Configuring Actifio PAS with the Domain Manager

Configuring Actifio PAS with the Domain Manager contains: Chapter 1, Introduction to the Domain Manager Service Chapter 2, Overview of Configuration Tools Chapter 3, Monitoring Resource Usage Chapter 4, Configuring Storage Chapter 5, Managing Dedup Garbage Collection Chapter 6, Cluster Topology Chapter 7, Adding and Joining Clusters Chapter 8, Managing Clusters Chapter 9, Configuring Notifications and Logs Chapter 10, About Hosts Chapter 11, Managing Hosts Chapter 12, Adding Hosts Chapter 13, Creating and Configuring VDisks Chapter 14, Managing Active Images

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Copyright, Trademarks, and other Legal Matter

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Table of Contents
Copyright, Trademarks, and other Legal Matter .............................................................................................. ii

Table of Contents .................................................................................................................... iii Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Domain Manager Service ................................................... 1
Functions of the Domain Manager System Function .......................................................................................... 2 The Domain Manager Service Menu .................................................................................................................. 3

Chapter 2 - Overview of Configuration Tools ....................................................................... 5

Resources ........................................................................................................................................................... 6 Storage Pools...................................................................................................................................................... 7 Dedup Settings ................................................................................................................................................... 8 Cluster Settings................................................................................................................................................... 9 Notification ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 Logs .................................................................................................................................................................. 11

Chapter 3 - Monitoring Resource Usage ............................................................................. 13

Viewing the Resources Summary ..................................................................................................................... 14 Viewing and Managing VDisk Usage ................................................................................................................ 15 Viewing and Managing Snapshot Memory Usage ............................................................................................ 16 Viewing and Managing Replication Memory Usage.......................................................................................... 17 Viewing and Managing Mirror Memory Usage .................................................................................................. 18

Chapter 4 - Configuring Storage .......................................................................................... 19

About Actifio PAS Storage................................................................................................................................. 20 Configuring the Usage Thresholds of Storage Pools and Resource Profiles....................................................21 Creating, Modifying, and Deleting Storage Pools ............................................................................................. 22 Viewing Storage Pool Information.................................................................................................................. 22 Creating Additional Storage Pools ................................................................................................................. 22 Modifying Storage Pools ................................................................................................................................ 23 Deleting Storage Pools .................................................................................................................................. 24

Chapter 5 - Managing Dedup Garbage Collection .............................................................. 25

Configuring Full GC Schedule .......................................................................................................................... 26 Configuring an Incremental GC Schedule......................................................................................................... 28

Chapter 6 - Cluster Topology ............................................................................................... 31

Cluster Topology: Sharing and Peer Relationships........................................................................................... 32 About Sharing Mode ......................................................................................................................................... 33 About Non-Sharing Mode ................................................................................................................................. 34

Chapter 7 - Adding and Joining Clusters ............................................................................ 35

Viewing Details of Joined Clusters.................................................................................................................... 36 Managing Security Certificates ......................................................................................................................... 37 Downloading a Certificate .............................................................................................................................. 38 Uploading a Certificate .................................................................................................................................. 39 Exchanging Certificates ................................................................................................................................. 40 Joining a Cluster to a Master Cluster ................................................................................................................ 41 Joining PAS Clusters in Non-Sharing Mode...................................................................................................... 42 Setting Up Partnership for Fibre Channel Support ........................................................................................... 43

Chapter 8 - Managing Clusters ............................................................................................. 45

Viewing Details of Joined Clusters.................................................................................................................... 46 Unjoining a Joined Cluster ................................................................................................................................ 47 Managing Bandwidth Utilization ........................................................................................................................ 48 Viewing the Bandwidth Usage ....................................................................................................................... 49 Enabling and Disabling Bandwidth Throttling ................................................................................................ 50 Overriding Bandwidth Throttling .................................................................................................................... 51 Scheduling Bandwidth Throttling ................................................................................................................... 52
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Configuring the Actifio Desktop to Use Your LDAP Authentication................................................................... 53 Considerations when PAS is Configured with LDAP ..................................................................................... 54 Shutting Down a Cluster ................................................................................................................................... 55 Disabling Expirations and Schedules................................................................................................................ 56

Chapter 9 - Configuring Notifications and Logs ................................................................. 57

Email ................................................................................................................................................................. 58 Configuring an SMTP Server......................................................................................................................... 58 Configuring the Event Notification ................................................................................................................. 59 Sending PAS Statistics to Actifio Support ...................................................................................................... 60 Configuring Switches and Storage................................................................................................................. 61 Sending PAS Logs to Actifio Support................................................................................................................ 62 Configuring an SNMP Server............................................................................................................................ 63

Chapter 10 - About Hosts ...................................................................................................... 65

About Hosts.......................................................................................................................................................66 In-Band and Out-of-Band Storage .................................................................................................................... 67

Chapter 11 - Managing Hosts ............................................................................................... 69

Details ............................................................................................................................................................... 70 Ports (Out-of-Band Only) .................................................................................................................................. 71 Storage (Out-of-Band Only) .............................................................................................................................. 72 Applications.......................................................................................................................................................73 Orgs .................................................................................................................................................................. 74

Chapter 12 - Adding Hosts .................................................................................................... 75

Adding a Host ................................................................................................................................................... 76 Configuring the Ports of a Host ......................................................................................................................... 79

Chapter 13 - Creating and Configuring VDisks ................................................................... 81

Creating a VDisk ............................................................................................................................................... 82 Creating an Image Mode VDisk..................................................................................................................... 83 Creating a VDisk in Mirror Mode (Image-Image) ........................................................................................... 84 Creating a VDisk in Mirror Mode (Image-Striped) .......................................................................................... 85 Mapping and Unmapping a Virtual Disk to a Host ............................................................................................ 86 Expanding a Virtual Disk ................................................................................................................................... 87 Renaming a Virtual Disk.................................................................................................................................... 88 Deleting a Virtual Disk....................................................................................................................................... 89

Chapter 14 - Managing Active Images ................................................................................. 91

Unmounting an Image....................................................................................................................................... 92 Unmounting and Deleting an Image ................................................................................................................. 93 Deleting an Unmounted Image ......................................................................................................................... 94

Index ........................................................................................................................................ 95

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Chapter Introduction to the Domain Manager Service

The Actifio Desktop Domain Manager service is your primary tool for configuring and managing relationships among all resources within the domains protected by Actifio PAS. Use the Domain Manager to handle two broad classes of functions: The Security function is for managing Organizations and Users that have access to Actifio PAS, and the Roles that you create and assign them. These functions are detailed in Setting Up Actifio PAS Users. The System function is where you set protection rules for hosts and clusters on which copy data resides. These functions are detailed in this book.

The Domain Manager This introduction discusses: Functions of the Domain Manager System Function on page 2 The Domain Manager Service Menu on page 3

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Functions of the Domain Manager System Function

The System function of the Domain Manager provides these tools: Configuration: a powerful suite of tools for configuring and monitoring your PAS resources. This is introduced in Chapter 2, Overview of Configuration Tools and detailed in subsequent chapters. Hosts: for configuring and managing your hosts protected by Actifio PAS. Tools for host management are described in Chapter 10, About Hosts Active Images: for managing your backup images that have been mounted to hosts. If no images are mounted (active) then Active Images does not appear in the navigation pane. The Active Images tools are described in Chapter 14, Managing Active Images

The Configuration and Hosts Sections of the Domain Managers System Section

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The Domain Manager Service Menu

You can get an idea of what the Domain Manager does by reviewing the actions available in the Domain Manager service. The service menu includes functions for both the Security function (shaded in the table below) and the System function. Domain Manager Service Menu Items

Command Name New Organization... New User... New Role... New Host... Join Cluster... Certificate Exchange Upload Certificate...

Task Create a new organization and assign resources. (Security service) Create a new user and assign roles to the user. (Security service) Create a new role. (Security service) Configure a host. Join this PAS cluster another cluster for configuration sharing and data replication. Exchange security certificates between two PAS clusters. Upload the security certificate of a remote PAS cluster to the PAS cluster that Actifio Desktop is connected to. Uploading and downloading of security certificates results in the exchange of the certificates between two clusters. Consequently, you can replicate data to and from the remote cluster. Download the security certificate of the PAS cluster that Actifio Desktop is connected to a local folder. Uploading and downloading of security certificates results in the exchange of the certificates between two clusters. Consequently, you can replicate data to and from the remote cluster. Archive jobs executed using Actifio Desktop. Add an SSH public key to enable CLI access for a user. (Security service) Disable CLI access to a user. (Security service) Upload the patch or updated file to the system. Delete a user, role, or host.

Download Certificate...

Archive Job History... Add CLI Access Remove CLI Access Upload System Update Delete

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Chapter Overview of Configuration Tools

Configuration tools include: Resources on page 6 Storage Pools on page 7 Dedup Settings on page 8 Cluster Settings on page 9 Notification on page 10 Logs on page 11

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Resources
Use the Resources tool to view the usage of the four classes of storage resources, and to set resource limits and warning thresholds.

The Configuration and Host Sections of the Domain Managers System Section Resources tools are detailed in Chapter 3, Monitoring Resource Usage.

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Storage Pools
Use the Storage Pools tool to view the usage of the three types of storage pools, and to set resource limits and warning thresholds.

The Configuration and Host Sections of the Domain Managers System Section Storage pools are detailed in Chapter 4, Configuring Storage.

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Dedup Settings
The dedup process generates a lot of garbage, data that was once part on an image that has been expired. The Dedup Settings page is where you manage the garbage collection, when Actifio PAS sweeps through the storage space and makes free the blocks that formerly held data.

The Configuration and Host Sections of the Domain Managers System Section Dedup garbage collection is detailed in Chapter 5, Managing Dedup Garbage Collection.

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Cluster Settings
An Actifio PAS cluster is the Actifio hardware and software that protects your data. Your hosts connect to PAS clusters. Use the Cluster Settings tools to add clusters, join them together, and perform other configuration and maintenance tasks on your Actifio PAS clusters.

The Configuration and Host Sections of the Domain Managers System Section Clusters are described and the Cluster Settings are detailed in Chapter 8, Managing Clusters and in Chapter 8, Managing Clusters.

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Notification
You can configure an SNMP server as the target of SNMP traps generated by Actifio PAS. Also, you can configure an email notification to inform administrators when events of selected severity occur.

The Configuration and Host Sections of the Domain Managers System Section Notifications are detailed in Chapter 9, Configuring Notifications and Logs.

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Logs
Use the Logs tab to send PAS cluster statistics and logs to the Actifio support team.

The Configuration and Host Sections of the Domain Managers System Section Logs are detailed in Chapter 9, Configuring Notifications and Logs.

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Chapter Monitoring Resource Usage

Resource usage includes Viewing the Resources Summary on page 14 Viewing and Managing VDisk Usage on page 15 Viewing and Managing Snapshot Memory Usage on page 16 Viewing and Managing Replication Memory Usage on page 17 Viewing and Managing Mirror Memory Usage on page 18

The System/Resources Sections of the Domain Manager Service

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Viewing the Resources Summary

The Resources Summary provides an at-a-glance view of the status of your four data storage resources.

The Domain Manager System Configuration Resources Summary When usage of any of these resources increases to and beyond the warning threshold, Actifio PAS performance can suffer. One solution is to increase your storage. Other solutions may be available depending upon the resource type. To configure resource limits and warning thresholds, you must access the specific tools: Viewing and Managing VDisk Usage on page 15 Viewing and Managing Snapshot Memory Usage on page 16 Viewing and Managing Replication Memory Usage on page 17 Viewing and Managing Mirror Memory Usage on page 18

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Viewing and Managing VDisk Usage

A VDisk is a virtual disk on a cluster, presented to a host as a unit of usable storage capacity. You use VDisks for each LUN, VMDK, database or filesystem protected (unless protected direct-to-dedup), each volume comprising a snapshot or an application, and each LUN comprising a mount or clone of an application. To monitor the number of virtual disks: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Resources. 3. Select the VDisks tab. Under VDisk Usage you see the number of VDisks in use and available. You can have a maximum of 2048 VDisks on a PAS cluster. Top 10 VDisks List The Top Ten VDisks list shows the ten VDisks that have the maximum number of virtual disk copies, usually snapshots or mounts/clones. Changing the Warning Threshold for VDisks If the number of virtual disks created on the PAS cluster exceeds the warning threshold, warnings are sent to the email recipients configured in Email on page 58. The default warning threshold for VDisks usage is 90%. To change the warning value, drag the threshold value to the desired value and click Save. Note: Do not change the warning threshold simply because your data exceeds the threshold. Change the warning threshold only if your usage requirements justify a different value. Actifio Support can help.

Viewing VDisk Usage

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Viewing and Managing Snapshot Memory Usage

A snapshot is the state of a system at a particular point in time. Snapshot memory is memory pre-allocated for tracking differences between on-disk data in snapshots. To view the usage of the snapshot memory: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Resources. 3. Select the Snaps tab. Under Snapshot Memory you see the amount of memory already taken by snapshots and how much is still available. If Snapshot Memory Usage is Too High When Snapshot Memory usage increases to and beyond the warning threshold, Actifio PAS performance can suffer. Solutions include: Review your SLAs and see if you can reduce the number of snapshots you are taking. Increase snapshot memory. It can be increased up to 512MB, if you're not doing any local or remote mirroring.

Changing the Warning Threshold The default threshold for snapshot memory usage is 90%. To change the warning value, change the default warning threshold value if required. Note: Do not change the warning threshold simply because your data exceeds the threshold. Change the warning threshold only if your usage requirements justify a different value. Actifio Support can help. Changing the Resource Limit The default snapshot memory capacity is 100 MB. You can change this if you need more. Each snapshot, mount or clone uses around a kilobyte of memory per gigabyte size of a volume that is backed up or mount/clone. With 100MB snapshot memory you can have about 100TB of snapshots etc. If you are protecting many large volumes and keeping multiple generations of snapshots, increase your snapshot memory.

Viewing Snapshot Memory Usage

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Viewing and Managing Replication Memory Usage

Replication memory buffers changes that are being written to a remote cluster using Sync or Async replication. To view the usage of the replication memory: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Resources. 3. Select the Replication tab. Under Replication Memory you see the amount of memory already taken by replication and how much remains available. If Replication Memory Usage is Too High When Replication Memory usage increases to and beyond the warning threshold, Actifio PAS performance can suffer. Solutions include: See if the latency or bandwidth of your Fibre Channel network is a bottleneck. increase memory pre-allocated for replication. The sum of replication+mirror+snapshot memory can be increased to a combined maximum of 512MB

Changing the Warning Threshold The default threshold for replication memory usage is 90%. To change the warning value, change the default warning threshold value. Note: Do not change the warning threshold simply because your data exceeds the threshold. Change the warning threshold only if your usage requirements justify a different value. Actifio Support can help. Changing the Resource Limit The default replication memory capacity is 70 MB. Change this only with the assistance of Actifio Support. If required, increase or decrease the Resource Limit and click Save.

Viewing Replication Memory Usage

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Viewing and Managing Mirror Memory Usage

When Actifio PAS is protecting an in-band volume, it has the ability to create two identical copies of that volume that it keeps in sync. This function can be used to provide high availability or to facilitate migration of the volume from one storage controller to another. Actifio PAS uses a memory bitmap to ensure that each copy of the volume is kept in sync. To view the usage of the mirror memory: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Resources. 3. Select the Mirror tab. Under Mirror Memory you see the amount of memory already taken by mirroring and how much remains available. If Mirror Memory Usage is Too High When Mirror Memory usage increases to and beyond the warning threshold, Actifio PAS performance can suffer. Solutions include: Removing volume mirrors Increase the size of the memory limit.

Changing the Warning Threshold The default threshold for mirror memory usage is 90%. To change the warning value, change the default warning threshold value. Note: Do not change the warning threshold simply because your data exceeds the threshold. Change the warning threshold only if your usage requirements justify a different value. Actifio Support can help. Changing the Resource Limit The default mirror memory capacity is 70 MB. With 100MB of mirror memory Actifio can support 200TB of mirrored volumes. Change this only with the assistance of Actifio Support. If required, increase or decrease the Resource Limit and click Save.

Viewing Mirror Memory Usage

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Chapter Configuring Storage

Storage management includes: About Actifio PAS Storage on page 20 Configuring the Usage Thresholds of Storage Pools and Resource Profiles on page 21 Creating, Modifying, and Deleting Storage Pools on page 22

The Configuration and Host Sections of the Domain Managers System Section

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About Actifio PAS Storage

Actifio PAS provides three types of storage pools that serve different purposes: Snapshot storage pools are for the instant backup/restore pieces of the process. For in-band use, they ONLY contain incrementals For out-of-band use, there is one base snapshot which is the same size as the thing being protected for instance, a 100GB VM being protected will have a corresponding 100GB snap, then a series of other snaps (based on expiration policy) which may take very little space due to low change. The Snapshot pool often contains hundreds of VDisks. Snapshots are good for instant access. Primary storage pools are for in-band use, using Actifio storage to expose LUNs to exchange servers, etc. Dedup storage pools are for all applications protected by dedup in one big dedup vdisk that comes out of the dedup mdiskgrp. Dedup storage is for long-term retention. These pools are created during the PAS installation and configuration process. Allocating Storage Resources Most users put their fastest storage under the primary pool, while the dedup pool commonly gets an array that is less performance-critical but very reliable for long term storage.

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Configuring the Usage Thresholds of Storage Pools and Resource Profiles

You can configure two usage thresholds, warning and safe modes, for the three (snapshot, primary, and deduplication) types of storage pools of the PAS cluster. The Actifio PAS cluster: Issues warnings when the stored data exceeds the configured warning limit. Stops the snapshot/primary/deduplication activities and issues alerts when the stored data exceeds the configured safe limit, and all the expiration jobs still continue. If any currently running jobs are taking too much time to complete, they will be canceled automatically.

To configure the usage level: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System >Configuration > Storage Pools. 3. Select the Snapshot/Primary/Dedup tab. 4. The default value is 80% for the snapshot and primary storage pools and 70% for the deduplication pool. When this level is exceeded, PAS system generates warnings. Do not change the default settings unless advised by Actifio Support. 5. Set Safe Mode to an appropriate level of usage. The default value is 90% for the snapshot and primary storage pools and 75% for the dedup pool. When this level is exceeded, the PAS system stops writing to storage. Do not change the default settings unless advised by Actifio Support.

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Creating, Modifying, and Deleting Storage Pools

Actifio PAS provides three types of storage pools that serve different purposes: snapshot storage pools, primary storage pools, and dedup storage pools. These pools are created during the PAS installation and configuration process. You can: Viewing Storage Pool Information on page 22 Creating Additional Storage Pools on page 22 Modifying Storage Pools on page 23 Deleting Storage Pools on page 24

Viewing Storage Pool Information

To view the existing storage pools information: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Storage Pools from the navigation pane.The pool summary page shows the disk usage (used, free and total capacity) and threshold limits (warning and safemode) information:

Creating Additional Storage Pools

You can create additional storage pools for snapshot and primary. Creating additional storage pools for dedup is not supported. To create an additional storage pool: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Storage Pools from the navigation pane. The Pool Summary page opens. 3. Select Snapshot or Primary tab. The Snapshot Pools or Primary Pools page opens. 4. Click on the Click to add Pool. The Create Pool page appears. 5. Enter a name for the storage pool. 6. If required, modify the default warning and safe limits. 7. Choose the required size from the Extent Size drop-down list. 8. Select MDisk(s) from the list of unmanaged disks by clicking on the appropriate + symbol. Use the search option to find the required MDisk(s). 9. Review the MDisk(s) selection at the bottom of the screen. 10. Click Submit. A warning dialog appears: 11. Type PROCEED in the provided text box to confirm. 12. Click Confirm. The newly created pool is listed under the snapshot or primary pool page. Note: Creating additional storage pools for dedup is not supported.

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Modifying Storage Pools

You can extend the size of existing storage pools and also modify the storage pools information. To modify the existing storage pool information: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Storage Pools from the navigation pane. The Pool Summary page opens. 3. Select the Snapshot or Primary or Dedup tab. The Snapshot Pools or Primary Pools or Dedup Pool information page opens. 4. Click on the edit option next to the storage pool name. The Manage Pool page appears. 5. Make the modifications as required. You can change the name of the pool and also change the warning and safe limits. 6. Add additional unmanaged MDisk(s) to increase the size of the pool. Select one or more MDisk(s) from the list of unmanaged disks by clicking on the appropriate + symbol. Use the search option to find the required Mdisk(s). 7. Review the MDisk(s)selection at the bottom of the screen. 8. Click Submit. A warning dialog appears: 9. Enter NO UNDO in the provided text box to confirm. 10. Click Submit. You can verify the modified pool details under the corresponding snapshot, primary or dedup pool information page.

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Deleting Storage Pools

You can delete any of the user created storage pools, but you cannot delete the default storage pools that are created during the PAS installation and configuration process. Note: Before deleting a storage pool, ensure that the pool is not in use. In order to remove a pool in use, expire all the backup data that exists in the pool. See the Forcing the Expiry of a Backup Image section. To delete an existing storage pool: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Storage Pools from the navigation pane. The Pool Summary page opens. 3. Select the Snapshot or Primary tab. The Snapshot Pools or Primary Pools page opens. 4. Select the desired pool and then click on the delete option available next to the storage pool name. 5. A warning dialog appears. Enter Delete in the provided text box to confirm. 6. Click Confirm. The selected pool is removed from the PAS system.

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Chapter Managing Dedup Garbage Collection

The garbage collection process examines the storage space in the PAS cluster and eliminates expired objects. This makes the unused space available for future allocations. Garbage collection has two phases: Marking finds and creates a list of all objects that are no longer required. Sweeping updates the references to the objects that will be compacted.

Garbage collection is done automatically, but some settings need to be configured. This section contains: Configuring Full GC Schedule on page 26 Configuring an Incremental GC Schedule on page 28

The Dedup Garbage Collection Section of the Domain Managers System Section

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Configuring Full GC Schedule

The full GC schedule configures the GC frequency, interval and the time to perform etc. It is managed in two phases: GC Phase In this phase, all reachable objects are identified and marked. To configure the GC phase settings: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Dedup Settings from the navigation pane. The GC configuration page opens:

3. Select the frequency of garbage collection from Frequency. You can set this value weekly or monthly. 4. Select the interval values to perform the garbage collection using the When? and Day? fields. 5. Click What time to run to select the time to perform the GC. 6. Click Save to update the changes.

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Sweep Phase The sweep phase examines the marked objects, and frees storage space that has become unused. If no sweep schedule is enabled, then sweep runs after every GC phase. Schedule sweep separately if you want to have a sweep run for several hours every night (for example) until it is complete. To configure the sweep phase settings: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Dedup Settings from the navigation pane. The GC configuration page opens. 3. Click the Enable button in SWEEP PHASE:

4. Select the frequency of garbage collection from Frequency. You can set this value to daily, weekly or monthly. The required inputs may vary based on the frequency. 5. Select the interval values to perform the garbage collection using the When? and Day? fields. 6. Enter the time to perform the GC from Time. 7. Define how long the schedule should run. You can set this value to until complete or specified hours using the drop-down. 8. Set the sweep threshold variable under GC CONFIGURATION. This variable determines how aggressive the sweep process will be in reclaiming space from expired backups. A setting of 100 reclaims all the possible space, but takes longer to run. A lower setting will reclaim less space, but it will reclaim it at a faster rate. The default value of this variable is 90. 9. Click Save to update the changes. Note: You can use the Delete button to remove an existing sweep schedule.

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Configuring an Incremental GC Schedule

Incremental GC is a quick GC that only frees up storage space that has been consumed and subsequently dereferenced since the last full GC. If you have a high rate of backup and expiration of recent backups, or if you are running dedup async, it is very likely that you need incremental GC to prevent the dedup store growing too fast between full GC. Note: The Incremental GC schedule runs only when at least one dedup-async is configured. The incremental GC schedule is configured in regular intervals to define the GC frequency, interval and the time to perform etc. It is managed in two phases: GC Phase In this phase, all the reachable objects are identified and marked. To configure the GC phase settings: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Dedup Settings from the navigation pane. The GC configuration page opens:

3. Click the Enable button. 4. Click on Incremental GC tab. 5. Select the frequency of garbage collection from Frequency. You can set this value to daily, weekly or monthly. 6. If you select Weekly or Monthly frequency, select the interval values to perform the garbage collection using the When? and Day? fields. 7. Enter time to select the time to perform the GC from Time. 8. Click Save to update the changes.
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Sweep Phase The sweep phase examines the marked objects, and frees storage space that has become unused. If no sweep schedule is enabled, then sweep runs after every GC phase. To configure the sweep phase settings: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Dedup Settings from the navigation pane. The GC configuration page opens. 3. Click on Incremental GC tab. 4. Click the Enable button in Sweep Phase:

5. Select the frequency of garbage collection from Frequency. You can set this value to daily, weekly or monthly. The required inputs may vary based on the frequency. 6. Enter the time to perform the GC from Time. 7. Define how long the schedule should run. You can set this value to until complete or specified hours using the drop-down. 8. Set the sweep threshold variable under GC CONFIGURATION. This variable determines how aggressive the sweep process will be in reclaiming space from expired backups. A setting of 100 reclaims all the possible space. The default value of this variable is 90. 9. Click Save to update the changes.

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Chapter Cluster Topology

Clusters are the Actifio PAS side of the data-protection picture, as Hosts are on your side of the picture. Each PAS Cluster can stand alone to deduplicate and store protected data, and you can add additional clusters for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes at the same site or at different sites. A PAS cluster is a management entity, comprising PAS nodes, storage, switches, batteries, and a controller. The amount of storage varies with the cluster model that you install. the rest of the components are virtually the same for all types of clusters. The cluster is a domain name space, and the single point of provisioning. You interact with the cluster through the Actifio Desktop or the CLI, and the cluster performs all PAS operations using its own nodes, switches, and storage.

Protection Image

Dedup

Recovery MyCompany Hosts Hosts and Clusters

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Storage

Applications are data resources on your hosts. Actifio PAS discovers the applications, and then images them, deduplicates the application data, and stores it, all on the cluster. Actifio PAS 5.1 can support any number of clusters at any number of sites. Clusters can be configured in sharing or non-sharing mode. First read about Cluster Topology: Sharing and Peer Relationships on page 32. Then read About Sharing Mode on page 33 and About Non-Sharing Mode on page 34.

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Cluster Topology: Sharing and Peer Relationships

You can join PAS clusters in two modes: Sharing mode: Use this mode when you want multiple clusters to share: Protected applications Security settings: Organizations, Users, and Roles Policy Templates and Resource Profiles Non-sharing mode: Use this mode when you want clusters to perform remote backups for each other.

You can use both types of relationships within your enterprise. For example, you might use three joined sharing-mode clusters for day-to-day data protection, and a fourth non-shared cluster for off-site disaster recovery.

Master Cluster A

Cluster B (shared)

Cluster D (not shared)

Cluster C (shared)

Clusters A, B, and C are Shared for Daily Operations; Remote Cluster D is for Disaster Recovery Sharing mode is described in About Sharing Mode on page 33. The procedures for joining clusters in sharing mode can be found at Joining a Cluster to a Master Cluster on page 41. Non-sharing mode is described in About Non-Sharing Mode on page 34. The procedures for joining clusters in sharing mode are in Joining PAS Clusters in Non-Sharing Mode on page 42

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About Sharing Mode

About Joining Clusters in the Sharing Mode When cluster B joins cluster A, the latter becomes the master and B, the slave. There can be only one master cluster in a PAS domain. There can be any number of slaves. Masters are made, not born. The act of joining in shared mode creates the master-slave relationship. Sharing mode makes a slave of the cluster that joins. In the diagram above, cluster B joined cluster A in sharing mode. At that moment, cluster B became the slave and cluster A became the master. The slave joins the master. A master cluster, which is already in sharing mode (thats why its a master) cannot join any other cluster, because it would become a slave; once the master, always the master. All slave clusters are peers to each other. A cluster can join any cluster in non-sharing mode. Non-shared clusters are peers to all clusters. A cluster cannot join a slave cluster. In the diagram above, cluster D cannot join cluster C or cluster B. Cluster D can join cluster A in the sharing or non-sharing mode.

Master Cluster A

Cluster B (shared)

Cluster D (not shared)

Cluster C (shared)

Master Cluster A Shares Rules with Slave Clusters B & C, but Not Remote Cluster D When Cluster B is joined to Cluster A: If Cluster B has no protected applications, and no users, roles, organizations, and policy templates defined, then Cluster B gets users, roles, organizations, and policy templates shared from A, but no applications. If Cluster B has users, roles, policy templates, and organizations defined, they are deleted and replaced by those shared from A. If Cluster B has protected applications, they are preserved, but they are protected by the policy templates shared from A. If Cluster A and B both do not contain protected applications, users, roles, policy templates, and organizations, then when B is joined to A, no obvious changes occur. However, once you create users, roles, organizations, and policy templates on A, they are shared with cluster B.

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About Non-Sharing Mode

Two clusters belonging to different PAS domains can connect in non-sharing mode. You can join: One cluster with another cluster to enable replication from the former to the later. One cluster with two clusters to enable different applications to replicate to separate clusters. Two clusters with one cluster to let the later act as a target for replication.

Non-sharing mode makes peers of the clusters that are joined. When two clusters join in the non-sharing mode, each cluster can be the destination for remote replication of data from the other cluster. In the non-sharing mode, each cluster uses its own users, policies, templates, and organizations and protects only the applications assigned to it; peer clusters do not share users, policies, templates, and organizations.

The Master Cluster Shares Users and Policy Templates with Slave Clusters The types of replications supported by PAS cluster are given below. All of them can use the cluster setup described above. Synchronous replication from the primary cluster to a remote cluster. Asynchronous replication from the primary cluster to a remote cluster. Asynchronous replication of deduped data from the primary cluster to a remote cluster. Remote deduplication replication from the dedup pool of the primary cluster to a remote cluster.

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Chapter Adding and Joining Clusters

Actifio PAS Clusters can stand alone or be joined to additional clusters for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes at the same site or at different sites. Clusters can be joined in Sharing Mode and in NonSharing Mode. These features are defined in this chapter. This section describes: Viewing Details of Joined Clusters on page 36 Managing Security Certificates on page 37 Joining a Cluster to a Master Cluster on page 41 Joining PAS Clusters in Non-Sharing Mode on page 42 Setting Up Partnership for Fibre Channel Support on page 43

Master Cluster A

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Example Cluster Topology

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Viewing Details of Joined Clusters

To view the list of PAS clusters and their details: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Cluster Settings. A list of PAS clusters joined to the local cluster and their certificates is displayed. A master cluster has all the other clusters in the sharing mode.

Viewing Details of Joined Clusters 3. If a cluster is the master of a PAS domain, it is listed as Sharing.

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Managing Security Certificates

Actifio PAS uses digital certificates to ensure secure communication between clusters. All clusters in a configuration must have matching security certificates in order to establish a secured relationship. Actifio PAS offers two methods to establish a secured relationship between two PAS clusters. You can: Exchange certificates between two clusters, as detailed in Exchanging Certificates on page 40 Download the certificate from each and then upload them to the other cluster, as detailed in Downloading a Certificate on page 38 and Uploading a Certificate on page 39.

Viewing Certificates To view the certificate of all PAS clusters connected to the local cluster in the sharing or non-sharing mode: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Cluster Settings from the navigation pane. 3. Click Certificates tab. A list of all clusters connected to the local cluster is displayed along with the corresponding certificates.

Viewing Security Certificates

Deleting a Certificate You may need to remove an existing certificate: To disconnect the communication with the any of the cluster. When an existing certificate becomes invalid. A certificate becomes invalid if it is updated; you may need to remove the old one and upload the new certificate.

To delete a security certificate, follow the steps to view the certificate above. Then select the certificate and click the remove button, and click Yes in the confirmation dialog.

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Downloading a Certificate
To download a security certificate: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click Download Certificates from the service menu. The Download Certificate window opens:

Downloading a Security Certificate 3. Browse and choose the directory to save the certificate file, and then click Save. The certificate is saved in your local system. Note: To join this cluster to another, you will have to upload this certificate to the other PAS cluster. Log on to the cluster and perform the steps described in Uploading a Certificate on page 39.

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Uploading a Certificate
To upload a security certificate: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click Upload Certificates from the service menu. The Choose a certificate to import window opens

Uploading a Security Certificate 3. Browse and select the certificate file and then click Open. The certificate is listed in the certificate store.

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Exchanging Certificates
Certificate exchange is a quick way to download certificates from each cluster and upload to the other, when you have secure administrative access to both clusters. To exchange security certificates between two PAS clusters: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click Certificate Exchange... from the service menu. The Exchange Certificates dialog opens:

3. Enter the IP Address of the remote PAS cluster. 4. Enter the Admin password to access the remote PAS cluster. 5. Click Exchange. The security certificates are exchanged between two clusters

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Joining a Cluster to a Master Cluster

There are two relationships for joined clusters. This procedure is for Shared Mode. To join in non-Shared Mode, see Joining PAS Clusters in Non-Sharing Mode on page 42. Note: Remember: The Slave Joins the Master, the Master shares the Rules. Please review About Sharing Mode on page 33 before continuing. To join cluster B to cluster A: 1. Connect to cluster B using Actifio Desktop. 2. Open the Domain Manager. 3. Exchange the certificates as described in Exchanging Certificates on page 40. 4. On Cluster B, click Domain Manager > Cluster Settings and click the Join Cluster button. The Join a Remote Cluster window appears.

5. Enter the IP address of the PAS cluster A in Remote Cluster IP Address. 6. Select Enable Sharing to use the remote cluster A as the master cluster. When you select this option, the remote cluster's users, roles, templates, and organizations replace those on cluster B. 7. Click Submit. On successful configuration, cluster B appears connected to the cluster A.

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Joining PAS Clusters in Non-Sharing Mode

There are two relationships for joined clusters. This procedure is for Non-Shared Mode. To join in Shared Mode, see Joining a Cluster to a Master Cluster on page 41. Note: The Slave Joins the Master, the Master shares the Rules. Please review About Non-Sharing Mode on page 34 before continuing. To join a remote cluster B to the local cluster A: 1. Upload the security certificate of the local cluster A to the remote cluster B 2. Download the security certificate from the remote cluster B to the local cluster A 3. Repeat the above steps at cluster B. To join the local cluster A and the remote cluster B: 1. Connect to the local cluster A using Actifio Desktop. 2. Open the Domain Manager. 3. Exchange certificates as described in Exchanging Certificates on page 40. 4. Click Domain Manager > Cluster Settings > Join Cluster. The Join a Remote Cluster window appears.

5. Enter the IP address of the PAS cluster B in Remote Cluster IP Address. 6. Do NOT check Enable Sharing. The clusters will be joined for purposes of sharing protected applications, but each will use its own users, roles, and organizations and its own policy templates and resource profiles. 7. Click Submit. On successful configuration, cluster B appears connected to the local cluster A.

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Setting Up Partnership for Fibre Channel Support

After joining two PAS clusters, set up partnership between the local and the joined cluster. Partnership is a prerequisite for configuring synchronous or asynchronous replication over fibre-channel. The clusters must be zoned together in the SAN. To set up partnership between two clusters: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Cluster Settings. 3. In the Cluster Manager, click the Sync/Async tab.

4. Click the Setup Partnership button from the Sync/Async tab. Actifio Desktop now displays a button named Disable Partnership.

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This section describes: Viewing Details of Joined Clusters on page 46 Unjoining a Joined Cluster on page 47 Managing Bandwidth Utilization on page 48 Configuring the Actifio Desktop to Use Your LDAP Authentication on page 53 Shutting Down a Cluster on page 55 Disabling Expirations and Schedules on page 56

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Viewing Details of Joined Clusters

To view the list of PAS clusters and their details: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Cluster Settings. A list of PAS clusters joined to the local cluster and their certificates is displayed. A master cluster has all the other clusters in the sharing mode.

Viewing Details of Joined Clusters 3. The cluster that is the master of the PAS domain is listed as Sharing.

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Unjoining a Joined Cluster

Note: Prior to deleting a joined cluster, ensure that running jobs are not using the remote cluster. When you delete a joined cluster: The certificates that were exchanged when joining the clusters are deleted. Jobs in progress change to Stalled status and the jobs are displayed as Stalled by the System Monitor.

To delete a joined cluster: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Cluster Settings in the navigation pane. A list of joined clusters is displayed. 3. Click Unjoin against the appropriate cluster. Note: If a cluster is in use in any SLP, then the unjoin will fail.

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Managing Bandwidth Utilization

You can configure the bandwidth used to replicate data from one cluster to another so that PAS data shares the bandwidth available to your organization with the other organizational resources. When two clusters are joined via both the fibre channel and an IP network, you can set the bandwidth used for data replication for both types of networks. This section describes bandwidth throttling and dedicated allocation of bandwidth for PAS clusters. You can specify separate bandwidth for each day of the week; also differentiate it for the business days and non-business days. This section contains the following topics: Viewing the Bandwidth Usage on page 49 Enabling and Disabling Bandwidth Throttling on page 50 Overriding Bandwidth Throttling on page 51 Scheduling Bandwidth Throttling on page 52

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Viewing the Bandwidth Usage

To view the incoming and outgoing bandwidth: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Cluster Settings from the navigation pane. A list of all clusters connected to the local cluster in the sharing and non-sharing mode is displayed. 3. Select the cluster and Click Statistics. Two line graphs depicting the outgoing and the incoming bandwidth are displayed:

The Incoming Bandwidth (All Sources) graph depicts the incoming traffic reaching the local cluster from all joined clusters whereas the Outgoing Bandwidth depicts the outgoing traffic from the local cluster to the joined cluster. You can modify the scale by selecting a time unit, such as Day (bandwidth used during the last seven days), Hour (bandwidth used during the last 23 hours), and Minute (bandwidth used in the last 10 minutes). The bandwidth is measured in Mbps.

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Enabling and Disabling Bandwidth Throttling

The Bandwidth Throttling feature enables you to limit the bandwidth used by the replication process from the PAS cluster. Enable Bandwidth Throttling: Choose this option if you plan to choose a fixed amount of bandwidth dedicated for PAS cluster replication. You can restrict bandwidth usage by enabling bandwidth throttling and limiting the maximum amount of bandwidth that the PAS cluster should not exceed for all the replication. Disable Bandwidth Throttling: Choose this option if you do not want to restrict the amount of bandwidth used for PAS cluster operations. This option allows you to use the maximum available bandwidth. To enable or disable the bandwidth throttling: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. In the navigation pane, select System > Configuration > Cluster Settings. The Cluster Manager page allows you to enable or disable the settings. 3. In the Cluster Manager, click the Dedup subtab.

4. To enable throttling, click the On button. Enter the desired bandwidth in Set BW to. To disable throttling, click the Off button. 5. Click Save to update the bandwidth configuration settings.

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Overriding Bandwidth Throttling

This only works if you have chosen to enable throttling. To override the throttling: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Cluster Settings. The Cluster Manager page allows you to override throttling. 3. In the Cluster Manager, click the Dedup subtab.

4. Enable throttling, by clicking the On button. 5. Click Yes to override existing triggers or to configure constant BW value. 6. Enter the desired bandwidth in Set BW value to. 7. Click Save to update the changes.

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Scheduling Bandwidth Throttling

During some parts of the day or week, you may need Actifio PAS cluster to use less of your bandwidth so that other priority services can use it. You can customize the backup throttle so that it runs automatically based on the pre- defined schedules (triggers). Throttling determines the amount of bandwidth you want to dedicate to PAS cluster for your data replication. This section describes how to create, activate and delete bandwidth triggers.Triggers are part of the scheduling framework. Each trigger allows you to specify the amount of bandwidth that you want to allocate, interval and time of the trigger. You can create separate triggers for weekdays and weekends to use them accordingly based on your needs. Note: You can create a maximum of 10 different triggers. To create a bandwidth trigger: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click System > Configuration > Cluster Settings. The Cluster Manager page allows you to override throttling. 3. In the Cluster Manager, click the Dedup subtab.

4. Enable throttling by clicking the On button next to Throttling. 5. Select No to override triggers. 6. Click Add new trigger button as showed in the above figure. 7. Provide the values to the trigger settings: 8. Click Save to update the changes. Deleting a Trigger To delete an existing trigger, select the trigger and click Remove Trigger. Activating a Trigger To activate a trigger, select the trigger and click on the Activate Trigger button as showed in the above figure.

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Configuring the Actifio Desktop to Use Your LDAP Authentication

You can leverage a single existing LDAP server for Actifio Desktop user authentication. To do this, you configure the LDAP connection under Domain manager cluster settings: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Cluster Settings from the navigation pane. 3. Click the LDAP tab. The LDAP Settings Panel appears.

4. Check Use LDAP Authentication to enable the connection. You can uncheck this at any time without losing the configuration information. 5. Enter LDAP server address, port, SSL, BaseDN, and Direct Bind information. The ? icons beside each entry provide assistance. Note that the default port value changes if you check or uncheck Use SSL. 6. Click Save. Note: There is no Import Users feature. You must create users with usernames that exactly match the credentials in your LDAP.

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Considerations when PAS is Configured with LDAP

When PAS clusters are configured with LDAP to authenticate users: LDAP users who need to access PAS Clusters need to be created in the PAS Clusters by administrators These new users can have their passwords left blank. User accounts with empty passwords will be "locked" until the user logs in with LDAP once to set their cached credential. Login process is transparent to users; username and password will be same as their LDAP/Active Directory server username and password. Users receive no feedback on the reason for a failed login attempt. The reason is logged for administrative use but for security purposes the user is only informed that their login failed. Users receive no information about which authentication method is in use. User credentials are sent to LDAP servers with 256 byte encryption for authentication. User credentials are encrypted and cached in the PAS cluster database. In the event that PAS cluster is not able to reach LDAP servers due to various reasons AND if the cluster is configured to use database fallback (not selected by default), then users will be authenticated against cached encrypted credentials stored in the PAS Cluster database. Cached credentials are refreshed upon establishing connection with configured LDAP servers. The default "Admin" account will always be authenticated against internal credentials stored in the PAS database. When PAS Clusters are in Sharing Mode, the PAS cluster that's configured to authenticate against LDAP will propagate only username to shared clusters. User credentials will not be propagated to shared clusters. LDAP configuration is not shared between PAS clusters. Each cluster must be configured to the LDAP individually.

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Shutting Down a Cluster

Note: Shutting down a cluster improperly results in data loss. Shut down a cluster only under the guidance of Actifio Support. To shutdown the cluster in a controlled manner: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Cluster Settings from the navigation pane. 3. Click Control Panel tab. 4. Click Shutdown. Complete shutdown takes 10 to 20 minutes.

Note: Shutting down a cluster improperly results in data loss. Shut down a cluster only under the guidance of Actifio Support.

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Disabling Expirations and Schedules

Expirations and schedules are not disabled by default. Click Yes to disable them. By default, images (backup, dedup, remote-dedup, direct-to-dedup) are expired depending on the policy configuration. The global configuration set here takes precedence over the individual policy configuration in policy templates. For example, if you configure a policy to expire backup images and set Disable Expirations to 'Yes' using the control panel, the backup images do not expire. You can save the storage by configuring image expiry globally on a PAS cluster: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Cluster Settings from the navigation pane. 3. Click Control Panel tab.

4. Click Yes to disable Expirations or Schedules.

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Use the Logs tab to send PAS cluster statistics and logs to the Actifio support team and to configure notifications. This section includes the following topics: Email on page 58 Sending PAS Logs to Actifio Support on page 62 Configuring an SNMP Server on page 63

The Notifications Tab

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Email
This includes: Configuring an SMTP Server on page 58 Configuring the Event Notification on page 59 Sending PAS Statistics to Actifio Support on page 60 Configuring Switches and Storage on page 61

Configuring an SMTP Server

An email is sent when an event of the severity warning or error is raised by Actifio PAS. Note that you should configure both an email server and email notification to send an email to the Actifio Customer Support team. To configure an email server: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Notification from the navigation pane. 3. Click the Email tab. 4. Click the SMTP Server subtab. 5. Enter the SMTP server name or IP address in Server Name/IP. The IP address should be an IPv4 address. 6. Enter the SMTP or SMTPS port number in Port. 7. Select Use SSL to send emails securely using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. 8. Enter the user name to access the mail server in User Name. 9. Enter the password to access the mail server in Password. 10. Select the maximum size of the email to be sent from Message Limit. When an email's size exceeds the size configured, the email is split into two or more emails. For example, if the limit is 1MB and the email is 2MB in size, Actifio Desktop splits the attachments into two 1 MB-sized attachments and sends two separate emails. 11. Optionally, click the Test Email button to send a test mail to an address of your choice. (On clicking test, a pop- up window is displayed. Enter the email address in Email Address and click Submit.) 12. Click Save.

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Configuring the Event Notification

An email is sent when an event of the severity warning or error is raised by Actifio PAS. You should configure an email server prior to configuring the email notification. To configure email notification: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Notification from the navigation pane. 3. Click Email tab. 4. Click the Event Notification tab. 5. Select On from Service to send email notifications. 6. Select Warning, Error or both from Filter(s) to Include sending the respective category of events to the email recipients listed in Email Recipients. 7. Enter the desired time interval in Interval. The default value is 30 minutes. 8. Enter the list of email addresses of persons who receive email notifications in Email Recipients. 9. Click Save.

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Sending PAS Statistics to Actifio Support

Sending PAS statistics to the support team at Actifio is a licensed service. To send system statistics to the Customer Support team at Actifio: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Notification from the navigation pane. 3. Click the Email tab. 4. Click the Call Home tab. 5. Enter your organization name in Customer Name. 6. Select Send System Statistics back to Actifio. 7. Click Save. The statistics include: Actifio PAS version information Uptime of Actifio PAS Status check of services Process summary Logs of various processes Failed jobs Total jobs Deduplication statistics Note: For best success, provide your clusters with unique names.

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Configuring Switches and Storage

Configuring SNMP Notifications for the Switches In order to monitor the SNMP notifications generated by the switches, you must configure the switches using the Switches and Subsystems tab. Notifications (traps and informs) are system alerts that the switch generates when certain events occur. You can configure up to three switches. To configure the switches and subsystems: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Notification from the navigation pane. 3. Click the Email tab. 4. Click the Switches and Storage sub-tab. 5. Provide the Switch IP Address details in Switch IP Addresses pane. Click the Add button. Enter a label for the switch in Label field. Enter the switch IP address in the IP Address field Click OK. 6. Use the Edit button to modify an existing IP Address. 7. Use the Delete button to remove an existing IP Address. 8. Click Save. Configuring SNMP Notifications for the Subsystems In order to monitor the SNMP notifications generated by the attached storage systems, you must configure the storage systems using the Switches and Storage tab. Notifications (traps and informs) are system alerts that the storage system generates when certain events occur. You can configure up to three systems. To configure the subsystems for notifications: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Notification from the navigation pane. 3. Click the Email tab. 4. Click the Switches and Storage sub-tab. 5. Provide the Subsystem IP Address details in Actifio Optimized Storage IP Addresses pane. Click the Add button. Enter a label for the storage system in Label field. Enter the storage system IP address in the IP Address field. Click OK. 6. Use the Edit button to modify an existing IP Address. 7. Use the Delete button to remove an existing IP Address. 8. Click Save.

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Sending PAS Logs to Actifio Support

To send PAS cluster logs to the Actifio Support team: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Logs from the navigation pane. 3. Click the Email tab to see the Email Log Settings. 4. Select the types of logs from Log Type. To select all categories of logs, click All. Optionally, specify the number of log files to be sent to the Actifio Support team in File Limit. The PAS cluster creates one log file for each type of log every day in the /act/logs folder. Therefore, to email the log files of the past ten days, specify 10 in File Limit. If you do not specify the file limit, all logs files from the /act/logs folders are sent. Leave the default value 1 to receive the latest log file. 5. Click Send Log Through Email to save the configuration.

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Configuring an SNMP Server

If you have an SNMP server configured, then Actifio PAS can: receive traps from managed devices and convert those traps into PAS events. forward traps to other management systems, generate email notification for traps it receives or generates itself.

To configure an SNMP server: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select System > Configuration > Notification from the navigation pane. 3. Click the SNMP tab. 4. Enter the SNMP server name in Server Name. 5. Enter the IP address of the SNMP server in IP Address. The IP address should be an IPv4 address. 6. Enter the remote port number in Port. The port number should be between 1 and 65535. 7. Select the type of traps from Info, Warning, and Error. The SMTP server sends notifications about these traps to a network device manager. 8. Click Save.

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Hosts are your data resources that will be protected by Actifio PAS. Hosts can be physical or virtual servers, Oracle databases, etc. Hosts are introduced in About Hosts on page 66 and .In-Band and Out-of-Band Storage on page 67. The first step in protecting a host is to add it into the Actifio PAS system, and then follow the discovery process to identify different data applications. After the host has been added and the application identified, you can protect each application in a way that suits it best. Managing hosts is detailed in Chapter 11, Managing Hosts Adding hosts is detailed in Chapter 12, Adding Hosts You also need to understand VDisks. These are detailed in Chapter 13, Creating and Configuring VDisks

The Domain Managers System Host Sections for a Physical Server

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About Hosts
Hosts are : vCenter servers which we talk to for out of band VMware backup, 3 hosts that we talk to for inband backups hosts that we talk to for out of band backups ESX servers 5

In-Band get three tabs: Details, Applications, and Orgs Out-of-Band got two more: Ports and Storage

Applications are things like Oracle, Exchange, SQL. They reside on a host or disk volume in a SAN.

ESX and Oracle Hosts

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In-Band and Out-of-Band Storage

Hosts can be protected in-band or out-of-band with relation to Actifio PAS clusters. Whether the data to be protected is in-band or out-of-band makes a difference to your protection and recovery options. In-Band Actifio PAS Service In-Band PAS is fast. With in-band service, Actifio PAS protects your applications on the PAS cluster primary storage. In-Band service is typically handled over fibre-channel connections inside your data centers. Out-of-Band Actifio PAS Service Out-of-Band service offers flexibility and economy. Applications protected by Actifio PAS on external storage is Out-of-Band (OOB). PAS manages the storage as MDisks (managed disks) and maps them to PAS VDisks. Actifio PAS refers to both remote storage and your existing local non-Actifio storage as external storage. External storage is often accessed over iSCSI connections. Hosts that have any applications protected out-ofband have a Ports and a Storage tab in addition to the Details, Applications, and Orgs tabs.

A Host with Out-Of-Band Protection Assigned to Two Image VDisks Mapped to MDisks

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Hosts are your vCenter, ESX, and other servers that contain applications to be protected by Actifio PAS. They can be in-band or out-of-band. What you can do: Details on page 70 Ports (Out-of-Band Only) on page 71 Storage (Out-of-Band Only) on page 72 Applications on page 73 Orgs on page 74

An In-Band Host Assigned to an Image VDisk

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Details
Use the Details tab to record network information about the host.

The Details Tab for An In-Band Host

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Ports (Out-of-Band Only)

Use the Ports tab to record the WWPN or iSCSI ports that Actifio PAS will use to connect to an out-of-band host. Ports can be: WWPN (world wide port name): the unique address assigned to a port in your fibre channel fabric. iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface): the unique address assigned to a port reached via ethernet.

An Out-of-Band Host Reached via Fibre Channel

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Storage (Out-of-Band Only)

Use the Storage tab to create and map VDisks and MDisks to out-of-band hosts.

An Out-of-Band Host Assigned to Two VDisks, Showing One MDisk

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Applications
Use the Applications tab to view information about the applications protected from each host.

Application Discovered on a Host

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Orgs
Orgs are the organizations configured in the Domain Manager Security section that have access to this host. Actifio PAS Organizations are detailed in Configuring Actifio PAS System User Access.

A Host with Only the Two Default Organizations

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Hosts are your data resources that will be protected by Actifio PAS. The first step in protecting them is to add them into the Actifio PAS system. Host management includes adding a host to Actifio Desktop and specifying its ports (WWPN/iSCSI) and virtual disks: Adding a Host on page 76 Configuring the Ports of a Host on page 79

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Adding a Host
You can add a host and define or discover the applications running on the host to protect their data. On hosts that run the Actifio Connector, Actifio Desktop discovers the applications to protect. However, on hosts that do not run the Connector, you can define the applications to protect. Actifio PAS supports multiple hosts with same Hostname. To add a new host: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. From the service menu, select New Host....

3. The Add a New Host form appears:

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Enter the name, fully qualified domain name, or the IP address of the host in Hostname. The name of a host should start with a letter, and can contain letters, digits (0-9), and an underscore ('_'). 4. Enter the friendly name for the Host. 5. Click Discover Details. Actifio Desktop lists all IP addresses used by the host. 6. Select the type of host in Type of Host. The table below explains how to choose a host type:
Host Type Generic Select when: Configuring ESX\ESXi hosts, Microsoft Exchange Servers, Microsoft SharePoint Servers, Microsoft SQL Servers, and Linux and Windows file systems. This is the default host type. Important: Actifio Desktop and the command line interface do not allow creation of mapped disks to protect ESX/ ESXi hosts. If your deployment requires Mdisk allocation to an ESX/ESXi host, define the host type as 'generic'. The host is running HP-UX operating system and the host is in an IP network. The host connects through multiple target ports and is running Solaris 10 and above. Adding a vcenter, or ESX\ESXi hosts managed by a vCenter. \

Hewlett Packard UniX (HP-UX) Target Port Group Support (TPGS) vCenter

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7. Enter the IP address of the host in IP Address. Click Add to add multiple IP addresses for a host. 8. Select the World Wide Port Name (WWPN) if the host can be reached using a Fibre Channel port or if the host can be reached using an IP network, select Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) port from WWPN/ iSCSI Port. Note that you can add multiple port types for a single host. Select the WWPN or iSCSI number.If the WWPN option is selected, select the WWPN from the displayed list, or you add the same using Custom. If the iSCSI option is selected, enter the iSCSI initiator name. 9. Enter the user name and password of the host. This step is mandatory if you choose the host type as vCenter, and optional for other type of hosts. You need to provide the login credentials to run the pre and post scripts successfully on the host. This step is mandatory to protect a CIFS share, you must provide the login credentials of the local/ domain user on Windows who mapped the share. 10. Click Add Host.

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Configuring the Ports of a Host

You can optionally configure one or more ports of a host. Note: When you add a vCenter as a host, you cannot define the ports and virtual disks. To configure the ports of a host: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click Hosts from the navigation pane. 3. Select the host. 4. Click the Ports tab.

5. If the host is reached via a Fibre Channel port, add the World Wide Port Name (WWPN) of the Host. To add or choose the WWPN, click the Add Port button in the WWPN panel. The Add Port dialog appears. Choose the corresponding WWPN of the host or enter the WWPN using the custom... option. 6. If the host is reached over an IP network, add its Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) port. To add the iSCSI port, click the Add Port button in the iSCSI panel. The Add Port dialog appears. Enter the iSCSI host IQN and then click the Add Port button. 7. Test the iSCSI Host configuration (communication between PAS and the Host): select single or multiple iSCSI ports and then click the Test button. Click OK in the information dialog. Click the iSCSI test results link at the top right corner to see the test result: If the test fails, the iSCSI Test Results dialog gives you the reason for failing. Note: In order to perform the iSCSI test on a Host system, the Actifio Connector must be installed on the Host. This is not applicable for VMware ESX Servers.

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VDisks are virtual disks, a common way to manage storage. VDisk management includes: Creating a VDisk on page 82 Mapping and Unmapping a Virtual Disk to a Host on page 86 Expanding a Virtual Disk on page 87 Renaming a Virtual Disk on page 88 Deleting a Virtual Disk on page 89

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You can use the Create VDisk functionality to create different types of virtual disks and assign them to hosts. Virtual Disks are visible to the host systems that use them.

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Creating a VDisk
Creating an Image Mode VDisk on page 83 Creating a VDisk in Mirror Mode (Image-Image) on page 84 Creating a VDisk in Mirror Mode (Image-Striped) on page 85

Virtual Disk Types VDisks are created from a set of extents in an MDisk group. VDisks that can be created as: Image Mode: An image mode VDisk provides a direct block-for-block translation from the managed disk (MDisk) to the VDisk with no virtualization. Image mode VDisks have a direct relationship with one MDisk. When you create an image mode VDisk, a direct mapping is made between extents that are on the MDisk and extents that are on the VDisk. Use this mode when you require a direct block-for-block translation from the managed disk (MDisk) to the VDisk. Mirror Mode: Mirroring adds a second identical disk to back up the first image. A mirrored virtual disk can remain operational if one VDisk fails or corrupted. The first disk is always an image disk, as described above. The second disk might be another image, or it could be a striped disk: Mirror Mode: Image-Image: In image-image mode, the secondary disk is of image type. Mirror Mode: Image-Striped: In image-striped mode, the secondary disk is of striped type. A striped virtual disk is one in which the data is broken into chunks and distributed on the disks comprising the MDisk group in which the virtual disk is created. Striped mode indicates that the VDisk is created from multiple MDisks in the MDisk group.

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Creating an Image Mode VDisk

Perform the following steps to create an image mode VDisk: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click Hosts from the navigation pane. 3. Select the host. 4. Click the Storage tab.

5. Click Create VDisk. The Create VDisk window opens. All the unmanaged MDisks are displayed. Move the mouse pointer on the disk row to see the UUID of the MDisk. 6. Enter the name of the virtual disk you would like to create in Enter VDisk Name. Note: Its a good idea to use a descriptive name to make troubleshooting easier. 7. Enter the SCSI id in Enter SCSI ID. The SCSI ID is auto generated if left blank. 8. Select Image Mode from the Select VDisk Mode options. 9. From the list of available MDisks, select the MDisk by clicking on any field of the MDisk row. 10. Click Save.

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Creating a VDisk in Mirror Mode (Image-Image)

Select this mode when you want to create an image mirror for your VDisk. Perform the following steps to create a VDisk in mirror mode (Image-Image): 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click Hosts from the navigation pane. 3. Select the host. 4. Click the Storage tab. 5. Click Create VDisk. The Create VDisk window opens: 6. Enter the name of the virtual disk you would like to create in Enter VDisk Name. 7. Enter the SCSI id in Enter SCSI ID. The SCSI ID is auto generated if left blank. 8. Select Mirror Mode: Image-Image from the Select VDisk Mode options.

9. From the list of available MDisks, select a Primary Disk by clicking its row. 10. The display adds a Select Mirror Disk row beneath Select Primary disk. From the list of remaining MDisks, select a Mirror Disk by clicking its row. 11. The selected Primary and Mirror disks are displayed at the bottom of the Create VDdisk window. Verify the selection and then click Save.
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Creating a VDisk in Mirror Mode (Image-Striped)

Select this mode when you want to create a mirror for your VDisk. In image-striped mode, the mirror disk is of striped type: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click Hosts from the navigation pane. 3. Select the host. 4. Click the Storage tab. 5. Click Create VDisk. The Create VDisk window opens: 6. Enter the name of the virtual disk you would like to create in Enter VDisk Name. 7. Enter the SCSI id in Enter SCSI ID. The SCSI ID is auto generated if left blank. 8. Select Mirror Mode: Image-Striped from the Select VDisk Mode options. 9. From the list of available MDisks, select the Primary Disk by clicking on any field of the MDisk row. 10. From the list of remaining MDisks, select the Mirror Disk(s) by clicking on any field of the MDisk row. This disk is of Striped type. 11. The selected Primary and Mirror disks are displayed at the bottom of the Create VDdisk window. Verify the selection and then click Save.

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Mapping and Unmapping a Virtual Disk to a Host

The Map Virtual Disk functionality is used to establish a mapping between a virtual disk and a host: Mapping a Virtual Disk from a Host To map a virtual disk to a host: 1. Click Domain Manager from the Actifio Desktop tool bar. 2. Select the host from the navigation pane. 3. Select Storage from the menu bar. 4. Click the All VDisks tab. 5. Select the virtual disk(s) that you created earlier using the Create VDisk functionality. 6. Click Map. A confirmation dialog appears. 7. Enter the SCSI Id for the vDisk. The SCSI id is auto-generated if it is left blank. 8. Click Map VDisk The selected virtual disk(s) is mapped to the host. Unmapping a Virtual Disk from a Host You can remove the mapping between a virtual disk and a host using the Unmap functionality. The unmapping makes the unmapped virtual disks available to other hosts. To unmap a virtual disk from a host: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select Hosts from the navigation pane. 3. Select the host. 4. Click Storage. A list of virtual disks mapped to the host is displayed under Assigned VDisks tab: 5. Select VDisk(s) from the list. 6. Click Unmap. A confirmation dialog appears. 7. Click OK. The selected virtual disk is unmapped from the host.

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Expanding a Virtual Disk

The Expand Virtual Disk functionality is used to increase the size of an existing VDisk. The VDisk Expansion Wizard allows you to perform this function. Before proceeding with VDisk expansion, make sure you meet the following requirements and conditions: Virtual disk expansion is supported only on disks that are created in Mirror Mode (Image- Striped). Virtual disk can be expanded only when it has no snapshots.

To expand a VDisk: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select the host from the navigation pane. 3. Select Storage from the menu bar. 4. Click the Assigned VDisks tab. All the existing VDisks that are mapped to the host is displayed. 5. Select the VDisk that you want to extend and then click Extend. Note: The Extend option is available only after selecting the VDisk. The Extend option is available only for Mirror Mode (Image- Striped) VDisks. The Extend option is not available if you select multiple VDisks. The VDisk Expansion Wizard opens: This wizard allows you to extend the size of VDisk in an existing mirror configuration. Clicking the next button breaks the mirroring operations. Make sure to extend the Image Mode MDisk before proceeding. 6. Click Next. The Wizard displays the old and new size of the Image Mode MDisk . 7. Review and confirm the MDisk expansion results. This new size is the reflection of changes made to the storage array manually. Use the Refresh function if the new size value is not reflected. Note: If required, you can change the sync-rate by using the Select Syncrate drop-down. Sync rate specifies the rate for synchronization for mirrored copies. The default sync-rate is 64 MB per second. The following table shows the relationship between the rate value and the data copied per second. 8. Click Next. The Wizard displays the available MDisks to add it to the striped set. The Striped Mode MDisk expansion is done in this wizard by selecting the appropriate MDisks. Select the MDisk(s) and click the Use Selected MDisk(s) button to proceed with re-establishing the mirror. This wizard gives you additional MDisk storage that is required to be added on Striped Mode MDisk for establishing the mirror. The same screen displays the % of mirroring progress as shown below:

Click Close to complete the process. You can see the mirroring status in the Assigned VDisk grid.

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Renaming a Virtual Disk

Renaming VDisks and MDisks To rename a virtual disk or an MDisk: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select the host from the navigation pane. 3. Click the Storage tab. 4. Select the All VDisks tab. All the VDisks (mapped and unmapped) are displayed.

5. Select the VDisk you want to rename. If you want to rename an MDisk, select the VDisk and expand it by clicking the [+] symbol. The managed disks associated with the selected VDisk are displayed.

6. Click the Edit button.

7. The rename VDisk pop-up appears. Enter a new name for the VDisk, then click Update Name.

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Deleting a Virtual Disk

This task allows you to delete mapped and unmapped virtual disks. When you delete a mapped virtual disk under the Assigned Virtual Disks tab, the virtual disk is first un-mapped and then deleted. To delete a VDisk from a PAS cluster: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Select the host from the navigation pane. 3. Click the Storage tab. 4. Select the All VDisks tab. All the VDisks (mapped and unmapped) are listed. 5. Select VDisk(s) from the list. A warning dialog appears. 6. Enter DATA LOSS in DATA LOSS field. 7. Click Delete VDisk(s). The selected VDisk is removed from the PAS cluster.

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Mounting a backup image creates a copy of the image and presents it to the host. After mounting an image, you can either unmount the image or unmount and delete the image. You can access the mounted and unmounted images under the Active Images section of Domain Manager. The following functions are enabled when you select a Mounted image: Unmount Unmount & Delete Refresh Delete Refresh

The following functions are enabled when you select an Unmounted image:

This section contains the following topics Unmounting an Image on page 92 Unmounting and Deleting an Image on page 93 Deleting an Unmounted Image on page 94

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Unmounting an Image
The Unmount function is used to unmount a mounted image from the host. To unmount an image: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click Active Images from the navigation pane. All the Mounted and Unmounted images are listed in the right panel:

3. Select a single or multiple images using appropriate check-boxes. 4. Click the Unmount button. 5. Click Yes in the confirmation dialog.Use the Refresh button to refresh the mounted and unmounted images list.

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Unmounting and Deleting an Image

The Unmount & Delete function is used to remove unwanted images from the system. To unmount and delete a mounted image: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click Active Images from the navigation pane. All the Mounted and Unmounted images are listed in the right panel:

3. Select a single or multiple images using appropriate check-boxes. 4. Click the Unmount & Delete button. 5. Click Yes in the confirmation dialog.Use the Refresh button to refresh the mounted and unmounted images list.

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Deleting an Unmounted Image

This function is used to remove unmounted images. To remove an unmounted image: 1. Open the Domain Manager. 2. Click Active Images from the navigation pane. All the Mounted and Unmounted images are listed in the right panel:

3. Select a single or multiple images using appropriate check-boxes. 4. Click the Delete button. 5. Click Yes in the confirmation dialog. Use the Refresh button to refresh the mounted and unmounted images list.

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Actifio PAS, reduced performance 14 Active Images, about 91 async-dedup replication 34 asynchronous replication to remote cluster 34 authentication via LDAP 53

E
ESX servers 69 expirations and schedules 56 expired objects, elimination of 25

F
fastest storage, assigning to the primary storage pool 20 Fibre Channel support 43

B
bandwidth throttling 50 bandwidth utilization, monitoring 48

C
certificates 37 certificates, exchanging between two clusters 40 cluster about 31 joining to another cluster 35 non-sharing mode 34 partnership for fibre channel support 43 sharing mode 33 shutting down 55 unjoining 47 Cluster Settings, about 9 cluster, Actifio PAS, described 9 Configuration tools 5 contact information, Actifio Support ii copyright ii customer support ii

G
garbage collection 25 GC, see garbage collection

H
hosts, about 65

I
image mode VDisk 82 Import Users from LDAP, no such feature 53 in-band storage 20 iSCSI ports 71

J
joining clusters non-sharing mode 42 sharing mode 41

D
Dedup Settings, about 8 Dedup storage pools 20 Domain Manager introduced 1 Service Menu commands 3

L
LDAP server, connecting 53 LDAP user import 53 legal matter ii Logs, about 11

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master and slave cluster relationship 33 MDisks 88 Mirror Memory about 18 usage 18 mirror mode VDisk 82

sweep phase 27 synchronous replication to a remote cluster 34

T
technical support ii threshold value, for warnings 15 throttling bandwidth usage 50 Top Ten VDisks list 15 trademarks ii

N
non-shared mode, joined clusters 42 Notifications, about 10

U
unjoining joined clusters 47 unmounting an image 92 unmounting and deleting a mounted image 93 unused storage space, reclaiming 25 user authentication via LDAP 53

O
organizations 74 out-of-band storage 20, 72

P
partnership between two clusters 43 performance, Actifio PAS, reduced 14 Primary storage pools 20

V
vCenter servers 69 VDisk created from multiple MDisks 82 defined 15 deleting 89 expanding 87 image mode 83 management 81 mapping to a host 86 mirror mode 82, 84 renaming 88 unmapping from a host 86 usage 15 virtual disks, see VDisk

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Replication Memory about 17 usage 17 Resources about 6 Summary 14

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Safe Mode, setting for storage pools 21 shared mode, joined clusters 41 sharing users, roles, policy templates, and organizations between clusters 33 shutdown a cluster, correct procedure 55 Snapshot Memory usage 16 about 16 Snapshot storage pools 20 storage management 19 Storage Pools, about 7 striped VDisks 82 Support Portal, Actifio ii
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Warning Threshold setting, for VDisks 15 warranty ii WWPN or iSCSI ports 71