EMC® Cloud Tiering Appliance and Cloud Tiering Appliance/VE Version 12.0
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EMC® Cloud Tiering Appliance and Cloud Tiering Appliance/VE Version 12.0 Getting Started Guide P/N 300-005-094 Rev 24 Copyright © 2016-2017 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries All rights reserved. Published July 2017 Dell believes the information in this publication is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice. THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS PROVIDED “AS-IS.“ DELL 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 DELL SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN THIS PUBLICATION REQUIRES AN APPLICABLE SOFTWARE LICENSE. 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. 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No text of specified style in document. 1 Contents Contents Chapter 1 Introduction ........................................................................... 11 Overview of the Cloud Tiering Appliance ............................................................ 12 File tiering and migration .............................................................................. 12 Block archiving ............................................................................................. 13 Cloud Tiering Appliance/VE (CTA/VE) ............................................................ 13 High Availability for CTA and CTA/VE ............................................................. 13 CTA implementation with VNX or Unity file primary storage ................................ 14 CTA implementation with NetApp primary storage ............................................. 15 CTA implementation with Unity block snapshots ............................................... 17 CTA and CTA/VE tasks ........................................................................................ 17 Using CTA and CTA/VE ....................................................................................... 19 Chapter 2 Cloud Tiering Appliance Hardware and Port Configurations ..... 21 Cloud Tiering Appliance 12 qualified hardware .................................................. 22 Cloud Tiering Appliance High Availability types ............................................. 24 Contents of the appliance ............................................................................. 25 Appliance diagrams ........................................................................................... 25 Port details ........................................................................................................ 26 Chapter 3 Installing the Cloud Tiering Appliance ..................................... 27 Appliance setup ................................................................................................ 28 Installing the virtual edition ............................................................................... 28 CTA and CTA/VE for high availability .................................................................. 29 High availability with VNX or Unity primary storage ....................................... 30 High availability with NetApp primary storage ............................................... 30 Network console management for Gen 8 models ............................................... 31 Using CTA CLI commands .............................................................................. 32 Rebooting the system ................................................................................... 32 Performing a CD clean install on the appliance .................................................. 32 Performing a CD clean install on a generic server ............................................... 33 Adding the CTA serial number ............................................................................ 34 Configuring CTA ................................................................................................. 34 Configure the CTA network ............................................................................ 35 Configure the hostname, domain, and DNS server ........................................ 36 Configure iSCSI IQN targets (Unity block archiving and restore only) ............. 36 2 EMC® Cloud Tiering Appliance Getting Started Guide 2 Contents Update the hosts file .................................................................................... 37 File Encryption ................................................................................................... 37 Enabling keystore replication ........................................................................ 37 Configuring and using file encryption ............................................................ 37 Graphical user interface ..................................................................................... 38 Command line interface ..................................................................................... 39 Chapter 4 Deploying the Cloud Tiering Appliance .................................... 41 Deployment process for archiving ...................................................................... 42 Step 1: Set up CTA ........................................................................................ 43 Step 2: Configure the archive environment ................................................... 43 Step 3: Configure the destination ................................................................. 43 Step 4: Define policies .................................................................................. 44 Step 5: Create a task ..................................................................................... 44 Step 6: Run the simulation task (optional) .................................................... 44 Step 7: Run the policy task ........................................................................... 44 Supported platforms ......................................................................................... 44 Deploying CTA with VNX ..................................................................................... 45 Prerequisites for using VNX as a file migration source or destination ............ 46 Prerequisites for VNX as an archive source ................................................... 46 Adding VNX to the CTA configuration ............................................................. 47 Configure name resolution for archiving ........................................................ 50 Configuring VNX to Centera or cloud archiving on the CTA ............................. 51 Prerequisite tasks on the VNX Control Station for file migration or archiving . 52 Deploying CTA with NetApp................................................................................ 57 Prerequisites for using NetApp as a file migration source .............................. 57 Prerequisites for using NetApp as an archiving source .................................. 57 vFiler configuration ....................................................................................... 60 Configuring NetApp archiving on the CTA ...................................................... 60 Adding NetApp filer to the CTA configuration................................................. 60 Verify the FPolicy configuration for CTA ......................................................... 63 Deploying CTA with a VNXe ................................................................................ 64 Prerequisites for using VNXe as a file migration destination .......................... 64 Adding VNXe to the CTA configuration ........................................................... 64 Deploying CTA with Unity ................................................................................... 65 Prerequisites for Unity as an archive source .................................................. 65 Configure name resolution for archiving ........................................................ 66 Configuring Unity to cloud archiving on the CTA ............................................ 66 Adding a Unity file server to the CTA configuration ........................................ 67 Adding a Unity block server to the CTA configuration .................................... 68 Deploying CTA with Virtustream ......................................................................... 70 Deploying CTA with a Windows server ................................................................ 71 Adding a Windows server to the CTA configuration ........................................ 72 EMC® Cloud Tiering Appliance Getting Started Guide 3 3 Contents Installing the EMWS copy agent for CTA ........................................................ 72 Installing and running LGDUP ....................................................................... 73 Deploying CTA with Isilon .................................................................................. 74 Prerequisite tasks when using Isilon as a CIFS share destination .................. 74 Prerequisite tasks when using Isilon as an NFS export destination ............... 76 Prerequisite task when using Isilon as a file migration destination ............... 76 Adding Isilon to the CTA configuration .........................................................