EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance and Cloud Tiering Applicance/VE 11.0 Getting Started Guide

141 Pages·2017·1.03 MB·English

EMC® Cloud Tiering Appliance
and Cloud Tiering Appliance/VE
Version 12.0
Getting Started Guide
P/N 300-005-094
Rev 24

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Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction ........................................................................... 11
Overview of the Cloud Tiering Appliance ............................................................ 12
File tiering and migration .............................................................................. 12
Block archiving ............................................................................................. 13
Cloud Tiering Appliance/VE (CTA/VE) ............................................................ 13
High Availability for CTA and CTA/VE ............................................................. 13
CTA implementation with VNX or Unity file primary storage ................................ 14
CTA implementation with NetApp primary storage ............................................. 15
CTA implementation with Unity block snapshots ............................................... 17
CTA and CTA/VE tasks ........................................................................................ 17
Using CTA and CTA/VE ....................................................................................... 19
Chapter 2 Cloud Tiering Appliance Hardware and Port Configurations ..... 21
Cloud Tiering Appliance 12 qualified hardware .................................................. 22
Cloud Tiering Appliance High Availability types ............................................. 24
Contents of the appliance ............................................................................. 25
Appliance diagrams ........................................................................................... 25
Port details ........................................................................................................ 26
Chapter 3 Installing the Cloud Tiering Appliance ..................................... 27
Appliance setup ................................................................................................ 28
Installing the virtual edition ............................................................................... 28
CTA and CTA/VE for high availability .................................................................. 29
High availability with VNX or Unity primary storage ....................................... 30
High availability with NetApp primary storage ............................................... 30
Network console management for Gen 8 models ............................................... 31
Using CTA CLI commands .............................................................................. 32
Rebooting the system ................................................................................... 32
Performing a CD clean install on the appliance .................................................. 32
Performing a CD clean install on a generic server ............................................... 33
Adding the CTA serial number ............................................................................ 34
Configuring CTA ................................................................................................. 34
Configure the CTA network ............................................................................ 35
Configure the hostname, domain, and DNS server ........................................ 36
Configure iSCSI IQN targets (Unity block archiving and restore only) ............. 36
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Update the hosts file .................................................................................... 37
File Encryption ................................................................................................... 37
Enabling keystore replication ........................................................................ 37
Configuring and using file encryption ............................................................ 37
Graphical user interface ..................................................................................... 38
Command line interface ..................................................................................... 39
Chapter 4 Deploying the Cloud Tiering Appliance .................................... 41
Deployment process for archiving ...................................................................... 42
Step 1: Set up CTA ........................................................................................ 43
Step 2: Configure the archive environment ................................................... 43
Step 3: Configure the destination ................................................................. 43
Step 4: Define policies .................................................................................. 44
Step 5: Create a task ..................................................................................... 44
Step 6: Run the simulation task (optional) .................................................... 44
Step 7: Run the policy task ........................................................................... 44
Supported platforms ......................................................................................... 44
Deploying CTA with VNX ..................................................................................... 45
Prerequisites for using VNX as a file migration source or destination ............ 46
Prerequisites for VNX as an archive source ................................................... 46
Adding VNX to the CTA configuration ............................................................. 47
Configure name resolution for archiving ........................................................ 50
Configuring VNX to Centera or cloud archiving on the CTA ............................. 51
Prerequisite tasks on the VNX Control Station for file migration or archiving . 52
Deploying CTA with NetApp................................................................................ 57
Prerequisites for using NetApp as a file migration source .............................. 57
Prerequisites for using NetApp as an archiving source .................................. 57
vFiler configuration ....................................................................................... 60
Configuring NetApp archiving on the CTA ...................................................... 60
Adding NetApp filer to the CTA configuration................................................. 60
Verify the FPolicy configuration for CTA ......................................................... 63
Deploying CTA with a VNXe ................................................................................ 64
Prerequisites for using VNXe as a file migration destination .......................... 64
Adding VNXe to the CTA configuration ........................................................... 64
Deploying CTA with Unity ................................................................................... 65
Prerequisites for Unity as an archive source .................................................. 65
Configure name resolution for archiving ........................................................ 66
Configuring Unity to cloud archiving on the CTA ............................................ 66
Adding a Unity file server to the CTA configuration ........................................ 67
Adding a Unity block server to the CTA configuration .................................... 68
Deploying CTA with Virtustream ......................................................................... 70
Deploying CTA with a Windows server ................................................................ 71
Adding a Windows server to the CTA configuration ........................................ 72
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Installing the EMWS copy agent for CTA ........................................................ 72
Installing and running LGDUP ....................................................................... 73
Deploying CTA with Isilon .................................................................................. 74
Prerequisite tasks when using Isilon as a CIFS share destination .................. 74
Prerequisite tasks when using Isilon as an NFS export destination ............... 76
Prerequisite task when using Isilon as a file migration destination ............... 76
Adding Isilon to the CTA configuration .......................................................... 77
CTA and Isilon SmartConnect ........................................................................ 78
Deploying the CTA with Data Domain ................................................................. 80
Configuring a NAS-based repository .................................................................. 81
Deploying CTA with Amazon S3 ......................................................................... 82
Adding Amazon S3 to the CTA configuration ................................................. 82
Deploying CTA with Atmos ................................................................................. 83
Adding Atmos to the CTA configuration ......................................................... 83
Installing the SSL certificate on the CTA ........................................................ 84
Deploying CTA with Azure .................................................................................. 85
Adding Azure to the CTA configuration .......................................................... 85
Deploying CTA with Centera ............................................................................... 86
Deploying CTA with ECS ..................................................................................... 86
Adding ECS to the CTA configuration ............................................................. 87
Chapter 5 Maintaining the Cloud Tiering Appliance ................................. 89
Importing a file list archive ................................................................................ 90
Adding the primary servers ........................................................................... 90
Configure name resolution for archiving ........................................................ 90
Configuring Unity to cloud archiving on the CTA ............................................ 91
Configuring the import provider .................................................................... 92
Configuring the import task ........................................................................... 92
Importing the file list ..................................................................................... 93
Validating the import file .............................................................................. 94
Backing up the configuration ............................................................................. 94
Creating a backup dump ............................................................................... 95
Restoring a backup dump ............................................................................. 95
Encryption Key restore in case of catastrophic failures ....................................... 97
Maintaining the database .................................................................................. 98
Checking database size and disk capacity .................................................... 98
Performing database maintenance ............................................................... 98
Migrating from CTA to CTA/VE ............................................................................ 99
Shutting down and restarting the appliance .................................................... 100
Chapter 6 Cloud Tiering Appliance System Settings .............................. 101
Security hardening .......................................................................................... 102
Single security database ............................................................................. 102
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Disable root logins ...................................................................................... 104
Strengthen passwords ................................................................................ 104
Age passwords ........................................................................................... 105
Configuring the GUI access method ................................................................. 105
STIG hardening ................................................................................................ 105
Enabling STIG hardening ............................................................................. 105
Disabling STIG hardening ............................................................................ 106
LDAP client configuration ................................................................................. 107
Global LDAP settings ................................................................................... 107
LDAP authentication ................................................................................... 108
Configuring LDAP settings ........................................................................... 109
Certificate management ................................................................................... 111
Appliance mail delivery settings ...................................................................... 111
Log settings ..................................................................................................... 112
Configuring log rotation .............................................................................. 112
Configuring SCP of rotated log files ............................................................. 112
Configuring alerts ............................................................................................ 114
Configuring email alerts .............................................................................. 114
Configuring SNMP alerts ............................................................................. 115
Enabling SNMP polling................................................................................ 116
System command accounting .......................................................................... 116
Tracking user command history .................................................................. 117
Tracking user login history .......................................................................... 117
Tracking daemon command history ............................................................ 117
Windows domain user ..................................................................................... 118
Creating a Windows domain user ................................................................ 118
Adding an admin user to the local administrator group ............................... 118
Configuring Windows for Kerberos .............................................................. 119
Configuring Windows 2008 for NTLM .......................................................... 119
SID translator .................................................................................................. 120
Installing the SID translator ........................................................................ 120
Creating the SID translation file .................................................................. 121
Uploading the SID translation file ............................................................... 121
Deleting a SID translation file ...................................................................... 122
Appendix A Network topology scenarios ................................................. 123
Advanced network topologies .......................................................................... 124
Configuring the CTA with bonding ............................................................... 124
Configuring the CTA with two subnets ......................................................... 125
Configuring the CTA with more than two subnets ........................................ 126
VLAN tagging modes for the CTA/VE ................................................................ 127
ESX Server virtual switch tagging ................................................................ 127
ESX Server virtual guest tagging .................................................................. 128
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Appendix B Alerts ................................................................................... 131
Supported SNMP traps .................................................................................... 132
CTA alerts ........................................................................................................ 133
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Figures

Figure 1. VNX or Unity file implementation ........................................................ 14
Figure 2. NetApp implementation ..................................................................... 15
Figure 3. Unity block implementation................................................................ 17
Figure 4. Rear view of Gen 8 appliance .............................................................. 25
Figure 5. Front view of Gen 8 appliance with bezel removed.............................. 26
Figure 6. Cloud Tiering Appliance deployment process ..................................... 42

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Tables

Table 1. Dell R630 G13 hardware qualified for CTA .......................................... 22
Table 2. CTA-HA that is based on Dell R630 G13 .............................................. 22
Table 3. CTA that is based on Intel C1U ............................................................ 23
Table 4. CTA-HA that is based on Intel C1U ...................................................... 24
Table 5. VMware ESX Server interoperability .................................................... 28
Table 6. Supported platform matrix for archiving ............................................. 44
Table 7. Supported platform matrix for file migration ....................................... 45
Table 8. VNX deployment checklist .................................................................. 45
Table 9. NetApp deployment checklist ............................................................. 57
Table 10. Supported SNMP traps ..................................................................... 132
Table 11. CTA alerts ......................................................................................... 133

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