Dell DR6300 Microsoft DPM - Setting Up the DR Series System as a VTL Backup Ta - Page 3

Table of contents 1 Executive summary ...4 2 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ...5 3 Creating and configuring iSCSI target containers for Microsoft DPM 9 3.1 Creating the iSCSI VTL container ...9 3.2 Configuring the Microsoft DPM Server - Windows ...11 3.3 Installing device drivers for the DR Series system iSCSI VTL 14 3.4 Configuring Microsoft DPM registry settings ...16 3.4.1 Adjusting BufferQueueSize, ConnectionNoActivityTimeout, and ConnectionNoActivityTimeoutForNonCCJobs registry settings 17 3.4.2 Adding the TapeSize parameter...18 3.4.3 Adding the Storport key and BusyRetryCount parameter for each tape 19 3.4.4 Disabling TUR ...21 3.5 Setting up Microsoft DPM to use the newly created iSCSI VTL 23 4 Performing backup and restore by using the DR Series system VTL 26 5 Restoring from tape ...38 6 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner...44 7 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance 45 A Managing VTL protocol accounts and credentials ...46 A.1 Managing iSCSI account details...46 A.2 VTL default account summary table...47 B Managing VTL media and space usage...48 B.1 General performance guidelines for DMA configuration 48 B.2 VTL space sizing and planning...48 B.3 Logical VTL geometry and media sizing...49 B.4 Media retention and grouping...50 B.5 VTL media count guidelines ...50 B.6 Adding VTL media to a VTL container...50 B.7 Space reclamation...52 B.7.1 General guidelines...52 B.7.2 Product specific guidelines ...52 3 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as a VTL Backup Target on Microsoft® Data Protection Manager | January 2016