Dell Equallogic PS6510 User Manual
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Configuring the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Array as a Backup Target
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Configuring a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Array as a Backup Target for CommVault™ Simpana™
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary .................................................................................................. 2
Introduction ........................................................................................................... 2
Prerequisites .......................................................................................................... 3
Technical Resources ................................................................................................. 3
Configuration Settings ............................................................................................... 3
Exposing the EqualLogic volumes to the DL Backup to Disk Appliance .................................... 4
Figure 1: ACL Entries for the EqualLogic Volumes ............................................................ 4
Configuring iSCSI settings on the DL Backup to Disk appliance ............................................. 5
Figure 2: Logging on to the EqualLogic Targets ............................................................... 6
Backing up data on a Protected Server’s EqualLogic backend storage.................................... 6
Figure 3: VDS/VSS Access in Group Configuration ............................................................ 7
Figure 4: Snapshot Reserve Space for a Volume .............................................................. 8
Conclusions ............................................................................................................ 8
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