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- Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 1
Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance A Dell Technical White Paper - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 2
© 2012 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. Veeam is a trademark of Veeam. 2 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 3
Table of contents Executive Summary ...4 1 Install and Configure the DR4X00 ...5 2 Configure the Backup Server...12 3 Set up Veeam...14 4 Set up the DR4X00 Cleaner ...22 5 Monitoring Dedupe, Compression & Performance...23 3 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 4
Executive Summary This paper provides information about how to set up the Dell DR4X00 as a backup to disk target for Veeam® Backup & Replication™ software. This paper is a quick reference guide and does not include all DR4X00 deployment best practices. See the DR4X00 documentation other data - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 5
1 Install and Configure the DR4X00 1. Rack and cable the DR4X00 appliance, and power it on. 2. Log into iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.1, user name and the password St0r@ge! (The "0" in the password is the numeral zero.). 5 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 6
5. Set the user-defined networking preferences. 6. View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct. 6 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 7
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. 7 Setting up Veeam on the - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 8
b. Enter your Active Directory credentials. 9. Create and mount the container. a. Select Containers in the tree on the left side of the dashboard, and then click the Create link at the top of the page. 8 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 9
a Container Name and select the Enable CIFS check box. c. Select the client access credentials preferred. For improved security, Dell recommends adding IP addresses for the following (Not all environments will have all components): 9 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 10
(Veeam Server) Hyper-V hosts (on-host proxy for Hyper-V environments)s Off-host proxies (for Hyper-V environments) Backup proxies (for vSphere environments) d. Click Create a New Container. e. Confirm that the container was added. 10 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 11
f. Click Edit, and write down the container path, which you will use later to target the DR4X00. g. Click Cancel to exit. 11 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 12
2 Configure the Backup Server 1. Log into the media server and click on StartMy Computer. 2. Click Map network drive. 3. For Folder, enter the path to the container on the DR4X00. 4. Select the Reconnect at logon check box. 12 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 13
5. When prompted, enter the DR4X00 login credentials. The DR4X00 container is now mounted to your backup server. 13 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 14
3 Set up Veeam NOTES: To maximize the DR4X00-Veeam storage capacity savings, it is highly recommend following the exact below setup settings. The backup formats differ completely when setup settings are changed. Hence, all savings on Veeam installations that had settings changed in between are - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 15
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4. Select Shared folder. 5. For Shared folder, enter in the name of the DR4X00 (or TCP/IP address used above) and the share name, and then click Next. 16 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 17
capacity usage. It is not recommended to switch these settings once data has been written to the DR4X00. 7. Create a new backup job in the Veeam Backup console, for either Hyper-V or vSphere; the options specific to the DR4X00 are the same. 17 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 18
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, resource pools, vApps, SCVMM clusters, etc. for the backup. 9. Ensure that the repository for this job is the DR4X00. 10. On the storage wizard of the backup job, click the Advanced button to check a number of important settings. 19 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 20
11. Ensure the backup job is running in Incremental mode, and avoid the rollback transformation option. This is a default for new jobs. 12. "Enable Inline data duplication" option is selected and Storage is optimized for local target 20 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 21
NOTE: If overall space/storage savings is the overall priority, it is recommended to use the three options above in this fashion. All other options are independent of the backup target. 21 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 22
, generally after a backup job has completed. Performing scheduled disk space reclamation operations are recommended as a method for recovering disk space from system containers in which files were deleted as a result of deduplication. 22 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 23
, Compression & Performance After backup jobs have run the DR4X00 will track Capacity, Storage Savings and Throughput 25-50% total savings) on the initial backup. As additional full backup jobs complete the ratios will increase. As mentioned before backup jobs with 12 week retention will average a - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up Veeam on the Dell DR4X00 Disk - Page 24
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