Dell DR4000 User Manual

Setting up RDA Backup to Dell™ DR Series

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Deduplica tion Appliance on Dell

A Dell Technical White Paper

Dell Engin e er in g
May 2014

NetVault

Revisions

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Description

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Initial re lease

May 2014

Updated to add suggested block size on NVBU device configuration.

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Table of contents

Revisions...................................................................................................................................................................................... 2

Execut ive summary ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4

1 Install and Configure the DR Series Deduplication Appl iance Appliance ................................................................................ 5

2 Set up NVBU for Backup..................................................................................................................................................... 10

3 Configure Backu p Job on N V BU ......................................................................................................................................... 13

4 Set Up the D R Series Ded u pl ication A p p liance Cleaner ........................................................................................................ 19

5 Monitoring Deduplication, Compression and Performance ................................................................................................... 20

3 Settin g up RDA Backup to Dell™ DR4x00 Disk Backup Applianc e on Dell™ NetVault

Executive summary

This paper provides informa t ion a bout how to set up the Dell DR Series Ded u plicati on A p p liance as a
backup target device for Del l NetVa ult (NVBU®) Backup™ software using RDA technology. Th is paper
is a quick r eference g u id e and does not include all D R Series Ded u p licati on Appliance deployment best
practices.

Abbreviations and Mea ni ng :
RDA : Rapid Data Access, D ell propri etary technology for fa s ter data access.

Dedupe Backup : In this mode D ed u p lication is done on th e Client an d then the ded up licated pa ck ets are

sent to DR Series Dedu plicati on A p p liance.

Passthrough Backup : In this mode Deduplication is done on DR Series Deduplication A p p liance after
data is transferred from Clients and backup media server.

See th e DR Ser ies Dedup licati on A p pl iance documentation for other data management application best
pract ices whitepaper s at

dr4100, under “Manuals & Documentati on”.

http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/04/Product/powervault-

NOTE: The DR Series Deduplication Appliance/NetVault build version and screenshots used for this

paper may vary slightly, depending on the version of the DR Series D ed u p licati on App liance/NetVault
software version used.

4 Settin g up RDA Backup to Dell™ DR4x00 Disk Backup Applianc e on Dell™ NetVault

1 Install and Configure the DR Series Deduplication

Appliance

1. Rack an d cable the DR Series Ded u plicati on A p pl iance ap pl iance, and p ower it on.

2. Please refer to Dell DR Series Syst e m Administ ra t o r Guide, under secti ons of “iDRAC Connect ion”,

“Logging in and Initializing the DR Series System”, and “Accessing IDRAC6/Idrac7 Using
RACADM” for using iDRAC connection and ini tializing the app li ance.

3. Log in to iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.120, or the IP th at is a ssigned to t he iDRA C

interface. Use user name and pass wor d of “root/calvin”.

4. Laun ch the virtual console.

5. After the virtual console is open, log in to the system as user administrator and the password

St0r@ge! (The “0” in the password is the numeral zero).

5 Settin g up RDA Backup to Dell™ DR4x00 Disk Backup Applianc e on Dell™ NetVault

6. Set th e u ser-defined networking preferenc es.

7. View th e s um mary of prefer ences an d confirm th at i t is correct.

6 Settin g up RDA Backup to Dell™ DR4x00 Disk Backup Applianc e on Dell™ NetVault