EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance and EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance/VE Getting Started Guide

158 Pages·2015·2.89 MB·English

EMC® Cloud Tiering Appliance and
Cloud Tiering Appliance/VE
Version 10

Getting Started Guide
P/N 300-005-094
REV 21

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Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction
Overview of the EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance ............................................... 16
Cloud Tiering Appliance/VE (CTA/VE) ..................................................... 16
High Availability for CTA and CTA/VE...................................................... 17
Updating the EMC Business Services Portal with customer site information 18
CTA implementation with Celerra or VNX primary storage........................... 19
CTA implementation with NetApp primary storage........................................ 20
CTA and CTA/VE tasks ........................................................................................ 21
Using CTA and CTA/VE ...................................................................................... 24

Chapter 2 Cloud Tiering Appliance Hardware and Port Configurations
Contents of the appliance ...................................................................................... 26
Cloud Tiering Appliance types ...................................................................... 26
Cloud Tiering Appliance High Availability types ...................................... 26
Cloud Tiering Appliance details .......................................................................... 27
Cloud Tiering Appliance for High Availability details .................................... 29
Appliance diagrams .............................................................................................. 31
Port details ............................................................................................................... 35

Chapter 3 Installing the Cloud Tiering Appliance
Appliance setup ...................................................................................................... 38
Installing the virtual edition.................................................................................. 39
Deploying CTA/VE as a thin virtual machine with vSphere Client 4.0 or 4.1
43
CTA and CTA/VE for high availability .............................................................. 44
High availability with Celerra or VNX primary storage ............................ 44
High availability with NetApp primary storage ......................................... 45
Network console management for Gen 8 models .............................................. 46
Using CTA CLI commands ............................................................................. 48
Rebooting the system ....................................................................................... 49
Performing a CD clean install on the appliance ................................................. 51
Adding the CTA serial number ............................................................................ 52
Configuring CTA .................................................................................................... 52
Configure the CTA network ........................................................................... 53
Configure the hostname, domain, and DNS server .................................... 53
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Update hosts file............................................................................................... 54
File Encryption........................................................................................................ 54
Enabling keystore replication......................................................................... 54
Configuring and using file encryption ......................................................... 55
Graphical user interface ........................................................................................ 55
Command line interface ........................................................................................ 56

Chapter 4 Deploying the Cloud Tiering Appliance
Deployment process for archiving....................................................................... 58
Supported platforms .............................................................................................. 60
Deploying CTA with Celerra or VNX ................................................................. 61
Prerequisites for using Celerra or VNX as a file migration source or
destination ........................................................................................................ 61
Prerequisites for Celerra or VNX as an archive source .............................. 62
Adding a Celerra or VNX to the CTA configuration .................................. 62
Configure name resolution for archiving ..................................................... 65
Configuring Celerra or VNX to Centera or cloud archiving on the CTA 66
Prerequisite tasks on the Celerra or VNX Control Station for file migration or
archiving............................................................................................................ 67
Deploying CTA with NetApp .............................................................................. 74
Prerequisites for using NetApp as a file migration source ........................ 74
Prerequisites for using NetApp as an archiving source ............................ 74
Microsoft Office files and NetApp recall ...................................................... 76
vFiler configuration ........................................................................................ 77
Configuring NetApp archiving on the CTA ............................................... 77
Adding a NetApp filer to the CTA configuration ....................................... 77
Verify the FPolicy configuration for CTA .................................................... 79
Deploying the CTA with a VNXe ........................................................................ 80
Prerequisites for using VNXe as a file migration destination .................. 80
Adding a VNXe to the CTA configuration................................................... 80
Deploying CTA with a Windows server ............................................................ 81
Prerequisites for using Windows as a file migration source ..................... 81
Adding a Windows server to the CTA configuration ............................... 82
Installing the EMWS copy agent for CTA .................................................... 82
Installing and running LGDUP...................................................................... 83
Deploying CTA with Isilon................................................................................... 84
Prerequisite tasks when using Isilon as a CIFS share destination ........... 84
Prerequisite tasks when using Isilon as an NFS export destination ........ 88
Prerequisite task when using Isilon as a file migration destination ........ 89
Adding an Isilon to the CTA configuration ................................................. 90
CTA and Isilon SmartConnect ....................................................................... 91
Deploying the CTA with a Data Domain ........................................................... 93
Configuring a NAS-based repository ................................................................. 94
Deploying CTA with Amazon S3 ........................................................................ 95
Adding Amazon S3 to the CTA configuration ............................................ 95
Deploying CTA with Atmos................................................................................. 96
Adding Atmos to the CTA configuration..................................................... 96
Installing the SSL certificate on the CTA ...................................................... 96
Deploying CTA with Azure.................................................................................. 97
Adding Azure to the CTA configuration ..................................................... 97
Deploying CTA with Centera............................................................................... 98
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Chapter 5 Maintaining the Cloud Tiering Appliance
Importing a file list archive ................................................................................. 100
Adding the primary servers.......................................................................... 100
Configuring the import provider ................................................................. 100
Configuring the import task ......................................................................... 101
Importing the file list...................................................................................... 102
Validating the import file .............................................................................. 103
Backing up the configuration .............................................................................. 103
Creating a backup dump ............................................................................... 104
Restoring a backup dump ............................................................................. 104
Maintaining the database .................................................................................... 106
Checking database size and disk capacity .................................................. 106
Performing database maintenance............................................................... 107
Migrating from CTA to CTA/VE ....................................................................... 108
Shutting down and restarting the appliance .................................................... 109

Chapter 6 Cloud Tiering Appliance System Settings
Security hardening................................................................................................ 112
Single security database................................................................................. 112
Disable root logins .......................................................................................... 114
Strengthen passwords.................................................................................... 114
Age passwords ................................................................................................ 114
Configuring the GUI access method .................................................................. 115
STIG hardening ..................................................................................................... 115
Enabling STIG hardening .............................................................................. 115
Disabling STIG hardening ............................................................................. 116
LDAP client configuration .................................................................................. 117
Global LDAP settings..................................................................................... 117
LDAP authentication...................................................................................... 117
Configuring basic LDAP settings ................................................................. 118
Configuring advanced LDAP settings ........................................................ 119
Certificate management ...................................................................................... 120
Appliance mail delivery settings ........................................................................ 121
Log settings ............................................................................................................ 121
Configuring log rotation................................................................................ 121
Configuring SCP of rotated log files ............................................................ 122
Configuring alerts ................................................................................................. 123
Configuring email alerts ................................................................................ 123
Configuring SNMP alerts .............................................................................. 124
Enabling SNMP polling ................................................................................. 125
System command accounting ............................................................................. 125
Tracking user command history .................................................................. 126
Tracking user login history ........................................................................... 126
Tracking daemon command history............................................................ 126
Windows domain user ......................................................................................... 127
Creating a Windows domain user ............................................................... 127
Adding an admin user to the local administrator group.......................... 127
Configuring Windows for Kerberos ............................................................ 129
Configuring Windows 2008 for NTLM ....................................................... 129
SID translator......................................................................................................... 130
Installing the SID translator .......................................................................... 130
Creating the SID translation file ................................................................... 131
Uploading the SID translation file ............................................................... 133
Deleting a SID translation file ....................................................................... 133
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Appendix A Network Topology Scenarios
Advanced network topologies ........................................................................... 136
Configuring the CTA with bonding ............................................................ 136
Configuring the CTA with two subnets ..................................................... 137
Configuring the CTA with more than two subnets .................................. 137
VLAN tagging modes for the CTA/VE ............................................................ 139
ESX Server virtual switch tagging .............................................................. 139
ESX Server virtual guest tagging ................................................................ 140

Appendix B Alerts
Supported SNMP traps ....................................................................................... 144
CTA alerts.............................................................................................................. 145

Glossary

Index

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Figures

Title Page

1 Celerra or VNX implementation ......................................................................................... 19
2 NetApp implementation ...................................................................................................... 20
3 Archived report example ..................................................................................................... 22
4 Rear view of Gen 8 appliance .............................................................................................. 31
5 Front view of Gen 8 appliance with bezel removed ........................................................ 31
6 Front view of the Gen 8 appliance with bezel ................................................................... 31
7 Rear view of Gen 7 appliance .............................................................................................. 32
8 Front view of Gen 7 appliance with bezel removed ........................................................ 32
9 Front view of the Gen 7 appliance with bezel ................................................................... 32
10 Rear view of Gen 6 appliance .............................................................................................. 33
11 Front view of Gen 6 appliance with bezel removed ........................................................ 33
12 Front view of the Gen 6 appliance with bezel ................................................................... 33
13 Front view of Gen 8 for High Availability with bezel removed .................................... 33
14 Front view of Gen 7 for High Availability with bezel removed .................................... 34
15 Front view of Gen 6 for High Availability with bezel removed .................................... 34
16 CTA8-APL and CTA8-HA-APL port details ..................................................................... 35
17 CTA-APL, CTA-APL-HA, FMA7-APL, FMA7-APL-HA port details ........................... 35
18 FMA6-APL and FMA6-HA-APL port details ................................................................... 36
19 Cloud Tiering Appliance deployment process ................................................................. 58
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1 CTA that is based on Intel C1U ........................................................................................... 27
2 CTA that is based on Dell R710 ........................................................................................... 27
3 CTA that is based on Dell 2950 ........................................................................................... 28
4 CTA-HA that is based on Intel C1U ................................................................................... 29
5 CTA-HA that is based on Dell R710 ................................................................................... 29
6 CTA-HA that is based on Dell 2950 .................................................................................... 30
7 VMware ESX Server interoperability ................................................................................. 39
8 Supported platform matrix for archiving .......................................................................... 60
9 Supported platform matrix for file migration ................................................................... 60
10 Celerra or VNX deployment checklist ............................................................................... 61
11 NetApp deployment checklist ............................................................................................ 74
12 Supported SNMP traps ...................................................................................................... 144
13 CTA alerts ............................................................................................................................. 145
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