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EMC

Avamar

Data Store

Gen4S

Customer Installation Guide

300-999-651
REV 04

Summary of Contents for 300-999-651

Page 1: ...EMC Avamar Data Store Gen4S Customer Installation Guide 300 999 651 REV 04...

Page 2: ...f merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose Use copying and distribution of any EMC software described in this publication requires an applicable software license EMC EMC and the EMC logo ar...

Page 3: ...for customers 13 Fundamental Avamar principles 14 Avamar 7 x installation features overview 14 How long will the Avamar software installation take 14 Avamar Installation Manager 15 Process flow 15 Lo...

Page 4: ...ation Prerequisites 33 Important notices 34 Prerequisites 34 Site and environmental requirements 34 Required tools equipment software and information 34 Verifying checksums 36 Mounting the Single Node...

Page 5: ...ntended for persons responsible for configuring and installing ADS Gen4S Installation in this context is the physical rack and stack power cable and initial network configuration required to facilitat...

Page 6: ...output such as an error message or script l Pathnames file names prompts and syntax l Commands and options Monospace italic Used for variables Monospace bold Used for user input Square brackets enclo...

Page 7: ...Limit the search to specific products by clicking Advanced then typing a product name in the Scope by product box and then selecting the product from the list that appears 4 Select Knowledgebase from...

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Page 9: ...rminology an overview of installation features for the Avamar Data Store ADS and a high level road map of the installation Topics in this chapter include l Important terms and concepts 10 l Informatio...

Page 10: ...at is RAID level number of logical units LUNs and so forth l The Avamar application software that is installed on each node type Utility node In scalable multi node Avamar servers a single utility nod...

Page 11: ...ownloader Service provides more information Local downloader service A component integrated into the Avamar Installation Manager The local downloader service LDLS allows administrators to check the EM...

Page 12: ...between network components The primary objective is to provide multiple paths to the customer network so that the system can recover from an individual device or link failure To do this HA configurati...

Page 13: ...om the EMC repository installation packages and workflow packages The Avamar Downloader Service and LDLS push packages from the EMC repository to the local repository If a customer site does not allow...

Page 14: ...provides more information Fundamental Avamar principles When working with Avamar always consider the following l The best practice for replication is to move data from an older generation Avamar serve...

Page 15: ...ial Avamar software installation Avamar Installation Manager controls the following l The EMC repository manifest file l Downloading of packages from the Avamar Downloader Service and LDLS l Monitorin...

Page 16: ...on Manager Log files The Avamar Installation Manager provides log file information through the web interface The log information can be exported to a file xls or pdf The Avamar Installation Manager al...

Page 17: ...ilable for the Avamar system the Avamar Downloader Service service automatically downloads the package and pushes it to the local repository on the Avamar utility node or single node server Avamar Dow...

Page 18: ...re the Avamar Downloader Service puts packages it fetches from the EMC repository l A Start menu program group EMC Avamar Downloader Service version where version is the version of the Avamar system s...

Page 19: ...chapter contains information about the ADS hardware that relates to single node server installation Topics in this chapter include l Hardware specifications 20 l Service port connectivity 20 l Node co...

Page 20: ...4 management port M1200 3 9 TB licensed capacity l Six 3 5 hard drives l Dual 750W power supplies l Eight 10 100 1000baseT GbE ports l RMM4 management port M2400 7 8 TB licensed capacity l Twelve 3 5...

Page 21: ...vamar single node installation NIC8 eth7 10 99 99 5 S2400 Table 6 S2400 service ports Node state Service port Service port IP address Kickstarted straight from manufacturing or rekickstarted NIC8 eth7...

Page 22: ...l Avamar Business Edition S2400 node Eight in the 0 through 7 drive locations All others are blank Front control panel A set of buttons controls and indicators l System ID button Use to locate a parti...

Page 23: ...power on and off l Hard Drive Activity LED Indicates drive activity from onboard controllers Figure 3 M600 M1200 M2400 and Avamar Business Edition S2400 Node Rear View Table 8 M600 M1200 M2400 and Av...

Page 24: ...nd Avamar Business Edition S2400 node rear panel components continued Feature Description RMM4 port Dedicated management port for the RMM4 card Hardware Specifications 24 EMC Avamar Data Store Gen4S C...

Page 25: ...onal networking features and requirements for the ADS single node server Topics in this chapter include l Overview 26 l Basic networking configuration 26 l Supported network configurations 27 l Advanc...

Page 26: ...the default shared port is NIC1 eth0 The preceding default settings can be changed through the dpnnetutil utility described in Advanced network configuration dpnnetutil utility on page 29 Default net...

Page 27: ...ons for further clarification of possible ADS networking configurations Supported network configurations The following sections describe networking scenarios supported by ADS Gen4S servers l Single up...

Page 28: ...n entire customer switch used in the uplink l Connectivity between customer switches used in the uplink Dual uplink plus options to external customer network For high availability configurations plus...

Page 29: ...ess provides all functionality that is required to configure networking on ADS systems For more advanced configurations the interactive dpnnetutil utility must be run before software installation Adva...

Page 30: ...stomer network switch n Requesting corresponding parameters for each VLAN ID IP netmask The customer network administrator must provide a list of correct VLAN IDs typically in the range 1 to 4094 The...

Page 31: ...sic replication Dedicated replication A system that is configured for dedicated replication has dedicated networks on both source and target systems On the source system dedicated backup replication a...

Page 32: ...Networking 32 EMC Avamar Data Store Gen4S Customer Installation Guide...

Page 33: ...stallation Prerequisites This chapter describes the prerequisites for installing an Avamar single node server Topics in this chapter include l Important notices 34 l Prerequisites 34 Installation Prer...

Page 34: ...ver This includes hosting basic control and communication services for example administrator server NTP and so forth as well as storing the actual client backups Regardless of configuration all nodes...

Page 35: ...be installed l IP address for the RMM4 port l Firewall openings if appropriate Files Avamar software for use by EMC personnel l AvamarBundle_SLES11_64 VERSION zip which includes n avinstaller bootstr...

Page 36: ...ocedure 1 Verify the checksums and ensure that corruption did not occur during copying If the checksum does not match recopy the file to the computer Note For more information about how to verify chec...

Page 37: ...single node server in an EMC Titan rack It can also be used as a general guide for mounting a single node server in a different environment that uses similar standard racks Topics in this chapter inc...

Page 38: ...64 117 Left Assembled Right Inner and Outer Rails Separated Hardware Installation Use the following installation procedure to either mount an Avamar Data Store Gen4S single node server in an EMC Titan...

Page 39: ...b c Slide the inner rail completely out of the slide rail See next image Figure 12 Remove Inner Rail 2 Attach an inner rail to each side of the chassis a Align the large end of the rail notches on the...

Page 40: ...on of the rail assembly in the cabinet a From the front of the cabinet align rail alignment posts with the rear channel holes for the bottom 1U 1 75 in of cabinet space for the node and insert the ali...

Page 41: ...rol module and do not push on its power control module This module is on the right side of the front of the node a From the front of the cabinet align the inner rails attached to the chassis with the...

Page 42: ...l it snaps into place See the next image Figure 19 Front Bezel 6 Connect both power cables to the server and power source 7 Connect Ethernet cabling when directed in the installation instructions in S...

Page 43: ...R 6 System Preparation This chapter prepares the single node server for Avamar software installation Topics in this chapter include l Preparing the server for software installation 44 System Preparati...

Page 44: ...systems the default primary backup network port is eth0 Gb1 Procedure 1 Configure the network switch or switches to which you plan to connect the single node Avamar server for a flat layer 2 configur...

Page 45: ...nection to the Avamar service port 10 99 99 5 5 Log in as the root user 6 Open the YaST Linux configuration application by typing yast The YaST Control Center appears Figure 20 YaST Control Center Not...

Page 46: ...may need to tab to the second box and use the arrow keys to scroll until you can see the interface name assigned to each network card 9 With the primary backup network port selected tab to Edit and p...

Page 47: ...server software installation 20 Tab to Next at the bottom of the screen and press Enter The Network Settings screen appears 21 Tab to the top menu and use the arrow keys to select Hostname DNS Figure...

Page 48: ...played 35 In the YaST Control Center tab to Quit at the lower right of the screen and press Enter 36 Connect cabling from the primary backup network port to the customer network switch and replication...

Page 49: ...y to the primary backup network port from the customer network by establishing a PuTTY session Results This concludes customer installation activities for the ADS single node server System Preparation...

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