DELL EMC UNITY

IMPLEMENTATION AND
ADMINISTRATION
LAB GUIDE - 5.2

PARTICIPANT GUIDE
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Table of Contents

Exploring the Lab Environment ................................................................................... 2

Lab Exercise: Unity Unisphere Tour ........................................................................ 7
Lab Exercise: Storage Provisioning ....................................................................... 19
Lab Exercise: Windows Host Access to Block Storage ....................................... 38
Lab Exercise: Linux Host Access to Block Storage ............................................. 46
Lab Exercise: SMB File Storage Access ................................................................ 59
Lab Exercise: NFS File Storage Access................................................................. 78
Lab Exercise: VMware Datastore Access .............................................................. 89
Lab Exercise: Host I/O Limits Setup..................................................................... 101
Lab Exercise: File System Extension and Shrink Operations ........................... 110
Lab Exercise: FAST VP Settings .......................................................................... 116
Lab Exercise: File System Quotas ....................................................................... 124
Lab Exercise: Local LUN Move ............................................................................. 145
Lab Exercise: LUN Snapshots .............................................................................. 150
Lab Exercise: File System Snapshots.................................................................. 164
Lab Exercise: Thin Clones .................................................................................... 176
Lab Exercise: Asynchronous Remote Replication ............................................. 187
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Exploring the Lab Environment

Objective: Connect to Your Lab Environment

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• View Lab Topology
• Log In to Your Lab Environment

Lab Topology
Review dedicated Lab Environment.

1. In this class, you have a dedicated lab environment including:

• Student Desktop: Student01

• SMB Clients Windows iSCSI Hosts

• WIN1
• WIN2
• NFS Client: Linux1

• ESXi Server: ESXi-1

• Unity Storage Arrays:

• UnityVSA-Source
• UnityVSA-Destination
• Domain Controller/DNS/NTP: ADDC

• LDAP Server/NFS Users: LDAP

• vCenter Server Appliance: VCSA

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System Addressing and Credentials

https://vcsa.hmarine.test:9443

Server/Appli Use Mgmt IP Address Credentials Data

ance Name Network/iS
CSI IP

WIN1 SMB 192.168.1.11 hmarine\adminis 192.168.3.1

client trator / 06 (iSCSI)
Windo emc2Admin! (Initiator)
ws administrator /
iSCSI emc2Local!
host

WIN2 SMB 192.168.2.11 hmarine\adminis 192.168.3.1

client trator / 07 (iSCSI)
Windo emc2Admin! (Initiator)
ws administrator /
iSCSI emc2Local!
host

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Linux1 NFS 192.168.1.111 root / 192.168.3.1

client emc2Local! 08 (iSCSI)
Linux (Initiator)
iSCSI
host

Student01 Studen 192.168.1.12 Student01\stude

t nt / student
Deskto
p

vSphere Web Manag 192.168.1.49 student@vspher

Client e ESXi https://vcsa.hmarine.t e.local /
est:9443 Password123!

AD/DC Domai 192.168.1.50 hmarine\adminis

n trator /
Control emc2Admin!
ler
DNS/N
TP

LDAP LDAP 192.168.1.51 root /

Server emc2Local!
NFS
Users

esxi- ESXi 192.168.1.112 root/Password12 192.168.3.1

1.hmarine.tes Server 3! 04
t (iSCSI)(Initi
ator)

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UnityVSA- Unity 192.168.1.113 admin / 192.168.3.1

Source Storag Password123! 00 (Eth0)
e Array service / iSCSI TGT
Unisph Password123! 192.168.1.1
ere default: admin / 15 (Eth1)
Password123# NAS_SMB
192.168.1.1
16 (Eth1)
NAS_NFS

UnityVSA- Unity 192.168.2.113 admin / 192.168.3.1

Destination Storag Password123! 01 (iSCSI
e Array service / Eth0) TGT
Unisph Password123! 192.168.2.1
ere default: admin / 15 (Eth1)
Password123# NAS_SMB
192.168.2.1
16 (Eth1)
NAS_NFS

The preceding table details each system within the lab setup. It provides names, IP
addressing, and access credentials.

Note: All of the specific addressing and access credentials are

included directly within the lab exercise steps. It is presented here
as a reference if needed and to provide an overview of the setup.

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Student Desktop

When accessing the lab setup, the student is redirected to the Student Desktop
Windows 10 system. The Task bar is preconfigured with application icons that are
needed for the lab exercises.

Throughout the lab exercises, students move between the Student Desktop,
Windows, and Linux Hosts. Students log in to the Windows and Linux hosts using
different credentials depending on the Lab being performed.

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Lab Exercise: Unity Unisphere Tour

Scenario:

In this lab, you take a tour of the Unisphere Dashboard, System View, and Settings
pages to become familiar with the storage system and the GUI interface.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Log into Unisphere, customize the Dashboard, and explore Unisphere
Navigation, Preferences, and Help options.
• Display the virtual components in the System View pages and confirm storage
system health.
• View the system settings pages and confirm software versions, license
information, system limits, and management settings.

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Tour of Unisphere Dashboard, System View, and Settings

Introduction to task.

1. Launch the Google Chrome browser from the task bar on your Student
Desktop.

Enter the URL https://192.168.1.113, and log in to Unisphere with the admin user
account and the password Password123!

2. The Dashboard displays several default View Blocks.

Click the System Heath View Block. Three icons are displayed in the upper
right side of the window. Hover over each icon to view the details.

3. To customize the Dashboard, click the Main link text or use the drop-down
arrow in the upper left of the window and select Customize.

4. In the Add View Blocks window, select System Alerts, click Add View
Block, and then click Close to return to the Dashboard.
Is your new widget displayed? __________________

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5. Now click the + icon to create a new dashboard.

6. Enter My New Dashboard in the Dashboard Name field and click OK.

7. From the My New Dashboard dropdown list, select Customize to add

widgets to the new dashboard.

Select System Capacity, and click the Add View Block button.

Add another widget by selecting System Alerts, and click the Add View Block
button.

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Click Close. The Dashboard displays the added widgets.

8. Let’s look at Unisphere preferences. Click the person icon in the upper right
corner and select Preferences. You can also change the password and log
out here.

9. In the window that opens, hover over the Optimize for remote access link.
What is the purpose of this option?
_____________________________________
Click the Clear User Cache button next. Click Yes to confirm.
What is the result of the clear user cache function?
________________________

10. Let’s look at the help options. Click the Help icon in the upper right of the
window to view the sub menu. Click the About link in the sub menu.
Which version of Unisphere is running?

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Close the window.

The other two sub menu items include a link to the online help main menu
page and a direct link to the dashboard help page.

11. Click the Online Help link to view the main menu.
You can go to the online help using the content tree on the left or using the
categories on the right. Try the For more information link near the bottom of
the main menu.

12. Close the browser tabs to Online Help and Product Documentation and return
to the open Unisphere Dashboard tab.
Click the Alerts icon to view any recent alerts. If you select the View All
Alerts link, it brings you to the Alerts page. You can also reach the Alerts
page using the link in the navigation pane on the left.
Are there any alerts displayed?
_______________________________________

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13. Next to the Alerts icon, click the Jobs icon to view any active jobs. In this case,
there are no active jobs shown.

a. Click the Jobs link in the navigation pane on the left to view the Jobs
page.

14. To the left of the Jobs icon, click the View system status icon. Select the
View system details link for more details.

15. This brings us to the System View Summary page.

We can also navigate here using the System View link in the left navigation
pane.
Here is where we can see the general system status, the system name, serial
number, license activation key, system UUID, software version, and system
time.
Are there any hardware issues detected on your system that need attention?

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Does the software version match what was reported in the About Unisphere
page? ________
Select the Enclosures tab. Click each port and view the details on the bottom
page.

16. Select the Virtual tab. There should be nine Virtual Disks assigned to your
UnityVSA storage system.

17. Now let’s look at some system settings. Click the Settings icon in the upper
right corner of Unisphere.

a. The Software and Licenses Information window is displayed. The

menu on the left roughly matches the flow of the Initial Configuration
Wizard and that you can launch the Initial Configuration Wizard near
the bottom of window.

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18. Click the Software Upgrades link to check the software version.
What is the release date of the UnityOS?
_______________________________

19. Click the Perform Health Checks button.

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a. The Pre Upgrade Health Checks window is displayed (not shown

here). Click the Perform Health Checks button to perform the health
check.
Did the health check successfully complete?
____________________________
Any issues reported?
_______________________________________________
Close the Pre Upgrade Health Check window to continue.

20. Now let’s look at the system limits. Click the System Limits link in the
Settings window. Use the slide bar to view all the limits.

21. Use the menu on the left to explore the rest of the Settings.
This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Adding a New User Account with a Role Associated to It

1. From the Settings window, go to the Users and Groups > User
Management section.

From the Manage Users & Groups page, launch the Create User or Group
wizard by clicking on the Add link (+).

2. From the Create User or Group wizard, notice that Local User is the only
option available because LDAP service was not configured for the Unity
system.

If LDAP was configured in the Directory Services tab of the System Settings
window, both existing LDAP User and Group could be configured to access
Unisphere.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

3. In the Specify User Information section enter the following:

Username: student

Password: P@ssw0rd

Confirm Password: P@ssw0rd

Click Next to continue.

4. On the Select a Role section, select the Operator role for the new user.

Click Next to continue.

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5. Review your settings on the Summary section and click Finish.

6. The Results section shows the status of the operation.

A green check mark specifies that the operation was completed successfully.

Wait until the job has completed, and then click Close.

7. The new User is displayed in the Manage Users & Groups page.

Notice that among the information that is displayed in this page are the user
name, role, and the type of user (Local or LDAP).

a. Close the Settings window.

8. Test the new user and the permissions that are associated with the role:

First log off from the Unisphere session. (Remember that we are logged as
Admin).

Confirm the Log Out operation. The browser redirects the page to the Login
screen.

9. On the Login screen, enter the credentials of the new user:

User: student

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Password: P@ssw0rd

Click LOG IN.

10. Click the Settings icon in the upper right corner of Unisphere.

The Settings window opens.

11. The default License Management page is displayed under the Software and
Licenses > License Information section.

Is this user allowed to install a new license?

_____________________________

12. Navigate through the other sections of the Settings window.

Can this user create New Users or Groups?

____________________________

Which configuration from the Management section, is this user allowed to

perform?
________________________________________________________

13. This concludes the demonstration of Role-based user management. Close the
Settings window, and log out from the Unisphere session.

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Lab Exercise: Storage Provisioning

Scenario:

In this lab, you assign the storage tier levels to virtual disks presented to the Dell
UnityVSA system. From that storage space, you create several heterogeneous and
homogeneous pools. From the pools, you create LUNs, Consistency Groups, NAS
servers, and file systems.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Assign storage tiers to the available virtual disks. Then create two multi-tier
storage pools and three single-tier storage pools.
• Create two LUNs and a multi-LUN Consistency Group.
• Create two NAS Servers: one for SMB file access and one for NFS file access.
• Create two file systems: one for containing SMB file data and one for NFS file
data.

Creating Storage Pools

In this lab, you create two multi-tiered FAST VP pools for general storage use and
three single tiered homogenous pools. In a Dell UnityVSA environment, Virtual
Disks are created for the use of the Dell UnityVSA. You assign different level tiers
to those Virtual Disks to be able to simulate a FAST VP environment. When using a
physical Unity storage array, the back end disks are automatically assigned to the
correct tiers based on their performance characteristics.

1. From your Student Desktop system taskbar, launch Chrome and establish a
Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system at IP address
192.168.1.113. The login credentials are admin/Password123!

2. Navigate to System > System View > Virtual. You will see nine Virtual Disks
that are displayed with three different capacities.

Select the first 9.9 GB Virtual Disk so it is highlighted, and then move the
cursor to the Details icon in the tool bar and click it. As a note, double-clicking
the Virtual Disk also works.

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The Properties window is displayed. From the Storage Tier dropdown list,
select the Extreme Performance Tier. Click Apply, and then click Close.
Repeat this step for the other two 9.9 GB Virtual Disks.

Double-click on the first 19.9 GB Virtual Disk. The Properties window is

displayed. From the Storage Tier dropdown list, select the Performance Tier.
Click Apply, and then click Close. Repeat this step for the other two 19.9 GB
Virtual Disks.

Double-click on the first 49.9 GB Virtual Disk. The Properties window is

displayed. From the Storage Tier dropdown list, select the Capacity Tier.
Click Apply, and then click Close. Repeat this step for the other two 49.9 GB
Virtual Disks.

Note: this is one of several places that tiers can be assigned to

virtual disks.

3. Navigate to Storage > Pools. Click the + icon to create a new pool. The
Create Pool Wizard opens. In the Name field input: FAST VP-1. Click Next to
continue the wizard.

In the Assign Tier to the Virtual Drive window, click Next since you already
performed this step.

In the Select Storage Tiers window, check the box for each of the three
storage tiers, Extreme Performance Tier, Performance Tier, and Capacity
Tier as this pool will be a multi-tiered FAST VP Pool. Click Next to continue
the wizard.

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In the Select Virtual Drives window, remove the check marks from all virtual
disks except the first one listed in each of the three tiers. Click Next to
continue the wizard.

Leave the Create VMware Capability Profile for the Pool check box
cleared. Click Next to continue the wizard.

The Summary section displays the pool configuration to be created. Verify

that a single disk is displayed in each of the tiers. Click Finish to begin the
creation operation.

The Results window displays the creation status. Close the window when the
operation completes.

The newly created FAST VP-1 pool is now listed.

4. Click the + icon to create another pool. The Create Pool Wizard opens. In the
Name field input: FAST VP-2. Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Assign Tier to the Virtual Drive window, click Next.

In the Select Storage Tiers window, check the box for each of the three
storage tiers, Extreme Performance Tier, Performance Tier, and Capacity
Tier as this pool will be a multi-tiered FAST VP Pool. Click Next to continue
the wizard.

In the Select Virtual Drives window, remove the check marks from all virtual
disks except the first one listed in each of the three tiers. Click Next to
continue the wizard.

Leave the Create VMware Capability Profile for the Pool check box
cleared. Click Next to continue the wizard.

The Summary section displays the pool configuration to be created. Verify

that there is a single disk in each of the tiers. Click Finish to begin the creation
operation.

The Results window displays the creation status. Close the window when the

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operation completes.

The newly created FAST VP-2 pool is now listed.

5. Click the + icon to create another pool. The Create Pool Wizard opens. In the
Name field input: Extreme Performance Pool. Click Next to continue the
wizard.

In the Assign Tier to the Virtual Drive window, click Next.

In the Select Storage Tiers window, check the box for Extreme Performance
Tier only, as this pool will be a single tier pool. Click Next to continue the
wizard.

In the Select Virtual Drives window, only the one virtual disk will be displayed
and checked. Click Next to continue the wizard.

Leave the Create VMware Capability Profile for the Pool check box
cleared. Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Review Your Selections window, verify that you have a single 9.9 GB
drive in the Extreme Performance Pool. Click Finish.

The Results window displays the creation status.

Close the window when the operation completes.

6. Click the + icon to create another pool. The Create Pool Wizard opens. In the
Name field input: Performance Pool. Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Assign Tier to the Virtual Drive window, click Next.

In the Select Storage Tiers window, check off the box for Performance Tier.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Select Virtual Drives window, verify Virtual Disk 6 is checked.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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Leave the Create VMware Capability Profile for the Pool check box
cleared. Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Review Your Selections window, verify that you have a single 19.9 GB
drive in the Performance Pool. Click Finish

The Results window displays the creation status.

Close the window when the operation completes.

7. Click the + icon to create another pool called Capacity Pool. Repeat the
process to add the last 49.9 GB drive (Virtual Disk 9) to the Capacity Pool.

In the Review Your Selections window, verify that you have a single 49.9 GB
drive in the Capacity Pool. Click Finish

The Results window displays the creation status. Close the window when the
operation completes.

All five newly created pools should be listed.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Creating Block Storage LUNs and Consistency Groups

In this lab, you provision block storage LUNs and a Consistency Group with three
LUNs.

1. In Unisphere, navigate to Storage > Block > LUNs. Click the + icon to create
a new LUN.

The Create LUNs wizard opens.

In the Configure LUN(s) section, input the following configuration:

Number of LUNs: 1

Name: WIN1 LUN0

Pool: FAST VP-1

Tiering Policy: Start High, Then Auto-Tier

Size: 5 GB

Thin: Checked

Host I/O Limit: No Limit

Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Configure Access section you will not configure host access yet. Click
Next to continue the wizard.

Also click Next in the Snapshot section and Next in the Replication section,
you will not be configuring those features yet.

The Summary section will display the configuration of the LUN to be created
as shown.

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Click Finish to begin the creation operation.

The Results window will display the status of the operation. When it completes,
Close the window. The newly created WIN1 LUN0 will be displayed.

2. Click the + icon to create another LUN.

In the Configure LUN(s) section, input the following configuration:

Number of LUNs: 1

Name: Linux1 LUN0

Pool: FAST VP-1

Tiering Policy: Start High, Then Auto-Tier

Size: 5 GB

Thin: Checked

Host I/O Limit: No Limit

Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Configure Access section you will not configure host access yet. Click
Next to continue the wizard.

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Also click Next in the Snapshot section and Next in the Replication section,
you will not be configuring those features yet.

The Summary section will display the configuration of the LUN to be created
as shown.

Click Finish to begin the creation operation.

The Results window will display the status of the operation. When it completes,
Close the window. The newly created Linux1 LUN0 will be displayed.

3. Select the Consistency Groups tab and click the + icon to create a
Consistency Group. The Create a Consistency Group wizard opens.

In the Name field input: FASTVP_CG. Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Populate Consistency Group section click the + icon and select
Create new LUNs from the dropdown list.

In the Configure LUNs window input the following configuration information:

Number of LUNs: 3

Name: CG_LUN

Pool: FAST VP-1

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Size: 5 GB

Thin: Checked

Tiering Policy: Start High, Then Auto-Tier

Host I/O Limit: No Limit

Click OK to continue.

Click Next to the Populate Consistency Group window.

In the Configure Access section, click Next to continue the wizard.

Also click Next in the Snapshot section and Next in the Replication section,
you will not be configuring those features yet.

The Summary section will display the configuration of the Consistency Group
to be created as shown.

Click Finish to begin the creation operation.

4. The Results window displays the status of the operation. Please be patient,
the operation will take a moment to complete. When it completes, Close the
window.

The newly created consistency group will be displayed.

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This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Creating NAS Servers

1. You will now create a NAS server for accessing file storage via SMB.

In Unisphere, navigate to Storage > File > NAS Servers. Click the + icon to
create a new NAS server. A wizard to create the NAS server opens to the
Configure NAS Server General Settings section. Input the following
configuration:

Server Name: NAS_SMB

Pool: FAST VP-2

Storage Processor: SP A (Only SP available on a UnityVSA)

Click Next to continue the wizard.

2. In the Configure NAS Server Address section, input the following

configuration:

Ethernet Port: Ethernet Port 1

IP Address: 192.168.1.115

Subnet Mask/Prefix Length: 255.255.255.0

Gateway: 192.168.1.1

Click Next to continue the wizard.

3. In the Configure Sharing Protocols section check the Windows Shares

(SMB, CIFS) protocol option. The window expands with the Join to the Active
Directory domain option selected. Input the following configuration:

SMB Computer Name: NAS_SMB (already populated)

SMB Server Description: File server for Windows users

Windows Domain: hmarine.test

Domain Privileged Username: Administrator (already populated)

Password: emc2Admin!

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Leave the Enable NFSv3 and Enable NFSv4 options unchecked.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

4. In the Configure NAS Server DNS section the Domain and Servers fields
are populated:

Domain: hmarine.test

Servers: 192.168.1.50

Click Next to continue the wizard.

5. You will not be configuring Replication so click Next to continue the wizard.

The Summary section displays the configuration of the NAS Server to be

created as shown here.

Click the Finish button to initiate the creation operation.

The Results section displays the status of the creation operation.

Close the window when the operation completes successfully.

The NAS_SMB NAS server is now listed on the page.

6. You will now create a second NAS server which will be used to access file

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storage via NFS.

Click the + icon to create a new NAS server. The wizard to create the NAS
server opens to the Configure NAS Server General Settings section. Input
the following configuration:

Server Name: NAS_NFS

Pool: FAST VP-2

Storage Processor: SP A

Click Next to continue the wizard.

7. In the Configure NAS Server Address section input the following

configuration:

Ethernet Port: Ethernet Port 1

IP Address: 192.168.1.116

Subnet Mask/Prefix Length: 255.255.255.0

Gateway: 192.168.1.1

Click Next to continue the wizard.

8. In the Configure Sharing Protocols section, check the Enable NFSv3

protocol option.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

9. In the Configure Unix Directory Service section, check the Enable a Unix
Directory Service using NIS or LDAP.

The window will open further configuration information.

From the dropdown list, select LDAP.

Click the radio button to Configure LDAP servers IPs manually.

Click the Add button. Input the following configuration:

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IP Address: 192.168.1.51

Click the Add button.

Input the following configuration:

Port: 389 (already populated)

Authentication: Anonymous (already populated)

LDAP Secure (Use SSL): unchecked

Base DN: hmarine.test

Profile DN: (leave blank)

Click Next to continue the wizard.

10. In the Configure NAS Server DNS section, check the Enable DNS option.
This exposes further configuration information. Input the following
configuration:

Domain: hmarine.test

IP Address: 192.168.1.50 (populated)

Click Next to continue the wizard.

11. You will not be configuring Replication so click Next to continue the wizard.

The Summary section displays the configuration of the NAS server to be

created as shown.

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Click the Finish button to initiate the creation operation.

The Results section displays the status of the creation operation.

Close the window when the operation completes successfully.

The NAS_NFS NAS server is now listed on the page.

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Creating File Systems

1. You will now configure a file system for SMB file storage.

In Unisphere, navigate to Storage > File > File Systems. Click the + icon to
create a new file system.

A wizard opens for creating the file system. In the Configure the Protocols
the File System Supports section, select the Windows Shares (SMB) radio
button.

From the NAS Server dropdown list, the NAS_SMB should be selected as it is
the only NAS Server available configured for SMB.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

2. In the Provide a Name and Description section, input the following:

Name: SMB_fs

Description: File system for NAS_SMB NAS Server

Click Next to continue the wizard.

3. In the Configure the File-level Retention section, keep the Off radio button
selected.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

4. In the Configure the File System Storage Characteristics section, input the
following configuration:

Pool: FAST VP-2

Size: 5 GB

Thin: Checked (default)

Tiering Policy: Start High Then Auto-Tier

Click Next to continue the wizard.

5. You will not configure a share for the file system at this time so in the

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Configure the Initial Share section click Next to continue the wizard.

You will not configure Snapshots for the file system at this time so in the
Configure Snapshot Schedule section click Next to continue the wizard.

You will not configure Replication for the file system at this time so in the
Provide a Replication Mode and RPO section click Next to continue the
wizard.

6. The Summary section displays the details of the file system creation as
shown:

Click Finish to perform the creation operation.

The Results section will display the status of the file system creation.

Close the window when the operation completes successfully

The SMB_fs file system is displayed in the list.

7. You will now configure a file system for NFS file storage.

From the File Systems page, click the + icon to create a new file system.

The wizard to create a file system opens. In the Configure the Protocols the
File System Supports section, select the default of Linux/Unix Shares (NFS)
radio button.

From the NAS Server dropdown list, the NAS_NFS should be selected as it is

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the only NAS Server available configured for NFS.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

8. In the Provide a Name and Description section, input the following:

• Name: NFS_fs

• Description: File system for NAS_NFS NAS Server

Click Next to continue the wizard.

9. In the Configure the File-level Retention section, keep the Off radio button
selected.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

10. In the Configure the File System Storage Characteristics section, input the
following configuration:

• Pool: FAST VP-2

• Size: 5 GB

• Thin: Checked (default)

• Tiering Policy: Start High Then Auto-Tier

Click Next to continue the wizard.

11. You will not configure a share for the file system at this time so in the
Configure the Initial Share section click Next to continue the wizard.

You will not configure Snapshots for the file system at this time so in the
Configure Snapshot Schedule section click Next to continue the wizard.

You will not configure Replication for the file system at this time so in the
Provide a Replication Mode and RPO section click Next to continue the
wizard.

12. The Summary section displays the details of the file system creation as
shown.

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Click Finish to perform the creation operation.

The Results section will display the status of the file system creation.

Close the window when the operation completes successfully.

The NFS_fs file system is displayed in the list.

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Lab Exercise: Windows Host Access to Block Storage

Scenario:

In this lab, you configure a Windows iSCSI host to access a LUN on the Dell
UnityVSA.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Configure an iSCSI interface on the Dell UnityVSA data network port and
discover the target array using the Microsoft iSCSI initiator software.
• Attach the host to the LUN.
• Format the drive
• Assign a drive letter to the LUN for host access.
• Write data to the LUN.

Create an iSCSI Interface

Introduction to task.

1. In Unisphere, from the UnityVSA-Source system, go to to Storage > Block >

iSCSI Interfaces. Click the + icon to create an iSCSI interface. Input the
following configuration:

• Ethernet Port: Ethernet Port 0

• Storage Processor: SPA (only SPA is available on the VSA)

• IP Address: 192.168.3.100

• Subnet Mask/Prefix Length: 255.255.255.0

• Gateway: Leave blank

• IQN Alias: Leave as is

Record the Port IQN value: ____________________________________

Click OK to create the interface.

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This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Host Microsoft iSCSI Initiator - Target Discovery

In this lab, you use the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator to discover the Dell
UnityVSA target data network port, and establish a connection between the host
and Dell UnityVSA. The initiator software should already be installed on the
system.

1. From the Student Desktop taskbar, click the Remote Desktop Connection
(RDC) icon to launch the application.

Establish an RDC session to WIN1 as the local administrator using the

following settings:

Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices

Select Use a different account

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: \administrator

Password: emc2Local!

Click Ok

Click Yes to any Certificate errors.

2. From the WIN1 system taskbar, click the iSCSI Initiator icon to launch the
application.

Select the Discovery tab. Click the Discover Portal button. In the Discover
Target Portal window, in the IP address or DNS name field input: 192.168.3.100

Click OK to close the Discover Target Portal window.

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Select the Targets tab. In the Discovered targets section, the UnityVSA-Source
IQN is displayed with an Inactive status. Click the Connect button to connect the
initiator to the target.

In the Connect to Target window, check the Enable multi-path checkbox. Click
the Advanced button.

From the Advanced Settings window, in the Local adaptor dropdown list, select
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator. In the Initiator IP dropdown list, select 192.168.3.106.
From the Target portal IP dropdown list, select 192.168.3.100 /3260. Click OK to
configure the settings.

Click OK in the Connect To Target window.

Click OK to close the iSCSI Initiator Properties window.

This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Unisphere Initiator and Host Access

In this lab, you locate the initiator IQN and map it to a host for LUN access.

1. From your Student Desktop system, open the Unisphere session to UnityVSA-
Source go to to Access > Initiators.

2. Verify the WIN1 Initiator is displayed. You may need to refresh the Unisphere
page.

Note: The initiator displays a green circle with a white check icon
along with an orange dot, indicating that the initiator is not yet
associated with a host.

In the next step, you will register this initiator to a host.

3. Navigate to Access > Hosts. Click the + icon and from the dropdown list
select Host. The Add a Host wizard opens. Input the following configuration:

Name: WIN1

Description: Windows WIN1 host

Operating System: Windows Server

Network Address: 192.168.1.11

Click Next to continue.

4. In the Select Discovered Initiators or Manually Add Initiators section,

check the WIN1 initiator IQN checkbox to register the initiator with the host.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

5. The Summary > Review the host configuration window displays the
configuration of the host to be registered as shown.

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Click the Finish button to add the host.

The Results screen displays the progress of the operation.

Close the window when the operation completes.

The WIN1 host is now listed and indicates it is a registered host by the white check
in the green circle.

6. Navigate to Storage > Block > LUNs and double-click on WIN1 LUN0 to open
its properties page.

Select the Host Access tab.

Click the + icon to configure host access to the LUN.

The Select Host Access window opens.

Check the WIN1 host checkbox.

Click OK to configure the host access to the LUN.

Close the properties page window.

This completes part 3 of the lab exercise.

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Present the LUN to a Windows Host

In this lab you use the Computer Management tools to discover, format, and
present a LUN to a Windows host.

1. From the WIN1 RDC session, launch Computer Management from the
desktop or taskbar.

2. Navigate to Storage.

Click Disk Management.

Locate the disk 5 GB. This disk is associated with the LUN you created. Right-
click the disk and bring it Online.

Once it displays Not Initialized, right-click and select Initialize Disk. Use the
default setting, and click OK.

Right-click the unallocated space and select New Simple Volume. The New
Simple Volume Wizard opens. Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Specify Volume Size window, accept the default size, and click Next to
continue the wizard.

In the Assign Drive Letter or Path window, accept the default settings and
click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Format Partition window, accept the default settings for File system
and Allocation unit size. In the Volume label field input WIN1 LUN0 and
check the Perform a quick format option.

Click Next to continue.

Click Finish to complete the operation.

3. Right-click the formatted drive and select Open.

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Right click in the window and select New > Text Document.

Open the document, and write some data in it.

Save and Exit the file.

Close the window.

You have verified host access and successfully written data to the LUN.

Close the Computer Management window.

If you see the following window after closing Computer Management, select
Cancel here:

Logoff the RDC session to WIN1.

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Lab Exercise: Linux Host Access to Block Storage

Scenario:

This lab details the steps to configure an iSCSI interface on the Dell UnityVSA data
network port. After configuration, discovery of the target array is performed using
the Linux native iSCSI initiator software (open-iscsi).Once the target is discovered,
you will:
• Attach the host to the LUN.
• Format the drive
• Partition the drive
• Create a file system.
• Write data to the LUN.

Important: Completely read each step through as they contain

more than a single command or action.

The Linux host uses the open-iscsi initiator software. The driver contains
parameters which may need to be changed for Dell Unity. The settings can be
found in the Unity Series Configuring Host to Access Fibre Channel (FC) or
iSCSI Storage guide available on dell.com/support.

The file is located here: /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf.

Linux Host iSCSI Initiator - Target Discovery

In this lab, you use the Linux native iSCSI Initiator to discover the Dell UnityVSA
target data network port, and establish a connection between the host and Dell
UnityVSA. The initiator software is already installed on the system as part of the
Linux installation.

1. From your Student Desktop system desktop or taskbar, click the PuTTY icon
to launch the application.

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Establish an SSH session to the Linux1 system.

In the PuTTY screen Host Name (or IP address) field input: Linux1 and click
the Open button.

In the PuTTY Security Alert window, if presented, click the Yes button to
connect to the system.

At the login as: prompt input: root

At the password: prompt input: emc2Local!

You are now logged in as root to the Linux1 host as indicated by the # cursor
symbol.

2. In this step, you identify the initiator IQN for the Linux system.

Issue the command:

cat /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi

Record the initiator name: _____________________________________

3. Verify the host iSCSI initiator software configuration.

The Linux iSCSI initiator software configuration is defined in the

/etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf file. Dell recommends several settings be
modified from their default values. The recommended configuration settings
have been put in place on your Linux host.

View the configuration file, run the command:

cat /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf | grep -i node | grep -v "#"

The command displays all node related settings. Verify that the following
configuration lines are present in the file:

node.startup = automatic
node.session.timeo.replacement_timeout - 120

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node.conn[0].timeo.noop_out_interval = 10
node.conn[0].timeo.noop_out_timeout = 15
node.session.iscsi.InitialR2T - Yes
node.session.iscsi.ImmediateData - No

4. Discover the iSCSI target.

Discover the Unity iSCSI target, run the command:

/sbin/iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p

192.168.3.100

The output displays the Unity target port IP address, port number, and IQN.

5. Start the iSCSI initiator software.

Manually start the iSCSI initiator software, run commands:

systemctl start iscsid

systemctl start iscsi

Enable the iSCSI initiator software to start on system boot and shut down
when the host is brought down, run the commands:

systemctl enable iscsid

systemctl enable iscsi

6. Verify the iscsi initiator software status is active, run the command:

systemctl status iscsi

The output displays the iscsi service is loaded, active, and logged into the
Unity target IQN.

7. Display the iSCSI session.

Verify the host iscsi initiator session to the Unity target, run the command:

iscsiadm -m session

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The output displays the Unity target portal IP address and port number and its
IQN as seen below:

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Unisphere Initiator and Host Access

In this lab, you use Unisphere to verify that the Linux iSCSI initiator has been
attached to the Dell UnityVSA. You then add Linux host and present a LUN for host
access.

1. Return to your Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system. Refresh

your login if the security session has expired. Navigate to Access > Initiators.

Verify the Linux iSCSI Initiator is displayed.

Note: The initiator displays a green circle with a white check icon
along with a blue square indicating that the initiator is not yet
associated with a host.

2. Navigate to Access > Hosts. Click the + icon and from the dropdown list
select Host. The Add a Host wizard opens. Input the following configuration:

Name: Linux1

Description: Linux1 host

Operating System: Linux

Network Address: 192.168.1.111 (the IP address of eth0 on the Linux host)

Click Next to continue the wizard.

3. In the Select Discovered Initiators or Manually Add Initiators section,

check the Linux1 initiator IQN checkbox to register the host initiator.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

4. The Summary screen displays the configuration of the host to be registered

as shown:

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Click the Finish button to continue.

The Results screen displays the progress of the operation.

Close the window when the operation completes.

The Linux1 host is now listed as a registered host as indicated by the white
check in the green circle:

5. Navigate to Storage > Block > LUNs and double-click on Linux1 LUN0 to
open its properties page.

Select the Host Access tab.

Click the + icon to configure host access to the LUN.

The Select Host Access window opens.

Check the Linux1 host checkbox.

Click OK to configure the host access to the LUN.

Close the properties page window.

This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Present the LUN to a Linux Host

In this lab you discover, format, and present a LUN to a Linux host.

1. From your Student Desktop, open the existing SSH session to the Linux1
system.

Your Linux system is configured with PowerPath multipath software. At the

command prompt, run the command:

powermt config

There is no output from the command.

View devices seen by PowerPath, run the command:

powermt display dev=all

The output of the command displays the Pseudo name PowerPath has
assigned to the new LUN. Verify the Pseudo name in the output as shown:

The example above shows the pseudo name of emcpowera. The name may
be different for you if the host had access to another LUN previously. For
example, the pseudo name returned could be emcpowerb for the LUN. Record
the pseudo name returned for you. You will use it in a following step.

2. LUN discovery.

Verify the new LUN is discovered as a disk device, run the command:

fdisk -l

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The command displays the disk devices that the system can see. Locate the
disk device having the PowerPath pseudo name recorded in the earlier step.
The example below shows the disk device having the pseudo name
emcpowera.

Note: To see the new LUN on the Linux host, the host SCSI bus must be
rescanned. In some conditions, a reboot of the host may be needed.

3. Partition the new disk device.

Create a new primary partition on the pseudo named device, run the
command:

fdisk -c -u /dev/emcpowera

The command launches a wizard to partition the disk. You create a primary
partition on the disk using the default values for the disk device. Enter the
bolded responses at each of the wizard prompts shown:

Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.23.2) .

Changes will remain in memory only, until yo decide to

write them.
Be carefule before using the write command.

Device does not contain a recognized partition table

Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier
0x77a62c0d.

Command (m for help): n

Partition type:
p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
e extended
Select (default p) : Press Enter to use default value

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Using default response p

Partition number (1-4, default 1) : Press Enter to use default
value
First sector (8192-10485759, default 8192) : Press Enter to
use default value
Using default value 8192
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (8192-10485759,
default 10485759) : Press Enter to use default value
Using default value 10485759
Partition 1 of type Linux and of size 5 GiB is set

Command (m for help) : w

The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl () to re-read partition table.

Syncing disks

Here is example output from the command:

4. View and format the new partition.

To view the new partition device name, run the command:

fdisk -l

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Verify the new device name. In the example below, the new partition is
/dev/emcpowera1:

Format and create a file system on the new device, run the command:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/emcpowera1

An example of the command and output is shown below.

5. Mount the new device on the host.

Create a mountpoint on the host, run the command:

mkdir /emcpowera_mp

Mount the disk device to the mountpoint, run the command:

mount /dev/emcpowera1 /emcpowera_mp

To verify the operation, run the command:

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df-h

An example of the steps is shown below.

Note: The disk device mount does not persist if the host is
rebooted. As an option, to have the disk device mount persist on
boot, edit the /etc/fstab file to include the line as shown below:

6. Write data to the LUN.

Create a file containing some text, run the command:

echo "This is a line of text written to the newfile

created on the LUN" > /emcpowera_mp/newfile

Verify that the data was written to the LUN, run the command:

cat /emcpowera_mp/newfile

Close the ssh session, run the command:

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exit

This concludes the lab. You have configured a data network port on the Dell
UnityVSA, discovered the Target using the Linux native iSCSI Initiator,
attached the Linux host to the Dell UnityVSA LUN, formatted the device, and
wrote data to it!

End of Lab Exercise

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Lab Exercise: SMB File Storage Access

Scenario:

In this lab, you create SMB shares to a Unity file system and access its file storage
from a Windows SMB client.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Configure SMB shares on a Unity file system. Create a hidden share to the top-
level of the file system for administrator access.
• Create a lower-level subfolder share, configure permissions to a specified user
community, and test file storage access.
• Create a lower-level subfolder share to a Unity file system using the Windows
Computer Management utility and test file storage access.

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Create a Hidden Top-Level SMB Share of a File System

1. From your Student Desktop system, establish a Unisphere session to the
UnityVSA-Source Unity system IP address 192.168.1.113 and login.

2. In Unisphere, go to Storage > File. Select the SMB_fs file system, place a
check in its checkbox, and clear any other file system. From the More Actions
dropdown list, select Create an SMB share (CIFS).

3. A wizard to create a share opens to the Select a source for the new share
section. In the File System field, the SMB_fs will be listed. The radio button
option is selected for the File System “SMB_fs". The option to create the
share on a Snapshot of the file system is grayed-out since there are no
snapshots of the file system.

Click Next to continue with the wizard.

4. In the Provide SMB share name and path section input the following
configuration:

Share Name: Top$

Description: Top-level hidden share for administrator access

Local Path: /

Click Next to continue with the wizard.

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Example configuration shown below:

5. The Provide SMB share details section of the wizard lets you configure
various advanced SMB properties and offline availability options. In this lab,
you keep the default values.

Click Next to continue with the wizard.

6. The Summary section of the wizard displays the configuration summary for
the share as shown:

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Click Finish to initiate the share creation.

The Results page displays the status of the share.

Close the page.

Click the SMB Shares tab. Verify the Top$ share is listed.

7. Establish an RDC session to the WIN1 system as the Domain administrator.

From the taskbar, launch the Remote Desktop Connection

In the Computer(s): WIN1.

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Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices.

Select Use a different account.

In the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: hmarine\administrator

Password: emc2Admin!

Click Ok.

8. From the WIN1 Desktop or taskbar, click the Run icon.

9. Now open the file system share by accessing its share name from the NAS
server that is associated with the file system.

In the Open field input: \\NAS_SMB\Top$ (this is not case-sensitive).

Click the OK button.

10. The share to the file system opens. In the Explorer window, select the View
tab. Ensure that the Hidden items is checked as shown below:

You will see the .etc and lost+found folders that are present at the top-level
of all Unity file systems. These folders are used internally by the file system
and should not be disturbed or modified. As an administrator, you can control
the on-disk permissions to this top-level shared area of the file system.

Right-click within the share window, and select Properties.

The Top$ (\\NAS_SMB) properties windows opens. Select the Security tab.

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Click the Edit button to modify the on-disk permissions.

11. A permissions window to the share opens. The Everyone group is listed and
has Full control permissions by default. As the domain administrator you can
add discrete administrative permissions.

Click the Add button.

12. A window for adding users and groups opens. In the Enter the object names
to select field type: Domain Admins and click the Check Names button. The
group appears underlined when it is located within the domain.

Click OK to add the group to the permissions.

13. The Domain Admins group is now listed on the permissions. Select the
Domain Admins group. In the Allow column of checkboxes, check the Full
control box. Full Control automatically enters more permissions checkboxes.
Click the Apply button to add the new permission setting for the Domain
Admins group.

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A security window is presented relating to setting permissions remotely and its

effect on inherited permissions. Click Yes to continue.

Two additional windows appear relating to errors adjusting permissions on the

lost+found and .etc folders. Click the Continue button in each window to
complete the permissions operation.

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Important: Verify the permissions for Domain Admins are Full

Control before proceeding to the next step.

14. To limit access to the top level of the file system, modify the permissions for
the Everyone group. In the permissions window, select the Everyone group.
In the Allow column of checkboxes, clear all permissions except for List
folder contents. Leave that permission checked.

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Click the Apply button.

The two more windows relating to errors adjusting permissions on the

lost+found and .etc folders appear again. Click the Continue button in each
window to complete the permissions operation.

Click OK to close the permissions window.

Click OK to close the properties window.

Leave the share open. You will be accessing it in the next part of this lab
exercise.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Create a Lower-Level SMB Share of a File System

1. As an administrator, you are going to create a lower-level share on the file
system. This keeps the .etc and lost+found folders at the top-level of the file
system from being exposed to the user community. From the open Top$
share, right-click within the share and select New > Folder. Name the folder
Sales_Data.

2. Adjust permissions on the folder for specific domain user and group access.
Right-click the Sales_Data folder, and select Properties. Select the Security
tab.

You will see the permissions that were set on the Top$ share are inherited by
the folder. Click the Edit button to add permissions to the folder.

A permissions window for the folder opens. Click the Add button.

3. A window to add users and groups to the folder opens. In the Enter the object
names to select field, type: Westcoast Sales; Eastcoast Sales and click the
Check Names button. The groups appear underlined when they are located
within the domain.

Click the OK button to add the groups.

4. The groups are now listed in the permissions window for the folder.

Select the Eastcoast Sales group. In the Allow column of checkboxes, check
the Full control permission, and click the Apply button to assign the
permission for the group.

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Repeat the same permissions assignment for the Westcoast Sales group.

Click OK to close the folder permissions and properties windows.

Close the Top$ share window.

Disconnect the RDC session to the WIN1 system by clicking the Logoff
Session icon on the WIN1 taskbar.

5. From the Student Desktop system, return to your Unisphere session. Login
again if your session has timed out. Navigate to Storage > File > SMB
Shares. Click the + icon to create an SMB share.

6. The wizard to create an SMB Share opens. Click the grid in the File System
field. A Select a File System for share creation window opens. Select the
SMB_fs for the file system and click Select.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

7. Name the share Hmarine_Sales.

Type Sales_Data into the Local Path field as shown:

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Important: This is case sensitive!

Click Next to continue the wizard.

8. Keep the default options for the Advanced wizard section and click Next to
continue.

9. Review the Summary section for the share creation as shown:

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Click Finish to initiate the share creation operation.

10. When the operation completes, close the Results section.

The two SMB shares are listed as shown.

11. From the Student Desktop system taskbar, launch the RDC application.

You will log in to the WIN1 system as a user who is a member of the
Westcoast Sales group.

In the Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

In the Windows Security window, select More choices

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Select Use a different account

In the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: hmarine\swall

Password: emc2Admin!

Click OK

12. From the WIN1 Desktop, double-click the Run icon.

In the Open field, input \\NAS_SMB\Hmarine_Sales and click OK. The share
opens.

Right click in the share window and select New > Text Document. Name the
file Swall. Open the file, and write a line of text indicating the current time as
seen on the WIN1 system clock.

Save and close the file.

Did the operation to create, write to and save this file complete?
_______________

13. Close the share window.

Log off from the WIN1 RDC session, double-click the Logoff session icon on
the WIN1 Desktop.

14. From the Student Desktop system, launch the RDC application again.

15. You will log in to the WIN1 system as a user who is a member of the
Propulsion Engineers group.

In the Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices.

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Select Use a different account.

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: hmarine\epratt

Password: emc2Admin!

Click OK.

16. From the WIN1 Desktop, double-click the Run icon.

In the Open field, input \\NAS_SMB\Hmarine_Sales and click OK. The share
opens.

Double-click the Swall file to open it.

Does the file open? ___

Close the Notepad window.

Right-click in the share, and select New > Text Document.

Can you create a new file? _____

The user who is a member of the Propulsion Engineers group does not have
permissions on the shared directory to perform the operations.

Cancel the message.

Close the share window.

Log off from the WIN1 RDC session.

This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Create an SMB Share Using Computer Management

1. Establish an RDC session to the WIN1 system as the Desktop or domain
administrator.

From the Student Desktop system, launch the RDC application.

In the Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices.

Select Use a different account.

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: hmarine\administrator

Password: emc2Admin!

Click OK.

2. From the WIN1 system taskbar, click the Computer Management icon to
launch the application.

3. From the left-side tree, right-click the Computer Management (Local) text
and select the Connect to another computer option.

4. With the radio button option selected for Another computer, in the field input:
NAS_SMB and click OK.

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5. Expand the System Tools tree object. Be patient, this can take a moment to
complete.

Expand the Shared folders tree object.

6. Right-click the Shares object, and select the New Share option. This opens a
wizard to create a new shared folder. Click Next to continue the wizard.

7. The wizard configures a path for the shared folder. Click the Browse button.

In the Browse for Folder window, the structure for the NAS server is
displayed. Single click the SMB_fs file system and it populates the Folder
field.

Click the Make New Folder button. Name the folder Engineering_Data and
click the OK button.

The Folder Path field should now be populated with

C:\SMB_fs\Engineering_Data.

Click Next to continue.

8. The next wizard window names the share. Accept the default values here.

Click Next to continue.

9. The next wizard window sets permissions on the folder. Select the radio button
option for Customize permissions and click the Custom button.

The window displays tabs for Share Permissions and Security. The Share
Permissions relates to permissions for seeing the shared item over the
network. The Security tab relates to on-disk permissions for the folder. You are
modifying both sets of permissions. Select the Share Permissions tab. For
the Everyone group, in the Allow column of checkboxes, check the Full
Control permission. This setting enables the share to be seen by all users.

Next you customize the on-disk permissions for a specific group. Select the
Security tab.

Click the Edit button.

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10. This opens a window for setting permissions on the Engineering_Data folder.

Click the Add button.

A window to add users and groups to the folder opens. In the Enter the object
names to select field input: Propulsion Engineers and click the Check
Names button. The group appears underlined when it is located within the
domain.

Click OK to continue.

With the Propulsion Engineers group selected, in the Allow column of

permissions checkboxes check the Full control permission.

Click OK to complete the permissions assignment to the folder.

Click OK to close the Customize Permissions window.

Click Finish in the wizard screen.

A status of the sharing operation is displayed. Click Finish to close the

window.

11. Close the Computer Management application.

Log off from the WIN1 RDC session.

12. From your Student Desktop access, the open session to Unisphere. If the
session has timed out, log in again. Navigate to Storage > File > SMB Shares
and refresh the page.

Is the new Engineering_Data share listed? _______________________

13. Test access to the share.

From the Student Desktop system, open an RDC session to WIN1 as the
epratt domain user.

In the Computer(s): WIN1

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Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices.

Select Use a different account.

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: hmarine\epratt

Password: emc2Admin!

Click OK.

14. Double-click the Run icon on the WIN1 desktop and in the Open field input:
\\NAS_SMB\Engineering_Data and click OK. A window to the share opens.

15. Right-click in the share window, and select New > Text Document. Name the
file epratt. Open the file and add text to the file indicating the user who wrote
the file and the current time that is displayed on the WIN1 system. Save and
close the file.

16. Right-click on the file, and select Properties. Select the Security tab, and
click the Advanced button. Who is the file
Owner?_______________________________

Close the Security and Properties windows.

Close the share window and logoff the RDC session to WIN1.

You have completed the SMB File Storage Access lab.

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Lab Exercise: NFS File Storage Access

Scenario:

In this lab, you create NFS shares to a Unity file system and access its file storage
from a Linux NFS client.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Configure NFS shares on a Unity file system.
• Create a top-level share of the file system for administrator access.
• Create a lower-level subfolder share, configure permissions to a specified user
community, and test file storage access.

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Create a Top-Level Administrative NFS Share of a File System

1. Establish a Unisphere session to UnityVSA-Source at IP 192.168.1.113.

2. Navigate to Storage > File > NFS Shares. Select the + icon to create an NFS
share.

3. The wizard to create a new NFS share opens to the Select a source for the
new share section. Click the grid in the File System field and a window opens
to select a Unity file system for creating the share. Double-click the NFS_fs to
select it for the share. The radio button option is selected for the File System
NFS_fs. The option to create the share on a Snapshot of the file system is
grayed-out since there are no snapshots of the file system.

Click the Next button to continue the wizard.

4. In the Provide NFS share name and path section input the following
configuration:

Share Name: root

Description: Top-level share for administrator access

Local Path: /

Leave all other share options and values at their default settings.

Example configuration shown below:

Click Next to continue with the wizard.

5. The wizard now presents the access configuration of the share. You configure
specific access for a single client having root privileges on the file system.

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In the Default Access field, keep the default: No Access setting.

Click the + icon to create customized access for a specific client.

In the Access Type field, select the Read/Write, allow Root setting.

In the section listing hosts, select the Linux1 host by checking its checkbox
and click OK.

Click Next to continue with the wizard.

6. The wizard presents a summary of the share configuration to create as shown

here:

Click Finish to initiate the share creation operation.

7. The wizard presents a Results window for the creation operation. Verify that
the operation completed successfully and click Close to exit the wizard.

8. From the Student Desktop system taskbar, click the PuTTY icon to launch the
application.

9. Establish an SSH session to the Linux1 system.

In the PuTTY screen Host Name (or IP address) field input: Linux1 and click

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the Open button.

In the PuTTY security message, if presented, click the Yes button to connect
to the system.

At the login as: prompt input: root

At the password: prompt input: emc2Local!

You are now logged in as root to the Linux1 client as indicated by the # cursor
symbol.

10. Create an empty directory at the root of the client to use as a mount point for
mounting to the NFS share.

Run the command:

mkdir /nfs

11. Mount the newly created NFS share to the mountpoint.

Run the command:

mount 192.168.1.116:/root /nfs

Verify that the client is mounted to the remote file system, run the command:

df -h

Its output should show the file system 192.168.1.116:/root mounted on

/nfs.

12. View the remote file system.

Go to the mountpoint directory, run the command:

cd /nfs

View the content of the file system, run the command:

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ls –la

You will see the .etc and lost+found folders that are present at the root of
the Unity file system. These folders are used internally by the file system and
should not be modified.

13. As the administrator, you have root user access to the file system through this
share.

You can now create subfolders on the file system to use for more shares for
the user community. Create a subfolder on the file system, run the command:

mkdir engineering_data

View the folder metadata, run the command:

ls –la

Review the output, and record the following information for the folder:

Permissions (mode bits): _____

The owner: _______________________________________________

The group: _____

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Create a Lower-Level NFS Share of a File System

1. Now use the newly created engineering_data folder to create a lower-level
NFS share of the file system for a specific NFS user group. To do this, change
the folder mode bits, owner, and group.

Change the folder permissions bits, run the command:

chmod 775 engineering_data

Change the folder owner, run the command:

chown epallis engineering_data

Change the folder group, run the command:

chgrp engprop engineering_data

2. Verify the engineering_data metadata settings.

Run the command:

ls –l

The permissions bits should be: drwxrwxr-x

The owner should be: epallis

The group should be: engprop

3. Unmount the NFS share.

Stop accessing the share by changing directory out of the mount point, run the
command:

cd /

Unmount the client, run the command:

umount /nfs

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Verify that the client is unmounted, run the command:

df –h

The output should not reference the 192.168.1.116:/root file system.

Disconnect the SSH session, run the command:

exit

The SSH session closes.

4. Return to your Unisphere session. Refresh your login if the security session
has expired. Navigate to Storage > File > NFS Shares.

Click the + icon to create an NFS share.

5. The wizard to create a new NFS share is displayed. Click the grid in the File
System field to select a file system. From the list, highlight the NFS_fs and
click the Select button.

The File System field should contain: NFS_fs

Click Next to continue with the wizard.

6. The share name and its path will now be configured.

In the Share Name field input: engineering

Modify the Local Path field so it contains /engineering_data.

Leave all other share options and values at their default settings.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

7. The wizard now presents the access configuration of the share. Configure
Read/Write access for a subnet.

From the Configure Access window, in the Default Access field keep the

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default No Access setting.

Click the + icon to create access for a subnet.

In the Access Type field, select Read/Write from the dropdown list.

In the section listing hosts, click More Actions and from the dropdown list,
select Add Subnet.

The Add Subnet window opens.

In the Name field, input: Engineering network

In the IP Address field, input: 192.168.1.0

In the Subnet Mask/Prefix Length field, input: 255.255.255.0

Click the Add button to add the new subnet.

The newly added Engineering network is now listed in the hosts section.
Select it by checking its checkbox, and click the OK button.

Click the Next button to continue the wizard.

8. The wizard presents a summary screen for the NFS share configuration it will
create as shown here:

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Click the Finish button to initiate the share creation operation.

9. The wizard presents a results window for the creation operation. Verify that the
operation completed successfully and click Close to exit the wizard.

10. From the Student Desktop system taskbar, click the PuTTY icon to launch the
application.

11. Establish an SSH session to the Linux1 system.

In the PuTTY screen Host Name (or IP address) field input: Linux1 and click
the Open button.

At the login as: prompt input: root

At the password: prompt input: emc2Local!

You are now logged in as root to the Linux1 client as indicated by the # cursor
symbol.

12. Access the engineering NFS share.

Mount the share to the client mount point, run the command:

mount 192.168.1.116:/engineering /nfs

Verify that the client is mounted to the remote file system, run the command:

df -h

Its output should show the file system 192.168.1.116:/engineering

mounted on /nfs.

13. Now test NFS share access using the epallis user who is a member of the
engprop NFS users group.

Switch user to epallis, run the command:

su epallis

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Access the NFS share, run the command:

cd /nfs

Create a file, and insert some text, run the command:

echo “this is text written to the file as epallis” >

epallis

Verify that the text is present in the file, run the command:

more epallis

Look at the file permissions bits, owner, and group, run the command:

ls –l

14. Now test access to the share as another user who is not a member of the
engprop NFS user group.

Switch user to swoo, run the command:

su swoo

At the password prompt input: emc2Admin!

View the content of the epallis file, run the command:

more epallis

Create a file with some text added to it, run the command:

echo “this is some text written to the file as swoo” >

swoo

What was the result of the command?

________________________________

Why could the user read from the share but not write to it?

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______________________________________________________________
_________________________________________

15. Logoff the swoo user, run the command:

exit

Logoff the epallis user, run the command:

exit

Stop accessing the share, run the command:

cd /

Unmount the share, run the command:

umount /nfs

Disconnect the SSH session, run the command:

exit

This completes the lab exercise.

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Lab Exercise: VMware Datastore Access

Scenario:

In this lab, you create VMware datastores on a Unity system, and make them
available to a VMware ESXi host through VMware aware integration.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Add vCenter server to Unisphere.
• Create VMware vStorage VMFS and NFS datastores in Unisphere.
• View the automatically created datastores in vCenter for the Unity VMFS and
NFS datastores.

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Add vCenter Hosts

Dell Unity Unisphere VMware aware integration enables storage administrators to
discover a VMware environment directly from Unisphere and the relationships
between its resources. It also enables the creation and management of VMware
datastores from the Unisphere interface which minimizes the management
overhead of configuring the provisioned storage in vCenter. Furthermore, the
datastores that are created in Unisphere are automatically pulled into vCenter,
again reducing the amount of management by administrators.

1. Before creating VMware storage resources, you must add VMware hosts to
the storage environment so you can configure host access later.

Navigate to Access > VMware > vCenters. Click + to open the Add vCenter
wizard.

2. To discover your ESXi host, in the Discover ESXi hosts in the vCenter
section, enter the following settings:

Network Name or Address: vcsa.hmarine.test

User Name: [email protected]

Password: Password123!

Click Find.

3. A list opens that includes any ESXi hosts managed by this vCenter server.
Locate and check ESXi host esxi-1.hmarine.test.

Click Next to continue.

4. In the Configure VASA Provider section, click Next.

5. The Summary displays the ESXi host to be added to VMware hosts as shown
here:

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6. Click Finish to add the ESXi host.

After the job completes successfully, click Close.

Note: The job will continue to run in the background if you close the
page before it completes.

7. Confirm you can see vcsa.hmarine.test and its Software Version.

Click the ESXi Hosts tab to see added hosts.

8. Confirm esxi-1.hmarine.test is listed here along with details such as vCenter

name and Initiators.

Click the Virtual Machines tab. There will not be any VMs listed currently.

Click the Virtual Drives tab. There will not be any Virtual Drives that are listed
currently.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Provision and Access VMware vStorage VMFS Datastore

In this section, you provision a VMFS datastore using Unisphere. You will notice
due to Unity’s integration with vSphere, the datastore is automatically added as a
datastore in vSphere.

1. In Unisphere, go to to Access > Initiators.

You will see the initiator for the ESXi host esxi-1.hmarine.test.

Note: the initiator has an orange dot on the health status icon
indicating there are no logged in initiator paths.

2. In Unisphere, go to to Storage > VMware > Datastores.

Click the + icon to create a datastore.

A wizard to create a new datastore opens to the VMware Datastore Type

section.

Select the Block radio button option.

In the VMware VMFS version list, select VMFS6.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

3. In the Enter a name for the datastore section input the following:

Name: VMFS_Datastore

Description: VMFS datastore for esxi-1 host

Click Next to continue the wizard.

4. In the Configure the storage for this datastore section, input the following
configuration:

• Pool: FAST VP-1

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• Tiering Policy: Start High Then Auto-Tier

• Size: 10 GB

• Thin: Checked

• Host I/O Limit: No Limit

Click Next to continue the wizard.

5. In the Configure Access section, click the + icon to define host access to the
datastore.

A list box is exposed to select and add hosts.

• Check the esxi-1.hmarine.test checkbox.

• Click OK.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Configure Snapshot Schedule section, you will not be configuring

snapshots for the datastore. Click Next to continue.

In the Provide a Replication Mode and RPO section, you will not be
configuring replication for the datastore. Click Next to continue.

6. A Summary section for the datastore to be created is displayed as shown:

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Click Finish to create the datastore.

A Results screen shows the progress and status of the created datastore.

Close the window when the operation completes.

The newly created datastore is now listed.

7. Open a new browser tab to access vCenter.

In the address field, enter: https://vcsa.hmarine.test

Click the LAUNCH VSPHERE CLIENT (HTML5) button.

In the Open vmware-cip-launcher? window, check the option to always

allow vCenter to open associated links.

Click the Open vmware-cip-launcher button.

Login using the following credentials:

User name: [email protected]

Password: Password123!

Click LOGIN.

8. The VMware vSphere UI opens. At the top, click the Menu drop-down list and
select Home, and then click the Hosts and Clusters object as shown:

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9. Verify the host has access to the datastore from Unity.

If not already expanded, expand the tree vcsa.hmrine.test > Datacenter and
select the esxi-1.hmarine.test host. Select the Datastores tab from the page
as shown:

You will see the VMFS_Datastore listed with several details including the
format type. The storage resource is now ready for use within VMware.

As you can see, VMware integration with Unity provides ease of storage
provisioning and access. The ESXi host initiator is automatically registered in
Unity. Once created, the storage object is mounted and formatted as a virtual
machine file system, and is ready for use within VMware.

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Leave the vSphere UI browser tab open, you will use it again in the next part
of the lab exercise.

This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Provision and Access VMware NFS Datastores

In this lab, you create and configure access to an NFS Datastore from Unisphere.
The datastore will be automatically added as a datastore in vSphere.

1. Open a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source.

Navigate to Storage > File > NAS Servers. You should find the two NAS
Servers that were created during the Storage Provisioning Lab.

Double-click NAS_NFS and verify the following settings under the General
tab:

Name: NAS_NFS

Supported Protocols: NFSv3

Pool: FAST VP-2

Current SP: SP A

IP Address: 192.168.1.116

Port: SP A Ethernet Port 1

Click Close.

2. Navigate to Storage > VMware > Datastores.

Click the + icon to create a datastore.

A wizard to create a new datastore opens to the VMware Datastore Type

section. Select the File radio button option if not already selected.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

3. In the Enter a name for the datastore section input the following:

Name: NFS_Datastore

Description: NFS datastore for esxi-1 server

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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4. In the Configure the storage for this datastore section, input the following
configuration:

Pool: FAST VP-2

Tiering Policy: Start High Then Auto-Tier

Size: 10 GB

Thin: Checked

Host IO Size: SQL Server

Click Next to continue the wizard.

Note: Host IO Size allows users to specify the block size used to
communicate to hosts or choose predefined application profiles.

5. In the Configure Access section, input the following access configuration:

Default Access: No Access

Click the + icon to customize access to the datastore for a specific host. A list
box is exposed to configure an access type and select or add hosts:

Access Type: Read/Write, allow Root

Check the esxi-1.hmarine.test checkbox.

Click OK.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Configure Snapshot Schedule section, you will not be configuring

snapshots for the datastore. Click Next to continue.

In the Provide a Replication Mode and RPO section, you will not be
configuring replication for the datastore. Click Next to continue.

6. A Summary section for the datastore to be created is displayed as shown:

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Click Finish to create the datastore.

A Results screen shows the progress and status of the created datastore.

Close the window wizard when the operation completes.

7. Return to the open vSphere UI browser tab. The navigation in the left pane
should be set to Hosts and Clusters with the esxi-1.hmarine.test host
selected. The Datastores tab is selected as shown.

Click the Refresh icon at the top of the page if the new NFS_Datastore is not
shown.

Confirm the NFS_Datastore that you created is now available to the host for
VMware use.

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From the information listed about the new datastore, record the value that is
shown for its Type: __________________

This further demonstrates the integration Dell Unity provides for VMware. The
NFS datastore has automatically mounted the Unity storage resource, and it is
ready for use within VMware.

End of Lab Exercise

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Lab Exercise: Host I/O Limits Setup

Scenario:

This lab demonstrates how to set Host I/O Limits (Quality of Service) to provisioned
block storage resources using the Unisphere user interface. You can create Host
I/O Limits policies for block storage resources with host access that limit maximum
throughput in IO/s and/or maximum bandwidth in KBPS or MBPS.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Verify the Host I/O Limit is licensed and enabled in a Dell Unity XT system. Note
the license is displayed as Quality of Service (QoS).
• Create different Host I/O Limit policies, and associate them with block storage
resources.

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Verify the Status of the Host I/O Limit Feature

In this lab, you check if the Host I/O Limits (QoS) feature is licensed on the system
and verify its status.

1. From your Student Desktop system, open a Unisphere session to the

UnityVSA-Source system at IP address 192.168.1.113

Login using the credentials: admin/Password123!

2. Verify if the Host I/O Limits feature is licensed and enabled.

From the Unisphere UI, open the system Settings window by single clicking
the Settings gear icon.

3. From the License Management page of the Software and Licenses >
License Information section, look for the Quality of Service (QoS) license.

Verify that the feature has a green check mark in front of it meaning that the
license is installed and the feature is operational.

4. In the Settings window, go to to Management > Performance. The status of

the Host I/O Limits is Active.

There is also a control button which switches between Pause and Resume.
This control manages the enforcement of all Host I/O limits applied to the

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various block storage resources (LUNs, VMware datastores, and snapshots)

across the system.

Clicking on the
Pause tab disables
the enforcement of
Host I/O Limits on
the system.

Close the Settings window.

5. Navigate to System > Performance > Host I/O Limits.

From the page, host I/O limit policies can be created and any existing policies
are displayed. It also has a link to the Host I/O settings page which was
viewed in the previous step.

6. From Unisphere, go to to Storage > Block > LUNs.

Double-click on WIN1 LUN0 to open its Properties page.

7. On the Properties page, select the Host I/O Limit tab.

Note that there is no Host I/O Limit that is associated with the LUN.

Is there any peak of Bandwidth and Throughput utilization in the graphic?

Change the frequency range to Real Time. Wait at least 1 minute for the
graphic to refresh and populate with information.

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Both I/O measures should default to zero since there is no write activity from
the Host to this LUN at the moment.

8. From the Student Desktop system taskbar, open an RDC session to WIN1.

In the Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices.

Select Use a different account.

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: \administrator

Password: emc2Local!

Click OK.

9. From the WIN1 system taskbar open File Explorer.

Expand the Local Disk (C: ) tree and open the Big_Files folder.

There are some large files that are located in this folder which will be used to
generate some write I/O to the WIN1 LUN0.

10. Highlight, right-click and copy the four 1 GB files.

Paste the files into the E: drive which is from the WIN1 LUN0 LUN. Wait for
the copy operation to complete.

11. Return to the Unisphere session.

Observe in the graphic the Bandwidth KB/s and Throughput IO/s used by the
host to perform the copy operation.

Close the WIN1 LUN0 Properties window.

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12. Return to the RDC session to WIN1.

Delete all of the 1 GB files that were copied to the E: drive folder.

Close the RDC session to WIN1.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Create a Host I/O Limits Policy for a LUN

In this part of the lab, you create a Host I/O Limits policy and associate it to WIN1
LUN0.

1. Create a HostI/O policy.

From the open Unisphere session, navigate to System > Performance >
Host I/O Limits.

2. On the Host I/O LImits page, you can define Host I/O Limit policies. Limiting
I/O bandwidth and throughput provides more predictable performance in
system workloads between hosts, their applications, and storage resources.

Click the + icon to create a limit.

The Create Host I/O Limit wizard opens.

3. You can limit I/O traffic to block storage resources (LUNs, Consistency
Groups) by setting a threshold here (throughput and/or bandwidth).

In the Provide a Name and Limits section enter the configuration information
for a new Host I/O Limit policy:

Name: Silver_Policy

Description: Good (Class – Service)

Shared: Unchecked

Limit Type: Absolute Limit (radio button selected)

Maximum IO/S: 800

Maximum Bandwidth: 9000 KBPS

Click Next to continue the wizard.

4. In the Select Storage Resources to Associate with the I/O Limit section,
select WIN1 LUN0.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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5. Skip the Snapshots section.

Click Next to continue.

6. In the Summary section the policy to be created is displayed as shown here:

Click Finish to create the policy.

7. The Results page shows the status of the operation.

A green check mark specifies that the operation was completed successfully.

Wait until the job completes, and then click Close.

8. The new policy is displayed in the Host I/O Limits page.

9. Follow previous steps to create additional policies with the information below.

Click the + icon to create a second policy with the settings below:

Name: Gold_Policy

Description: Better (Class – Service)

Shared: unchecked

Limit Type: Absolute Limit (radio button selected)

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Maximum IO/S: 1000

Maximum Bandwidth: 11000 KBPS

Storage Resource: Linux1 LUN0

Create a third policy with the settings below:

Name: Platinum_Policy

Description: Best (Class – Service)

Shared: Checked

Limit Type: Absolute Limit (radio button selected)

Maximum IO/S: 2000

Maximum Bandwidth: 20480 KBPS

Storage Resource: CG_LUN-1, CG_LUN-2, CG_LUN-3

10. From Unisphere, go to to the Storage > Block > LUNs.

Double-click WIN1 LUN0 to open its properties page.

11. Select the Host I/O Limit tab.

Note that there is a Host I/O Limit Silver Policy that is associated with the LUN.

Observe that both bandwidth and throughput graphics show a line for the
limits.

Change the frequency range to Real Time. Wait at least 1 minute for the
graphic to refresh and populate with information.

Both I/O measures should default to zero since there is no write activity from
the Host to this LUN at the moment. The limit lines are still displayed in the
graphic.

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Close the WIN1 LUN0 Properties window.

12. This completes the lab exercise. You have successfully created a Host I/O
Limits absolute policy and associated it with block storage resource.

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Lab Exercise: File System Extension and Shrink

Operations

Scenario:

The UFS64 architecture enables users to extend thick and thin file systems.
Performing UFS64 file system extend operations is transparent to the client
meaning the array can still service I/O to a client during extend operations.

This lab demonstrates how to manually extend and shrink the capacity of a UFS64
file system using the Unisphere UI.

Verify that the new advertised size and space is allocated from the pool.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Manually extend the capacity of the file system.
• Check the new file system capacity and the allocated space.
• Manually shrink the capacity of a file system.
• Verify that the file system capacity has been reduced.

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Extend a Thin UFS64 File System

Introduction to task.

1. From your Student Desktop system, open a Unisphere session to the

UnityVSA-Source using IP address 192.168.1.113.

Login using the credentials: admin/Password123!

2. Navigate to Storage > File.

Double-click the SMB_fs file system to open its properties.

3. From the SMB_fs Properties window, check the following:

What is the allocated capacity? ______________ (hover over blue bar).

What is the used space? _______

What is the Total Pool Space Used? _______________

Observe that this is a thin UFS64 file system.

Click the Close button to close the Properties window.

4. Navigate to Storage > Pools.

What is the Subscription (%) of pool FAST VP-2? _____________

Double-click the FAST VP-2 pool to open its properties.

5. From the FAST VP-2 Properties window, go to to the Usage tab.

The Capacity option is selected, and the Current Pool Capacity is displayed.

Record the following:

Pool Capacity: _______________

Free space: __________________

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Used space: _________________

6. From the Usage tab, select the Storage Resources option.

The NAS servers and file systems that were created in the storage pool are
displayed.

Select the SMB_fs and note the value that is listed for it in the Total Pool
Space Used (GB) column. ____________

Double-click the SMB_fs file system to open its properties page.

7. From the SMB_fs Properties window, change the size field to 10 GB.

Click the Apply button to commit the change.

For thick file systems, the extend operation increases the actual space that is
allocated to the resource from the pool.

Note: Manually extending a thin file resource increases the visible

(virtual) size of the resource without increasing the actual size
allocated to the resource from the pool.

8. From the SMB_fs Properties window check the following:

How much was the file system space increased? ________

What is the Allocated capacity? ___________

What is the Used Space? ______________

What is the Total Pool Space Used? _______________

Close the SMB_fs Properties window.

9. From the FASTVP-2 Properties page Usage tab, select Storage Resources.

Click the Refresh icon and note the value for the SMB_fs Total Pool Space
Used (GB).

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Was there a change in size after the extension of the file system?

_____________________

10. From the Usage tab, select the Capacity option. Record the following:

Pool Capacity: _______________

Free space: __________________

Used space: _________________

Have you noticed any changes besides the advertised file system size?
_______

Close the window.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise

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Shrink a Thin UFS64 File System

In this lab section, you manually shrink the capacity of a thin file system.

1. Navigate to Storage > Pools.

Double-click the FAST VP-2 pool, and open its properties.

2. From the FAST VP-2 Properties window, go to to the Usage tab.

The default Capacity option is selected, and the Current Pool Capacity is
displayed.

A bar graph showing space-related information for the pool is displayed.

Mouse over the graph to display its used and free space information.

Record the following:

Pool Capacity: _________

Free space: ____________

Used space: _________________

3. Select the Storage Resources option.

The NAS servers and file systems in the storage pool are displayed, along with
the space they are using from the pool and space that is consumed by their
snapshots.

Review the values that are displayed in the Total Pool Space Used (GB)
column. Add all these values together and verify that the sum correlates to the
Used Space you recorded previously.

Select the SMB_fs file system and record its Total Pool Space Used (GB)
value: _______

Click the Edit icon (pencil) or double-click the selection to open its properties.

4. The SMB_fs Properties window displays various space-related information.

Record the following:

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Allocated capacity (hover over blue bar): ______________

Used space: ______________

Total Pool Space Used: _______________

5. From the SMB_fs Properties window, change the Size field to 5 GB.

Click the Apply button to commit the change.

6. A warning message displays alerting the user that the file system will be
reduced in size. An estimate of how much space will be returned to the pool is
displayed.

How much space will be returned to the storage pool? ______

Click Yes to continue with the operation.

7. From the SMB_fs Properties window record, the following:

Allocated capacity: ______________

Total Pool Space Used: _________________

Did the Total Pool Space Used value change from the value that was recorded
in step 4? __________

Close the SMB_fs Properties window.

8. From the FAST VP-2 Properties page, select the Usage tab and then select
Storage Resources.

Review the Total Pool Space Used (GB).

What is the Total Pool Space that is used by the SMB_fs file system?
________

Close the FAST VP-2 Properties window.

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Lab Exercise: FAST VP Settings

Scenario:

This lab demonstrates how to configure and use the FAST VP support on Dell
Unity XT systems using the Unisphere.

This lab also demonstrates how FAST VP data relocation can be scheduled or
manually started, and how it behaves with the selection of tiering policies for the
storage resources.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Check if the FAST VP feature is licensed in the system and verify its status
(Active/Paused).
• Perform a simple write operation to WIN1 LUN0. This LUN is associated with
the Start High Then Auto Tier policy.
• Verify how FAST VP relocates data depending on the storage tier policy that is
assigned to the storage resource.

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Verify Status of the FAST VP Feature

In this lab, you check if the FAST VP feature is licensed on the system. and verify
its status.

1. From your Student Desktop system, open a Unisphere session to the lab
UnityVSA-Source Unity system (IP address 192.168.1.113).

Login using the credentials: admin/Password123!

2. To check if FAST VP can be set in the Unity system, you must verify if the
feature is licensed and enabled.

Open the System Settings window (Gear icon).

3. From the License Management window, look for the FAST VP license.

4. FAST VP settings are managed at the System Settings level and at the
storage resource levels.

From the Settings window, go to to Storage Configuration > FAST VP.

Check if the feature is active on the Unity system.

The data relocation can be paused and resumed by clicking the Pause button.

Are Data Relocations scheduled? _______________

What is the Data relocation rate? ________________

Is there any data scheduled to relocate? __________

5. From the FAST VP Settings window, it is also possible to modify the schedule
for the Data Relocation between the storage tiers on the system.

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Click the Modify data relocation schedule text.

6. The Modify data relocation schedule window is displayed.

The Schedule data relocations can be enabled or disabled using the check
box.

The Relocation Window schedule can be modified according to the user’s

needs.

Change the Relocation Window parameters to:

Start Time: 7:00PM

End Time: 3:00AM

Click OK to configure the new schedule. The window closes.

Prior to the change, if data was scheduled for relocation, then the FAST VP
Settings page calculates the amount of data to relocate and updates the
information on the window.

Close the Settings window.

7. Navigate to Storage > Pools

Double-click the FAST VP-1 pool to open its properties.

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8. In the FAST VP-1 Properties window, select the FAST VP tab.

The FAST VP tab shows the following information for the heterogeneous pool:

Whether the pool participates in scheduled data relocations

Estimated time that is needed for scheduled data relocations

Start and end time for the most recent data relocation

Number and type of disks in each tier

Amount of data in the pool scheduled to move to higher and lower tiers

Amount of data in the pool scheduled to be rebalanced within a tier

Your window may display data to be relocated between tiers.

The data relocation can be manually started from this page and that the
Manage FAST VP system settings window can also be launched from here
by clicking the blue text.

Close the properties window.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Observing FAST VP Data Relocation

This part of the lab demonstrates how to check the data relocation operation from a
LUN and from a storage pool.

1. This part of the lab demonstrates how to check the data relocation operation
from a LUN and from a storage pool. In this section, you perform a simple
write operation to WIN1 LUN0 and observe how FAST VP relocates data
according to the storage tier policy assigned to the storage resource.

2. Open an RDC session to WIN1 and login as Administrator.

In the Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices.

Select Use a different account.

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: \administrator

Password: emc2Local!

Click OK.

3. From the WIN1 Desktop or taskbar, click the File Explorer icon.

Expand the Local Disk (C: ) tree and open the Big_Files folder.

There are some sizeable files that are located in this folder which will be used
to generate some write I/O to the WIN1 LUN0 disk.

4. Select the four 1 GB files, and then right-click and select Copy.

5. Select the WIN1 LUN0 (E: ) disk from the File Explorer navigation pane.

Paste the files into the drive. Wait for the copy operation to complete.

6. Return to the Unisphere session.

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Note: If the Unisphere session has expired, login again.

7. Navigate to Storage > Block > LUNs.

Double-click WIN1 LUN0.

You may notice that the LUN usage values do not increase to match what was
written to the LUN. This is caused by the sparse files that are used in the copy
operation and client-side caching.

8. In the WIN1 LUN0 Properties page, select the FAST VP tab.

What is the Tiering Policy that is associated with the LUN?

___________________________

What is the Data Distribution percentage between the three tiers?

Extreme Performance Tier: ______________ %

Performance Tier: ______________ %

Capacity Tier: ______________ %

You may notice that the data on the LUN is distributed across multiple tiers
and does not reside in only the highest tier. The distribution of data depends
on the tier having space available from the pool. If there is no space on the
highest tier, space is allocated from the next highest tier having space
available for the data. The available space for the tiers within the pool is not
predictable for this lab exercise; it varies based on past activities you may
have performed. You are recording the distribution above so that when you
change the tiering policy, you can see its effect on the data distribution.

Change the Tiering Policy to Lowest Available Tier and click Apply.

Close the properties window.

9. Navigate to Storage > Pools.

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Double-click the FAST VP-1 storage pool.

10. In the FAST VP-1 Properties window, select the FAST VP tab.

Click Start Relocation.

11. In the Start Data Relocation window, enter the following settings if not
already selected:

Data Relocation Rate: High

Observe that the Start time is defined as Now.

Click OK to start the data relocation.

The Move Down (GB) column is immediately populated with the total amount
of data that is to be allocated to the lowest available tier possible because of
the tiering policy chosen for WIN1 LUN0.

Close the properties window.

12. Navigate to Storage > Block.

Double-click WIN1 LUN0.

13. In the WIN1 LUN0 Properties window, select the FAST VP tab.

How was the data distributed between the three tiers?

Note: you may need to wait several minutes for the data distribution values to
change. Closing and opening the LUN Properties page refreshes the data.

Extreme Performance Tier: ______________ %

Performance Tier: ______________ %

Capacity Tier: ______________ %

Change the Tiering Policy to Start High then Auto Tier. Click Apply.

Close the properties window.

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14. Navigate to Storage > Pools. Double-click the FAST VP-1 storage pool.

15. In the FAST VP-1 Properties window, select the FAST VP tab.

Click Stop Relocation to interrupt the current data relocation. Then click Start
Relocation.

16. In the Start Data Relocation window, enter the following settings if not
already selected:

Data Relocation Rate: High

Observe that the Start time is defined as Now.

Click OK to start the data relocation.

The Move Up (GB) column is immediately populated with the total amount of
data being allocated to a higher tier because of the tiering policy chosen for
WIN1 LUN0.

Close the properties window.

17. From your Student Desktop, open the existing RDC session to WIN1. In the
open File Explorer window, delete all the files that were copied to the WIN1
LUN0 and leave the existing New Text Document file.

Close the window.

Log off the RDC session to WIN1.

You have successfully observed the data relocation based on choice of Tiering
Policy that is associated with a storage resource.

End of Lab Exercise.

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Lab Exercise: File System Quotas

Scenario:

This lab demonstrates how to configure limits for specific users and directories on a
file system.

User Quotas and Tree Quotas are supported on Dell Unity XT systems both
independently and in combination. It is also possible to limit the amount of storage
that a user consumes by storing data on a quota tree.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Create a User Quota on a file system. Select a Windows Domain user and
specify the soft and hard limits to configure the User Quota. Test the User
Quota configuration from a Windows client connection to the shared file system.
• Configure a Quota Tree on a file system. Select the directory in the file system
and specify the soft and hard limits to configure the Quota Tree. Test the Quota
Tree configuration from a Windows client connection to the shared file system.
• Create a User Quota on the created Quota Tree. Select the Windows Domain
user and specify the soft and hard limits to configure the User Quota. Test the
quota configuration from a Windows client connection to the shared file system.

Create User Quota

In this lab, you create a User Quota on a file system.

1. From your Student Desktop system, open a Unisphere session to the lab
UnityVSA-Source Unity system (IP address 192.168.1.113).

Login using the credentials: admin/Password123!

2. Navigate to Storage > File > File Systems.

Double-click SMB_fs to open its properties page.

3. From the SMB_fs Properties window, select the Quota tab.

The tab is divided in two sections: File System and Quota Tree. The default
section is File System showing the User Quota Report page that displays the

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file system storage space that is consumed per user.

4. Launch the Create User Quota wizard by clicking the + icon.

5. From the Create User Quota wizard window, click the + icon to open the
Configure User window.

6. From the Configure User window, enter the following settings:

Host Type: Windows Name

Domain: hmarine.test

Name: Swest

Click Add User to commit the changes.

7. In the Provide the User’s Information window, Verify the following:

Type: Window Name

User: hmarine.test\Swest

Click Next to continue the wizard.

8. On the Limits page, specify the Soft Limit and a Hard Limit for the User
Quota.

A soft limit, when surpassed, begins the grace period countdown. The user
can continue to write to the file system until the grace period expires. The
grace period is modifiable and defaults to 7 days.

The hard limit stops any write activity when it is reached, regardless of any
grace period.

Use the following settings:

Soft Limit: 1 GB

Hard Limit: 3 GB

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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9. The quota settings are displayed on the Review Your Selections section as
shown here:

Click Finish to create the user quota.

10. The Results page shows the status of the operation.

A green check mark specifies that the operation was completed successfully.

Wait until the job completes, and then click Close.

11. The new User Quota is displayed in the User Quota Report page.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Testing User Quota

In this section, you test the User Quota that you configured in the previous part of
this lab exercise.

1. Launch an RDC session to WIN1.

Log in to the WIN1 system as swest.

In the Computer(s), enter WIN1

Click the Connect button.

In the Windows Security window, select More choices.

Select Use a different account.

In the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: hmarine\swest

Password: emc2Admin!

Click OK.

2. From the WIN1 Desktop or system taskbar, open File Explorer.

Expand the Local Disk (C: ) tree and open the Big_Files folder.

3. Copy the 1GBFile-1 and the 500MBFile-1 files to the clipboard.

4. From the WIN1 Desktop, double-click the Run icon.

In the Open field, input \\NAS_SMB\Hmarine_Sales and click OK.

The share opens.

5. Paste the file into the share. Wait for the copy operation to complete.

6. Return to the Unisphere session.

From the SMB_fs Properties page, select Quota.

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Click the Refresh icon to update the information displayed on the User Quota
Report.

Is there any change to storage consumption for the Swest user? ______

How about the Soft Limit Usage (%)? __________

Has the User Quota been affected? __________

Note: You should not see any update to the user quotas when you click
refresh.

7. From the User Quota Report tab of the SMB_fs Properties window, click the
Manage Quota Settings link.

8. In the Manage Quota Settings dialog box, you realize that User Quotas were
never enforced.

Check the checkbox for Enforce User Quotas and click OK.

9. From the Quotas tab of the SMB_fs Properties window, click the Refresh
icon to poll updated information about your User Quotas.

10. Verify that the User Quota for Scott West has changed its state, and its Soft
Limit Usage has been fully consumed:

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You can verify that there are entries in User Quota Report for the other users
(administrator, Swall, and Epratt) who have accessed the file system. Notice
that there are no limits that are defined for them.

Also notice that users are listed by User ID and by Windows or Unix names.

Double-click the entry that has exceeded its soft limit.

The Edit Selected User Quota Limits window opens. It displays the User ID
and the Windows Names for the user.

Verify the user who exceeded their Soft limit is HMARINE\SWest.

Close the window.

11. Next, you are going to test the Hard Limit defined in the user quota policy for
Scott West.

Return to the RDC session to WIN1.

12. From the Local Disk (C: )\ Big_Files folder, copy 1GBFile-2 and 1GBFile-3
to the clipboard.

13. Paste the files in the \\NAS_SMB\Hmarine_Sales share.

14. The copy process proceeds, but eventually is interrupted by an error message.
Review the error message.

The error message is due to the User Quota’s Hard Limit restricting the
consumable space for the user swest. Click Skip to end the copy operation.

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Verify that only one of the files was copied to the directory.

15. From the Student Desktop, return to the Unisphere session.

Click the Refresh icon to update the information displayed on the User Quota
Report.

Notice that the Usage (GB) of the Swest account has increased above 2.0
GB. One of the files could not be copied because it would have exceeded the
3 GB hard limit.

16. Double-click the quota to edit the limits for swest.

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Observe that the Soft Limit has been exceeded and the Grace Period (7
days) has been activated.

Modify the Hard Limit to 5 GB, and click OK.

17. In the User Quota Report page, observe that the Hard Limit has been
increased to 5.0 GB.

18. Return to the RDC session to the WIN1 system.

19. From the Local Disk (C: )\ Big_Files folder, copy 750MBFile-1 to the
clipboard.

20. Paste the file in the \\NAS_SMB\Hmarine_Sales share.

The copy process should succeed. Verify that the copied files are present on
the share.

21. Delete the copied files from the \\NAS_SMB\Hmarine_Sales share.

Close the File Explorer windows and logoff the RDC session.

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This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Configure a Quota Tree

In this section of the lab, you create a Quota Tree on a file system.

1. Return to the open Unisphere session.

2. From the Quota tab of the SMB_fs Properties window, select Quota Tree on
the left of the window.

3. Launch the Create Quota Tree wizard by clicking the + icon.

4. In the Create Quota Tree wizard, enter the configuration information for the
new quota tree.

Path: /Engineering_Data (This is case-sensitive!)

Note: The path is relative to the root of the file system SMB_fs and
must start with a forward slash.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

5. In the Limits page, enter the following configuration:

Soft Limit: 1 GB

Hard Limit: 3 GB

Click Next to continue the wizard.

6. The quota settings are displayed on the Review Your Selections section as
shown here:

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Click Finish to create the quota.

7. The Results page shows the status of the operation.

A green check mark indicates that the operation was completed successfully.

Wait until the job has completed, and then click Close.

8. The new configuration is displayed in the Quota Tree page.

You have successfully configured a File System Quota Tree.

This completes part 3 of the lab exercise.

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Testing the Quota Tree

In this section, you test the Quota Tree that you configured in the previous part of
this Lab exercise.

1. Open an RDC session to WIN1.

2. Log in to the WIN1 system as user eplace:

In the Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices.

Select Use a different account.

In the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: hmarine\eplace

Password: emc2Admin!

Click OK.

3. From the WIN1 Desktop or system taskbar, open File Explorer.

Expand the Local Disk (C: ) tree and open the Big_Files folder.

4. Copy 1GBFile-1 and 1GBFile-2 to the clipboard.

5. From the WIN1 system desktop, double-click the Run icon.

In the Open field, input \\NAS_SMB\Engineering_Data and click OK.

The share opens.

6. Paste the files into the share. Wait for the copy operation to complete.

7. From the Student Desktop, return to the open Unisphere session.

From the Quota tab of the SMB_fs Properties window, click the Refresh icon

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to update the information displayed.

Are there any changes to storage usage for the /Engineering_Data path?
________

How about the Soft Limit Usage (%)? ___________

The usage for the /Engineering_Data path should have increased to ~2.0 GB.

8. Return to the RDC session to the WIN1 system.

9. From the Local Disk (C: )\Big_Files folder, copy the 500MBFile-1, and the
750MBFile-1 files.

10. Paste the file in the \\NAS_SMB\Engineering_Data share.

One of the files gets copied to the share, but the copy of the second file is
interrupted with the message displayed here:

The only way to enable this copy operation to complete is to increase the Hard
Limit of the Quota Tree for the /Engineering_Data directory.

Leave the error message open.

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11. Open Unisphere session.

From the Quota tab of the SMB_fs Properties window, Select Quota Tree.
Double-click the quota for the Engineering_Data path.

12. From the Quota Tree Properties window, notice that the Soft Limit has been
exceeded and the Grace Period (7 days) is activated.

Modify the Hard Limit to 5 GB and click Apply. Then click Close.

13. Return to the RDC session to the WIN1 system.

14. In the error message left open in a previous step, click Try Again to continue
with the copy operation.

The operation should be successful this time. You should now see two 1 GB

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files, one 750 MB file and a 500MB file in the share.

You have successfully configured and tested a Quota Tree.

15. Delete the copied files from the \\NAS_SMB\Engineering_Data share.

Close the File Explorer windows and logoff the RDC session.

This completes part 4 of the lab exercise.

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Create User Quota on a Quota Tree

In this section of the lab, you create a User Quota on a previously created Quota
Tree.

1. Return to your open Unisphere session.

The session should display the SMB_fs Properties page.

2. From the SMB_fs Properties page, select Quota > Quota Tree. Double-click
the quota tree /Engineering_Data.

3. From the Quota Tree Properties window, select the User Quotas tab.

4. Click the + icon to open the Create User Quota wizard.

In the Create User Quota wizard, click the + icon to add a user.

5. In the Configure User section, enter the following configuration:

Host Type: Windows Name

Domain: hmarine.test

Name: epratt

Click Add User.

6. The user hmarine.test\epratt is now listed on the table.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

7. On the Configure Storage Limits page, enter the following configuration

information:

Soft Limit: 1 GB

Hard Limit: 3 GB

Click Next to continue the wizard.

8. The quota settings are displayed on the Review Your Selections section as
shown here.

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Click Finish to create the quota.

9. The Results page shows the status of the operation.

A green check mark specifies that the operation was completed successfully.

Wait until the job completes, and then click Close.

10. The new configuration is displayed in the Quota Tree Properties page.

Double-click the quota to verify that the Windows Name, Tree Path, Soft
Limit, and Hard limit values are correct. Click Close.

At the top of the Quota Tree Properties this page, check the Enforce User
Quotas checkbox.

Click Apply to commit the changes.

Close the window.

11. You have successfully configured a user quota on a Quota Tree.

This completes part 5 of the lab exercise.

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Testing User Quota on a Quota Tree Configuration

In this section you test the User Quota that was configured on the Quota Tree
created previously in this lab exercise.

1. Open an RDC session to WIN1.

2. Log in to the WIN1 system as user epratt:

In the Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices.

Select Use a different account.

In the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: hmarine\epratt

Password: emc2Admin!

Click Ok.

3. From the WIN1 Desktop or system taskbar, open File Explorer.

Expand the Local Disk (C: ) tree and open the Big_Files folder.

4. Copy 1GBFile-1 and 1GBFile-2 to the clipboard.

5. From the WIN1 system desktop, double-click the Run icon.

In the Open field, input \\NAS_SMB\Engineering_Data and click OK.

The share opens.

6. Paste the files into the share. Wait for the copy operation to complete.

7. Now try copying the 500MBFile-1 and 750MBFile1 files from Big_Files to
Engineering_Data.

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One of the files is copied to the share but the copy of the second file is
interrupted with the message displayed here:

Leave the error message open.

8. Return to the open Unisphere session.

From the User Quotas tab in the Quota Tree Properties page, click the
Refresh icon to update the information displayed.

Observe that the usage of the Epratt account has increased due to the copy
operations. The hard limit was exceeded when trying to copy one of the last
two files. Notice that one file did get copied to the share.

9. Verify the User Quota configuration for Eldon Pratt.

Double-click the user quota.

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Notice that the Soft Limit has been exceeded and the Grace Period (7 days)
has been activated.

Modify the Hard Limit to 5 GB, and click OK.

10. Return to the RDC session to the WIN1 system.

11. In the error message left open in a previous step, click Try Again to continue
with the copy operation.

The operation should be successful this time. You should now see two 1GB
files, one 750MB file and a 500MB file in the share.

The operation completes and all the files that are copied are on the share.

12. You have successfully configured and tested a User Quota on a Quota Tree.

Delete the copied files from the \\NAS_SMB\Engineering_Data share.

Close the File Explorer windows and logoff the RDC session.

Return to the open Unisphere session.

In the Quota Tree Properties page, click Close.

In the SMB_fs Properties page, click Close.

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Lab Exercise: Local LUN Move

Scenario:

In this lab, you move a LUN from one storage pool to another.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Move an existing LUN to a different storage pool.
• Access data from the LUN before, during and after the move operation.
• Move the LUN back to its original storage pool.

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Move a LUN
1. Establish a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system IP address:
192.168.1.113. The login credentials are: admin/Password123!

2. Navigate to Storage > Block > LUNs. Select the Linux1 LUN0.

Verify the Pool that is associated to this LUN.

This LUN is provided from the FAST VP-1 storage pool. You will move the
LUN to a different storage pool on the system. Before moving the LUN, you
will access its data from the Linux1 host to see how the move operation is
transparent to the host.

3. Launch a PuTTY session from the taskbar, and establish an SSH session to
the Linux1 system.

In the PuTTY screen Host Name (or IP address) field input: Linux1 and click
the Open button.

Click the Open button.

At the login as: prompt input: root

At the password: prompt input: emc2Local!

You are now logged in as root to the Linux1 client as indicate by the # cursor
symbol.

4. Verify that the host has the LUN mounted by running the df –h command.

Verify that the output shows the /dev/emcpowera1 is mounted on

/emcpowera_mp.

If not already mounted, mount the file by running mount /dev/emcpowera1

/emcpowera_mp command.

Access the LUN by running the cd /emcpowera_mp command.

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Run the ls command to see the LUN content.

Verify in the output a file named newfile and a folder named lost+found.

5. Next, create and run a script that displays the current date and lists the content
of the LUN every two seconds.

This script will run during the LUN move operations to demonstrate how the
move is transparent to the host data access on the LUN.

Enter the following: while true; do date; ls –l; sleep 2; echo;

done

The script will continue displaying a varying time value on each loop to indicate
it is still running.

6. Return to your open Unisphere session. With the Linux1_LUN0 selected,

select Move from the More Actions list.

The Move LUN configuration window opens. Input the following configuration:

Session Priority: Normal

Pool: FAST VP-2

Thin: Checked

Data Reduction: Not available for selection

Click OK to perform the move operation.

The right side of the page displays the move session progress. It should show
Running state.

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7. Return to your PuTTY session and verify that the script is still running. The
second value in the date output will increment with each loop.

This verifies that the move operation does not affect host data access.

8. Return to the Unisphere session.

Refresh the page. The move session should now show Completed.

9. Initiate another Move operation to return the LUN to the FAST VP-1 pool.
From More Actions, select Move.

Set the following move configuration:

Session Priority: High

Pool: FAST VP-1

Thin: Checked

Data Reduction: Not available for selection

Click OK to perform the move operation.

Verify that the move status is Running.

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10. Return to your PuTTY session and verify that the script is still running with the
second value changing with each loop.

Stop the script by pressing the <Ctrl> <c> keyboard keys simultaneously.
The script will stop and return the prompt.

Type exit to close the PuTTY session.

11. In the Unisphere session, refresh the screen and verify that the move
operation is complete and the Linux1 LUN0 is back on the FAST VP-1 pool.

This completes the lab exercise.

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Lab Exercise: LUN Snapshots

Scenario:

This lab demonstrates how to create snapshots of a LUN, create a snapshot

schedule, apply a schedule time zone, access the snapshot from another host to
see its point-in-time data state, and perform a restore operation.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Create a manual snapshot of an existing LUN.
• Create a snapshot schedule.
• Configure a host for snapshot access.
• Attach the host to the snapshot, and access its point-in-time data state.
• Perform write operations to the snapshot.
• Perform a snapshot restore operation to a LUN.

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Create Snapshot of a LUN

1. Launch an RDC session to WIN1 and log in as local \administrator:

In the Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices

Select Use a different account

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: \administrator

Password: emc2Local!

Click OK.

2. From the WIN1 Desktop or taskbar launch File Explorer.

Select WIN1 LUN0 drive, and open the text document that is created that you
in the earlier exercise.

Add a line of text to the document: This line was written to the LUN from
WIN1 prior to the initial snapshot.

Save and close the file.

3. From your Student Desktop system, establish a Unisphere session to the

UnityVSA-Source system IP address: 192.168.1.113. The login credentials
are: admin/Password123!

Navigate to Storage > Block > LUNs, and double-click WIN1 LUN0 to open
its properties page.

4. Select the Snapshots tab and click the + icon to create a snapshot of the
LUN.

The Create Snapshot window opens. In the Name field, replace the default
system provided name with: Initial_snap

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In the Description field, type the current time as displayed from the Student
Desktop taskbar.

Leave all other options at their default settings. The Local Retention Policy
option has the Pool Automatic Deletion Policy selected to enable the
snapshot to be retained until the pool the LUN was created from reaches a
predefined capacity threshold, and then deletes the snapshot to return space
back to the pool. The Retain Until option can be configured to retain the
snapshot to a specified calendar date and time for up to a year. The No
Automatic Deletion option prevents the snapshot from being deleted.

Click OK to create the snapshot.

The new snapshot is now listed in the Snapshots tab.

You have manually created a snapshot of an existing LUN.

5. With the LUN Snapshots tab still open, select the Snapshot Schedule option.

Click the Snapshot schedule dropdown to display a list of available

schedules.

The list displays three system defined schedules. Select the Default
Protection schedule, and review its creation and retention times. Select and
review the other two systems defined schedules one at a time.

6. The system defined schedules cannot be modified or deleted. User-defined

schedules can be created and customized to fit a wide range of snapshot
needs.

Click the New Schedule button and the Create Schedule window opens. The
window provides a snapshot frequency granularity that is hourly/daily/weekly
based and also provides a retention policy configuration. You are going to
configure a snapshot schedule that creates a snapshot every Monday morning
at 7:00 AM and is retained for 7 days.

In the Name field input: Monday AM Snap

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Snapshot Frequency: Unchecked

The Daily/Weekly option should be checked along with each day of the week.
Uncheck Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun, and leave Mon checked.

In the Snapshot time dropdown list, select 7:00 AM

The Retention Policy section should have the Retain for radio button
selected and set to 7 Days.

Click the Create button to create the schedule.

7. The newly created schedule is now listed in the Snapshot schedule field.

Click the Apply button to schedule snapshots for the LUN.

A Modify Schedule window is displayed. Review the message and click Yes
to continue.

Snapshots of the LUN will now be created and retained automatically by the
system.

Close the Snapshots tab window.

8. Change the schedule time zone.

Navigate to PROTECTION & MOBILITY > Snapshot schedule.

Double-click the Monday AM Snap to open its properties page.

Click the Change schedule time zone link.

The system Settings page opens to the Configure Schedule Time Zone
portion of Management.

By default the Schedule Time Zone is set to UTC Legacy.

Expand the Schedule Time Zone list and select (UTC-05:00 Eastern Time
US & Canada).

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Click Apply.

A Changing time zone message is displayed. Read the message. Click Yes
to accept the change.

Close the Settings window.

Close the Monday AM Snap Properties window.

9. Identify the schedule time zone change impact on existing schedules.

The Unisphere session should display the Snapshot Schedule page with the
Monday AM Snap schedule selected.

Click the Refresh icon to refresh the Snapshot Schedule page.

On the right side slide-out panel, notice the Description for the schedule and
the change in creation time due to the schedule time zone change. Changing
the time zone schedule impacts schedule timing of existing schedules.

Double click the Monday AM Snap schedule to open its properties page.

Change the Snapshot Time back to 7:00 AM.

Click Apply.

Close the Monday AM Snap Properties window.

One by one, select each of the system defined schedules to see the impact of
the schedule time zone change. Also note that, unlike the user defined
Monday AM Snap, the system defined schedules cannot be modified.

10. Open the existing RDC session to the WIN1 host.

From the open File Explorer window, open the text document on the WIN1
LUN0 drive.

Add the following line of text: This line was written to the LUN from WIN1

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after the initial snapshot was taken.

Save and Exit the file.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Access a LUN Snapshot

1. Access the LUN snapshot from another Windows host.

From your Student Desktop system taskbar, launch the RDC application and
establish an RDC session to the WIN2 host as the local administrator.

In the Computer(s): Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices.

Select Use a different account.

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: \administrator

Password: emc2Local!

Click OK.

2. The WIN2 host must be registered to the UnityVSA-Source system. A first step
is to connect its iSCSI initiator to the array.

From the WIN2 system taskbar, click the iSCSI Initiator icon to launch the
application.

Select the Discovery tab. Click the Discover Portal button. In the Discover
Target Portal window, in its IP address or DNS name field input:
192.168.3.100

Click OK to close the Discover Target Portal window.

Select the Targets tab. In the Discovered targets section, the UnityVSA-
Source IQN is displayed with an Inactive status. Click the Connect button to
connect the initiator to the target.

In the Connect to Target window, check the Enable multi-path checkbox.

Click the Advanced button.

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From the Advanced Settings window, in the Local adapter dropdown list,
select Microsoft iSCSI Initiator.

In the Initiator IP dropdown list, select 192.168.3.107.

From the Target portal IP dropdown list, select 192.168.3.100 /3260.

Click OK to configure the settings.

Click OK in the Connect To Target window.

Click OK to close the iSCSI Initiator Properties window.

3. From the Student Desktop system Unisphere session, go to Access > Hosts
and click the + icon and select Host from the list to add a new Host. The
wizard to add a new host opens. Input the following configuration:

Name: WIN2

Operating System: Windows Server

Network Address: 192.168.2.11

Click the Next button to continue the wizard.

In the Select Discovered Initiators or Manually Add Initiators section, the

WIN2 host initiator IQN is displayed.

Check the initiator checkbox and click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Review the host configuration section, a summary of the host

configuration is displayed as shown here:

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Click Finish to add the host.

The Results window displays the status of the operation to add the host.
When it has completed successfully Close the window.

The WIN2 host should now be listed in the Hosts window with 1 displayed in
the Initiators column.

4. Next, attach the snapshot (initial_snap) to the WIN2 host.

In Unisphere, go to Storage > Block > LUNs and select the WIN1 LUN0 and
click the Edit icon to open its properties page.

Select the Snapshots tab, and check the checkbox for the Initial_snap if not
already selected.

From the More Actions dropdown list, select the Attach to host action.

Click the + icon to configure access. In the Access Type dropdown list, select
Read/Write.

Check the checkbox for WIN2, and click OK.

When attaching a host to a snapshot with Read/Write access type, by default

an option is checked to automatically create a copy of the existing snapshot to
preserve its data state. Keep the option to create the copy checked, but in the
Name field, remove the system provided name and enter: Initial_snap_copy
and then click OK to create the copy and attach the host.

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A snapshot copy is made, and the host is attached to the Initial_snap

snapshot with read/write access.

5. Open the existing RDC session to the WIN2 host. From the Desktop or
taskbar, click the Server Manager icon to launch the application.

6. Navigate to File and Storage Services > Volumes > Disks.

From the upper right corner Tasks dropdown, select Rescan Storage.

Click Yes to the Rescan Storage message.

A 5.00 GB disk is listed, Right-click it and select Bring Online. A Bring Disk
Online window is displayed. Click Yes to bring the disk online.

In the Volumes section, the new disk is assigned a drive letter.

7. From the WIN2 taskbar, launch File Explorer and select WIN1 LUN0 drive.

Open the text document. Is the line of text present in the file that you entered
from the WIN1 host before the initial snapshot?
_________________________________

Is the line of text present in the file that you entered from the WIN1 host after
the initial snapshot was created? __________________________

Explain the results.

_________________________________________________________

8. Add the following line of text to the file: This line was written to the LUN
snapshot from WIN2.

Save and Exit the file.

Open the New Text Document again, was the line written to the file?
________________________________

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Close the file.

9. Next, remove the snapshot disk from the host.

In Server Manager under Disks, right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select Take
Offline.

In the Take Disk Offline window, click Yes to offline the disk.

The disk status is shown as Offline.

Close Server Manager. In File Explorer the WIN1 LUN0 drive is no longer
present.

Close File Explorer and logoff from the WIN2 RDC session.

10. Open the existing Unisphere session.

From the WIN1 LUN0 Properties page Snapshots tab, the Initial_snap
should still be checked. If not, check it.

From the More Actions dropdown, select Detach from host from the list.

Click Yes in the Detach confirmation window. No should now be displayed in

the Attached column for the Initial_snap.

Close the WIN1 LUN0 Properties window.

This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Restore a LUN from a Snapshot

1. Open the existing RDC session to the WIN1 host.

In its open File Explorer window with the WIN1 LUN0 drive selected, open the
text document. Is the line of text that was written to the snapshot from the
WIN2 host present in the file?
______________________________________________________

Why? _________________________________________________________

Add the following line of text to the file: This line was written to the LUN
from WIN1 after the initial snapshot was taken and before the Restore
operation.

Save and close the file

2. Launch Server Manager from the WIN1 taskbar.

Navigate to File and Storage Services > Volumes > Disks.

Right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select Take Offline from the list. In the Take
Disk Offline window, click Yes to offline the disk.

The disk now shows Offline status.

In File Explorer, verify that the WIN1 LUN0 drive is no longer present.

3. From your Student Desktop system, open the existing Unisphere session.

From the WIN1 LUN0 Properties page Snapshots tab, the Initial_snap
should still be checked. If not, check it.

From the More Actions dropdown, select Restore from the list.

The system automatically creates a backup snapshot of the LUN to preserve

its state before initiating a restore operation. The Restore window provides a
field for the snapshot name and provides a message recommending to
quiesce IO from the host.

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Click OK to perform the snapshot restore operation.

The LUN has now been restored to the data state that the Initial_snap
snapshot captured.

4. Open the existing RDC session to WIN1.

Launch the Server Manager application and navigate to File and Storage
Services > Volumes > Disks. Right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select Bring
Online from the list.

In the Bring Disk Online window, click Yes to bring the disk online.

In the Volumes section, the disk now is assigned a drive letter.

In the open File Explorer window with the WIN1 LUN0 drive selected, open
the text document.

Is the line of text written to the LUN by WIN1 prior to the initial snapshot
present in the file?
_____________________________________________________

Is the line of text written to the LUN by WIN1 after the initial snapshot and prior
to the restore present in the file? ___________________________________

Is the line of text written to the snapshot from WIN2 present in the file?

Explain the data seen in the file.

______________________________________________________________
____________________________________

5. Close the file, and close File Explorer.

Close Server Manager.

Log off the WIN1 RDC session.

This completes the LUN Snapshot lab exercise. You have created a LUN
snapshot and a snapshot schedule, and set a schedule time zone. You

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accessed a LUN snapshot to see its captured data state and wrote to the
snapshot. You also performed a Snapshot restore operation to restore a LUN
to the data state captured in the snapshot.

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Lab Exercise: File System Snapshots

Scenario:

This lab demonstrates how to shedule snapshots, create snapshots manually,

configure access to snapshots, and access snapshots.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Enable a snapshot schedule during file system creation.
• Create a manual snapshot of existing file systems.
• Configure access to a read/write snapshot and perform write operations to it.
• Access read-only snapshots from an SMB Windows client and from an NFS
Linux client.

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Enable Snapshot Schedule During File System Creation

Introduction to task.

1. Establish a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system IP address:

192.168.1.113. The login credentials are: admin/Password123!

2. In Unisphere, go to Storage > File > File Systems. Click the + icon to create
a file system.

The Create a File System wizard opens. In the Protocol section, select the
Windows Shares (SMB) radio button. In the NAS Server list, the NAS_SMB
(Replication: No, Multiprotocol:No) is listed for the NAS Server.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Name field input: DP_fs

In the Description field input: Data Protection file system

Click Next to continue the wizard.

On Configure the File-level Retention, leave the Off radio button selected
and click Next.

In the Pool field, select FAST VP-2. Configure the Size to be 5 GB. Leave all
other settings at default. Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Shares > Configure the Initial Share section, check the SMB Share
(Windows) checkbox. Name the share: DP_FS_share. Click Next to continue
the wizard.

In the SMB Share’s Other Settings > Configure the SMB Share’s Other
Settings section, keep the defaults. Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Snapshot > Configure Snapshot Schedule section, check the Enable
Automatic Snapshot Creation checkbox.

From the Snapshot schedule dropdown, select the Protection with longer
retention schedule from the list. Click Next to continue the wizard.

You will not configure Replication. Click Next to continue the wizard.

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The Summary section displays the details of the file system creation. Click
Finish to perform the creation operation.

The Results section displays the status of the file system creation. Close the
window when the operation completes successfully.

The new DP_fs file system is displayed in the list.

3. Check the DP_fs file system checkbox and click the Edit icon to open its
properties page.

Select the Snapshots tab, and go to the Snapshot Schedule page. It

displays the schedule that is enabled that was during the file system creation.
The schedule will automatically create snapshots every morning and retain
them for 7 days.

Navigate to the Snapshots page. There are no snapshots of the file system
yet, because the scheduled time for the automatic creation has not yet
occurred. The system creates snapshots of the file system that are read-only
and named based on the date and time the snapshot was created.

Leave the page open in Unisphere.

4. Access the DP_fs file system share, and create data on it before creating any
snapshots.

Launch the RDC application, and establish an RDC session to WIN1 as the
Domain administrator.

In the Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices

Select Use a different account

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: hmarine\administrator

Password: emc2Admin!

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Click OK.

5. From the WIN1 system taskbar, click the Run icon. In the Open field input:
\\NAS_SMB\DP_FS_share and click the OK button. The share window opens.

Right-click in the share window, and select New > Text Document. Open the
file and input the following text: This line was written to the file system prior
to any snapshot creation.

Save and close the file.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Create Read/Write and Read-Only File System Snapshots

1. From the existing Unisphere session, from the Snapshots tab, click the + icon
to create a snapshot.

In the Name field input: First_snap_ro.

In the Description field input: This is the first snapshot of the file system. It
is a read-only snap.

Leave the Retention Policy set to Pool Automatic Deletion Policy.

Leave the Access Type set to Read-only (hidden .CKPT access).

Click the OK button to create the snapshot.

The new snapshot is now listed.

2. Open the existing RDC session to WIN1. In the share window, open the New
text document and add the following line to the file: This line was added
after the first read-only snapshot was created.

Save and close the file.

3. Return to your open Unisphere session. In the Snapshots tab, click the + icon
to create a snapshot.

In the Name field input: Second_snap_rw. In the Description field input: This
is the second snapshot of the file system. It is a read/write snap.

Leave the Retention Policy set to Pool Automatic Deletion Policy.

Select the radio button to set the Access Type to Read/Write (shares).

Click the OK button to create the snapshot.

The page now lists the two manually created snapshots: one read-only snap
and one read/write snap.

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Close the properties window.

4. Open the existing RDC session to WIN1. In the share window, open the New
text document and add the following line to the file: This line was added
after the second read/write snapshot was created.

Save and close the file.

5. Place some data on the NFS_fs file system before creating a snapshot of it.

From your Student Desktop system taskbar, click the PuTTY icon to launch
the application and establish an SSH session to the Linux1 system.

In the PuTTY screen Host Name (or IP address) field input: Linux1 and click
the Open button.

At the login as: prompt input: root

At the password: prompt input: emc2Local!

Mount the engineering NFS share by issuing the command:

mount 192.168.1.116:/engineering /nfs

Verify that the client is mounted to the remote file system.

Issue the command: df -h

Its output should show the filesystem 192.168.1.116:/engineering

mounted on /nfs.

Switch user to epallis by issuing the command: su epallis

Access the NFS share by issuing the command: cd /nfs

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Add a line of text to the epallis file by issuing the command: echo “this is
text written to the file prior to the read-only snapshot
of the file system.” >> epallis

The line of text will be appended to the end of the epallis file. Verify that the
text is present by issuing the command: more epallis

6. Create a read-only snapshot of the NFS_fs file system.

Return to your open Unisphere session. Navigate to Storage > File > File
Systems and select the NFS-_fs file system by placing a check in its
checkbox and clearing any other checkboxes.

Click the Edit icon to open the properties page and select the Snapshots tab.
Click the + icon to create a new snapshot.

In the Name field input: NFS_cvfs. In the Description field input: This is a
read-only snapshot to be accessed via NFS using the .ckpt data path.

Leave the Retention Policy set to Pool Automatic Deletion Policy.

Leave the Access Type set to Read-only (hidden .CKPT access)

Click the OK button to create the snapshot.

The page now lists the new read-only snapshot.

Close the Snapshots window.

7. Return to the open SSH session to Linux1.

Add a line of text to the epallis file by issuing the command: echo “this is
text written to the file after the creation of the read-
only snapshot of the file system.” >> epallis

Verify that the text was appended to the end of the epallis file by issuing the
command: more epallis

This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Access Read/Write and Read-Only File System Snapshots

1. Accessing read/write snapshots requires creating a specific share to the
snapshot. In this step, you create an SMB share to the read/write snapshot of
the DP_fs file system.

From the existing Unisphere session on your Student desktop, go to Storage

> File > SMB Shares and click the + icon to create a new SMB share.

The Create a SMB Share wizard opens.

From the Select a source for the new share window, click the grid in the File
System field.

The Select a File System for share creation window opens.

Click the DP_fs file system and click on Select.

From the Select a source for the new share window, select the Snapshot
for File System “DP_fs” radio button.

From the dropdown list, select the Second_snap_rw snapshot.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Share Name field input: DP_fs_RW_snap_share

Leave the Local Path setting as is to create a top-level share. Click Next to
continue the wizard.

In the Advanced > Provide SMB share details section, leave the default
settings in place, and click Next to continue the wizard.

The Summary screen displays the share configuration to be created. Click

Finish to begin the creation operation.

The Results screen displays the share creation process. Close the window
when the share is successfully created.

The newly created DP_fs_RW_snap_share is now listed.

2. Open the existing RDC session to WIN1. It should have an open window to the
DP_FS_share.

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From the Student Desktop or system taskbar, click the Run icon to open
another window to the read/write snapshot share.

In the Open field input: \\NAS_SMB\DP_fs_RW_snap_share and click the

OK button.

The share window opens.

There should now be two open share windows: one to the file system share
DP_FS_share and one to the RW snapshot share DP_fs_RW_snap_share.

From each window, open the existing New Text Document and compare
them.

What are the differences between the content of the two files?
___________________________________________________

Why? _______________________________________________

3. Close the file opened from the DP_FS_share.

Add the following line of text to the New Text Document opened from the
DP_fs_RW_snap_share: Text added to the RW snapshot.

Save and close the file.

Open the file from the DP_fs_share. Is the newly added line to the
DP_fs_RW_snap_share present in this file? __________________________

Why? ________________________________________________________

Close the file.

Close the share window to the RW Snapshot share DP_fs_RW_snap_share.

4. You will now access the read-only snapshot of the DP_fs using the snapshot
CVFS mechanism.

From your open DP_FS_share window, right-click in the white space and
select Properties.

The dp_fs_share (\\nas_smb) Properties window opens.

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Select the Previous Versions tab.

The Folder versions section lists read-only snapshots of the file system with a
date and time timestamp when the snapshot was taken. You should see the
read-only snapshot that you created manually. If time had elapsed for the
snapshot schedule to have automatically created snapshots, they would be
listed here.

Select the snapshot you manually created, and click the Open button.

A new window opens with the snapshot path listed in its navigation field.

Open the existing New Text Document.

What data state is captured by the file on the snapshot?

______________________

Close the text document.

Right-click the New Text Document file to display the list of operations that
can be done to the file. Is the Delete option present?
_______________________________________

Why? _________________________________________________________

Close the Previous Versions window. (Leave the dp_fs_share (\\nas_smb)

Properties open).

5. From the Network >NAS_SMB > DP_FS_share window, right-click the New
Text Document to display the list of operations. Is the Delete option present?
_____________________________

Delete the file. Did it get deleted? ___________________________________

Why? ________________________________________________________

6. You can now recover the original file from the read-only snapshot. In the open
DP_FS_share (NAS_SMB) Properties window, highlight the dp_fs_share
folder and select Restore.

Select Restore to the Previous Versions messages, and click OK.

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Did the file get copied to the file system?

______________________________

Close the open windows to the file system share and the read-only snapshot.

Log off the WIN1 RDC session.

7. Access the read-only snapshot of the file system from the Linux1 NFS client.

Access the existing SSH session to list the content of the NFS share by
issuing the command: ls –la /nfs

Verify that you see the epallis file.

Issue the following command to see the file content: more /nfs/epallis

This is the file that resides on the file system. To view and access the read-
only snapshot of the file system, you must explicitly use the hidden .ckpt
data path. You will then see a snapshot folder having a date/time name format
for when the snapshot was created. To see the read-only snapshot, issue the
following command: ls –la /nfs/.ckpt

Record the snapshot folder name. _______________

To access the snapshot, change directory into the snapshot folder name using
the following command: cd /nfs/.ckpt/<snapshot folder name>

List the content of the snapshot by issuing the following command: ls –la

You should see the epallis file.

Look at the file content using the following command: more epallis

Is the content of the epallis file on the snapshot different than the content of
the file on the file system?
___________________________________________

Why? ________________________________________________________

8. Stop accessing the NFS export by issuing the following command: cd /

Log off the epallis user by issuing the following command: exit

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Unmount the file system by issuing the following command: umount /nfs

Disconnect the SSH session by issuing the following command: exit

This completes the lab exercise. You have applied a snapshot schedule to a
file system during its creation. You have created manual Read/Write and read-
only snapshots of file systems and have accessed them.

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Lab Exercise: Thin Clones

Scenario:

The lab demonstrates how to configure a Thin Clone resource on Dell Unity XT
storage system.

This lab also demonstrates how to refresh a Base LUN.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Create a Thin Clone from a base LUN.
• Verify Thin Clone snapshot and clone configuration.
• Restore a Base LUN to its original contents from a Thin Clone.

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Create a Thin Clone

In this lab, you create Thin Clones from snapshots of a Base LUN, write data to the
LUN, and then perform a refresh of the Base LUN from the Thin Clone snapshot.

Note: The lab requires you to go back between Unisphere and the
RDC session to WIN1. Also pay attention to the LUNs as they are
presented to the Windows host. Clones inherit the name of the
Base LUN and the disk numbers increase as the LUNs are made
available to the host. In the lab you will see three 15 GB disks
created, one for the original Base LUN, and one each for the Thin
Clones created.

1. Establish a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system IP address:

192.168.1.113. The login credentials are: admin/Password123!

2. Navigate to Storage > Block > LUNs.

Create a LUN with the following properties:

Number of LUNs: 1

Name: Base LUN

Description: Base LUN for the Thin Clone family

Pool: Capacity

Tiering Policy: Start High Then Auto-Tier

Size: 15 GB

Thin: Checked

Host I/O Limit: No Limit

Click Next.

3. From the Configure Access window, click the + icon and check the WIN1
host from the list of available hosts.

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Click OK.

WIN1 should be displayed with a green icon.

Click Next.

4. Click Next to the Snapshot and Replication windows.

5. Review the Summary page.

Click Finish and verify that the LUN was created successfully.

Close the window.

6. Open an RDC session to WIN1 and login as a local administrator.

In the Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices

Select Use a different account

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: \administrator

Password: emc2Local!

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Click OK.

7. From the WIN1 system taskbar, click the Computer Management icon.

Click Storage > Disk Management.

If the new 15 GB disk is not listed, perform a Rescan Disks.

Record here the disk number of the new 15 GB disk: __________

Bring the new 15 GB disk Online.

Initialize the disk using the defaults values.

Create a New Simple Volume.

Accept all the defaults except for Volume label.

Name the volume Base LUN.

Perform a quick format.

Once formatted, open the Base LUN.

8. Expand the Local Disk (C:) tree and open the Big_Files folder.

Select the first four 1 GB files, and copy the files to the Base LUN.

Leave the Computer Management window open.

Note: You may see a window open by Microsoft asking if you want to format
the disk, select Cancel.

9. From Uniphere, go to Storage > Block > LUNs.

Check the Base LUN box, and click the Edit icon.

10. From the Base LUN Properties window, select the Snapshots tab.

Select the + icon to create a Snapshot called Snap1_Base_LUN4GB

Set the Local Retention Policy to No Automatic Deletion.

Click OK.

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The snapshot is created. Note the time at which the snapshot was taken. Also
note the Auto-Delete and Attached columns. To create a Thin Clone, these
columns should display a status of No.

Close the window.

11. With the Base LUN checked, from the More Actions dropdown, select
Clone.

The Populate Thin Clone window is displayed. You have an option of using
an existing snapshot of the Base LUN or creating a new version of the Base
LUN.

Take the default to create a Clone using the existing snapshot of the Base
LUN. (Snap1_Base_LUN4GB)

Check the box for Snap1_Base_LUN4GB, and click Next.

12. From the Configure Thin Clone window, input the following:

Name: TC1_Snap1_Base_LUN4GB

Click Next.

The Configure Access window is displayed.

Click the + icon, add host WIN1, and close the window.

Click Next to the next three windows.

Click Finish on the Summary page to create the clone.

From the Results page, verify that the Thin Clone was created.

Close the window.

The Clone should be displayed in the LUNs page.

Select TC1_Snap1_Base_LUN4GB.

View the clone properties from the right-hand window.

What is the Thin Clone Base LUN? ______________________________

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What is the Clone Source LUN? _______________________________

13. From WIN1, open Computer Management if not already open.

Perform a Rescan Disks of the storage from Disk Management. Note the
disk numbers for the disks.

Record here the number of the new 15 GB disk: __________

Take the current Base LUN Offline.

Bring the new 15 GB disk Online, and open the disk.

How many files are on the disk? ________

Copy the last two remaining files (500MB and 750MB) from Big_Files folder
to the open LUN.

Close the LUN.

TC1_Snap1_Base_LUN4GB now contains six files.

14. Take the current Base LUN Offline.

Perform Rescan Disks, then bring the first 15 GB LUN Online and open the
LUN.

Did the two new files get written to the Base LUN? _________

Close the LUN.

15. In Unisphere, create a snapshot of TC1_Snap1_Base_LUN4GB.

From the LUNs window, select TC1_Base_LUN4GB and click Edit.

Select the Snapshots tab. Use the + icon to create a snapshot.

Name: Snap2_TC1_Base_LUN6GB

Set the Retention Policy to No Automatic Deletion.

Apply the changes.

Verify that the snapshot appears under Snapshots and close the window.

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Close the window.

16. Next, create a Thin Clone of Snap2_TC1_Base_LUN6GB.

If not already selected, select TC1_Snap1_Base_LUN4GB and from the More

Actions dropdown select Clone.

From the Populate Thin Clone page, verify the radio button for Clone using
an existing snapshot of LUN TC1_Snap1_Base_LUN4GB is selected.

Check the box for Snap2_TC1_Base_LUN6GB, and click Next.

17. From the Configure Thin Clone window, Provide a Name:

Name: TC2_Snap2_Base_LUN6GB

Click Next.

Configure Host Access for WIN1.

Click Next to the next three windows.

View the Summary page and click Finish.

Verify that the Thin Clone was created and close the window.

The Clone should be displayed in the LUNs page.

Highlight TC2_Snap2_Base_LUN6GB.

View the Clone from the right-hand window.

What is the Thin Clone Base LUN? ___________________________

What is the Source LUN? ____________________________

18. From the WIN1, open Computer Management if not already open.

Perform a Rescan Disks of the storage from Disk Management. Note the
disk numbers for the disks. A fourth disk is displayed.

Record here the Disk number for the newest 15 GB disk: _________

Take the current Base LUN Offline. (the first 15 GB disk).

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Bring the most recent 15 GB disk Online and open the LUN.

How many files are on the disk? ___________________

Delete all but the first 1 GB file.

Close the LUN window.

TC2_Snap2_Base_LUN6GB now contains one file.

19. Offline the current Base LUN (the most recent 15 GB disk).

Perform Rescan Disks and Online the original 15 GB disk (Base LUN) and
open it.

How many files are on the disk? ____________

This verifies that changes that are made to the Clone do not affect the Base
LUN.

Close the Base LUN window.

20. You have taken two snapshots and created two Thin Clones from those
snapshots.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Refresh a Base LUN from a Thin Clone Snapshot

In this lab section, you refresh the contents of the Base LUN from a Thin Clone
snapshot and verify the contents of the Base LUN.

1. In Unisphere, go to Storage > Block > LUNs.

Check the box for Base LUN and select Refresh from the More Actions
dropdown (clear any other LUNs).

Read the Host Access Message. Click Yes.

2. The Refresh Base LUN window is displayed.

By default, a new snapshot is created using the current timestamp.

Leave the default name.

The window displays all the available snapshots that you can select to refresh
the Base LUN. Read the line at the bottom about eligible snapshots.

From the Select a snapshot to refresh from window, check the

Snap2__TC1_Base_LUN6GB snapshot and click OK.

3. From WIN1, perform Rescan Disks.

Offline the original Base LUN, and then Online the Base LUN.

Open the LUN. It should display the six files since you refreshed the LUN with
the contents of TC2_Snap2_Base_LUN6GB.

Close the LUN.

4. In Unisphere: From the LUNs page, select the Base LUN, Select Refresh
from the More Actions dropdown.

Click Yes to the message.

Leave the Snapshot name at the default.

You should see all available snapshots.

Select Snap1_Base_LUN4GB, and click OK.

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5. From WIN1, perform Rescan Disks.

Offline the original Base LUN, then Online the Base LUN.

Open the LUN. The LUN should display the original 4 GB files since you
refreshed the Base LUN with the contents of Snap1_Base_LUN4GB.

Close the window.

You have refreshed the Base LUN from two different images.

6. The next few steps have you clean up the resources that were created for the
exercise.

In Unisphere: Remove Host access to the LUNs.

To remove Host Access to the LUNs, go to the Storage > Block > LUNs
page.

Select the Base LUN, and click the Edit icon.

Select the Host Access tab.

Check the box for WIN1, Click the Trash can icon (Remove Access).

Select Remove to the Confirm Remove message.

Close the window.

7. Remove Host Access for the other Thin Clones:

• TC1_Snap1_Base_LUN4GB

• TC2_Snap2_Base_LUN6GB

8. Delete all the created storage resources.

Select TC1_Snap1_Base_LUN4GB and click the Trash can icon.

Repeat for the other Thin Clone.

Repeat for the Base LUN.

From the WIN1 RDP session, close Computer Management.

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Close the RDP session to WIN1.

9. You have successfully created Thin Clones within a single the Base LUN
family and restored the Base LUN from a snapshot of a Thin Clone.

This concludes the Thin Clone lab exercise.

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Lab Exercise: Asynchronous Remote Replication

Scenario:

This lab demonstrates how to create Asynchronous remote replication sessions for
LUNs, NAS servers, and their associated file systems. LUN and file system
Snapshots are also replicted. Perform replication Failover, Failback, Failover with
sync, and Resume operations.

In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• Configure Replication communications between two Unity systems by creating
Replication Interfaces and Replication Connections.
• Create a remote replication session for a LUN.
• Create remote replication sessions for a NAS Server and its associated file
systems.
• Replicate LUN and file system snapshots
• Perform Failover, Failback, Failover with Sync, and Resume operations on the
sessions testing data access with each operation.

More References:
• Dell Unity: Replication Technologies white paper

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Create Replication Communications

In this part of the lab, you configure replication between the UnityVSA-Source and
UnityVSA-Destination storage systems.

1. From your Student Desktop system taskbar, launch a browser and establish a
Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system at IP address
192.168.1.113.

Open another browser tab from the + icon, and establish a Unisphere session
to the UnityVSA-Destination system at IP address 192.168.2.113.

The login credentials for both systems are admin/Password123!

2. The first replication communications channels are the Interfaces that are used
for replication on both systems. The Interfaces establish an IP connection
between the systems to carry the replicated data.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system, go to Protection &

Mobility > Interfaces. Click the + icon to create an Interface for replication.

In the Ethernet Port dropdown list, select Ethernet Port 2.

In the SPA IP Address field, input: 192.168.5.100.

In the Subnet/Prefix Length field input: 255.255.255.0

Leave the Gateway field blank.

Click OK to create the Interface.

Note: The Interfaces on both systems are on the same network, so

a Gateway will not be required. If the interfaces on each system are
on different networks, the Gateway configuration would be needed.

3. In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination system, go to

Protection & Mobility > Interfaces. Click the + icon to create an Interface for
replication.

In the Ethernet Port dropdown list, select Ethernet Port 2.

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In the SPA IP Address field, input: 192.168.5.200.

In the Subnet/Prefix Length field input: 255.255.255.0.

Leave the Gateway field blank. Click OK to create the Interface.

4. The next part of configuring the replication communications is to configure the

Replication Connections. These connections establish the channel that is used
for managing the replication between the systems.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system, go to Protection &

Mobility > Replication and select the Connections tab. Click the + icon to
create the connection. In the Remote System Management IP Address field
input: 192.168.2.113.

The User Name and Password fields are populated with credentials which
are: admin/Password123!

In the Local System Password field input: Password123!

Because Dell UnityVSA only supports Asynchronous replication, the Mode

dropdown list is grayed out with Asynchronous selected. Note: On a physical
Unity system, the Mode dropdown list would also show Synchronous and
Both. Click Next to continue.

In the Bandwidth Schedules page, click + to create a bandwidth schedule.

In the Maximum Bandwidth field, enter 51200. This limits the bandwidth to 50
megabits per second.

In the Days of the Week section, check the boxes for Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu,
Fri.

From the Hours of the day section, select 7:00 AM from the Start Hour list.
Select 7:00 PM from the End Hour list. Click OK to create the schedule.

Click Next to continue. Review the Summary page. Click Finish to create the
Replication Connection. The operation advances to the Results page and
takes a moment to complete several tasks to create the connection. Close the
Results page when complete. The new Connection between the two systems
is listed when the operation completes.

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5. Now access the UnityVSA-Destination system and go to Protection &

Mobility > Replication. Select the Connections tab to view the new
Connection. Highlight the connection and click Verify and Update to verify the
new connection from the UnityVSA-Destination perspective. Click Yes to
proceed with the verification operation. The verification operation takes a
moment to complete, please be patient. The Replication communications are
now complete.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Create a Remote Replication of a LUN

1. From the UnityVSA-Source session, go to Storage > Block > LUNs.

Select WIN1 LUN0 by placing a check in its checkbox.

Click the Edit icon to open the LUN properties page.

Select the Replication tab and click the Configure Replication button.

2. A wizard to Create a Session opens.

From the Provide a Replication Mode and RPO window, select

Asynchronous from the Replication Mode dropdown.

Decrease the RPO time to 10 minutes.

In the Replicate To dropdown list, select UnityVSA-Destination.

Leave the two snapshot replication options at their default unchecked

settings.

Check the Reuse destination resource option. Notice that the

Automatically search user snap as common base option now is available
to select, check the option. These are options to help avoid full
synchronization during replication failback or reverse operations.

Check the Overwrite Destination option.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

3. The next wizard section configures the destination storage resources for
creating the replicated LUN. The Name field defines the name the LUN has on
the destination system. Keep the populated name of: WIN1 LUN0.

The Pool field defines the destination system storage pool the LUN is created
from. Keep the populated pool of FAST VP-1.

Thin: Checked

The destination Tiering Policy can also be configured. Keep the default policy
of Start High Then Auto-Tier.

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Click Next to continue the wizard.

4. The wizard displays a Summary for the configuration of the replication session
as shown here:

Click Finish to start the session creation.

The Results section displays the status of the creation operation. Verify the
Overall status displays 100% Completed.

Close the window.

The replication properties are displayed for WIN1 LUN0.

The properties include: Session Name, Mode, Local Role, Time of Last Sync,
and Replicate Scheduled Snapshots.

The pencil indicates which of those parameters can be edited.

The replicated object on the two systems identifies which system allows IO to
the LUN, and what Replication operations can be done to the session.

Which replication operation buttons are active?

______________________________________________________________
_______

Which replication operation buttons are grayed out? _

______________________________________________________________
__

Close the WIN1 LUN0 Properties window.

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5. On the UnityVSA-Source system, go to Protection & Mobility > Replication

> Sessions. The new replication session is displayed.

Check the box for the WIN1 LUN0 Resource. Click the More Actions
dropdown list. Compare its active and grayed out replication operations to the
ones recorded in the previous step. Are they the same or different?
_________________________

6. Click the Edit icon to open the session details page.

Click the View/Edit icon for the Session Name from the right of the session
name. If necessary, expand the window to view the Edit icon.

Change the name to WIN1_LUN0_rep, and click the OK button.

Close the session details page.

7. On the UnityVSA-Destination system, go to Protection & Mobility >

Replication > Sessions.

The replication session is displayed. Use the window slider to see the session
Name field on the far right. Use the refresh icon until the new session name is
displayed, this takes a minute to update.

What is its name? _______________________________________________

8. Check the session.

Click the More Actions dropdown list. Compare its active and grayed out
replication operations to the ones recorded previously from the UnityVSA-
Source system.

Are the active operations different on the destination system? _____________

Why? __________

9. Navigate to Storage > Block > LUNs. The WIN1 LUN0 is displayed. It was
created on the destination system by the replication process.

10. Double-click WIN1 LUN0 to open the properties page.

Select the Host Access tab and notice that no host has been granted access
to the LUN. Host access must be configured to the LUN so its replicated data

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will be accessible to a host should the source site become unavailable and the
replication session failed over.

11. Establish an RDC session to the WIN2 host as the local administrator.

In the Computer(s) field input: WIN2

In the User field input: \administrator

In the Password field input: emc2Local!

Click the Connect button.

12. From the WIN2 system taskbar, click the iSCSI Initiator icon to launch the
application.

Select the Discovery tab. Click the Discover Portal button. In the Discover
Target Portal window, in its IP address or DNS name field input:
192.168.3.101

Click OK to close the Discover Target Portal window.

Select the Targets tab. In the Discovered targets section, the UnityVSA-
Destination IQN is displayed with an Inactive status. Select it and click the
Connect button to connect the initiator to the target.

In the Connect to Target window, check the Enable multi-path option. Click
the Advanced button.

From the Advanced Settings window, in the Local adaptor dropdown list,
select Microsoft iSCSI Initiator. In the Initiator IP dropdown list, select
192.168.3.107. From the Target portal IP dropdown list, select 192.168.3.101
/3260. Click OK to configure the settings.

Click OK in the Connect To Target window.

Click OK to close the iSCSI Initiator Properties window.

Keep the RDC session to WIN2 open.

13. Return to the UnityVSA-Destination Unisphere session.

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From the LUN properties page Host Access tab, click the + icon to add host
access to the LUN.

The Select Host Access window opens. From the More Actions dropdown
list, select Add Host.

14. The Add a Host wizard opens. Input the following host configuration:

Name: WIN2

Operating System: Windows Server

Network Address: 192.168.2.11

Click Next to continue the wizard.

The WIN2 IQN is displayed in the Automatically-Discovered Initiators

window. Check the initiator IQN checkbox and click Next to continue the
wizard.

A Summary window displays the information for the host being added. Click
Finish to initiate the Add Host operation.

The Results window displays the progress of the operation.

Close the window when the operation completes.

15. In the Select Host Access window, check the WIN2 checkbox to select the
host and click OK.

The WIN2 host is now configured to access the replicated WIN1 LUN0.

Close the window.

This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Create Remote Replication for a NAS Server and File Systems

1. In the UnityVSA-Source Unisphere session, go to Storage > File > NAS
Servers.

Select: NAS_SMB.

Click the Edit icon to open the NAS Server properties page.

Select the Replication tab and click the Configure Replication button.

2. A wizard to Create a Session opens.

From the Provide a Replication Mode and RPO window, select

Asynchronous from the Replication Mode dropdown.

Decrease the RPO time to 10 minutes.

In the Replicate To dropdown list, select UnityVSA-Destination.

Verify the Support Asynchronous Snap Replication option is checked.

Enabling this option exposes two other options relating to existing and
scheduled snapshots. These snapshot options are only available to enable
during the replication creation. They are important to consider if subsequent
snapshots would need to be replicated. Check the Replicate all existing
snapshots because later in this lab exercise a snapshot of a file system will
be created and replicated. Leave the Cascade replicated snapshots and
Replicate scheduled snapshots options unchecked.

Check the Reuse destination resource option. Notice that the

Automatically search user snap as common base option now is available
to select, check the option. These are options to help avoid full
synchronization during replication failback or reverse operations.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

3. The next wizard section configures the destination storage resources for
creating the replicated NAS Server and any of its associated file systems. The
Name field defines the name the NAS Server has on the destination system.
Keep the populated name of: NAS_SMB.

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The Pool field defines the destination system storage pool the storage
resource is created from. Keep the populated pool of FAST VP-2

Storage Processor field of SP A since it is the only SP on a UnityVSA.

Destination System field should be: UnityVSA-Destination.

The Associated File Systems/VMware NFS Datastore section displays two

file systems that are associated with the NAS Server: SMB_fs and DP_fs.
Also displayed is the destination pool for the file systems. Keep the populated
pool of FAST VP-2.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

A Summary is displayed for the replication configuration to create as shown

here:

Click Finish to initiate the creation operation.

The Results window displays the status of the replication creation operation. It
takes some time to complete so be patient. Close the window when the
operation completes.

The NAS Server replication session details are displayed in the Replication
tab of the NAS_SMB Properties page.

Close the properties page.

4. From the Storage > File > File Systems tab, select the SMB_fs file system
and click the Edit icon to open its properties page.

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Select the Replication tab. The session details are shown for the SMB_fs file
system. The system automatically replicates the existing file systems that are
associated with a NAS Server when the NAS Server is replicated.

Double-click the session to open its details window.

Click the Edit icon next to the Session Name.

In the Session Name field, replace the existing name with: SMB_fs_rep and
click OK.

Close the session details window.

Close the SMB_fs Properties page.

5. Navigate to Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

6. Locate the replication session for the DP_fs file system and select it. Then
click the Edit icon to open its details page.

Replace its session name with: DP_fs_rep and click OK.

Close the session details window.

7. Locate the session for the NAS_SMB NAS Server and select it. Click the Edit
icon to open its session details page.

Click the Edit icon for the Session Name. Replace its session name with:
NAS_SMB_rep and click OK.

Close the session details window.

8. In the Unisphere session for the UnityVSA-Destination system, go to Storage

> File > NAS Servers. Double-click NAS_SMB to open the properties page.

Select the Network tab.

In the Network Interfaces section, the interface for the NAS_SMB server is
shown. This interface configuration was replicated along with the NAS Server
from the UnityVSA-Source. However, the UnityVSA-Destination system is
connected to a different network. So the interface configuration of the
replicated NAS Server must be changed.

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Select the interface, and click the Edit icon.

Check the Override address option.

You can now enter a new interface configuration for the NAS Server.

Leave the Ethernet Port selection set to Ethernet Port 1.

In the IP Address field input: 192.168.2.115

Leave the Subnet Mask/Prefix Length field set to: 255.255.255.0

In the Gateway field input: 192.168.2.1

Click the OK button.

In the Edit NAS Server Interface confirmation window, click Yes to apply the
change.

The interface is now modified for the network that is connected to the
UnityVSA-Destination system. If the NAS Server replication session is failed
over, it will be available on the correct network and be able to provide data
services to users.

Close the NAS_SMB Properties window.

This completes part 3 of the lab exercise.

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Remote Replication Operations for a LUN

In this part of the lab, you perform replication operations on the replicated LUN and
access its data after the operations.

1. Launch an RDC session to the WIN1 host as the local administrator.

In the Computer(s) field input: WIN1

In the User field input: \administrator

In the Password field input: emc2Local!

Click the Connect button.

2. The WIN1 system has access to the WIN1 LUN0 from the previous lab
exercises.

From the WIN1 system taskbar, open File Explorer and select the WIN1
LUN0 (E:).

Open the New Text Document. Add the following line of text to the file: This
line was added from WIN1 before the Failover with sync was performed.

Save and close the file.

3. Before performing the replication operation Failover with sync, quiesce host
IO to WIN1 LUN0 on the UnityVSA-Source system. This is done by using
Server Manager to offline the disk.

From the WIN1 taskbar launch Server Manager.

In Server Manager, go to File and Storage Services > Disks.

Right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select Take Offline. Click the Yes button to
offline the disk.

4. Access the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source storage system, and

go to Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the WIN1_LUN0_rep session. From the More Actions dropdown list,
select the Failover with sync operation.

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A Failover Session After Sync window displays information about the

operation. Review the message and click Yes to perform the operation.

The WIN1_LUN0 session State will now be Failed Over with Sync.

The operation makes WIN1 LUN0 read/write on the UnityVSA-Destination

system.

The operation removes host access to WIN1 LUN0 on the UnityVSA-Source

system.

5. Access the existing RDC session to WIN1. In the open Server Manager
window, right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select Bring Online. Click the Yes
button to bring the disk online.

What is the result of the online operation? _______________

Why? _______________

Close the Server Manage > Disks window.

6. Access the open the RDC session to the WIN2 system.

From the WIN2 system taskbar launch Server Manager.

In Server Manager, go to File and Storage Services > Disks. In the upper
right corner from the Tasks dropdown, select Rescan Storage and click Yes
in the Rescan Storage confirmation window.

Right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select Bring Online.

Click Yes to bring the disk online.

7. From WIN2, launch File Explorer, access the WIN1 LUN0 (E:) drive and open
the New Text document.

Is the line of text added before the Failover with sync present in the file? ____

Add the following line of text to the file: This line was added from WIN2
when failed over to UnityVSA-Destination.

Save and close the file.

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8. Next, perform the Resume operation on the replication session. The resume
operation keeps the read/write access to the LUN from the UnityVSA-
Destination system and restarts the replication from the UnityVSA-Destination
system to the UnityVSA-Source system.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination, go to Protection &

Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the WIN1_LUN0_rep session and from the Morer Actions dropdown
list select Resume. The Resume Session window provides information about
the operation. Review the information and click the Yes button to resume the
replication session.

When completed, the session is displayed with a normal state. (Auto Sync
Configured)

9. Now perform a Sync operation. This operation manually synchronizes the data
state of the LUN on the UnityVSA-Source to the data state that is currently on
the UnityVSA-Destination system.

With WIN1 LUN0_rep session selected, from the More Actions dropdown list,
select the Sync operation.

Click Yes in the Sync Session window to perform the synchronization

operation.

10. At this point, the data states of the LUN on the UnityVSA-Destination and the
UnityVSA-Source are the same. The LUN on the UnityVSA-Destination system
is in the read/write state, while the LUN on the UnityVSA-Source is still
unavailable for access.

To test this, open the existing RDC session to WIN1. Open Server Manager
and try to bring the LUN online again.

What were the results? ______________________________________

Close the resulting Server Manager message.

11. In the next few steps, you return the replication as it was before the Failover
with sync operation. But before doing that, the WIN2 host IO should be
quiesced. You do this by using Server Manager to offline the disk.

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Open the existing RDC session to WIN2. From its open Server Manager
window, right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select Take Offline. Click Yes to
offline the disk.

12. Perform a Replication Failover operation to return the LUN to read/write

status on the UnityVSA-Source system.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source, go to Protection &

Mobility > Replication > Sessions. Select the WIN1_LUN0_rep session. If
the session state still shows Failed over with Sync, refresh the page.

Form the More Actions dropdown list, select the Failover operation.

Review the information about the operation in the Failover Session window.
Click the Yes button to perform the failover operation.

The replication session is now shown in the Failed Over state.

13. Open the existing RDC session to the WIN1 system. In the open Server
Manager window, if the disk is not already online, right-click the 5.00 GB disk
and select Bring Online. Click the Yes button to online the disk.

Note: The disk may need to be placed offline and then online to be visible.

From the WIN1 Desktop or system taskbar, open File Explorer and select the
WIN1 LUN0 (E:) drive. Open the New Text Document.

Is the line that was written by the WIN2 host during failover present? ___

Close the document.

Close the File Explorer window.

14. After the Failover operation, the Replication session is paused and must be
restarted by performing a Resume operation.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source, go to Protection &

Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

With the WIN1_LUN0_rep session selected, from the More Actions

dropdown list, select the Resume operation.

Click the Yes button to resume the replication session.

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The session is now shown in the normal state (Auto Sync Configured).

Double-click the WIN1_LUN0_rep session to open its Details window..

The source of the replication is again on the Local System (UnityVSA-Source),

and the replication destination is the UnityVSA-Destination system.

Close the replication session Details window.

Log off the RDC sessions to WIN1 and WIN2.

This completes part 4 of the lab exercise.

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Remote Replication Operations for a NAS Server and File Systems

In this part of the lab, you perform replication operations on the replicated NAS
Server and its file systems, and then access the data after the operations.

1. Launch an RDC session to the WIN1 host as the Domain administrator.

• In the Computer(s): WIN1

• Click the Connect button.

• From the Windows Security window, select More choices

• Select Use a different account

• From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

• Username: hmarine\administrator

• Password: emc2Admin!

Click Ok

2. Before performing replication operations, add some data to the Top$ share on
the SMB_fs file system served by the NAS_SMB NAS Server.

From the WIN1 taskbar, click the Run icon and in the Open field input:
\\NAS_SMB\Top$

A window to the share opens. Right-click in the share, and select New > Text
Document. Open the file, and add the following line to the file: This line was
added prior to the manual sync operation.

Save and close the file.

Close the share window.

3. From the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system, go to Storage >

File > File systems. Select the SMB_fs file system and click the Edit icon to
open the properties page. Select the Replication tab.

Double-click the the SMB_fs_rep session to open its Details window.

Record the time displayed for Time of Last Sync: ___________

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Close the Details window.

From the More Actions dropdown list, select Sync to perform a manual Sync
of the replication session. Click Yes to perform the sync operation.

Double-click the the SMB_fs_rep session to open its Details window again.

Did the Time of Last Sync change? __________

Close the Details window.

Close the SMB_fs Properties window.

4. Return to the RDC session for WIN1. From the WIN1 Desktop or system
taskbar, click the Run icon and in the Open field input: \\NAS_SMB\Top$

A window to the share opens. Open the New Text Document, and add the
following line to the file: This line was added prior to the failover operation.

Save and close the file.

Close the share window.

5. Perform a failover operation for the NAS Server and its associated file
systems. The NAS Server is failed over first, and then the file systems.

From the Unisphere session on the UnityVSA-Destination system, go to

Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the NAS_SMB_rep session. From the More Actions dropdown list,
select the Failover operation.

Review the information that is displayed in the Failover NAS Server and File
System Sessions window.

Verify that SMB_fs and DP_fs sessions are listed for Failover.

Click Failover to perform the failover operation.

Review the State of the three sessions: NAS_SMB_rep, SMB_fs_rep, and

DP_fs_rep.

The sessions should be listed as Failed Over state with a yellow triangle.

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6. Access the data from the UnityVSA-Destination system.

Return to the WIN1 RDC session.

From the WIN1 Desktop or system taskbar, click the Command Prompt icon.

Enter the following command: ipconfig /flushdns

The command flushes the client DNS Resolver cache. This is used because
the WIN1 client had previously accessed the NAS_SMB NAS Server on the
UnityVSA-Source system where it has an IP address of 192.168.1.115.
Therefore, that name to IP address resolution was held in the client’s DNS
cache. The NAS_SMB NAS Server on the UnityVSA-Destination system is
configured for the IP address of 192.168.2.115. The client DNS cache must be
flushed in order for it to be able to access the NAS_SMB NAS Server at its
new IP address.

7. Access the Top$ share from the NAS_SMB NAS Server.

From the WIN1 system taskbar, click the Run icon.

In the Open field input: \\NAS_SMB\Top$

A window to the share opens. Open the New Text Document.

Is the line of text added before the manual sync operation present?
_________

Is the line of text added before the failover operation present? ________

Why? _____________________________________________________

8. Add the following line to the file: This line was added during failover to the
UnityVSA-Destination system.

Save and close the file.

Close the share window.

9. Perform a Failback operation on the three replication sessions.

From the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination system, go to

Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions and refresh the page.

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Select the SMB_fs_rep session and from the More Actions dropdown list
select the Failback operation. Click the Failback button to failback the
session.

Did the operation succeed? _________________________________

Why? ___________________________________________________

Close all the resultant message windows.

10. Select the NAS_SMB_rep session and from the More Actions dropdown list,
select the Failback operation.

From the Failback NAS Server and File System Sessions window, verify
that the associated file systems are listed for Failback.

Click Failback.

The operation takes a moment to complete. When completed, the replication

sessions displays a normal state of Auto Sync Configured.

Double-click the NAS_SMB_rep session, and view the details.

The session replicated resource is receiving I/O on the UnityVSA-Source

system with Auto Sync Configured to the UnityVSA-Destination system.

Close the Details window.

11. Return to the RDC session to the WIN1 system. In the Command window,
flush the DNS client cache by running the following command: ipconfig
/flushdns

From the taskbar, click the Run icon and in the Open field input:
\\NAS_SMB\Top$ to access the Top$ share.

A window to the share opens. Open the New Text Document.

Is the line of text added during failover present in the file? _____________

Why? ____________________________________________________

Close the file.

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12. Open a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system.

Navigate to Storage > File > NAS Servers. Select the NAS_SMB NAS Server
and click the Edit icon to open its properties page.

Select the Network tab. Review the information in the Network Interfaces
section.

What is shown in the Preferred column? ________________________

Close the NAS_SMB Properties window.

13. Access the open Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination system and
go to Storage > File > NAS Servers. Select the NAS_SMB NAS Server and
click the Edit icon to open its properties page.

Select the Network tab review the information in the Network Interfaces
section.

What is shown in the Preferred column? _________________________

Close the NAS_SMB Properties window.

14. Ping the two different IP addresses of the NAS_SMB NAS Server.

Access the RDC session to the WIN1 system. In the command window issue,
the following command: ping 192.168.1.115

What is the result? _________________________________________

In the command window issue,, the following command: ping 192.168.2.115

What is the result? ______________________________________

The NAS Server network interface that displays Preferred = Yes is the NAS
Server that is the source of the replication session and therefore has its
interface up and available for access. The NAS Server network interface that
displays Preferred = No is the NAS Server that is the destination of the
replication session and should not be reachable for access. Therefore, its
interface is down and not accessible.

Close the command window.

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This completes part 5 of the lab exercise.

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Replicating a LUN Snapshot

In this part of the lab, you take a snapshot of an existing LUN, and then replicate
the LUN along with the snapshot. Then you restore the LUN to the original state
using the replicated snapshot.

1. Launch an RDC session to the WIN1 host as the local administrator.

In the Computer(s): WIN1

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices

Select Use a different account

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: \administrator

Password: emc2Local!

Click OK.

2. Update data on the WIN1 LUN0 LUN.

From the WIN1 Desktop or system taskbar, open File Explorer and select the
WIN1 LUN0(E:) drive.

Open the New Text Document.

Delete all the text in the document.

Add the following lines of text to the file:

This is the original data on the LUN of which we will take a snapshot.

After restoring the LUN from a snapshot, this is what you should see.

Save and close the file.

3. Create a snapshot of WIN1 LUN0.

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From the Unisphere session on the UnityVSA-Source system, go to Storage >

Block > LUNs.

Select WIN1 LUN0 by placing a check in its checkbox.

Click the Edit icon to open the LUN properties page.

Select the Snapshots tab.

Click the + icon to create a snapshot.

Name the snapshot: Snap1_WIN1_LUN0

Local Retention Policy: No Automatic Deletion

Replicate Snapshot (async): checked

Remote Retention Policy: No Automatic Deletion

Click OK.

Close the WIN1 LUN0 Properties window.

4. Quiesce IO before performing the Failover with sync operation using Server
Manager to offline the disk.

From the WIN1 taskbar launch Server Manager.

In Server Manager, go to File and Storage Services > Disks.

Right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select Take Offline.

Click the Yes button to offline the disk.

5. Perform a Failover with sync operation on the WIN1_LUN0_rep session

In the UnityVSA-Source Unisphere session, navigate to Protection & Mobility

> Replication > Sessions.

Select the WIN1_LUN0_rep session. From the More Actions dropdown list,
select the Failover with sync operation.

Review the message in the Failover Session After Sync confirmation window
and click Yes to confirm the operation.

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The operation takes a moment to complete. When complete, the

WIN1_LUN0_rep session State will now be Failed Over with Sync.

The operation makes WIN1 LUN0 read/write on the UnityVSA-Destination

system. The operation removes host access to WIN1 LUN0 on the UnityVSA-
Source system.

6. Open the RDC session to the WIN2 system. Log in as local administrator.

In the Computer(s): WIN2

Click the Connect button.

From the Windows Security window, select More choices

Select Use a different account

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

Username: \administrator

Password: emc2Local!

Click OK.

From the WIN2 Desktop or system taskbar launch Server Manager.

In Server Manager, go to File and Storage Services > Disks. In the upper
right corner from the Tasks dropdown, select Rescan Storage. Click Yes to
rescan.

Right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select Bring Online. Click Yes to bring the
disk online.

7. From the WIN2 Desktop or taskbar, open File Explorer and select the WIN1
LUN0 disk. Open the New Text Document.

Are the lines of text indicating the original data on the LUN added before the
Failover with sync present in the file? __________

Enter some text: This line was written during a Failover operation to the
UnityVSA-Destination.

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Save and close the file.

8. Restore WIN1 LUN0 LUN from the replicated snapshot.

In Unisphere from the UnityVSA-Destination system, go to Storage > Block >

LUNs.

Highlight WIN1_LUN0, and select Edit.

Select the Snapshots tab.

Select the Snap1_WIN1_LUN0 snapshot. From the More Actions dropdown

list, select Restore.

From the Restore window, read the message and click OK. This creates a
backup restore point and restores the LUN to the data state captured by the
snapshot.

Click OK, and close the window.

9. Next, perform the Resume operation on the replication session. The resume
operation keeps the read/write access to the LUN from the UnityVSA-
Destination system and will restart the replication with the direction being from
the UnityVSA-Destination system to the UnityVSA-Source system.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination, go to Protection &

Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the WIN1_LUN0 session and from the More Actions dropdown list
select Resume. The Resume Session window provides information about the
operation. Review the information and click the Yes button to resume the
replication session.

The session is now displayed with a normal state (Auto sync Configured).

10. Perform a Sync operation to manually synchronize the data state of the LUN
on the UnityVSA-Source to the data state that is on the UnityVSA-Destination
system.

With WIN1 LUN0_rep selected, from the More Actions dropdown list, select
the Sync operation.

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Click Yes in the Sync Session window to perform the synchronization

operation.

11. In the next few steps, you return the replication as it was before the Failover
with sync operation. But before doing that, the WIN2 host IO should be
quiesced. Do this using Server Manager to offline the disk.

From your Student Desktop system, open the existing RDC session to WIN2.
From its open Server Manager window, right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select
Take Offline.

Click Yes to offline the disk.

12. Next, perform a Replication Failover operation to return the LUN to read/write
status on the UnityVSA-Source system.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source, go to Protection &

Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the WIN1_LUN0_rep session. If the session state still shows Failed
over with Sync, refresh the page.

From the More Actions dropdown list, select the Failover operation.

Review the information about the operation in the Failover Session window.
Click the Yes button to perform the failover operation.

The replication session should now show in the Failed Over state.

13. Open the existing RDC session to the WIN1 system. In the open Server
Manager window, right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select Bring Online. Click
the Yes button to online the disk.

From the WIN1 Desktop or system taskbar, open File Explorer and select the
WIN1 LUN0 disk. Open the New Text Document.

Has the LUN been restored with the original data? ________

Close the document.

14. After the Failover operation, the replication session is paused and must be
restated by performing a Resume operation.

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From the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source, go to Protection &

Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

With the WIN1_LUN0_rep session selected, from the More Actions

dropdown list, select the Resume operation.

Click Yes to resume the replication session.

Double-click the WIN1_LUN0_rep session to open its Details window.

The session is now shown in the normal state. The source of the replication is
again on the UnityVSA-Source system, and the replication destination is to the
UnityVSA-Destination system.

Close the Details window.

You have replicated a block resource along with its snapshots.

The snapshot was used to restore the original state of the source LUN.

Log off the RDC sessions to WIN1 and WIN2.

This completes part 6 of the lab exercise.

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Replicating a File System Snapshot

In this part of the lab, you perform replication operations on the replicated NAS
Server, its file systems, and snapshots. Data will then be restored from a replicated
snapshot of the source file system.

1. Launch the RDC session to WIN1 and log in as the Domain administrator.

• In the Computer(s): WIN1

• Click the Connect button.

• From the Windows Security window, select More choices

• Select Use a different account

• From the Enter your credentials window, input the following:

• Username: hmarine\administrator

• Password: emc2Admin!

Click OK.

2. Before performing replication operations, add some data to the DP_fs file
system served by the NAS_SMB NAS Server.

From the WIN1 taskbar, click the Run icon and in the Open field enter:
\\NAS_SMB\DP_fs_share.

A window to the share opens. Open the New > Text Document file and
remove all of the existing text. Add the following lines of text to the file:

This is the original data on the production file system.

This text should be seen after restoring the file system from a replicated
snapshot.

Save and close the file.

Close the share window.

3. Take a snapshot of the Production data.

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In Unisphere on the UnityVSA-Source system, go to Storage > File > File

Systems.

Double click the DP_fs.

The DP_fs Properties window opens.

Select the Snapshots tab.

4. Create a file system snapshot for replication.

Click the + icon to create a snapshot.

Name: Snap1_DP_fs

Local Retention Policy: Pool Automatic Deletion Policy

Access Type: Read-only (hidden .CKPT access)

Replicate Snapshot (async): Check

Remote Retention Policy: No Automatic Deletion

Click OK.

The new snapshot is displayed in the DP_fs Properties window.

5. Return to the RDC session to the WIN1 system. From the WIN1 Desktop or
system taskbar, click the Run icon.

In the Open field, enter: \\NAS_SMB\DP_fs_share. Open the New Text

Document.

Delete the two lines you created earlier, and add the following:

This line was created before the sync operation.

Save and close the file.

Close the share window

6. In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system, go to Storage >

File > File systems. Select the DP_fs file system and click the Edit icon to
open the properties page. Select the Replication tab.

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Double-click the DP_fs_rep session to view its details. Record the time
displayed for Time of Last Sync: _________

Close the DP_fs_rep Details window.

Select the DP_fs_rep session. Under More Actions, select Sync. Click Yes
to perform the sync operation. The operation takes a moment to complete.

After the synch operation completes, double-click the DP_fs_rep session to

view its details again. Did the Time of Last Sync change? __________

Close the DP_fs_rep Details window. Close the DP_fs Properties window.

7. Now perform a failover operation for the NAS Server and its associated file
systems.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination system, go to

Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the NAS_SMB_rep session. From the More Actions dropdown list,
select the Failover operation.

Review the information that is displayed in the Failover NAS Server and File
System Sessions window. Verify that SMB_fs and DP_fs sessions are listed
for Failover.

Click Failover to perform the failover operation.

Review the State of the three sessions: NAS_SMB_rep, SMB_fs_rep, and

DP_fs_rep.

The sessions are listed as Failed Over state.

8. Now access the data from the UnityVSA-Destination system.

Return to the RDC session to the WIN1 system. From the WIN1 Desktop or
system taskbar, click the Command Prompt icon.

Enter the following command: ipconfig /flushdns

The command flushes the client DNS Resolver cache. This is used because
the WIN1 client had previously accessed the NAS_SMB NAS Server on the
UnityVSA-Source system where it has an IP address of 192.168.1.115.

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Therefore, the name to IP address resolution was held in the client’s DNS
cache. The NAS_SMB NAS Server on the UnityVSA-Destination system is
configured for the IP address of 192.168.2.115. The client DNS cache must be
flushed so it can access the NAS_SMB NAS Server at its new IP address.

Double-click the Run icon.

In the Open field, enter: \\NAS_SMB\dp_fs_share and click OK.

A window to the share opens. Open the New Text Document.

Is the line of text you added after the manual sync operation present?
__________

Are the two lines of text added before the sync operation present?
__________

Why? _____________________________________________________

9. Add the following line to the file: This line was added during failover to the
UnityVSA-Destination system.

Save and close the file.

Close the share window.

10. Restore the DP_fs file system from the Snap1-DP_fs snapshot.

In Unisphere on the UnityVSA-Destination system, go to Storage > File > File

systems.

Check the box for DP_fs. Select the Edit icon.

From the DP_fs Properties page, select Snapshots.

Check the box for Snap1_DP_fs. (Uncheck any other snapshots)

Select Restore from the More Actions dropdown.

Name: Snap1_DP_fs_BU

Click OK. Close the window.

11. Now perform a failback operation on the three replication sessions.

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From the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination system.

Navigate to Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions and refresh the
page.

Select the NAS_SMB_rep session and from the More Actions dropdown list,
select the Failback operation.

From the Failback NAS Server and File System Sessions window, verify
that the associated file systems are listed for failback.

Select Failback.

Once completed, the replication sessions should display a State of Auto Sync
Configured (the session replicated Resource is a Source on the UnityVSA-
Source system and a Destination on the UnityVSA-Destination system).

12. Check the data state of the file system.

Return to the RDC session to the WIN1 system. In the Command window,
flush the DNS client cache by running the following command: ipconfig
/flushdns

From the Desktop or taskbar, click the Run icon and in the Open field enter:
\\NAS_SMB\DP_fs_share to access the share.

A window to the share opens. Open the New Text Document.

Are the two lines of text added before the sync and failover operations present
in the file? ___________

Why? ____________________________________________________

13. Log off the WIN1 session.

This completes part 7 of the lab exercise.

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Creating a NAS Proxy Server

In this part of the lab, you create a Proxy NAS Server on the UnityVSA-Destination
system and access a file system snapshot replica. You will recover a file from the
file system snapshot replica to the production file system.

1. Create a NAS Server on the UnityVSA-Destination system.

Access the Unisphere session on the UnityVSA-Destination system.

Navigate to Storage > File > NAS Servers.

Click the + icon to create a NAS Server.

The Create a NAS Server wizard opens.

2. Configure NAS Server General Settings

Enter the following:

Server Name: NAS_SMB_Proxy

Pool: FAST VP-2

Storage processor: SPA

Click Next.

3. Configure NAS Server Address

Enter the following:

Ethernet Port Ethernet Port 1

IP Address: 192.168.2.118

Subnet Mask / Prefix Length: 255.255.255.0

Gateway: 192.168.2.1

Click Next.

4. Configure Sharing Protocols

Enter the following:

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Windows Shares (SMB, CIFS): Checked

From the Join to the Active Directory Domain:

SMB Computer Name: NAS_SMB_Proxy (already populated)

Windows Domain: hmarine.test

Domain Privileged Username: Administrator (already populated)

Password: emc2Admin!

Enable NFSv3: Checked

Click Next.

5. Configure Unix Directory Service

Click Next.

6. Configure NAS Server DNS

Verify that DNS is enabled for Domain hmarine.test and is using the
192.168.1.50 Servers.

Click Next.

7. Provide a Replication Mode and RPO

Click Next.

8. The Review Your Selections window is displayed.

Verify that the settings are correct.

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Click Finish.

Once completed, read the Results and Close the window.

9. Enable SSH on UnityVSA-Destination

Navigate to System > Service > Service Tasks.

Enable SSH access by selecting Enable SSH and clicking the blue Execute
button.

Enter the service password of Password123!.

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10. Establish an SSH session to the UnityVSA-Destination system.

From your student Desktop, open a PuTTY session to the UnityVSA-

Destination system IP address 192.168.2.113.

Click Yes if you see a certificate warning.

Username: service

Password: Password123!

11. Configure the new NAS Server as a Proxy server.

Enter the following command:

spa> svc_nas NAS_SMB_Proxy -proxy -add NAS_SMB

ip=192.168.2.118

The command creates NAS_SMB_Proxy server for the NAS_SMB server

with an IP address of 192.168.2.118.

Verify that the command was successful. It should state Command

Succeeded.

12. Launch the RDC session to WIN1 and log in as the Domain administrator.

• In the Computer(s): WIN1

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• Click the Connect button.

• From the Windows Security window, select More choices

• Select Use a different account

• From the Windows Security window, input the following:

• Username: hmarine\administrator

• Password: emc2Admin!

Click OK.

13. Simulate user caused data loss in a file on the production DP_fs file system
served by the NAS_SMB NAS Server.

From the WIN1 taskbar, click the Run icon and in the Open field enter:
\\NAS_SMB\DP_fs_share. Click OK.

A window to the share opens. Open the New > Text Document file and verify
the following lines of text are present:

This is the original data on the production file system.

This text should be seen after restoring the file system from a replicated
snapshot.

Delete the two lines of text from the file.

Add the following line of text to the file:

This production data is incorrect.

Save and close the file.

Leave the the share window open.

14. Access the snapshot replica Snap1_DP_fs on the UnityVSA-Destination

system using the NAS_SMB_Proxy NAS Server. .

From the WIN1 taskbar, click the Run icon and in the Open field enter:
\\NAS_SMB_Proxy.

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A Share window opens to the NAS_SMB share folder.

Double click the NAS_SMB share folder to open it. Various files and folders
will be shown for file systems, snapshots and internals associated with the
replicated NAS_SMB NAS Server.

Open the Snap1_DP_fs folder.

Locate and open the New Text Document.

Verify it contains the following lines of text:

This is the original data on the production file system.

This text should be seen after restoring the file system from a replicated
snapshot.

This is the data needed to be recovered to the production file system. Close
the file.

15. Copy the file from the Snap1_DS_fs snapshot to the DP_fs production file
system.

Copy the New Text Document from the share window accessing the
Snap1_DP_fs snapshot and paste it into the share window open to the
DP_fs_share.

Open the New Text Document just pasted into the DP_fs_share and verify it
contains the following lines of text:

This is the original data on the production file system.

This text should be seen after restoring the file system from a replicated
snapshot.

Close the file.

16. You have restored a file from a snapshot replica using a NAS proxy server to
the production file system.

Close all windows.

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