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- Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 1
Best Practices for Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on a DR Disk Backup Appliance A Dell Technical White Paper - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 2
© 2013 Dell Inc. All Rights Reserved. Dell and the Dell logo, and other Dell names and marks are trademarks of Dell Inc. in the US and worldwide. NetVault is a trademark of Dell-Quest. 2 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 3
...21 4.2 Linux/Unix...28 5 Set up the DR4X00 Cleaner ...35 6 Monitoring Dedupe, Compression & Performance...36 Appendix A Additional Resources...37 3 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 4
Combined with the power of NetVault SmartDisk, the Dell DR4X00 provides customers with a unique solution stack both software and infrastructure scale and support. This paper is intended for technical install/configure guide of the DR4X00 with NetVault SmartDisk. In addition, the guide will illustrate - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 5
Executive Summary This paper provides detailed information about how to set up a Dell™ DR Series Disk Backup Appliance as a target for NetVault® SmartDisk software. NetVault SmartDisk documentation for additional information. 5 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 6
/configuration sequences outlined in chapters 2 through 4 of this guide NOTE: For NetVault SmartDisk, native DR4X00 replication support is not available at this time. 1.1 General Setup /configuration use over the network. 6 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 7
migration or disaster remediation situation occurs. In order to accomplish this, this directory must be manually created and configured for use. It is recommended that an index directory be created within following commands: 7 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 8
using the above for reference. Once the configuration settings have been applied the SmartDisk services should be restarted. Execute the following command as needed: Smartdisk Home >> foundation >> NetVault Backup server. 8 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 9
to the system as user administrator and the password St0r@ge! (The "0" in the password is the numeral zero.). 9 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 10
5. Set the user-defined networking preferences. 6. View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct. 10 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 11
is the numeral zero.). 8. Join the DR4X00 to Active Directory. NOTE: if you do not want to add DR4X00 to Active Directory, see the Owner's Manual for guest login instructions. a. Select Active Directory in the tree on the left hand side of the dashboard. 11 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 12
b. Enter your Active Directory credentials. 9. Create and mount the container. c. Select Containers in the tree on the left side of the dashboard, and then click the Create link at the top of the page. 12 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 13
Name and select the Enable CIFS check box. e. Select the client access credentials preferred. For improved security, Dell recommends adding IP addresses for the following (Not all environments will have all components): 13 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 14
(for Hyper-V environments) Backup proxies (for vSphere environments) f. Click Create a New Container. g. Confirm that the container was added. 14 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 15
h. Click Edit, and write down the container path, which you will use later to target the DR4X00. i. Click Cancel to exit. 15 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 16
. 3. For Folder, enter the path to the container on the DR4X00. 4. Select the Reconnect at logon check box. 16 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 17
the backup server. k. Click install. l. Click Next to start the installation, and select to accept the license agreement. 17 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 18
you created in the DR4X00 container, along with the user name and password required to access the folder. 18 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 19
Yes. t. Enter the non-privileged user information that was created in step D. u. Click Next to confirm the installation 19 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 20
v. Once the installation is complete, click Close to exit 20 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 21
FALSE 4. Verify that the value has been set to false by using the command: smartdisk.bat config -show 21 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 22
the Add Section, Select Add NetVault SmartDisk. Type the name of the SmartDisk server within the Host Field. 22 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 23
8. Click on the Save icon in the top left corner of the Pop up window above. Once the device is added successfully, then click OK to exit. 23 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 24
9. Authorize the NDAV (WebDAV) from the NetVault Backup Server by using the command: "nvdav.exe -server [NetVault Server Name]" 10. Verify SmartDisk (Foundation) Services has started. 24 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 25
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11. Assign the SmartDisk Library as the target device for NetVault Backup Job. Select Backup and on the Target Tab, Select the SmartDisk device as the target. 26 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 27
12. Finish configuring the rest of the Backup job parameters and then run it. 27 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 28
4.2 Linux/Unix 1. Mount the container via the NFS path to the Linux/Unix SmartDisk client/server. The local mount point will be used for the SmartDisk path. 28 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 29
2. Create non-privilege user account. (Excerpt from the SmartDisk Installation Guide). 3. Install the SmartDisk application. Under the directory that contains the SmartDisk application, launch the installation with the following command: "./install" 4. Select the correct lanaguage when - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 30
2 above will be added. The CLI will prompt the user for the user account details: SmartDisk supports Post-process deduplication. If you would like to store the staged data (awaiting dedupe) at a /smartdisk/foundation/bin" 30 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 31
the Add Section, Select Add NetVault SmartDisk. Type the name of the SmartDisk server within the Host Field. 31 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 32
10. Click on the Save icon in the top left corner of the Pop up window above. Once the device is added successfully, then click OK to exit. 32 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 33
11. Authorize the NDAV (WebDAV) from the NetVault Backup Server by running the command: "./nvdav -server " from "/usr/netvault/util". 33 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 34
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as a method for recovering disk space from system containers in which files were deleted as a result of deduplication. 35 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 36
will increase. As mentioned before backup jobs with 12 week retention will average a 15x ratio in most cases. 36 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Best Practices for Setting up NetVault Sm - Page 37
resources: Dell DR4X00 manuals/guides: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/SYSTEMS/DR4X00/en/index.htm Dell DR4X00-NetVault Application Notes guide: https://support.quest.com/searchdocumentation.aspx?pr=268446836&k=DR4X00&ActiveTab=3 Dell Quest NetVault manuals/guide: https://support.quest
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