You can configure a Disk Network Storage Pool with global deduplication from the CommCell Console.
Optionally, you can configure the Disk Network Storage Pools from the command line. For more information, see Creating Disk Network Storage Pool Using Command Line.
About this Task
The configuration wizard automatically creates the following entities as soon as the storage pool is configured:
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Creates a disk library
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Creates a mount path
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Creates a new Global Deduplication Policy
In addition, if a Client Group is associated with the storage pool, all the MediaAgents in the Client Group is automatically shared across the mount paths available in the library, with Read access.
Gather Disk Storage Pool Data
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Required Information |
Details |
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Storage Pool Name |
Name of the storage pool. For example: storagepool-disk001 |
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Storage |
Name of an available disk library with which the storage pool should be associated. |
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Create Local |
Click to create a disk library using a local path for existing MediaAgent. |
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Create Network |
Click to create a disk library using a network path for existing MediaAgent. |
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Deduplication Database (DDB) MediaAgent and Partition Paths |
Path to the MediaAgents and DDB partitions, if partitioned deduplication database was enabled. |
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Client Group |
Client group associated with the storage pool. (optional) Note: When a new MediaAgent is added to the client group, then it is automatically shared. |
Procedure
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From the CommCell Browser, expand to Storage Resources > Storage Pools.
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Right-click the Storage Pools and click Disk.
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The Create New Storage Pool Wizard opens. Follow the instructions in the wizard and use the data that was already gathered.
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Click Finish to create a Disk Storage Pool
The new storage pool appears under the Storage Pools node.
Result
After the configuration the following entities will be available in the CommCell Console:
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A Global Deduplication Policy (Disk Network Storage Pool) under the Storage Pools node.
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The following entities will be created and displayed under the Global Deduplication Policy (Disk Network Storage Pool) node in the CommCell Console:
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Deduplication Engines
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Storage Policy Copy, DDB and partitions under the Deduplication Engines node
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Disk Library under the Storage node with Library as the name suffix
For example: storagepool-disk001Library
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All the existing Global Deduplication Policies will appear as Storage Pools under the Storage Pools node.
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If a client group was selected, then all the MediaAgents in the client group are automatically shared across the mount paths available in the library, with Read access, using one of the following transport types:
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For mount paths with a Network path, the MediaAgents are shared as a network path using the Regular transport type.
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For mount paths with a Local path, the MediaAgents are shared using the Data Server-IP transport type.
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What to Do Next
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Create a storage policy and associate it with the Global Deduplication Policy (Disk Network Storage pool). For information see Creating a Storage Policy with Global Deduplication. Then, assign the storage policy copy to a subclient and start data protection operations. For more information on configuring subclients, see agent specific documentation.