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1 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide Integration of Dell EMC enterprise Data Domain Cloud Tier technology with XC Series. Dell EMC Engineering August 2017 A Dell EMC Solutions Guide

2 Revisions Date August 2017 August 28, 2017 Description Initial document Added steps for backup and recovery of SQL databases. The information in this publication is provided as is. Dell Inc. makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to the information in this publication, and specifically disclaims implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Use, copying, and distribution of any software described in this publication requires an applicable software license. Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All Rights Reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be the property of their respective owners. Published in the USA. [8/28/2017] [Solutions Guide] [ A01 ] Dell EMC believes the information in this document is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice. 2 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

3 Table of contents Revisions... 2 Executive summary Introduction Objective Audience Assumptions Terms Technology overview Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged appliances Nutanix architecture Data Domain backup targets Data Domain Cloud Tier Recommended Data Domain backup targets that support cloud tiering Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) Dell EMC Data Domain DD6800 midrange enterprise solution Overview of cloud providers Microsoft Azure Dell EMC Virtustream Solution architecture Overview of the XC Series (using Hyper-V) integrated with Avamar, Data Domain, and cloud providers Hyper-V solution components Overview of the XC Series (using ESXi) integrated with Avamar, Data Domain, and cloud providers VMware VSphere solution components Data Domain cloud tier setup Configuring the Data Domain cloud tier Setting up target cloud providers Creating a storage account in Microsoft Azure Creating a storage account in Dell EMC Azure Configuring DD6800 appliance Getting started with the appliance Configuring the network using the CLI wizard Performing system configuration Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

4 4.3 Configuring Data Domain Virtual Edition Creating Data Domain Virtual Edition Cloud Tier Local Storage for Hyper-V Adding separate network interface for cloud tier access to Data Domain VE for Hyper-V Adding license for Data Domain for cloud tier support Adding Azure to Data Domain Cloud Tier Adding Dell EMC Virtustream to the Data Domain Cloud Tier Configuring Avamar for cloud tier support Editing Data Domain system for cloud tier support Creating a cloud tiering group Workload backup and restore examples with cloud storage On-demand backup of VMs to cloud storage Policy based backup of VMs to cloud storage Restoring VMs from cloud storage Backing up stand-alone Exchange 2016 Mailbox to cloud storage Restoring stand-alone Exchange 2016 Mailbox from cloud storage Backing up SQL to Azure cloud storage Restoring SQL from Azure cloud storage Backing up SQL to Virtustream cloud storage Restoring SQL from Virtustream cloud storage Best practice recommendations Data Domain cloud tier best practices Conclusion Technical support and resources Related resources A Solution configuration details A.1 Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) and Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) on XC Series in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment A.1.1 Primary system configuration A.2 Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) and Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) on XC Series in a VMware ESXi environment A.2.1 Primary system configuration A.3 Data Domain backup target configurations A.3.1 Data Domain Virtual Edition (Hyper-V) backup target configuration A.3.2 Data Domain Virtual Edition (ESXi) backup target configuration Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

5 A.3.3 Data Domain DD6800 Appliance backup target configuration A.4 Network configurations A.4.1 Cloud Tier with Hyper-V network topology A.4.2 Cloud Tier with ESXi network topology A.5 Understanding Active, Marked, and Cloud tier Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

6 Executive summary This document is the solutions guide for using the Data Domain Cloud Tier feature facilitated through Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) and/or DD6800 to Microsoft Azure or Virtustream Cloud platforms. Backup and restore steps are provided for VMs, Exchange Mailboxes, and SQL databases. This solution lets customers leverage offsite storage for cold data originating from Dell EMC XC Series appliances. The Dell EMC XC Series is a hyper-converged solution that combines storage, compute, networking, and virtualization using industry-proven Dell PowerEdge servers and Nutanix software. By combining the hardware resources from each server appliance into a shared-everything model for simplified operations, improved agility, and greater flexibility, Dell EMC and Nutanix together deliver simple, cost-effective solutions for enterprise workloads. The XC Series platform is hypervisor agnostic, and supports your choice of hypervisor. With a focus on easeof-use and the ability to rapidly deploy multiple virtualized workloads the XC Series is the preferred platform for many enterprises and midmarket customers alike. The XC Series platform uses the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF), which delivers a unified pool of storage from all appliances across the cluster, using techniques including striping, replication, auto-tiering, error detection, failover, and automatic recovery. XC Series delivers storage through multiple protocols such as NFS, SMB, and iscsi while leveraging standard network infrastructure. 6 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

7 1 Introduction This solutions guide identifies how to deploy and use Data Domain Cloud Tier to backup data from Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged appliances. Data Domain Cloud Tier deployment is accomplished by: Setting up accounts with public cloud providers such as (Microsoft Azure and Virtustream) Deploying and configuring DataDomain Cloud Tier with Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) and Data Domain DD6800 Appliance Key characteristics of the Data Domain Cloud Tier feature are: Simple: Automated, native tiering to public, private, and or hybrid cloud Efficient: Send and retrieve only unique data for lower TCO Open: Broad ecosystem and flexible deployment options Simple management Data is sent directly from data domain to the cloud Data lands in the cloud already deduplicated Secure protection in the cloud Ensures data security Supports DD encryption and DD retention lock Encryption of data in public, private or hybrid cloud Secure file locking 1.1 Objective This paper presents: An overview of Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged Appliances An overview of how to leverage Cloud Tier for backup purposes from Data Domain Backup and recovery steps for VMs, Exchange Mailboxes, and SQL databases Benefits of using Data Domain Cloud Tier with XC Series High-level configuration of XC Series cluster integrated with Data Domain Cloud Tier Concluding thoughts on XC Series and Cloud Tier backup/restore use cases 7 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

8 1.2 Audience This document is intended for decision makers, managers, architects, cloud administrators, backup administrators, and technical administrators of IT environments who want a solution guide that demonstrates backup of VMs based on Hyper-V and ESXi hypervisors. You must be familiar with Dell EMC XC Series hyper-converged appliances, Dell EMC Avamar and Data Domain technologies, VMware vsphere technologies, Microsoft Hyper-V, Cloud providers (Azure, Virtustream) and have a basic familiarity with storage, compute, and network technologies. Business and end-user readers of this document must be familiar with general IT, backup and cloud technologies, and have an understanding of the relationship between their business, IT, and the backup requirements that are part of multiple business units. 1.3 Assumptions This solution guide assumes that you have: Read and understood the Dell EMC XC Series Data Protection Reference Architecture document. A working knowledge to deploy, manage, and update the Dell EMC XC Series cluster. For additional documentation, see Dell.com/xcseriesmanuals. Deployed and updated the Dell EMC XC Series cluster to the latest firmware and drivers. For the latest drivers and firmware, Dell.com/xcseriesmanuals. A working knowledge to deploy, manage, and update the Dell PowerEdge R730xd. For additional documentation, see the Dell PowerEdge R730xd manuals page found at Dell.com/XCSeriesmanuals. 1.4 Terms Term Solution terminology Description Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) Automation and analytics Change rate Cloud Tier De-duplication Distributed DSF delivers a unified pool of storage from all appliances across the cluster, using techniques including striping, replication, auto-tiering, error detection, failover, and automatic recovery. Automation and analytics provide extensive automation and rich system-wide monitoring. Change rate is the amount of time it takes for data to change in an environment. It is the percentage of a client file system that actually changes between backups. Cloud Tier automatically backs up files (typically inactive) to cloud storage for long term retention (LTR). Deduplication is a specialized data compression technique for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data. Distributed means all data, metadata, and operations are distributed across the entire cluster. 8 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

9 Term Hyper-converged Logical capacity Prism Proxy VM Tiering Throughput VSS XC Series cluster XC Series container Microsoft Azure Description Hyper-converged seamlessly integrates server and storage resources in a fully redundant solution. Logical capacity represents the projected amount of storage that could be available for holding backup data given a usable disk capacity times the deduplication factor. Prism is a Nutanix based software that enables simple, centralized infrastructure management powered by advanced data analytics and heuristics with built-in automation. Proxy VM, in the context of Avamar, is software running in a Linux VM, which is deployed using an appliance template file. Image backup and restore require deployment of the proxy VM within a VMware vcenter environment. Tiering stores data on various types of media based on performance, availability, and recovery requirements. Throughput is the time taken for a storage system to perform an input/output operation per second from start to finish. Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is a set of COM APIs that implements a framework to allow volume backups to be performed while applications on a system continue to write to the volumes. XC Series cluster is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that consolidates compute and storage into a single integrated appliance and creates a distributed virtual computing platform. Each appliance in the cluster runs an industry standard hypervisor and all the appliances work together to form a cluster that is scalable. XC Series container is a logical segmentation of the storage pool and contains a group of VM or files. Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service for building, deploying, managing applications, and offering scalable storage services. Dell EMC Virtustream Virtustream Storage Cloud is built as a seamless extension for primary enterprise storage and backup. Enterprises can extend their on-premises storage to off-premises public cloud for long-term backup retention, data tiering and cold/frozen storage, optimizing costs and increasing resilience and availability. 9 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

10 2 Technology overview Dell EMC customers benefit in leveraging this integrated solution for their primary workload data protection and cloud backup needs. This integrated solution offers Virtual Machine (VM) deployment and lifecycle management for the combined solution offering. Protection for newly deployed and existing VMs. Usage of policies and best practices and the consequent streamlining of the data protection workflow to the cloud are the primary goals for this solution. This section provides an overview of the products used to validate the solution. 2.1 Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged appliances Dell EMC XC Series hyper-converged appliances start with the proven Dell PowerEdge server platform and incorporate many of the advanced software technologies that power leading scalable and cloud infrastructures. Backed by Dell EMC global service and support, these 1- and 2U appliances are preconfigured for specific virtualized workloads, and are designed to maintain data availability in case of appliance and disk failure. The XC Series infrastructure is a scalable cluster of high-performance appliances, or servers, each running a standard hypervisor and containing processors, memory, and local storage (consisting of solid state disk (SSD) flash for high performance and high-capacity SATA disk drives). Each appliance runs virtual machines just like a standard hypervisor host as displayed in Figure 1. Standard hypervisor host. 10 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

11 2.1.1 Nutanix architecture Nutanix software provides a hyper-converged platform that uses DSF to share and present local storage to all the virtual machines in the cluster. The general Nutanix architecture is shown in Figure 2. Nutanix Architecture. DSF virtualizes local storage from all appliances into a unified pool. DSF uses local SSDs and disks from all appliances to store virtual machine data. Virtual machines running on the cluster write data to DSF as if they were writing to shared storage. XC Series supports multiple hypervisors and provides choice to customer. XC Series offers customer choice of hypervisors without being locked-in. The hypervisors covered in this reference architecture are: VMware ESXi Microsoft Hyper-V In addition, the solution includes the Nutanix Controller VM (CVM), which runs the Nutanix software and serves I/O operations for the hypervisor and all VMs running on that host. Each CVM connects directly to the local storage controller and its associated disks thereby reducing the storage I/O latency. The data locality feature ensures virtual machine I/Os are served by the local CVM on the same hypervisor appliance, improving the VM I/O performance regardless of where it runs. 11 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

12 2.2 Data Domain backup targets Data Domain archive and backup. Dell EMC Data Domain systems reduce the amount of disk storage needed to retain and protect data by ratios of 10-30x and greater. Scale up to 150 PB of logical capacity managed by a single system with DD Cloud Tier. With throughput up to 68 TB/hour, Data Domain systems make it possible to complete more backups in less time and provide faster, more reliable restores. The Data Domain Operating System (DD OS) is the intelligence behind Data Domain systems that makes them the industry s most reliable and cloudenabled protection storage. Data Domain offers the following in backup and archival of data: Industry-leading scale and performance Seamless integration Reliable access and recovery Efficient resource usage 12 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

13 2.3 Data Domain Cloud Tier Data Domain Cloud Tier. Most IT organizations must retain periodic backups for several years. Long term retention (LTR) backup files are rarely accessed; however, IT must retrieve backups on demand as either full or incremental restores. DataDomain Cloud Tier is architected for files and data that are infrequently accessed. The ideal candidates for Cloud Tier are data past their normal recovery window or useful active life. Examples of such data are: Years old messages Application data and files needed for legal hold Archiving Long term retention policies Common use cases for Data Domain Cloud Tier: Meet regulatory and compliance policies Reduce costs with low cost object storage in the cloud (on-prem or public) Migrate data from tape to cloud Cold storage archiving with limited retrieval of data In this solutions guide we demonstrate cloud tier integration facilitated through Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) and/or DD6800 appliances to the following cloud offerings: Microsoft Azure Virtustream Data Domain Cloud Tier moves data seamlessly from Data Domain to the cloud, with no separate cloud gateway or virtual appliance required. There is no additional physical footprint or management overhead. Simply set your data movement policy and data is automatically moved from the active Data Domain tier to the Cloud Tier and sent to the cloud for long-term retention. 13 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

14 You can also easily leverage Data Domain Cloud Tier in your current Data Domain environment as it works in conjunction with all of the leading backup and enterprise applications supported by Data Domain. A variety of public, private and hybrid clouds are also supported, including the Microsoft Azure and Virtustream Storage Cloud providers. Data Domain works with a variety of public, private and hybrid cloud solutions. The Data Domain Cloud Tier ensures that only unique data is sent to and stored in the cloud, and that only unique data is pulled when data is recalled from the cloud. Only unique data is moved. 14 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

15 Data moved to the cloud is encrypted and you have the choice to encrypt all data on your Data Domain system or only the data being sent to the cloud. With DD Retention Lock, you can move files that are locked on the active tier to the cloud. You can also lock files that are already in the Cloud Tier. Choose whether to encrypt all data or only the data moved to the cloud. 2.4 Recommended Data Domain backup targets that support cloud tiering Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) Dell EMC Data Domain VE solution offers software defined protection storage for entry level and Remote Office Back Office (ROBO) for backup, archive, and disaster recovery. Data Domain VE has the following features: Scales from TB per instance Protects up to 4.8 PB logical capacity Runs on industry-standard hardware Supported by Dell PowerEdge servers Like any Data Domain system, Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) is always paired with backup software. DD VE runs the Data Domain operating system (DD OS), and provides the Data Domain OS command line interface (CLI) and the Data Domain System Manager graphical user interface (GUI) for performing all system operations. Like a physical Data Domain system, DD VE ensures data integrity Dell EMC DD VE 15 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

16 and provides multiple levels of data compression, reliable restorations, and data replication. DD VE provides the capabilities of a physical Data Domain system in a virtual machine template. DD VE is available in the following resource configurations: Up to 500 GB (evaluation version only) Up to 4 TB Up to 8 TB Up to 16 TB The DD VE template does not include any storage, so you need to add data disks to the appliance Dell EMC Data Domain DD6800 midrange enterprise solution The Dell EMC Data Domain DD6800 midrange enterprise solution uses consolidates backup, archive, and disaster recovery and offers the modern enterprise data center protection storage with the following features: Up to 32 TB/hour throughput Up to 43.2 PB of logical capacity support with Data Domain Cloud Tier High availability configurations Dell EMC Data Domain DD Overview of cloud providers Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure is a simple and cost-effective backup as a service (BaaS) solution, that gives you trusted tools on-premises with rich and powerful tools in the cloud. Azure delivers strong protection for customer data wherever it resides in your enterprise data center, remote and branch offices, or the public cloud while being sensitive to the unique requirements these scenarios pose. Azure, in a seamless portal experience with Azure Site Recovery, gives you cost-efficiency and minimal maintenance, consistent tools for offsite backups and operational recovery, and unified application availability and data protection. 16 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

17 2.5.2 Dell EMC Virtustream Virtustream, is a Dell Technologies business, which is an enterprise-class cloud service and software provider trusted by enterprises worldwide to migrate and run mission-critical applications in the cloud. For enterprises, service providers and government agencies, Virtustream xstream management platform and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) meets the security, compliance, performance, efficiency and consumptionbased billing requirements of complex production applications in the cloud whether private, public or hybrid. Dell EMC Data Domain Cloud Tier can automatically move backup data directly from Dell EMC protection storage to Virtustream Storage Cloud for seamless, cost effective object storage service. No separate cloud gateway or virtual appliance is required, and customers do not have to worry about any additional physical footprint or management overhead. Dell EMC Data Domain Cloud Tier with Virtustream Storage Cloud enables cost-effective, long-term retention for the modern data center by only sending unique data directly from protection storage to the Virtustream cloud. Data lands on object storage already de-duplicated. With an average dedupe ratio of 10 30x, up to 51 petabytes of logical capacity can be protected in the cloud on hyper-scale cloud object storage. Protecting more data in a smaller footprint greatly reduces overall TCO and as more data is sent to Virtustream Storage Cloud, cost savings continue to increase over time. Data security in the cloud is a huge concern for many customers. Data Domain and Virtustream Storage Cloud ensures data remains secure with the ability to encrypt and lock data before tiering it to the cloud. 17 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

18 3 Solution architecture Dell EMC is advancing the robustness of the Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged Appliance infrastructure (HCI) environments by integrating our industry leading data protection components. This solution helps administrators reduce the complexity of their data protection environment while adhering to data protection best practices. Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged appliance data protection infrastructure. The network topology used for this solution uses redundant switches which allows for redundancy in the network paths between components. For an overview of the network topologies used,see Appendix A Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

19 3.1 Overview of the XC Series (using Hyper-V) integrated with Avamar, Data Domain, and cloud providers AVE, DD VE/DD6800 (with Cloud Tier) on Dell EMC XC Series hyper-converged appliances in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment 19 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

20 3.1.1 Hyper-V solution components See Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Data Protection Reference Architecture for a list of key data protection components that must be deployed in a Hyper-V environment at: Overview of the XC Series (using ESXi) integrated with Avamar, Data Domain, and cloud providers AVE, DD VE/DD6800 (with Cloud Tier) on Dell EMC XC Series hyper-converged appliances in a VMware ESXi environment 20 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

21 3.2.1 VMware VSphere solution components See Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Data Protection Reference Architecture for a list of key data protection components that must be deployed in an ESXi environment at: 21 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

22 4 Data Domain cloud tier setup There are various types of data protection scenarios based on business requirements. The data protection scenarios, which were validated as part of this solution are listed below. Validated data protection scenarios Item VM backup (on-demand) and restore Exchange Mailbox backup (ondemand) and restore SQL backup (on-demand) and restore Description The VMs associated with an appliance are backed up by Avamar and stored on a Data Domain target. Backing up of the VM reflects full backup protection of the VM as well as the applications running in that VM. Full or incremental backups of a specific database or storage group including the database file and the transaction log and checkpoint files for the database or storage group. Full or incremental backups either all SQL Server data on a specific server, one or more instances, or one or more databases. 4.1 Configuring the Data Domain cloud tier Setting up target cloud providers You must open TCP port 443 (https) and/or TCP port 80 (http) to the cloud provider networks for both the endpoint IP and the provider authentication IP for bi-directional traffic. Remote cloud provider destination IP and access authentication IP address ranges must be allowed through your firewall. Note: Several public cloud providers use IP ranges for their endpoint and authentication addresses. In this situation, the IP ranges used by the provider must be unblocked to accommodate potential IP changes. Contact your public cloud provider for details on your specific endpoint and authentication IP addresses. The only difference between adding Azure and adding Virtustream to the Data Domain Cloud Tier are the credentials Creating a storage account in Microsoft Azure Note: Contact your Dell EMC sales person to get a Microsoft Azure storage account. 22 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

23 1. Log in to your Microsoft Azure account and select Storage Accounts in the left hand panel. 1. In the Storage Accounts screen, select +Add. 23 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

24 2. In the Create Storage Accounts screen, do the following: a. In the Name box, type name for your Storage Account name. b. In the Resource group box, type your Resource group. 3. Click Create. 24 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

25 4. In the Storage accounts screen, after a minute or two your storage account will be created. You may have to click Refresh to see the account. 5. After the storage account appears in the list, click on the name of the account. 6. On the next screen, in the center of the screen, click Access keys. 25 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

26 7. On the Access keys screen, note the Storage account name and key1 and key2 fields. Data Domain requires this information to connect to the correct resources on the correct account Creating a storage account in Dell EMC Azure Note: Contact your Dell EMC sales person to get a Dell EMC Virtustream storage account. 1. Using a browser, log into your Virtustream account. 2. Under PRODUCTS, select Virtustream Storage Cloud. 26 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

27 3. In the left panel, click Credentials. 4. On the Credential screen, click Data Domain Cloud Tier. Take note of the Endpoint, Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. Data Domain requires this information to connect to the correct resources on the correct account. 4.2 Configuring DD6800 appliance Getting started with the appliance 1. Connect a serial cable from a serial port of a computer to the serial port on the back panel of the appliance. 2. Properly cable with disk shelves (if applicable). 3. Turn on the appliance, launch a terminal emulation program (for example, PuTTY) from a computer, and configure the following communication settings. Setting Communication settings Value Baud rate Data bits 8 Stop bits 1 Parity Flow control Emulation None None VT Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

28 4.2.2 Configuring the network using the CLI wizard 1. To activate the console, press Enter. 2. Log in using the following: a. Username: sysadmin b. Password: use system serial number as the initial password 3. Read and acknowledge the End User License Agreement. 4. The CLI configuration wizard starts automatically the first time the appliance starts. The wizard prompts you through a series of questions that provide just enough information to get the appliance network configured so that you can access the web interface for complete system configuration. Note: You can begin the CLI configuration wizard manually by typing config setup. Use a terminal emulation program for network configuration setup. 5. A summary of the network settings is displayed at the end of the wizard. Select accept to save configuration. Two other options also available: a. Reject the settings and exit to the CLI (Cancel) b. Return to the beginning of the current section (Retry). 6. To complete the configuration in the Data Domain System Manager, set the web browser address to of the DD6800 and follow the instructions in sections below. 28 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

29 4.2.3 Performing system configuration The following wizard is important in getting the DD6800 operational. This includes entering license information, making any necessary changes to network configuration completed previously, setting up file system, and so on. 7. To start the wizard, in Data Domain System Manager go to Maintenance > System > Configure System. 8. To configure licenses, click Yes. 29 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

30 9. Select Update Licenses. 10. In the Update Licenses dialog box, browse to select the license file and then click Apply. 11. Click Next. 30 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

31 12. Network was set up in the PuTTY session above. However, you can make any necessary changes here. Otherwise, click No to move on to the File System portion. 13. In the File System screen, add storage to each licensed storage tier on the system, Active, Cloud, and Cache. Each tier has a separate wizard screen. For example, above is the wizard screen for 31 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

32 configuring Active Tier. The Add to Tier button is grayed out in this case because storage is already moved from Addable Storage to Active Tier. In an unconfigured environment, storage is present in Addable Storage section and the Add to Tier will appear enabled. You then selects disks in Addable Storage and move those disks to Active Tier. 14. On the Cloud Tier wizard screen, similar as in Active Tier, Add to Tier button is grayed out because storage is already moved from Addable Storage to Active Tier. In an unconfigured environment, storage is present in Addable Storage section and the Add to Tier appears enabled. You then select disks in Addable Storage and move those disks to Active Tier. Note: Select the Enable Cloud Tier check box so that Data Movement to the cloud feature is enabled. 32 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

33 15. On the Cache Tier wizard screen, similar to the Active Tier and Cloud Tier, Add to Tier button is grayed out because storage is already moved from Addable Storage to Active Tier. In an unconfigured environment, storage is present in Addable Storage section and the Add to Tier button appears enabled. You select disks in Addable Storage and move those disks to Cache Tier. 16. The Create File System screen displays the allowed size of each storage tier in the file system, and allows you to automatically enable the file system after it is created. Confirm the information and the click Submit to start running the configuration. 33 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

34 17. In the Task complete screen, a summary of configuration tasks displays at the end of the process. Click OK. At this point the basic setup of DD6800 is complete and the appliance is operational. You can refer to Data Domain Administration Guide for additional information on configuring DD Boost, CIFS, NFS, DD VTL protocols for advanced features. 4.3 Configuring Data Domain Virtual Edition Creating Data Domain Virtual Edition Cloud Tier Local Storage for Hyper-V If using Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE), you must create a new virtual disk for Data Domain to temporarily store the backup data destined for cloud storage. 34 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

35 1. Using Hyper-V Manager, in the Action menu, click Settings for the DDVE virtual machine you want to configure. 2. In the left panel, under Hardware, click SCSI Controller. In the right panel, select Hard Drive (only choice), and then click Add. 35 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

36 3. In the Hard Drive screen, to create a new virtual hard disk, click New. 4. In the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard, click Next. 36 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

37 5. On the Choose Disk Format screen, select VHDX. 6. Click Next. 7. On the Choose Disk Type screen, select Fixed size. 8. Click Next. 37 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

38 9. On the Specify Name and Location screen, do the following: a. In the Name box, type a virtual hard drive name. b. In the Location box, type a location for your virtual hard drive. c. Click Next. The location shown above is typical and is where other virtual disks for Hyper V are stored. 38 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

39 10. On the Configure Disk screen, select Create a new blank virtual hard disk. 11. In the Size box, set the disk size to 512 GB. 12. Click Next. 39 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

40 13. On the Completing the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard screen, review the summary information and click Finish. Hyper-V Manager then creates a virtual hard disk of 512 GB. This takes some time. 40 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

41 14. In the Data Domain System Manager > Hardware Storage screen, the new virtual hard disk shows up as Addable Storage. Under Cloud Tier, click Configure. 15. Under Addable Storage, select the check boxes next to the new disk. 16. Click Add to Tier. 17. Click Next. 41 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

42 This makes the newly added virtual disk available for temporary storage of backup data destined for cloud storage. 18. On the Start Deployment Assessment (Step 2 of 2) screen, click Start Assessment. Data Domain tests the virtual disk to see if it meets recommended performance. This takes several minutes. This step is optional, however it does give information as to whether your Data Domain virtual edition is running at peak performance. 42 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

43 4.3.2 Adding separate network interface for cloud tier access to Data Domain VE for Hyper-V It is best practice not to expose your storage area network to the internet. Because Data Domain must access the internet to contact the cloud service provider, you must configure another network interface. Note: To shut down the DD VE virtual machine, only use the Shut Down command. Do not use the Turn Off command, because it performs a hard reset of the appliance rather than an orderly shutdown. 1. In Hyper-V Manager, under Virtual Machines, select the virtual machine. 2. Right click the Data Domain virtual machine and select Shut Down. 3. In the Shut Down Machine dialog box, click Shut Down. 43 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

44 After a minute or so, the state of the Data Domain virtual machine changes to Off. 4. After the state shows Off, in the Action menu, select the Data Domain virtual machine and then click Settings. 44 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

45 5. In the left panel, select Add Hardware. 6. In the right panel, under Add Hardware, select Network Adaptor. 7. Click Add and then click OK. 45 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

46 8. In the Hyper-V Manager, start the virtual machine by right clicking on the Data Domain virtual machine and selecting Start. After a new network interface is added to the Data Domain virtual machine, you can use the Hardware Ethernet screen of the Data Domain System Manager to configure the interface. 9. On the Hardware > Ethernet screen, on the Interfaces tab, select the interface that is to be connected to the internet and then click the Configure. 46 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

47 10. On the Configure Interface dialog box, type the correct values for your network. 11. Click Next. 47 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

48 12. In the Configure Interface ethv1 dialog box, review your settings. 13. Click Finish. 48 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

49 4.3.3 Adding license for Data Domain for cloud tier support You must license Data Domain for cloud tier support. The license is obtained from your Dell EMC sales representative and requires that you provide the Node Locking ID located in the Data Domain System Manager on the screen shown here (Administration/License/Update Licenses). Locating the Node Locking ID located in the Data Domain System Manager. After you have obtained the license file, use the ellipse button to browse to the license on your system. 49 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

50 4.3.4 Adding Azure to Data Domain Cloud Tier This process is independent of Data Domain type used in the solution. Follow this task for either DDVE or DD The first step is acquiring a security certificate for the cloud service provider you are using. Azure uses a Baltimore CyberTrust Root certificate. Obtain this certificate from the site shown here ( 2. The certificate downloaded from the DigiCert web site is not in the correct format for Data Domain and must be converted to a PEM-encoded file. Do this by downloading the openssl utility from the web. There are several locations on the internet to get the openssl utility (search for openssl for windows or openssl for linux to locate one). After you obtain the utility, use the openssl command line parameters shown above to convert the file to PEM-encoded format. 50 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

51 3. In Data Doman System Manager, on the Data Management > File System screen, to add the certificate to Data Domain, in the right panel, click Manage Certificates. 4. On the Manage CA certificates for Cloud dialog box, to add a certificate, click +Add. 51 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

52 5. On the Add CA Certificate for Cloud dialog box, click Browse and browse to the location of the PEM-encoded certificate and then click Add. 6. Back in EMC Data Domain System Manager, to add the Azure storage to the Data Domain cloud tier, in the left panel, click File System. 52 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

53 7. On the Cloud Units tab, in the right panel, click +Add. 8. On the Add Cloud Unit dialog box, do the following: a. In the Name box, type the name for the cloud unit. This can be anything you like. b. In the Cloud provider box, confirm the storage cloud provider or use the drop-down list to select another. c. In the Account name box, type the account name. This is the Storage account name from the Account keys screen in Microsoft Azure. d. In the Primary key box, type the primary key for the account. This is the key1 key from the Account keys screen in Microsoft Azure. e. In the Secondary key box, type the secondary key for the account. This is the key2 key from the Account keys screen in Microsoft Azure. f. Click Save. It may take a few minutes for this step to complete. 53 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

54 9. On the Data Domain System Manager Data Management File System screen, confirm the newly added cloud storage provider Adding Dell EMC Virtustream to the Data Domain Cloud Tier This process is independent of Data Domain type used in the solution. Use this task for either DDVE or DD6800. The only difference between adding Azure and adding Virtustream to the Data Domain Cloud Tier are the credentials and the certificate. The screens that follow show you where to find the credentials for Virtustream. You must purchase a Dell EMC Virtustream Storage Cloud account. Contact your Dell EMC salesperson or go to 54 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

55 1. Just as in the Azure instructions, enter the Virtustream credentials using the Data Domain System Manager. 2. Virtustream requires the DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA certificate as shown above. You must also convert this certificate to the PEN-encoded format using the openssl tool described in the Azure section. 55 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

56 4.4 Configuring Avamar for cloud tier support Editing Data Domain system for cloud tier support 1. In Avamar Administrator, click Server. 2. In the Server screen, click the Server Management tab. 3. In the left panel, click the name of the Data Domain system. 56 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

57 4. In the toolbar, click the Edit Data Domain System icon. 5. On the Tiering tab, select the Enable Cloud Tier check box. 6. Use the Cloud Unit drop-down list to select the cloud service provider 7. Click OK. Note: Even though you can define two cloud tiers in Data Domain, only one is active at a time when doing backups from Avamar. In other words, all backups that are moved to the cloud use the current Cloud Unit defined in the screen above. 57 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

58 4.4.2 Creating a cloud tiering group Tiering groups are used to configure the clients, backups, schedules, and other information related to cloud tier configuration. Note: Replication refers to copying of backups from one Data Domain to another. Tiering refers to copying backups from Data Domain to a cloud service provider. This paper only covers tiering. 1. In Avamar Administrator, click Replication/Tiering. 58 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

59 2. In the Replication/Tiering screen, select Actions > New Group > Tier. 3. In the New Tier Group wizard, in the Tier group name box, type a name for the tier group. 4. Click Next. 59 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

60 5. In the Source screen, do the following: a. Under Membership, select Tiering all client backups. This selects all backup clients for tiering. b. Under Filter, select Tiering all backups. c. Under Age Threshold, determine how long the backup will reside on the Data Domain prior to being tiered to the cloud. The Older entry tells Avamar to move any backups older than the time chosen to cloud storage. The Younger option lets you create a range; for example, you could configure tiering for all backups that have been on the Data Domain system for longer than 30 days, but less than one year. Note: Data Domain requires that data reside on the Data Domain active tier for a minimum of 14 days prior to being tiered to the cloud. d. Click Next. The Destination screen appears, indicating the cloud unit that has been configured for the selected Data Domain system. 60 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

61 6. In the Destination screen, select the Data Domain system that you configured for cloud tiering from the drop down menu (most likely there is only one choice). Notice that the Cloud Unit shown is the one configured when you added cloud tiering to the Data Domain on the Avamar Server screen. 7. Click Next. 8. In the Expiration screen, select Keep current backup expiration, and then click Next. 61 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

62 9. In the Schedule screen, select Default Tiering Schedule and then click Next. Note: The schedule determines when and how often Avamar marks backups on the Data Domain for tiering to the cloud. However, the actual movement of the data from the Data Domain to the cloud is performed based on the Data Domain's tiering schedule. 10. In the Overview screen, click Finish. 62 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

63 5 Workload backup and restore examples with cloud storage After the cloud tier group is set up, all backups (on-demand and policy based) will be tiered to the cloud after they have resided in the Active storage tier for time defined in the cloud tier group. 5.1 On-demand backup of VMs to cloud storage 1. In Avamar Administrator, click Backup & Restore.. 2. In the Backup, Restore and Manage screen, in the domain tree, select the domain for the client. 3. From the list of clients, select the client computer to back up. 63 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

64 4. On the Backup tab, a list of plug-ins on the client appears in the left pane. 5. Select the check box next to the data to back up (VMware Image). 6. Click the Backup Now icon in the toolbar. 7. In the On Demand Backup Options dialog box, select one of the following: a. Retention period: To automatically delete this backup from the Avamar server after a specific amount of time, select Retention period and then specify the number of days, weeks, months, or years for the retention period. b. End date: To automatically delete this backup from the Avamar server on a specific calendar date, select End date and browse to that date on the calendar. c. No end date: To keep this backup for as long as this client remains active in the Avamar server, select No end date. 8. Keep the default values for the other items. 9. Click OK. 10. The On Demand Backup Request dialog box indicates that the backup started. Click Close. 64 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

65 Using the Activity screen to manage progress. You can monitor the progress of the On-Demand Backup using the Activity screen of the Avamar Administrator. Use the Activity Monitor to see on-demand backup progress. In the Activity screen, use the Activity Monitor tab and see the on-demand backup progress. 65 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

66 Viewing data movement to the cloud. You can view Data movement to the cloud progress on the Data Domain System Manager DATA MANAGEMENT > File System > Cloud Units screen by looking at the cloud service storage number for the service and the Data Movement progress shown at the bottom of the screen. Backup data movement 66 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

67 Figure 18 shows a graphical explanation of the stages of the backup data movement. After the backup data has been stored in the Active Tier area on Data Domain for the time defined in the Group Tier Policy, it is moved to the Cloud Tier on Data Domain. Data Domain then moves the backup data to the cloud storage based on its data movement schedule. View your consumed cloud storage space. After Data Domain moves the backup from its cloud tier storage area to the cloud provider, you can confirm that your cloud storage space was consumed by accessing your cloud storage service. Figure 19 shows the usage as reported by Virtustream. Azure requires additional cost features to provide usage monitoring. 5.2 Policy based backup of VMs to cloud storage Policy groups are rules to allow Avamar to perform periodic automated backups. Policies define: Data to be backed up (dataset policy) How long to keep the data (retention policy) When to backup (schedule policy) the data and the clients (members) to which the policy is applied Avamar pre-defines the Default Virtual Machine Group to allow easy configuration of a backup policy that satisfies most users. 67 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

68 1. In Avamar Administrator, to enable the Default Virtual Machine Group for automated backups, click Policy. 2. In the left panel, on the Groups tab, select the VCenter ( ). 3. In the right panel, select the Default Virtual Machine Group and then click Edit. 68 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

69 4. On the Group Properties tab, clear the Disabled check box. 5. Click OK. 5.3 Restoring VMs from cloud storage 1. In Avamar Administrator, click Backup & Restore. 69 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

70 2. In the Backup & Restore screen, on the Restore tab, do the following: a. Select your client. b. Select a backup that has been moved to the cloud (noted by Cloud in the Tier column). c. Select the contents to be restored. d. Click the Restore Now icon in the upper left corner. 3. In the Restore Options dialog box, select one of the following from drop-down list: a. Restore to original virtual machine The virtual machine will be restored to the original existing virtual machine. The current state of that virtual machine will be overwritten. For example, the changes to that machine between the time the virtual machine was backup to when it is restored will be lost. 70 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

71 b. Restore to a different (exiting) virtual machine The backed up virtual machine contents will be restored to an existing virtual machine that may have different configuration than the originally backup virtual machine. c. Restore to a new virtual machine The virtual machine will be restored to a new virtual machine with the same configuration as the original and with a new name if desired. 4. Click Configure Destination. For this paper we chose Restore to a new virtual machine. 5. In the Name and Location screen, type the client name and location. This is the name of your restored virtual machine that shows up as a client in Avamar and a VM in Dell EMC vcenter (and Nutanix PRISM). 6. Click Next. 71 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

72 7. In the Host Cluster screen, select the Host or Cluster to which to restore the VM. 8. Click Next. 9. In the Datastore screen, select the Datastore for the VM. 10. Click Next. 72 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

73 Note: Do not select datastores used by Nutanix CVMs (for example: NTNX-xxxx) or the datastore that you defined for the Avamar virtual machine and proxies. The Nutanix datastore is on the Satadom and restoring a VM to it will result in the Satadom wearing out prematurely and rendering your system inoperable. Restoring a VM to the Avamar datastore causes performance and operational issues. 11. In the Summary screen, click Finish. 73 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

74 12. In the Restore Options screen, click OK to start the restore action. 13. A warning message appears to remind you that you may incur additional cost from your cloud service for the restore operation. Click Yes. 74 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

75 14. The Restore Request screen appears that shows that restore request has been queued. Click Close. You can watch the progress of the restore operation from the Activity screen. 75 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

76 See the progress indicators using the Activity Monitor. You can also note the progress in the Data Domain System manager on the HOME/Realtime Charts screen. 5.4 Backing up stand-alone Exchange 2016 Mailbox to cloud storage This section demonstrates backing up an Exchange 2016 mailbox in a stand-alone Exchange server environment using Avamar with an integrated DD6800. This is a two-staged process where data is first backed up to the active tier of the DD6800. After the data is aged to a specified number of days, it will then be moved to configured cloud storage. 76 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

77 Before you can back up a stand-alone Exchange mailbox to cloud storage, you ensure these prerequisites are in place: Avamar Client for Windows and the Exchange VSS plug-in are installed on the Exchange server. Follow the EMC Avamar and Service Packs for Exchange VSS Guide for install instructions. Exchange server is registered with Avamar server as a client. Exchange server is logged in with admin privileges. 1. In the Exchange server launch Start > EMC Avamar > Backup User Configuration Tool (installed as part of the Exchange VSS plug-in). 77 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

78 2. Under User configuration, do the following: a. In the Username box, type the AvamarBackupUser b. In the Password box, type a password. c. In the Confirm password box, retype the password. 3. Click Configure Services. 4. To confirm the creation of Avamar role, click Yes. 5. On the Avamar Configuration Security Warning dialog box, click OK. 78 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

79 6. A summary displays the results. If any of the tests failed, you may need to manually configure the services to log in as the AvamarBackupUser account. Click Close. 7. Back over on Avamar Administrator, click Backup & Restore. 79 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

80 8. In the Backup, Restore and Manage screen, do the following: a. In the domain tree, select the domain for the client. b. From the list of clients, select the Exchange server. c. On the Backup tab, under Windows Exchange VSS plug-in, select Exchange Information Store and Mailbox Database. d. Right click Exchange Information Store and select Back Up Now. 80 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

81 9. In the On Demand Backup Options dialog box, click on More Options. 81 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

82 10. In the Backup Command Line Options dialog box, ensure desired options are selected. DD6800 appliance is highlighted as backup destination. Click OK. 82 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

83 11. On the On Demand Backup Options dialog box, to start the backup process click OK. This backup goes to the active tier on the DD6800. Use the Activities section of the Avamar Administrator s main screen to confirm as running and then succeeded. 83 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

84 12. Now that the database has been backed up to the active tier of the DD6800, the next step is to create a new tier group to configure information related to cloud tier. In Avamar Administrator, click Replication/Tiering. 13. Select Actions > New Group > Tier. 84 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

85 14. In the New Tier Group wizard, in the Tier group name box, type the name for the tier group. 15. In the Source screen, do the following: a. Under Age Threshold, specify the number of days the backup stays in the DD6800 active tier before being moved to cloud storage. Refer to the appendix section where Active, Marked, and Cloud Tier is explained for more information. b. Click Choose Membership. 85 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

86 16. In the Tier Group Membership screen, select the Exchange server client. 86 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

87 17. To close Tier Group Membership screen, click Finish. 18. In the New Tier Group screen, select Next. 87 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

88 19. On the Destination screen, ensure destination is DD6800 either by name or IP address and click Next. 20. On the Expiration screen, click Next. 88 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

89 21. On the Schedule screen, we selected Default Tiering Schedule for our example but you can use another. To change any property values, click Modify. Refer to EMC Avamar and Service Packs for SQL Server Guide for more information. 22. On the Overview screen, review the data. If necessary, go back to make changes, and then click Finish. 89 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

90 With the tier group configured, when the backup becomes older than the number of days specified, it will be moved to the Cloud Tier of the DD6800, and the actual data movement to the cloud takes place based on the DD6800 s tiering schedule. The evidence of backup being moved from Active Tier to Cloud Tier and finally to cloud storage, is found in the Avamar Administrator > Activity tab > Activity Summary tab. DD6800 Data Domain System Manager interface (Data Management > File System > Cloud Units) 90 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

91 5.5 Restoring stand-alone Exchange 2016 Mailbox from cloud storage This section demonstrates how to restore a backup in a stand-alone Exchange server environment from cloud storage (Azure in this case) to a location different than the original location. 1. In Avamar Administrator, click Backup & Restore. 2. In the Backup, Restore, and Manage screen, on the Restore tab, select the client and the backup to be restored. 91 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

92 3. On the Restore tab, identify the backup, then right click and select Restore Now. 4. In the Restore Options dialog box, select Restore everything to a different location. 5. Click Set Destination. 6. Click OK. 92 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

93 7. In the Set Destination dialog box, set the restore destination to be to the C: drive, to a folder named ExchangeRestore. 8. Click OK. 9. In the Recall Confirmation dialog box, click Yes. 10. To restore the request, click Close. 93 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

94 11. On the Activity screen, view the successful completion. First the Recall displays, followed next by the Restore. 12. On the ExchangeTest16 system (Exchange server), backup is restored to C:\ExchangeRestore as specified. 5.6 Backing up SQL to Azure cloud storage This section demonstrates backing up a user SQL Server 2016 database in a stand-alone SQL server environment using Avamar with an integrated DD6800. This is a two-staged process where data is first backed up to the active tier of the DD6800. After the data is aged to a specified number of days, it will then be moved to Azure cloud storage. 94 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

95 Before you can back up a stand-alone SQL server database to cloud storage, ensure these prerequisites are in place: Avamar Client for Windows and the Avamar SQL plug-in are installed on the SQL server. Follow the EMC Avamar and Service Packs for SQL Server Guide for install instructions. SQL server is registered with Avamar server as a client. 1. In Avamar Administrator, click Backup & Restore. 95 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

96 2. In the Backup, Restore and Manage screen, do the following: a. In the domain tree, select the domain for the client. b. From the list of clients, select the SQL server. c. On the Backup tab, under Windows SQL plug-in, select the user database to back up. d. Right click and select Back Up Now. 3. In the On Demand Backup Options dialog box, click More Options. 96 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

97 4. In the Backup Command Line Options dialog box, ensure desired options are selected. Force incremental backup after full backup is unchecked. DD6800 appliance is highlighted as backup destination. Click OK. 97 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

98 5. On the On Demand Backup Options dialog box, to start the backup process click OK. This backup goes to the active tier on the DD6800. Use the Activities section of the Avamar Administrator s main screen to confirm backup going from running too succeeded. 98 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

99 In the Restore screen, backup displays as Active. 6. Now that the database has been backed up to the active tier of the DD6800, the next step is to create a new tier group to configure information related to cloud tier. In Avamar Administrator, click Data Movement Policy. 99 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

100 7. Select Actions > New Group > Tier. 8. In the New Tier Group wizard, in the Tier group name box, type the name for the tier group and click Next. 100 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

101 9. In the Source screen, do the following: a. Under Age Threshold, specify the number of days the backup stays in the DD6800 active tier before being moved to cloud storage. Refer to the appendix section where Active, Marked, and Cloud Tier is explained for more information. b. Click Choose Membership. 101 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

102 10. In the Tier Group Membership screen, select the SQL server client and then click Finish. 11. Back on the New Tier Group screen, select Next. 102 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

103 12. In the Destination screen, ensure destination is DD6800 either by name or IP address and click Next. 13. In the Expiration screen, click Next. 103 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

104 14. In the Schedule screen, Default Tiering Schedule is selected in this demonstration but you can use other schedules. Select Modify to change any property values. Refer to EMC Avamar and Service Packs for SQL Server Guide for more information. 15. In the Overview screen, review the data. If necessary, go back to make changes. When done, click Finish. 104 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

105 With the Tier Group configured, when the backup becomes older than the number of days specified, it becomes Marked, which means the backup is ready to be moved to the cloud storage. The actual data movement to the cloud storage takes place based on the DD6800 s tiering schedule. Avamar automatically starts cloud tier activity at the scheduled time as highlighted (Avamar Administrator > Activity tab > Activity Summary tab). As a result of cloud tier activity, backup becomes Marked. (Avamar Administrator > Backup & Restore > Restore tab). After the data movement takes place on the Data Domain, backup will have a new status of Cloud to indicate that the backup has gone to cloud storage. 105 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

106 The evidence of backup being moved to Cloud Tier (Avamar Administrator > Activity tab > Activity Summary tab). The evidence of backup being moved to Cloud Tier in the DD6800 s Data Domain System Manager interface (Data Management > File System > Cloud Units). 106 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

107 5.7 Restoring SQL from Azure cloud storage This section demonstrates how to restore a backup in a stand-alone SQL server environment from Azure cloud storage to operating system files so that you can use SQL server tools to restore the data to a SQL server. 1. In Avamar Administrator, click Backup & Restore. 2. In the Backup, Restore, and Manage screen, on the Restore tab, select the client and the backup to be restored. 107 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

108 3. On the Restore tab, identify the backup, then right click and select Restore Now. 4. In the Restore Options dialog box, select Restore SQL Server backup as files to the file system. 5. Click Set Destination. 108 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

109 6. In the Set Destination dialog box, enter the restore destination. 7. Click OK. 8. In the Restore Options dialog box, click OK. 109 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

110 9. In the Recall Confirmation dialog box, acknowledge the confirmation by clicking Yes. 10. In the Restore Request dialog box, click Close. 11. On the Activity Monitor screen, view the successful completion. First the Recall to Avamar displays, followed next by the Restore to the SQL Server client. 110 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

111 12. On the Restore tab, the restored backup becomes Active again. 13. On the SQL2016Test system (SQL server), backup is restored to C:\SQLRestore as specified. 5.8 Backing up SQL to Virtustream cloud storage This section demonstrates backing up a user SQL Server 2016 database in a stand-alone SQL server environment using Avamar with an integrated DD6800. This is a two-staged process where data is first backed up to the active tier of the DD6800. After the data is aged to a specified number of days, it will then be moved to Virtustream cloud storage. Before you can back up a stand-alone SQL server database to cloud storage, ensure these prerequisites are in place: Avamar Client for Windows and the Avamar SQL plug-in are installed on the SQL server. Follow the EMC Avamar and Service Packs for SQL Server Guide for install instructions. SQL server is registered with Avamar server as a client. 111 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

112 14. In Avamar Administrator, click Backup & Restore. 15. In the Backup, Restore and Manage screen, do the following: a. In the domain tree, select the domain for the client. b. From the list of clients, select the SQL server. c. On the Backup tab, under Windows SQL plug-in, select the user database to back up. 112 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

113 d. Right click and select Back Up Now. 16. In the On Demand Backup Options dialog box, click More Options. 17. In the Backup Command Line Options dialog box, ensure desired options are selected. Force incremental backup after full backup is unchecked. DD6800 appliance is highlighted as backup destination. Click OK. 113 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

114 18. On the On Demand Backup Options dialog box, to start the backup process click OK. This backup goes to the active tier on the DD6800. Use the Activities section of the Avamar Administrator s main screen to confirm backup going from running to succeeded. 114 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

115 Backup displays as Active. 19. Now that the database has been backed up to the active tier of the DD6800, the next step is to create a new tier group to configure information related to cloud tier. In Avamar Administrator, click Data Movement Policy. 115 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

116 20. Select Actions > New Group > Tier. 21. In the New Tier Group wizard, in the Tier group name box, type the name for the tier group and click Next. 116 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

117 22. In the Source screen, do the following: a. Under Age Threshold, specify the number of days the backup stays in the DD6800 active tier before being moved to cloud storage. Refer to the appendix section where Active, Marked, and Cloud Tier is explained for more information. b. Click Choose Membership. 23. In the Tier Group Membership screen, select the SQL server client and then click Finish. 117 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

118 24. Back on the New Tier Group screen, select Next. 25. On the Destination screen, ensure the destination is DD6800 either by name or IP address, and then click Next. 118 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

119 26. On the Expiration screen, click Next. 27. In the Schedule screen, Default Tiering Schedule is selected in this demonstration but you can use other schedules. Select Modify to change any property values. Refer to EMC Avamar and Service Packs for SQL Server Guide for more information. 119 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

120 28. On the Overview screen, review the data. If necessary, go back to make changes. When done, select Finish. With the Tier Group configured, when the backup becomes older than the number of days specified, it becomes Marked which means the backup is ready to be moved to the cloud storage. The actual data movement to the cloud storage takes place based on the DD6800 s tiering schedule. 120 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

121 Avamar automatically starts cloud tier activity at the scheduled time as highlighted (Avamar Administrator > Activity tab > Activity Summary tab). As a result of cloud tier activity, backup becomes Marked. (Avamar Administrator > Backup & Restore > Restore tab). 121 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

122 After the data movement takes place on Data Domain, backup will have a new status of Cloud to indicate that the backup has gone to cloud storage. The evidence of backup being moved to Cloud Tier (Avamar Administrator > Activity tab > Activity Summary tab). The evidence of backup being moved to Cloud Tier in the DD6800 s Data Domain System Manager interface (Data Management > File System > Cloud Units) 122 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

123 5.9 Restoring SQL from Virtustream cloud storage This section demonstrates how to restore a backup in a stand-alone SQL server environment from Virtustream cloud storage to operating system files so that SQL server tools can be used to restore the data to a SQL server. 29. In Avamar Administrator, click Backup & Restore. 30. In the Backup, Restore, and Manage screen, on the Restore tab, select the client and the backup to be restored. 123 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

124 31. On the Restore tab, identify the backup, then right click and select Restore Now. 124 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

125 32. In the Restore Options dialog box, select Restore SQL Server backup as files to the file system. 33. Click Set Destination. 125 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

126 34. In the Set Destination dialog box, enter the restore destination. 35. Click OK. 36. Click OK. 126 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

127 37. In the Recall Confirmation dialog box, acknowledge the confirmation by clicking Yes. 38. In the Restore Request dialog box, click Close. 39. On the Activity screen, view the successful completion. First the Recall to Avamar displays, followed next by the Restore to the SQL server client. 127 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

128 40. On the Restore tab, the restored backup becomes Active again. 41. On the SQL2016Test system (SQL server), backup is restored to C:\SQLRestore as specified. 128 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

129 6 Best practice recommendations 6.1 Data Domain cloud tier best practices The cloud tier feature can use all of the available bandwidth to the cloud, which may impact other applications sharing the WAN link. In addition, data-movement to the cloud has return traffic due to protocol handshake and acknowledgements. This is expected to be about two percent of the outgoing traffic but can have spikes as high as seven percent depending on the network and cloud provider responses. The best practice for Cloud Tier is to use dedicated 1-10 Gbps networks for connectivity to the cloud storage provider. In addition, Dell EMC recommends you use network quality of service (QoS) and/or dedicated cloud storage networks to avoid congestion and to ensure consistent performance in shared network environments where multiple applications access the same network. 129 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

130 7 Conclusion The solution detailed in this paper shows that Dell EMC XC Series can be integrated with Dell EMC Data Protection solutions (Avamar Virtual Edition and Data Domain) to offer robust backup and recovery of data, VMs, Exchange Mailboxes, and SQL Databases that needs to be backed-up to Cloud Providers (such as Azure and Virtustream) for long-term retention purposes. 130 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

131 8 Technical support and resources Dell.com/support is focused on meeting customer needs with proven services and support. Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged appliances solution is an online technical community where IT professionals have access to numerous resources for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged appliances. 131 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

132 9 Related resources See the following referenced or recommended resources related to this document: Note: The links below are open to customers although some may require registration for access. Nutanix Bible: Nutanix blog: Acropolis Block Services: Data Domain VE best practices: Data Domain Data Protection: AVE install guide: System-Installation-Guide.pdf?language=en_US Other AVE install guides: Edition/Documentation/ Avamar product page: Avamar community: Dell EMC Tech Center for XC Series: Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Data Protection Reference Architecture: Avamar and Data Domain on Hyper-V using Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Deployment Guide: Avamar and Data Domain on ESXi using Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Deployment Guide: Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Advanced Materials: Data Domain Cloud Tier feature information: - search for Data Domain Integration Guides 132 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

133 A Solution configuration details A.1 Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) and Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) on XC Series in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment See Avamar and Data Domain on Hyper-V using Dell EMC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Deployment Guide for a best practice deployment and configuration of AVE and DD VE for data protection integration with XC Series at A.1.1 Primary system configuration Primary Hyper-V system configuration Primary Source configuration: hardware and software components XC Series 4 x 1U: Firmware/BIOS: Hypervisor: MS Hyper-V 6.0 AOS: x Intel Xeon CPU E v Ghz 256 GB RAM (16 x 16 GB DIMMS) 2 x 800GB SATA SSD drives 2 x 1TB SATA drives 4 x 900GB SATA drives 1 x Intel X520 Description A single Avamar VM installs on one XC Series cluster. All VMs on an XC Series cluster can receive data protection and be backed up to a Data Domain target system. AVE VM configuration 1 x AVE VM: Hypervisor: MS Hyper-V v VM version: avhypervvss.exe hotfix (KB498818) VM version The AVE VM was imported as a.vhd. Installed hotfix. XC Series container hosting AVE has deduplication feature turned OFF. Avamar Windows Client Version: Installed on volume group created from XC Prism. Avamar Hyper-V VSS Plug-in Primary VM configuration VM w/ Exchange Workload Version: VM OS: Windows 2012 R2 16 vcpus, 64GB RAM CVM: 12 vcpus, 32 GB RAM VM OS: Windows 2016 Data Center 2 vcpus, 8GB RAM AvamarClient windows-x86_ Installed on volume group created from XC Prism. XC container hosting primary VMs can have deduplication feature turned ON or OFF. VM containing Exchange mailboxes that were backed up to the cloud providers using Data Domain Cloud Tier 133 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

134 Primary Source configuration: hardware and software components Description VM w/ SQL Workload Network Monitoring AvamarExchangeVSS-windows-x86_ plug-in VM OS: Windows 2016 Data Center 2 vcpus, 8GB RAM AvamarClient-windows-x86_ AvamarSQL-windows-x86_ x Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON switches Nutanix Prism MS Hyper-V Manager Avamar Administrator VM containing SQL Database that was backed up to the Cloud providers via Data Domain Cloud Tier Dual redundant switches were used for high availability Monitoring for XC Series cluster is done using Nutanix PRISM and Microsoft Hyper-V Manager. Avamar Administrator is used for managing and monitoring the AVE. A.2 Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) and Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) on XC Series in a VMware ESXi environment See Avamar and Data Domain on ESXi using Dell EMC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Deployment Guide for a best practice deployment and configuration of AVE and DD VE for data protection integration with XC Series at A.2.1 Primary system configuration Primary ESXi system configuration Primary Source configuration: hardware and software components XC Series 3 x 2U: Firmware/BIOS: Hypervisor: ESXi AOS: x Intel Xeon CPU E v Ghz 256 GB RAM (8 x 32 GB DIMMS) 2 x 800 GB SATA SSD drives 22 x 1TB SATA drives Description A single Avamar VM was installed on one XC Series cluster. All VMs on an XC Series cluster can receive data protection and be backed up to a Data Domain target system. 134 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

135 Primary Source configuration: hardware and software components Description AVE VM configuration Primary VM configuration Network Monitoring 1 x Intel X520 1 x AVE VM: Hypervisor: VMware ESXi U2 VM version: hotfix OVF version: VM OS: Windows 2012 R2 16 vcpus, 64GB RAM CVM: 12 vcpus, 32 GB RAM 2 x Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON switches Nutanix Prism VMware vcenter Avamar Administrator The AVE VM was imported as an.ovf file. Installed hotfix. XC Series container hosting AVE has deduplication feature turned OFF. XC container hosting primary VMs have deduplication feature turned ON or OFF. Dual redundant switches were used for high availability. Monitoring for XC Series cluster is done using Nutanix PRISM and vcenter. Avamar Administrator was used for managing and monitoring the AVE. 135 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

136 A.3 Data Domain backup target configurations A.3.1 Data Domain Virtual Edition (Hyper-V) backup target configuration Backup Hyper-V system configuration Backup configuration: hardware and software components Target system PE 2U: Firmware/BIOS: Hypervisor: MS Hyper-V 6.0 AOS: x Intel Xeon CPU E v Ghz 384 GB RAM (12 x 32 GB DIMMS) 2 x 200 GB SATA SSD drives 8 x 1 TB SATA drives 1 x Intel X520 Description A single Data Domain VE VM was installed on one PE R730xd-24 server. DD VE VM configuration Network 1 x DD VE VM: Hypervisor: MS Hyper-V v VM version: family VHD version: 2 x Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON switches The DD VE VM was imported as a.vhd file. Dual redundant switches were used for high availability Monitoring Data Domain System Manager Hyper-V Manager Data Domain System Manager was used for managing and monitoring the Data Domain VE. A.3.2 Data Domain Virtual Edition (ESXi) backup target configuration Backup ESXi system configuration Backup configuration: hardware and software components Target System PE 2U: Firmware/BIOS: Hypervisor: vsphere 6.0 AOS: x Intel Xeon CPU E v Ghz 384 GB RAM (12 x 32 GB DIMMS) 2 x 200GB SATA SSD drives 8 x 1TB SATA drives 1 x Intel X520 Description A single DD VE VM installs on one PE R730xd-24 server. DD VE VM Configuration 1 x DD VE VM: Hypervisor: VMware ESXi VM version: family The DD VE VM was imported as an.ovf file. 136 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

137 Backup configuration: hardware and software components Description OVF version: Network 2 x Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON switches Dual redundant switches were used for high availability. Monitoring Data Domain System Manager VMware vcenter Data Domain System Manager was used for managing and monitoring the Data Domain VE. A.3.3 Data Domain DD6800 Appliance backup target configuration DD6800 Appliance system configuration Backup configuration: hardware and software components Target system 2U: Data Domain OS: Kernel: 3.2.x 2 x Intel Xeon CPU E v3 2.4 Ghz 192 GB RAM (8x8 GB DIMMS + 8x16 GB DIMMS) 4 x 800 GB SAS SSD drives 4 x 4 TB SAS drives 2 External ES30 disk shelves 2 External DS60 disk shelves Description Powerful, modern data protection storage appliance for midsize enterprise. Network (2) 10GBase-T ports HA private interconnect. Monitoring Data Domain System Manager Web interface for managing and monitoring the Data Domain appliance. A.4 Network configurations Figures 26 and 27 shows the ideal network topology used for this solution. This solution uses a Dell Networking S4048-ON switches. Dell EMC recommends a minimum of two 10 GbE interfaces for each host. Each host should connect to dual redundant switches for network path redundancy. 137 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

138 Network components Components Data and management network XC Series internode connection (VM traffic) idrac inband network Description 10 GbE switch (optical) 10 GbE switch (optical) 1 GbE switch (copper) A.4.1 Cloud Tier with Hyper-V network topology Network topology for Hyper-V environment. 138 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

139 A.4.2 Cloud Tier with ESXi network topology Network topology for the ESXi environment. A.5 Understanding Active, Marked, and Cloud tier When Avamar backs up data and the cloud tier is enabled, the backed up data goes through different states. Avamar Administrator Backup & Restore screen shows backup as Active on the Manage tab. When the backup occurs, it is initially stored on the Data Domain in the Active tier. This is shown in the Avamar Administrator Backup & Restore screen under the Manage tab as Active. 139 Data Domain Cloud Tier for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Solutions Guide A01

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