Quantum Vision Quick Start Guide

Quantum Vision 4.3.2 Quick

Start Guide

This quick start guide provides basic installation and configuration
instructions for Quantum Vision. For more information, see the

Vision User’s Guide

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About Quantum Vision

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Contents

Quantum Vision Requirements ............... 2

Server Requirements ........................... 3

Server Port Requirements.................... 3

Browser Requirements ........................4

Supported Storage Devices................. 4

Installing Quantum Vision.......................5

Windows Installation .......................... 6

Linux Installation................................. 9

Virtual Appliance Installation............ 12

Updating Quantum Vision .................... 23

Updating the Virtual Appliance ........ 24

Updating the Standard Installer

Version of Vision ............................... 28

Quantum Vision Setup .......................... 30

Logging On to Vision ........................ 30

Discovering Devices........................... 31

Accessing the Console Command Line

(virtual appliance only) ..................... 33

Ta king Next Steps .............................. 36

Quantum® Vision™ provides powerful monitoring, reporting, and analysis
tools for all of the Quantum storage devices in your backup environment.
You can view the status and track the performance of multiple DXi™ disk
backup systems, vmPRO 4000, vmPRO and DXi V-Series virtual devices,
Scalar LTFS devices, and Scalar® libraries using a single flexible interface.

Quantum Vision gives you the following capabilities:

• Identify and initiate software updates for one or more vmPRO
appliances from Vision.

• Receive notification of and initiate a Vision software update using the
Vision GUI (virtual appliance only).

• Provide a per customer charge back report based on individual shares,
partitions, or OST LSU system usage in both print and e-mail versions.
The report includes data size ingested, size of unique data ingested,
and compressed size of unique data ingested.

• Monitor the status and health of up to 300 DXi, Scalar, Scalar LTFS, and
vmPRO devices.

• Visualize data on-demand to track capacity usage, analyze
performance, and identify trends.

• Access a Topology display to view the devices and their relationships.

• Automatically generate reports and graphs, and send them to multiple
recipients.

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• Access the native management interface of any monitored Quantum device.

• View and compare DXi Advanced Reporting graphs for one or more DXi disk backup
systems.

• Generate a Capacity Upgrade Estimate for DXi devices, this is an estimate regarding
when your RAID may need to be expanded.

• Monitor the usage and health of media in Scalar libraries (including Extended Data
Life Management (EDLM) status), change media location, and delete media.

About Quantum Vision 4.3.2

Quantum® Vision™ 4.3.2 provides significant performance improvements and several
bugs fixes, which provide functionality and stability enhancements.

Notational Conventions

The following formats indicate important information:

Note: Notes emphasize important information related to the main topic.

Caution: Cautions indicate potential situations in which data can be lost or

situations in which the software might not function as designed.

Quantum Vision Requirements

This section describes the following hardware and software requirements for Quantum
Vision:

• Server Requirements on page 3

• Server Port Requirements on page 3

• Browser Requirements on page 4

• Supported Storage Devices on page 4

2 Quantum Vision Requirements

Quantum Vision

Server Requirements The Quantum Vision software runs on the Vision server. Before installing the Quantum

Vision software, make sure the Vision server meets the requirements in Tab l e 1

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Table 1 Vision Server System
Requirements

Server Component System Requirement

Processor Intel or AMD server class

2 CPUs for up to 50 devices
4 CPUs for more than 50 devices

Memory 4 GB for monitoring up to 50 devices

8 GB for monitoring more than 50 devices

Available Disk Space 200 GB for monitoring up to 50 devices

400 GB for monitoring more than 50 devices

Operating System One of the following operating systems:

• Windows Server 2003 32-bit

• Windows Server 2003 R2 64-bit

• Windows Server 2008 32-bit

• Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 32-bit

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64-bit

Virtual Appliance • Server system with at least an i7 quad-core Intel

proce

ssor (or AMD equivalent) 
2 virtual CPUs for up to 50 devices
4 virtual CPUs for more than 50 devices

• At least one IP address available for use by the Vision
appliance

• One or more ESX4, ESXi4, or ESXi5 servers

• Same memory requirements as that of a
installation

processor

physical server

Additional Software (Windows only) Microsoft NET Framework 2.0 or higher

Note: Quantum Vision supports installation and operation on a virtual machine (VM)

if all other system requirements are met.

Server Port Requirements

Quantum Vision Requirements 3

For correct operation of Quantum Vision, the following firewall ports must be open on
the Vision server:

• Po

rt 80 - Web server (http)

• Po

rt 443 - Web server (https)

• Po

rt 162 - SNMP

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To enable monitoring of storage devices, the following firewall ports on the Vision server
must allow outgoing traffic:

• Port 80 - Web server (http)

• Port 443 - Web server (https)

• Port 22 - SSH

Note: Ports 80 and 443 are the default web server ports. If you specified different

web server ports when installing the Quantum Vision software, open those
ports in the firewall instead. For more information about specifying the web
server ports during installation, see Installing Quantum Vision on page 5.

Browser Requirements Quantum Vision 4 is designed to run in any modern Web browser that supports the

Adobe Flash Player plug-in. Web browser software is not included with Quantum Vision.
You must obtain and install it separately.

You must install the correct version of the Adobe Flash Player plug-in for your operating
system and browser. Quantum Vision 4.3.2 requires Adobe Flash Player version 11.1 or
higher. To download and install Flash Player, go to: http://www.adobe.co

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Supported Storage Devices

Caution: Quantum Vision does not support the 64-bit version of the Flash Player

plug-in on Linux. Instead, use the 32-bit Flash Player plug-in and a 32-bit
browser.

To discover and monitor a DXi disk backup system, Scalar tape library, Scalar LTFS, or
vmPRO appliance in Quantum Vision, it must be a supported device. Quantum Vision
supports the following Quantum storage devices:

• DXi8500 disk backup system

• DXi7500 disk backup system

• DXi6802 disk backup system

• DXi6701 and DXi6702 disk backup systems

• DXi6700 disk backup system

• DXi6500 disk backup family

• DXi5500 disk backup system

• DXi4701 disk backup system

• Dxi4600 disk backup system

• DXi4500 disk backup system

• DXi3500 disk backup system

• DXi2500-D disk backup system

• DXi V-Series (DXi V1000 and DXi V4000) virtual backup systems

4 Quantum Vision Requirements

• Scalar i6000 library

• Scalar i2000 library

• Scalar i500 library

• Scalar i80 library

• Scalar i40 library

•Scalar LTFS

• vmPRO 4000 (software/hardware backup solution)

•vmPRO virtual backup system

Installing Quantum Vision

If Quantum Vision 3 is installed on the Vision server, you should uninstall it before you
install any version of Quantum Vision 4.

Quantum Vision

Caution: Installing Vision 4 does not upgrade an existing Vision 3 installation. It is

possible to run both Quantum Vision 3 and Quantum Vision 4
simultaneously on the Vision server. However, this is not the recommended
configuration. For more information about moving from Vision 3 to Vision
4, see the Appendix “Vision Deployment Options” in the

User’s Guide

To install the Quantum Vision software, follow the procedure for the operating system
running on the Vision server:

• Windows Installation on page 6

• Linux Installation on page 9

To update an existing installation of Quantum Vision 4 to the latest version, see

Updating

Note: Before installing Quantum Vision, make sure the operating system on the

Vision 4.3.2 is also available as a VMware appliance in a format that installs within a
vSphere infrastructure. To install Vision as a virtual appliance, see V

Installation on page 12

Note: There is no technical advantage for Vision to be installed on a VM or physical

the Standard Installer Version of Vision on page 28.

Vision server is accessible on the network. For best results, Quantum
recommends configuring the Vision server with a static IP address.

server. Vision may be installed on either a physical server or as a virtual machine
(by OVF or other means) to allow you to comply with your IT standards and
policies.

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Quantum Vision

irtual Appliance

Installing Quantum Vision 5

Quantum Vision 4.3.2 Quick Start Guide

Windows Installation To install the Quantum Vision software on a server running a Windows operating

system:

Figure 1 Quantum Vision
Setup Wizard (Windows)

1 Downl

oad the Vision installer file: vision-4.3.2-windows-installer.exe. If you do not

have Internet access and have copied Vision to a removable media, insert the media
into the appropriate drive of the Vision server.

2 Browse to the location of the Quantum Vision installer file:

vision-4.3.2-windows-

installer.exe. Double-click the file to begin installation.

The Quantum Vision Setup Wizard displays (see Figure

1).

Figure 2 License Agreement
(Windows)

3 Click Next to continue.

The License Agreement window

displays (see Figure 2).

4 Select I accept the agreement, and then click Next to continue.

6 Installing Quantum Vision

Figure 3 Installation Directory
(Windows)

Quantum Vision

The Installation Directory window displays (see Figure 3).

5 Specify a different location to install the Quantum Vision software, or accept the

default location. Click Next to continue.

Figure 4 Vision Ports
(Windows)

The Vi

sion Ports window displays (see Figure 4).

6 Specify the ports that Quantum Vision will use, or accept the default port values.

Click Next to continue.

Note: On Windows or Linux installed Vision servers, you can change your network

ports using Vision’s Security feature; however, be sure to check your
existing firewall configuration and make sure the appropriate firewall ports
are open.

The Ready to Install window displays (see Figure 5).

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Figure 5 Ready to Install
(Windows)

7 Click Next to continue.

Figure 6 Completing the
Quantum Vision Setup Wizard
(Windows)

Wait while the setup wizard installs the software, initializes the database,

and starts

Vision. When the setup wizard is finished, the Completing the Quantum Vision
Setup Wizard window displays (see Figure

6).

8 (Optional) Select the check box to launch Quantum Vision after closing the setup

wizard.

9 Click Fin

10 Remove the Quantum Vision Instal

ish to close the setup wizard.

lers and Documentation CD from the CD-ROM

drive, as needed.

Continue with

8 Installing Quantum Vision

Quantum Vision Setup on page 30.

Quantum Vision

Linux Installation To install the Quantum Vision software on a server running a Linux operating system:

1 Use

one of the following options to install Quantum Vision:

Figure 7 Quantum Vision
Setup Wizard (Linux)

a If you do not have

insert the media into the appropriate drive of the Vision server.

In a terminal window, execute the following commands as root:

umount /media/<device>

mkdir /tmp/VISION

mount /dev/<device> /tmp/VISION/

cd /tmp/VISION/

./setup-linux.bin

b If

you have downloaded the Vision Linux Installer: 

vision-4.3.2-linux

In a terminal window, execute the following commands as root:

chmod +x /root/Desktop/vision-4.3.2-lin

If you are in a desktop environment, double-click the installer file.

If you are in a command line environment, 
type

./vision-4.3.2-linux-installer.run, and then press <Enter>.

The Quantum Vision Setup Wizard displays (see Figure

Internet access and have copied Vision to a removable media,

-installer.run.

ux-installer.run

7).

2 Click Forward to continue.

The License Agreement window

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displays (see Figure 8).

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Figure 8 License Agreement
(Linux)

3 Select I accept the agreement, and then click Forward to continue.

Figure 9 Installation Directory
(Linux)

The Installation Directory

window displays (see Figure 9).

4 Specify a different location to install the Quantum Vision software, or accept the

default location. Click Forward to continue.

The Vi

sion Ports window displays (see Figure 10).

10 Installing Quantum Vision

Figure 10 Vision Ports (Linux)

Quantum Vision

5 Specify the ports the Quantum Vision will use, or accept the default port values.

Click Next to continue.

Note: On Windows or Linux installed Vision servers, you can change your network

ports using Vision’s Security feature; however, be sure to check your
existing firewall configuration and make sure the appropriate firewall ports
are open.

Figure 11 Ready to Install
(Linux)

The Ready to Install window displays (see Figure 11).

6 Click Forward to continue.

Wait while the setup wizard installs the software, initializes the database,

and starts

Vision. When the setup wizard is finished, the Completing the Quantum Vision
Setup Wizard window displays (see Figure

12).

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Figure 12 Completing the
Quantum Vision Setup Wizard
(Linux)

7 (Optional) Select the check box to launch Quantum Vision after closing the setup

wizard.

Virtual Appliance Installation

8 Click Fin

9 If

you are installing Vision using a removable media:

a In a terminal window

b Remove the media

10 Contin

To install Quantum Vision 4.3.2 as a virtual appliance:

Note: If you have downloaded a Quantum Vision OVA file from the Quantum.com

The following example represents a typical OVF deployment. The actual sequence of
windows that you will see will depend on your system’s configuration. With a basic
knowledge of your system, the selections that you will need to make, such as hosts,
clusters, resource pools, multiple storage destinations, networks, etc. should be
intuitive. This example does attempt to depict where those windows will be displayed.

1 Download the

and have copied Vision to a removable media, insert the media into the appropriate
drive of the Vision server.

ish to close the setup wizard.

, execute the following commands as root:

cd /

umount /tmp/VISION/

from the drive.

ue with Quantum Vision Setup on page 30.

Web site, simply use it as you would an OVF file.

Quantum Vision OVA or OVF file. If you do not have Internet access

2 Start a vSphere Cl

12 Installing Quantum Vision

ient.