Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network User manual

Setting up Veeam on the
Dell™DR4X00 Disk Backup Appliance
A Dell Technical White Paper

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Table of contents
Executive Summary ..........................................................................................................................................................................4
1Install and Configure the DR4X00.......................................................................................................................................... 5
2Configure the Backup Server................................................................................................................................................. 12
3Set up Veeam............................................................................................................................................................................ 14
4Set up the DR4X00 Cleaner...................................................................................................................................................22
5Monitoring Dedupe, Compression & Performance...........................................................................................................23

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Executive Summary
This paper provides information about how to set up the Dell DR4X00 as a backup to disk target for
Veeam®Backup & Replication™software. This paper is a quick reference guide and does not include all
DR4X00 deployment best practices.
See the DR4X00 documentation other data management application best practices whitepapers for
additional information.
NOTE: The DR4X00/Veeam build version and screen shots used for this paper may vary slightly,
depending on the version of the DR4X00/Veeam software version used.

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1Install and Configure the DR4X00
1. Rack and cable the DR4X00 appliance, and power it on.
2. Log into iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.1, user name root, and the password calvin.
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.).

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5. Set the user-defined networking preferences.
6. View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct.

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7. Log into the DR4X00 administrator console, using the IP address you just provided for the
DR4X00, user administrator and the password St0r@ge! (The “0”in the password is the numeral
zero.).
8. Join the DR4X00 to Active Directory.
NOTE: if you do not want to add DR4X00 to Active Directory, see the Owner’s Manual for guest
login instructions.
a. Select Active Directory in the tree on the left hand side of the dashboard.

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b. Enter your Active Directory credentials.
9. Create and mount the container.
a. Select Containers in the tree on the left side of the dashboard, and then click the Create link
at the top of the page.

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b. Enter a Container Name and select the Enable CIFS check box.
c. Select the client access credentials preferred.
For improved security, Dell recommends adding IP addresses for the following (Not all
environments will have all components):

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Backup console (Veeam Server)
Hyper-V hosts (on-host proxy for Hyper-V environments)s
Off-host proxies (for Hyper-V environments)
Backup proxies (for vSphere environments)
d. Click Create a New Container.
e. Confirm that the container was added.

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f. Click Edit, and write down the container path, which you will use later to target the DR4X00.
g. Click Cancel to exit.

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2Configure the Backup Server
1. 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.

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5. When prompted, enter the DR4X00 login credentials.
The DR4X00 container is now mounted to your backup server.

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3Set up Veeam
NOTES:
To maximize the DR4X00-Veeam storage capacity savings, it is highly recommend following the
exact below setup settings.
The backup formats differ completely when setup settings are changed. Hence, all savings on
Veeam installations that had settings changed in between are null and void.
1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication console.
2. Click the Backup Infrastructure section, right-click on Backup Repositories, and select Add
Backup Repository.
3. Enter a name that is self-documenting, such as “CIFS-DR4X00-Deduplication,” to indicate the
device, protocol and feature of the repository.

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4. Select Shared folder.
5. For Shared folder, enter in the name of the DR4X00 (or TCP/IP address used above) and the share
name, and then click Next.

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6. Configure the repository wizard to note that the DR4X00 is a deduplication target. Click the
advanced button and select the additional option for “Decompress backup data blocks before
storing”. The decompress option will make the DR4X00 do all of the compression. Make sure that
the “Aligning backup file data blocks” (fixed length write) option is deselected as the DR4X00 uses
variable block deduplication.
All other options for the new repository wizard are independent of anything related to the
DR4X00.
NOTE:
Deselecting the “Decompress backup data blocks before storing”option could shorten your
backup times but may increase your overall capacity usage. It is not recommended to switch
these settings once data has been written to the DR4X00.
7. Create a new backup job in the Veeam Backup console, for either Hyper-V or vSphere; the options
specific to the DR4X00 are the same.

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8. Select one or more virtual machines, folders, datastores, resource pools, vApps, SCVMM clusters,
etc. for the backup.
9. Ensure that the repository for this job is the DR4X00.
10. On the storage wizard of the backup job, click the Advanced button to check a number of
important settings.

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11. Ensure the backup job is running in Incremental mode, and avoid the rollback transformation
option. This is a default for new jobs.
12. Change the compression engine to None in the storage tab of the advanced settings. The
deduplication option to local target will perform deduplication by Veeam at 1 MB, landing on the
DR4X00 for additional deduplication and compression. Make sure “Enable Inline data duplication”
option is selected and Storage is optimized for local target