSI VTL
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40
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Creating and configuring NDMP target container(s) for Networker
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4.1
Creating the NDMP VTL container for Networker use
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4.2
Configuring Networker to use the newly created NDMP VTL
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Setting up the DR Series system cleaner
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Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance
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A
Managing VTL protocol accounts and credentials
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A.1
iSCSI account details and management
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A.2
NDMP account details and management
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A.3
VTL default account summary table
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B
Adding VTL media
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B.1
Adding the VTL media to the container
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B.1.1
VTL media count guidelines
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B.2
Updating Networker to identify newly added VTL media
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57