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- Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 1
Setting up vRanger on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance A Dell Technical White Paper - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - 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. vRanger is a trademark of Quest Software, a DELL company. 2 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 3
of contents Executive Summary ...4 1 Install and Configure the DR4X00 ...5 2 Configure NFS share for Backup using vRanger ...12 3 Set up vRanger ...13 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 vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 4
Executive Summary This paper provides information about how to set up the Dell DR4X00 as a backup to disk target for vRanger® Backup™ software. This paper is a quick reference guide and does not include all DR4X00 deployment best practices. See the DR4X00 documentation other data management - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 5
1 Install and Configure the DR4X00 Rack and cable the DR4X00 appliance, and power it on. a. 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 vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 6
d. Set the user- defined networking preferences. e. 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 vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 7
zero.). g. 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. Select Active Directory in the tree on the left hand side of the dashboard. Enter your Active Directory credentials. 7 Setting up Veeam - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 8
h. Create and mount the container. 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 vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 9
i. Enter a Container Name and select the Enable CIFS or Enable NFS check box. vRanger supports both CIFS and NFS protocols. j. Select the client access credentials preferred. For improved security, Dell recommends adding IP addresses for the following (Not all environments will have all components - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 10
− Backup console (vRanger Server) − ESXi hosts (as vRanger backups up these VMs) − Backup proxies (for vSphere environments) k. Click Create a New Container. Confirm that the container was added. 10 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 11
l. Click Edit, and write down the container path, which you will use later to target the DR4X00. m. Click Cancel to exit. 11 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 12
2 Configure NFS share for Backup using vRanger. For NFS backup using vRanger, a target folder needs to be created under NFS share directory. This is a sub- environment. o Create a directory using 'mkdir' inside the mounted directory. 12 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 13
: • To maximize the DR4X00- vRanger storage capacity savings, it is highly recommend following the exact below setup settings. • The backup formats differ completely when setup settings are changed. root credentials. a. Adding ESX host. 13 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 14
client on machine?' flag. By default Physical client is installed on the physical machine at 'c:\programs Files\Quest Software\'. 14 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 15
supports both CIFS and NFS protocols. a) Mapping CIFS share : My repository - > Add - > Windows Share (CIFS) - > Enter required details and then OK. Note : While creating repository (CIFS/NFS), for better savings do not enable encryption. 15 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 16
target directory name which was created under share directory [Mentioned above in chapter 2 ]. 4. Enable change tracking (Change Block Tracking) on the VM you want to backup. 16 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 17
5. Backup of a Virtual Machine. a. Selecting a VM for backup 17 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 18
This opens the backup wizard - > select disks to backup - > Select the repository to which the VM is to be backed up. c. Select the appropriate Transport type according to the set up. If not sure, select 'Automatic Transport Selection' 18 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 19
d. Backup Options i. For VM Note : 19 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 20
Disable 'Check destination for free space' as DR4x00 supports deduplication and so overall space occupied is lesser. Machine e. Retention Policy Selection : Mention the type of backup you want to do Full/Incremental/Differential. 20 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - Page 21
f. Schedule the backup and then provide mail server details for sending mail. g. Backup summary page : 21 Setting up Veeam on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance - Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network | Setting up vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - 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 vRanger on the Dell DR4X00 Dis - 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
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