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SnapScale/RAINcloudOS 4.1 Administrator’s Guide
5 – Storage Options
NOTE: VSS snapshots can only be taken of Windows volumes that fully consume the iSCSI disk.
Snapshots of iSCSI disks that contain multiple Windows volumes are not supported.
1.
Go to
Storage > iSCSI
and click
VSS/VDS Access
.
2.
Add
VSS clients
to the SnapScale cluster:
a.
At
VSS/VDS Access Control
, enter the
VSS client hostname
to which you want to
grant access, and click
Add
.
The client hostname is not case-sensitive and should appear in the VSS/VDS Clients
box.
NOTE: Use only the short hostname (
myclientname
) of the client only. Do not use the IP
address or fully-qualified name (for example,
myclientname.mydomain.com
).
b.
Repeat
for any other hostnames you want to add.
c.
When you have finished adding VSS clients, click
OK
.
3.
Install the
VSS hardware
provider on the Windows iSCSI client.
a.
Depending on the Windows client, go to the appropriate heading to locate and
download either
SnapServerToolsInstall32.exe
or
SnapServerToolsInstall64.exe
from
the Overland website:
http://docs.overlandstorage.com/ssm
b.
Double-click the
executable
(.exe) to run the Installation Wizard on the VSS client
and select the VSS/VDS hardware providers option. This will add the hardware
provider to the Windows iSCSI client.
4.
Configure VSS-based
backups
of the iSCSI disk.
a.
Connect the client
iSCSI initiator
to the Snap iSCSI disk and create a volume (if
necessary). Add data or configure applications to use the iSCSI volume for the data
repository.
