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  • Page 1 Best Practices for Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on a DR Disk Backup Appliance A Dell Technical White Paper...
  • 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. NetVault is a trademark of Dell-Quest. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Configure NetVault SmartDisk .............................. 21 Windows ..................................21 Linux/Unix..................................28 Set up the DR4X00 Cleaner ..............................35 Monitoring Dedupe, Compression & Performance......................36 Appendix A Additional Resources ............................37 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    This paper is intended for technical sales, solution architects, backup administrators, system administrators, and IT managers who need to understand how to design and deploy the Dell DR4X00 Advanced Disk Backup & Disaster Recovery Solution with NetVault SmartDisk. Readers should have a working knowledge of DR4X00 disk based backup storage appliance, NetVault Backup, and NetVault SmartDisk software application as well as related backup and disaster recovery operations best practices.

  • Page 5: Executive Summary

    Executive Summary ™ This paper provides detailed information about how to set up a Dell DR Series Disk Backup Appliance as a ® target for NetVault SmartDisk software. In this configuration, NetVault SmartDisk is configured for target object store use for data protection operations. This enables the user to have a simple factoring method for using the storage footprint made available by containers hosted on the DR4X00 backup appliance.

  • Page 6: Technical Setup/Configuration Best Practices

    During installation the stage and store spaces should be defined to run from a remote location. This will be configured during installation as the UNC network path of the CIFS share or locally defined mount points for NFS level use over the network. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 7 To disable software deduplication, run the following command: Smartdisk Home >> foundation >> bin >> smartdisk(.sh/.bat) config --dedupe-enable FALSE To configure the proper space reclamation cycles run the following commands: Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 8 Smartdisk Home >> foundation >> bin >> smartdisk(.sh/.bat) config --show Once all settings have been verified and the configuration has been deemed fit for use the SmartDisk instance can now be added to the NetVault Backup server. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...

  • Page 9: Install And Configure The Dr4X00

    3. Launch the virtual console. 4. Once 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.). Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 10 5. Set the user-defined networking preferences. 6. View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 11 NOTE: if you do not want to add DR4X00 to Active Directory, see the for guest login instructions. a. Select Active Directory in the tree on the left hand side of the dashboard. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 12 9. Create and mount the container. c. Select Containers in the tree on the left side of the dashboard, and then click the Create link at the top of the page. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 13 Enter a Container Name and select the Enable CIFS check box. e. Select the client access credentials preferred. For improved security, Dell recommends adding IP addresses for the following (Not all environments will have all components): Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 14 Hyper-V hosts (on-host proxy for Hyper-V environments)s  Off-host proxies (for Hyper-V environments)  Backup proxies (for vSphere environments) Click Create a New Container. g. Confirm that the container was added. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 15 Click Edit, and write down the container path, which you will use later to target the DR4X00. Click Cancel to exit. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...

  • Page 16: Configure The Backup Server And Install Netvault Smartdisk

    Log into the media server and click on StartMy Computer. 2. Click Map network drive. 3. For Folder, enter the path to the container on the DR4X00. 4. Select the Reconnect at logon check box. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 17 8. Install NetVault SmartDIsk. Download or copy the NetVault install application to the backup server. Click install. Click Next to start the installation, and select to accept the license agreement. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 18 When prompted, select Remote and click Next. q. Enter the full path to the Stage folder that you created in the DR4X00 container, along with the user name and password required to access the folder. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 19 When prompted to enable SmartDisk WebDAV, select Yes. Enter the non-privileged user information that was created in step D. u. Click Next to confirm the installation Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 20 Once the installation is complete, click Close to exit Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...

  • Page 21: Configure Netvault Smartdisk

    3. Run the following command to disable deduplication for the SmartDisk configuration: smartdisk.bat config –dedupe-enable FALSE 4. Verify that the value has been set to false by using the command: smartdisk.bat config –show Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 22 6. Add the SmartDisk to the NetVault Backup Server as a library 7. Select Device Management and under the Add Section, Select Add NetVault SmartDisk. Type the name of the SmartDisk server within the Host Field. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 23 8. Click on the Save icon in the top left corner of the Pop up window above. Once the device is added successfully, then click OK to exit. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 24 9. Authorize the NDAV (WebDAV) from the NetVault Backup Server by using the command: “nvdav.exe –server [NetVault Server Name]” 10. Verify SmartDisk (Foundation) Services has started. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 25 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 26 11. Assign the SmartDisk Library as the target device for NetVault Backup Job. Select Backup and on the Target Tab, Select the SmartDisk device as the target. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 27 12. Finish configuring the rest of the Backup job parameters and then run it. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...

  • Page 28: Linux/Unix

    Linux/Unix Mount the container via the NFS path to the Linux/Unix SmartDisk client/server. The local mount point will be used for the SmartDisk path. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 29 2. Create non-privilege user account. (Excerpt from the SmartDisk Installation Guide). 3. Install the SmartDisk application. Under the directory that contains the SmartDisk application, launch the installation with the following command: “./install” 4. Select the correct lanaguage when prompted. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 30 6. Once the installation is completed the system will report that the installation was successful. 7. Disable Deduplication on the SmartDisk. The deduplication feature must be disabled when using NetVault on the DR4X00. To disable SmartDisk deduplication, run the following: “cd usr/smartdisk/foundation/bin” Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 31 8. Add the SmartDisk to the NetVault Backup Server as a library 9. Select Device Management and under the Add Section, Select Add NetVault SmartDisk. Type the name of the SmartDisk server within the Host Field. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 32 10. Click on the Save icon in the top left corner of the Pop up window above. Once the device is added successfully, then click OK to exit. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 33 11. Authorize the NDAV (WebDAV) from the NetVault Backup Server by running the command: “./nvdav –server <smartDisk_Device_name>” from “/usr/netvault/util”. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...
  • Page 34 Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...

  • Page 35: Set Up The Dr4X00 Cleaner

    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. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...

  • Page 36: Monitoring Dedupe, Compression & Performance

    As additional full backup jobs complete the ratios will increase. As mentioned before backup jobs with 12 week retention will average a 15x ratio in most cases. Setting up NetVault SmartDisk on the Dell™ DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance...

  • Page 37: Appendix A Additional Resources

     Dell technical support site: http://support.dell.com  Dell TechCenter is an online IT community where IT professionals connect with Dell customers and employees to share knowledge, best practices, and other information about Dell products and installations: http://DellTechCenter.com Dell DR4X00 -NetVault resources: Dell DR4X00 manuals/guides: ...

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