Dell DR6000, DR2000v User Manual

™

Setting up Dell

vRanger™ on the

Dell DR Series System

Dell Engineering
April 2015

A Dell Technical White Paper

Date

Description

April 2015

Initial release

Revisions

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Table of contents

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

Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ....................................................................................................................... 5

2 Configuring an NFS share for backup using vRanger ............................................................................................................ 14

3 Configuring an RDA container for backup ................................................................................................................................ 15

3.1 Create an RDS container .................................................................................................................................................... 15

3.2 Configure the Dell RDA device in vRanger .....................................................................................................................17

4 Setting up vRanger .......................................................................................................................................................................... 19

5 Viewing a history of optimized copies in the DR Series system GUI ................................................................................. 27

6 Configuring replication at the source ........................................................................................................................................ 28

6.1 Create an RDS container in the Dell DR Series system for the replication target ............................................... 28

6.2 Configure replication at the target container in vRanger .......................................................................................... 29

7 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner ................................................................................................................................... 30

8 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance ................................................................................................ 31

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Executive summary

This whitepaper provides information about how to set up the Dell DR Series system as a
backup to disk target for Dell vRanger backup software. This paper is a quick reference
guide and does not include all DR Series system deployment best practices.

For additional information, see the DR Series system documentation and other data
management application best practices whitepapers for your specific DR Series system at:

http://www.dell.com/powervaultmanuals

NOTE: The DR Series system and the vRanger build version and screen shots used for this
whitepaper may vary slightly, depending on the version of the DR Series system or
vRanger software version you are using.

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1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system

1. Rack and cable the DR Series system appliance, and power it on.

2. Log onto iDRAC using the default address, 192.168.0.1, with the username: root

and password: Calvin.

3. Launch the virtual console.

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4. When the virtual console opens, log on to the system as:

user: administrator, password: St0r@ge!

NOTE: The “0” in the password is the numeral zero.

5. Set the user-defined networking preferences as needed.

6. View the summary of preferences and confirm that the settings are correct.

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7. Log on to the DR Series system administrator console, using the IP address you

just provided for the DR Series system as:
user: administrator, password St0r@ge!

8. Join the DR Series system to Active Directory as described below.

NOTE: If you do not want to add the DR Series system to Active Directory, see the

Dell DR SeriesOwner’s Manual

for guest logon instructions.

a. Click System Configuration > Active Directory in the left navigation area of

the DR Series system GUI.

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b. Enter your Active Directory credentials and click Join Domain.

9. Select Containers on the left navigation area, and then click the Create link at the

top of the page.

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10. Enter a Container Name and click Next.

11. For the Storage Access Protocol, select NAS (NFS, CIFS) and click Next.

12. Select NFS and CIFS as appropriate. (vRanger supports both CIFS and NFS

protocols.)

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13. For NFS, set the client access credentials and click Next.

14. For CIFS, set the client access credentials and click Next.

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