Dell Equallogic PS6000- Manuals

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Configuring a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Array as a Backup Target for CommVault™ Simpana™ Page 1 Table of Contents Executive Summary .................................................................................................. 2 Introduction .....................................................

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Configuring a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Array as a Backup Target for CommVault™ Simpana™ Page 2 Executive Summary IT managers are concerned that traditional backup methods aren’t keeping up with the needs of the business. Existing backup and recovery operations often fail due to media management i...

Page 5 - Prerequisites; by logging in to the Dell EqualLogic Customer User Account.; Technical Resources; documentation.commvault; Configuration Settings

Configuring a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Array as a Backup Target for CommVault™ Simpana™ Page 3 Prerequisites This paper assumes that the DL Backup to Disk Appliance has already been configured and that the desired volumes on the EqualLogic PS Series Array have already been created and made availa...

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Configuring a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Array as a Backup Target for CommVault™ Simpana™ Page 4  Backing up data on the Protected Server’s EqualLogic backend storage (optional) Exposing the EqualLogic volumes to the DL Backup to Disk Appliance This section explains the steps required to enable iS...

Page 7 - Page 5; Create a Simple Volume on the disk; Assign a drive letter to the volume.

Configuring a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Array as a Backup Target for CommVault™ Simpana™ Page 5 Configuring iSCSI settings on the DL Backup to Disk appliance  Install all components of the EqualLogic Host Integration Toolkit (HIT Kit) on the DL Backup to Disk appliance o If the iSCSI initiator se...

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Configuring a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Array as a Backup Target for CommVault™ Simpana™ Page 6  Backup-to-Disk & Deduplication Storage Policies can then be configured for these Magnetic Libraries (For more information on how to configure Storage Policies, please refer to the “Storage Policie...

Page 9 - Page 7; Figure 3: VDS/VSS Access in Group Configuration

Configuring a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Array as a Backup Target for CommVault™ Simpana™ Page 7 o Once this ACL entry is created, on the protected server, a new entry with the suffix ‘vss-control’ will be present in the list of targets in the Targets tab of the iSCSI initiator properties.  For ea...

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Configuring a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Array as a Backup Target for CommVault™ Simpana™ Page 8 Figure 4: Snapshot Reserve Space for a Volume Conclusions The need to recover data will continue to be a focus of IT departments. Files are lost, viruses take down infrastructures, disk drives fail and ...