Dell EMC Unity Implementation

and Administration Lab Guide

July 2018

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Course Number: MR-1CP-UNIDD.1.0

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Table of Contents
COPYRIGHT ........................................................................................................................................................... 2
LAB EQUIPMENT LAYOUT ................................................................................................................................... 6
LAB EXERCISE: UNITY UNISPHERE TOUR ....................................................................................................... 9
PART 1: TOUR OF THE UNISPHERE DASHBOARD, SYSTEM VIEW, AND SETTINGS................................................... 10
PART 2: ADDING A NEW USER ACCOUNT WITH A ROLE ASSOCIATED TO IT ........................................................... 19
LAB EXERCISE: STORAGE PROVISIONING .................................................................................................... 22
PART 1: CREATING STORAGE POOLS ................................................................................................................. 24
PART 2: CREATING BLOCK STORAGE LUNS AND CONSISTENCY GROUPS ............................................................ 29
PART 3: CREATING NAS SERVERS 34
PART 4: CREATING FILE SYSTEMS 39
LAB EXERCISE: WINDOWS HOST ACCESS TO BLOCK STORAGE ............................................................. 43
PART 1: CREATE AN ISCSI INTERFACE ............................................................................................................... 44
PART 2: HOST MICROSOFT ISCSI INITIATOR - TARGET DISCOVERY ..................................................................... 45
PART 3: UNISPHERE INITIATOR AND HOST ACCESS ............................................................................................. 47
PART 4: PRESENT THE LUN TO A W INDOWS HOST ............................................................................................. 49
LAB EXERCISE: LINUX HOST ACCESS TO BLOCK STORAGE ..................................................................... 51
PART 1: LINUX HOST ISCSI INITIATOR - TARGET DISCOVERY .............................................................................. 52
PART 2: UNISPHERE INITIATOR AND HOST ACCESS ............................................................................................. 54
PART 3: PRESENT THE LUN TO A LINUX HOST .................................................................................................... 56
LAB EXERCISE: SMB FILE STORAGE ACCESS .............................................................................................. 61
PART 1: CREATE A HIDDEN TOP-LEVEL SMB SHARE OF A FILE SYSTEM ................................................................. 62
PART 2: CREATE A LOWER-LEVEL SMB SHARE OF A FILE SYSTEM ........................................................................ 69
PART 3: CREATE AN SMB SHARE USING COMPUTER MANAGEMENT..................................................................... 74
LAB EXERCISE: NFS FILE STORAGE ACCESS............................................................................................... 78
PART 1: CREATE A TOP-LEVEL ADMINISTRATIVE NFS SHARE OF A FILE SYSTEM ................................................. 79
PART 2: CREATE A LOWER-LEVEL NFS SHARE OF A FILE SYSTEM ...................................................................... 83
LAB EXERCISE: VMWARE DATASTORE ACCESS ......................................................................................... 88
PART 1: ADD VCENTER HOSTS 89
PART 2: PROVISION AND ACCESS VMWARE VMFS DATASTORE .......................................................................... 91
PART 3: PROVISION AND ACCESS VMWARE NFS DATASTORES........................................................................... 96
LAB EXERCISE: HOST I/O LIMITS SETUP ........................................................................................................ 99
PART 1: VERIFY THE STATUS OF THE HOST I/O LIMIT FEATURE ......................................................................... 100
PART 2: CREATE A HOST I/O LIMITS POLICY FOR A LUN ................................................................................... 104
LAB EXERCISE: FILE SYSTEM EXTENSION AND SHRINK OPERATIONS ................................................. 107
PART 1: EXTEND A THIN UFS64 FILE SYSTEM.................................................................................................. 108
PART 2: SHRINK A UFS64 THIN FILE SYSTEM .................................................................................................. 111
LAB EXERCISE: FAST VP SETTINGS ............................................................................................................. 114
PART 1: VERIFY THE STATUS OF THE FAST VP FEATURE ................................................................................. 115
PART 2: OBSERVING FAST VP DATA RELOCATION........................................................................................... 118
LAB EXERCISE: FILE SYSTEM QUOTAS ....................................................................................................... 122
PART 1: CREATE A USER QUOTA 122

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 PART 2: TESTING THE USER QUOTA................................................................................................................. 124
PART 3: CONFIGURE A QUOTA TREE ................................................................................................................ 131
PART 4: TESTING THE QUOTA TREE ................................................................................................................. 133
PART 5: CREATE A USER QUOTA ON A QUOTA TREE ......................................................................................... 136
PART 6: TESTING THE USER QUOTA ON A QUOTA TREE CONFIGURATION .......................................................... 138
LAB EXERCISE: LOCAL LUN MOVE ............................................................................................................... 142
PART 1: MOVE A LUN 144
LAB EXERCISE: LUN SNAPSHOTS ................................................................................................................. 147
PART 1: CREATE A SNAPSHOT OF A LUN ......................................................................................................... 148
PART 2: ACCESS A LUN SNAPSHOT ................................................................................................................. 151
PART 3: RESTORE A LUN FROM A SNAPSHOT................................................................................................... 156
LAB EXERCISE: FILE SYSTEM SNAPSHOTS ................................................................................................ 158
PART 1: ENABLE A SNAPSHOT SCHEDULE DURING FILE SYSTEM CREATION ....................................................... 158
PART 2: CREATE READ/W RITE AND READ-ONLY FILE SYSTEM SNAPSHOTS ....................................................... 162
PART 3: ACCESS READ/W RITE AND READ-ONLY FILE SYSTEM SNAPSHOTS ....................................................... 164
LAB EXERCISE: THIN CLONES ....................................................................................................................... 170
PART 1: CREATE A THIN CLONE 171
PART 2: REFRESH A BASE LUN FROM A THIN CLONE SNAPSHOT ....................................................................... 177
LAB EXERCISE: ASYNCHRONOUS REMOTE REPLICATION ...................................................................... 180
PART 1: CREATE REPLICATION COMMUNICATIONS ............................................................................................ 180
PART 2: CREATE A REMOTE REPLICATION OF A LUN ........................................................................................ 183
PART 3: CREATE REMOTE REPLICATION FOR A NAS SERVER AND FILE SYSTEMS .............................................. 187
PART 4: REMOTE REPLICATION OPERATIONS FOR A LUN.................................................................................. 192
PART 5: REMOTE REPLICATION OPERATIONS FOR A NAS SERVER AND FILE SYSTEMS ....................................... 197
PART 6: REPLICATING A LUN SNAPSHOT ......................................................................................................... 202
PART 7: REPLICATING A FILE SYSTEM SNAPSHOT ............................................................................................. 207
PART 8: CREATING A NAS PROXY SERVER ...................................................................................................... 212

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Pre-Lab Exercise Instruction

Important: The lab exercises in this course are run on the lab setup
detailed here. Review the information in this section to
gain a better understanding of the lab environment and
how you will access it.

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Lab Equipment Layout

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 System Addressing and Credentials

Server/Appliance Use Mgmt IP Address Credentials Data Network/iSCSI IP

Name
WIN1 SMB client 192.168.1.11 hmarine\administrator/emc2Admin! 192.168.3.106 (iSCSI)
Windows iSCSI administrator/emc2Local! (Initiator)
host
WIN2 SMB client 192.168.2.11 hmarine\administrator/emc2Admin! 192.168.3.107 (iSCSI)
Windows iSCSI administrator/emc2Local! (Initiator)
host
Linux1 NFS client 192.168.1.111 root/emc2Local! 192.168.3.108 (iSCSI)
Linux iSCSI (Initiator)
host
Student01 Student 192.168.1.12 Student01\student/emc2Local!
Desktop
vShpere Web Manage ESXi https://vcsa.hmarine.test:944 root/Password123!
Client 3
VCSA.hmarine.test Virtual Center 192.168.1.49 student@vsphere.local/Password12
Server https://vcsa.hmarine.test 3!
Appliance
AD/DC Domain 192.168.1.50 hmarine\administrator/emc2Admin!
Controller
DNS/NTP
LDAP LDAP Server 192.168.1.51 root/emc2Local!
NFS users
esxi60- ESXi Server 192.168.1.112 root/Password123! 192.168.3.104
1.hmarine.test (iSCSI)(Initiator)
UnityVSA-Source Unity Storage 192.168.1.113 admin/Password123! 192.168.3.100 (Eth0)
Array service/Password123! iSCSI TGT
Unisphere default – admin/Password123# 192.168.1.115 (Eth1)
NAS_SMB 192.168.1.116
(Eth1) NAS_NFS
UnityVSA- Unity Storage 192.168.2.113 admin/Password123! 192.168.3.101 (iSCSI
Destination Array service/Password123! Eth0) TGT
Unisphere default – admin/Password123# 192.168.2.115 (Eth1)
NAS_SMB 192.168.2.116
(Eth1) NAS_NFS

The table above 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

Each student will be automatically redirected to the Metro view of their specific Student
Desktop Windows system. Access the Desktop charm to get to the Desktop view. The
Desktop view and its Task bar have been pre-configured with application icons needed for the
lab exercises.

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

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 Continued on next page

Lab Exercise: Unity Unisphere Tour

Purpose: In this lab you will take a tour of the Unisphere

Dashboard, System View, and Settings pages to
become familiar with the storage system and the GUI
interface.

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 to confirm
software versions, license information, system
limits, and management settings

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Part 1: Tour of the Unisphere Dashboard, System View, and Settings
Step Action

1 Launch Mozilla Firefox from the task bar on your Student Desktop.

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

2 The Dashboard is displayed with a number of default View Blocks.

Click on the System Heath View Block. Three icons appear 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 top left of the window and select Customize.

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 Step Action

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? __________________

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

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

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 Step Action

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.

Click Close. The Dashboard will display the added widgets.

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

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 Step Action

9 In the window that opens, hover the mouse 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 take a look at the help options. Click the Help icon in the top right of the
window to view the sub menu. Click the About link in the sub menu.
Which version of Unisphere is running? _________________________________
Click Close.

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.

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 Step Action

11 Click the Online Help link to view the main menu.

You can navigate through the online help using the Contents pane 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 Unisphere help window and return to the Unisphere Dashboard.
Click the Alerts icon to view any recent alerts. If you select the View All Alerts
link, it will bring 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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 Step Action

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

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.

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 Step Action

15 This brings us to the System View Summary page.

We can also navigate here using the System View link in the left hand 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? ____
Does the software version match what was reported in the About Unisphere page?
________
Select the Enclosures tab. Click on each port and view the details on the bottom
page.

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

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 Step Action

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

The Software and Licenses Information window is displayed. Note that 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.

18 Click the Software Upgrades link to check the software version.

What is the release date of the UnityOS? _______________________________

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 Step Action

19 Click the Perform Health Checks button.

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.

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 Step Action

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

What is the Maximum Pool Capacity in Total of your virtual storage system? ____

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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Part 2: Adding a New User Account with a Role Associated to It

Step Action

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 Step Action

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

Then 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 window 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 Users 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.

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, then click Close.

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 Step Action

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

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

Close the System Settings window.

8 Now you will test the new User based and the permissions 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 will redirect the page to the Login
screen.

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

User: student
Password: P@ssw0rd
Click on Login.

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

The Settings window will open.

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 Step Action

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 off the Unisphere session.
This completes the Unisphere Tour lab.

End of Lab Exercise

Lab Exercise: Storage Provisioning

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

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

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Part 1: Creating Storage Pools
This lab will show you how to create two multi-tiered FAST VP pools for general storage use
and three single tiered homogenous pools. In a Dell EMC UnityVSA environment, Virtual
Disks are created for the use of the Dell EMC UnityVSA. You will 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.

Step Action

1 From your Student Desktop system taskbar, launch Mozilla Firefox 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
displayed with three different capacities.

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

The Properties window will appear. From the Storage Tier dropdown list, select
the Extreme Performance Tier. Click Apply 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 appears.
From the Storage Tier dropdown list, select the Performance Tier. Click
Apply 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 appears.
From the Storage Tier dropdown list, select the Capacity Tier. Click Apply
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.

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 Step Action

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 we already
performed this step.

In the Select Storage Tiers window, check the box for Tier as this 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
unchecked. Click Next to continue the wizard.

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

single disk appears 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.

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 Step Action

4 Click the + icon to create another new 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 off the box for Tier as this 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
unchecked. Click Next to continue the wizard.

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

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

5 Click the + icon to create another new 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 off the Extreme Performance Tier
only as this 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
unchecked. Click Next to continue the wizard.

In the Review Your Selections window, verify 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.

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 Step Action

6 Click the + icon to create another new 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 Teir.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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

In the Review Your Selections window, verify 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.

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 Step Action

7 Click the + icon to create another new 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 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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Part 2: Creating Block Storage LUNs and Consistency Groups

This lab will show you how to provision block storage LUNs and a Consistency Group with two
or more LUNs.

Step Action

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 Step Action

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.

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.

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 Step Action

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.

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.

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 Step Action

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
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.

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 Step Action

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.

This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Part 3: Creating NAS Servers

Step Action

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

Tenant: Greyed out, not configurable on VSA Community Edition
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!

Leave the Linux/Unix shares (NFS) option unchecked.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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 Step Action

4 In the Configure NAS Server DNS section the Domain and Servers field
is populated:

Domain: hmarine.test

Servers: 192.168.1.50

Click Next.

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.

NAS_SMB Server is now listed on the page.

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 Step Action

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

Tenant: Greyed out, not configurable on VSA Community Edition
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 Linux/Unix Shares

(NFS) protocol option. The window expands to input additional
configuration information for the NAS Server.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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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:

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.

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 Step Action

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.

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 server is now listed on the page.

This completes part 3 of the lab exercise.

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Part 4: Creating File Systems

Step Action

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 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.

4 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.

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 Step Action

5 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.

6 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 the
only NAS Server available configured for NFS.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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 Step Action

7 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

8 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.

9 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.

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 Step Action

10 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 NFS_fs file system is displayed in the list.

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Lab Exercise: Windows Host Access to Block Storage

Purpose: In this lab, you will configure a Windows iSCSI host to

access a LUN on the Dell EMC UnityVSA.

Tasks:  Configure an iSCSI interface on the Dell EMC

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

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Part 1: Create an iSCSI Interface

Step Action

1 In Unishere, from the UnityVSA-Source system, navigate 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 (not configurable on 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.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Part 2: Host Microsoft iSCSI Initiator - Target Discovery
In this lab, you will use the MS iSCSI Software Initiator to discover the Dell EMC UnityVSA
target data network port and establish a connection between the host and Dell EMC
UnityVSA. The initiator software should already be installed on the system.

Step Action

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

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 Step Action

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.

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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Part 3: Unisphere Initiator and Host Access
In this lab you will locate the initiator IQN and map it to a host for LUN access.

Step Action

1 From your Student Desktop system, open the Unisphere session to UnityVSA-
Source navigate 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 a
blue square, 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
Tenant: (not configurable for VSA Community Edition)

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.

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 Step Action

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

Click the Finish button to add the host.

The Results screen will display the progress of the operation.

Close the window when the operation completes.

The WIN1 host will now be listed and indicate 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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Part 4: Present the LUN to a Windows Host
In this lab you will use the Computer Management tools to discover, format, and present a
LUN to a Windows host.

Step Action

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

2 Navigate to Storage.

Click on 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,
Allocation unit size. In the Volume label field input WIN1 LUN0 and
Perform a quick format.

Click Next to continue.

Click Finish to complete the operation.

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 Step Action

3 Right click the formatted drive and select Open.

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

Open the document a 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.

If you see the following window after closing Computer Manager. Select
Cancel here.

Logoff the RDC session to WIN1.

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Lab Exercise: Linux Host Access to Block Storage

Purpose: In this lab, you will configure an iSCSI Linux host to

access a LUN on the Dell EMC UnityVSA.

This lab details the steps to configure an iSCSI interface

Tasks:
on the Dell EMC 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

Note: 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 Unity. The settings can be found in the
Unity-Configuring Host to Access Fibre Channel (FC) or
iSCSI Storage available on support.emc.com.

The file is located at /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf.

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Part 1: Linux Host iSCSI Initiator - Target Discovery
In this lab, you will use the Linux native iSCSI Initiator to discover the Dell EMC UnityVSA
target data network port and establish a connection between the host and Dell EMC
UnityVSA. The initiator software is already installed on the system as part of the Linux
installation.

Step Action

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

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 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.

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

Issue the command:

more /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi

Record the initiator name: _____________________________________

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 Step Action

Run the following command to start the iscsid process and login to the
Unity iSCSi target:
3
/sbin/iscsiadm –m discovery –t sendtargets –p 192.168.3.100
The output will display the Unity data port IP address, port number, and
IQN.
Start the iSCSI service by issuing the command:
service iscsi start
Verify the service is started by issuing the command:
service iscsi status
Verify the Target IQN and Portal is displayed in the beginning of the
output as shown in the example below.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Part 2: Unisphere Initiator and Host Access
In this lab you will use Unisphere to verify that the Linux iSCSI initiator has been attached to
the Dell EMC UnityVSA. You will then add Linux host and present a LUN for host access.

Step Action

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
(This is the IP address of eth0 on the Linux host)
Tenant: (not configurable for VSA Community Edition)

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 initiator with the host.
Click Next to continue the wizard.

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 Step Action

4 The Summary > Review the host configuration screen displays the configuration
of the host to be registered as shown.

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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Part 3: Present the LUN to a Linux Host

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

Step Action

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 issue the command:

powermt config

There will be no output from the command.

Issue the command:

powermt display dev=all

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

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 Step Action

2 Issue the command:

fdisk –l

The command will display all of the disk devices the system can see. Locate the
/dev/emcpowerb in output as shown.

3 Issue the command:

fdisk /dev/emcpowerb

The command launches a wizard to partition the disk. You will create a Primary
partition on the disk with an offset of 128 disk blocks. Enter the bolded
responses at each of the wizard prompts shown.

Command (m for help): n

Command action
e extended
p Primary Partition (1-4) p

Partition number (1-4): 1

First cylinder (1-1018, default 1): 1

Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size(K,M,G) (1-1018, default 1018): 1018

Command (m for help): x

Expert command (m for help): b

Partition number (1-4): 1

New beginning of data (1-10477255, default 62): 128

Expert command (m for help): w

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 Step Action

4 This is an example output of the previous fdisk command output:

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 Step Action

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

fdisk –l

Verify the new device name /dev/emcpowerb1 in the output as shown:

Issue the following command to create a file system on the device:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/emcpowerb1

An example of the command and output is shown below.

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 Step Action

6 Now you will create a mountpoint on the system to mount the disk device to by
running the following command:

mkdir /emcpowerb

Now you will mount the disk device to the mountpoint by running the following
command:

mount /dev/emcpowerb1 /emcpowerb

To verify the operation, issue the command:

mount

An example of the steps is shown below.

7 Now you will write data to the LUN by creating a file containing some text by
running the following command.

echo “This is a line of text written to the newfile created on the LUN”
> /emcpowerb/newfile

Now verify the data was written to the LUN by running the following command:

cat /emcpowerb/newfile

Close the ssh session by running the following command:

exit

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

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Lab Exercise: SMB File Storage Access

Purpose: Create SMB shares to a Unity file system and access its
file storage from a Windows SMB client.

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 sub-folder share, configure
permissions to a specified user community, and
test file storage access.
 Create a lower-level sub-folder share to a Unity
file system using the Windows Computer
Management utility and test file storage access.

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Part 1: Create a hidden top-level SMB share of a file system

Step Action

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 navigate to Storage > File. Select the SMB_fs file system, place a
check in its checkbox and uncheck 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.

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 Step Action

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: /

Example configuration shown below:

Click Next to continue with the wizard.

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 will
keep the default values.

Click Next to continue with the wizard.

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 Step Action

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

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.

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 Step Action

7 Establish an RDC session to the WIN1 system 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

8 From the WIN1Desktop or taskbar, click the Run icon.

9 You will 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.

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 Step Action

10 The share to the file system opens. In the Explorer window, select the View tab.
Ensure 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 window opens, select the Security tab.

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 input: Domain Admins and click the Check Names button. The
group will appear underlined when it is located within the domain.

Click OK to add the group to the permissions.

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 Step Action

13 The Domain Admins group is now listed on the permissions. In the Allow
column of checkboxes, check the Full control box. This automatically fills-in
additional permissions checkboxes. Click the Apply button to add the new
permission setting for the Domain Admins group.

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.

Note: Verify the permissions for Domain Admins are Full Control before
proceeding to the next step.

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 Step Action

14 To limit access to the top level of the file system you will now modify the
permissions for the Everyone group. In the permissions window highlight the
Everyone group. In the Allow column of checkboxes uncheck all of the
permissions except for List folder contents. Leave that permission checked.

Click the Apply button.

The two additional windows relating to errors adjusting permissions on the

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

Close the permissions window.

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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Part 2: Create a lower-level SMB share of a file system

Step Action

1 As an administrator, you are going to create a lower-level share on the file

system. This will keep 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 Now you will 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 input: Westcoast Sales; Eastcoast Sales and click the
Check Names button. The groups will appear underlined when they are located
within the domain.

Click the OK button to add the groups.

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

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

Repeat the same permissions assignment for the Westcoast Sales group.

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 a new 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.

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 Step Action

7 Name the share Hmarine_Sales.

Add Sales_Data into the Local Path field as shown:

Note: 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:

Click Finish to initiate the share creation operation.

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 Step Action

10 When the operation completes close the Results section.

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

You will login 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.

From the Windows Security window select More choices

Select Use a different account

From the Enter your credentials window, input the following;

Username: hmarine\swall

Password: emc2Admin!

Click Ok

12 From the WIN1 Desktop or taskbar 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.

Were you able to write this file and save it? __ _____________

Save and Exit the file.

13 Close the share window.

Logoff the WIN1 RDC session by clicking the Logoff session icon on the WIN1
Desktop or taskbar.

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

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 Step Action

15 You will login 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

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 or system taskbar 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? No

Why? ______ __________________________________________

Cancel the message.

Close the share window.

Logoff the WIN1 RDC session.

This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Part 3: Create an SMB share using Computer Management

Step Action

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

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

Expand the Shared folders tree object.

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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 will configure 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. You will 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 will be 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 will allow the
share to be seen by all users.

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

Click the Edit button.

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 Step Action

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 will appear underlined when it is located
within the domain.

Click OK to continue.

With the Propulsion Engineers group highlighted, 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.

Logoff the WIN1 RDC session.

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

Is the new Engineering_Data share listed? _______________________

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13 Test access to the share.

Open an RDC session to WIN1 as the epratt domain user.

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\epratt

Password: emc2Admin!

Click Ok

14 Click the Run icon on the WIN1 system taskbar and in the Open field
input: \\NAS_SMB\Engineering_Data and click OK. A window to the
share will open.

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 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 open 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

Purpose: Create NFS shares to a Unity file system and access its
file storage from a Linux NFS client.

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 sub-folder share, configure
permissions to a specified user community, and
test file storage access.

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Part 1: Create a Top-Level Administrative NFS Share of a File System

Step Action

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 a
new 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: /

Example configuration shown below:

Click Next to continue with the wizard.

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 Step Action

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

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 Hosts section, 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
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.

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9 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 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 Now you will create an empty directory at the root of the client to use as a
mount point for mounting to the NFS share.

Issue the command: mkdir /nfs

11 You will now mount the newly created NFS share to the mountpoint.

Issue the command: mount 192.168.1.116:/root /nfs

Now verify the client is mounted to the remote file system.

Issue the command: df -h

Its output should show the filesystem 192.168.1.116:/root mounted on /nfs

12 Issue the command: cd /nfs to change directory and access the share on
the file system.

View the content of the file system by issuing the command: 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.

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 Step Action

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

You can now create sub-folders on the file system to use for additional
shares for the user community. Create a sub-folder on the file system by
issuing the command: mkdir engineering_data

Verify the folder by issuing 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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Part 2: Create a Lower-Level NFS Share of a File System

Step Action

1 You will 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 you
will change the folder mode bits, owner, and group.

Change the folder permissions bits by issuing the command:

chmod 775 engineering_data

Change the folder owner by issuing the command:

chown epallis engineering_data

Change the folder group by issuing the command:

chgrp engprop engineering_data

2 Verify the engineering_data metadata settings by issuing the command: ls –l

The permissions bits should be: drwxrwxr-x

The owner should be: epallis

The group should be: engprop

3 You will now unmount the NFS share. First, stop accessing the share by
changing directory out of the mount point, issue the command: cd /

Now unmount the client by issuing the command: umount /nfs

Verify the client is unmounted by issuing the command: df –h

The output should not reference the 192.168.1.116:/root filesystem.

Disconnect the SSH session by issuing the command: exit

The SSH session will close.

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 a new NFS share.

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 Step Action

5 The wizard to create a new NFS share launches. 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 are will now be configured.

In the Share Name field input: engineering

Add engineering_data into the Local Path field.

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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

From the Configure Access window, in the Default Access field keep the 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 Hosts section, 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.

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 Step Action

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

Click the Finish button to initiate the share creation operation.

9 The wizard presents a results window for the creation operation. Verify 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.

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 Step Action

12 Mount the engineering NFS share to the mount point by issuing the command:

mount 192.168.1.116:/engineering /nfs

Verify 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

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

Switch user to epallis by issuing the command: su epallis

Access the NFS share by issuing the command: cd /nfs

Create a file and insert some text issuing the command:

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

Verify the text is present in the file by issuing the command: more epallis

Look at the file permissions bits, owner and group by issuing the command: ls –l

14 Now you will test access to the share as another user who is not a member of
the engprop NFS user group. Switch user to swoo by issuing the command: su
swoo

At the password prompt input: emc2Admin!

View the content of the epallis file by issuing the command: more epallis

Create a file with some text added to it by issuing 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?
_______________________________________I
________________________________________________________________

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15 Issue the exit command to logoff the swoo user.

Issue the exit command to logoff the epallis user.

Stop accessing the share by issuing the command: cd /

Unmount the share by issuing the command: umount /nfs

Disconnect the SSH session by issuing the command: exit

This completes the lab exercise.

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Lab Exercise: VMware datastore access

Purpose: In this lab, you will create VMware datastores on a Unity

and make it available for access to a VMware ESXi host
through VMware aware integration with Unity.

Tasks:  Add vCenter server to Unisphere

 Create VMware VMFS and NFS datastores in
Unisphere
 View the automatically created datastores created
in vCenter for the Unity VMFS and NFS
datastores.

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Part 1: Add vCenter Hosts
Dell EMC Unity Unisphere VMware aware integration allows storage administrators to
discover a VMware environment directly from Unisphere as well as the relationships between
its resources. It also allows 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 created in Unisphere are
automatically pulled into vCenter, again reducing the amount of management by
administrators.

Step Action

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 Before creating VMware storage resources, you need to 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.

3 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: student@vsphere.local
Password: Password123!
Click Find.

4 A list opens that includes any ESXi host(s) managed by this vCenter server.
Locate and check ESXi host esxi60-1.hmarine.test.

Click Next to continue.

5 From the Configure VASA Provider section; Click Next

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 Step Action

6 The Summary displays the ESXi host to be added to VMware hosts as

shown here:

7 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.

8 Confirm you can see vcsa.hmarine.test and it’s Software Version.

Click the ESXi Hosts tab to see added hosts.

9 Confirm ESXi60-1.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 at this time.

Click the Virtual Drives tab. There will not be any Virtual Drives listed at this
time.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Part 2: Provision and Access VMware VMFS Datastore
In this section, you will provision a VMFS datastore using Unisphere. You will notice due to
Unity’s integration with vSphere, the datastore will automatically be added as a datastore in
vSphere.

Step Action

1 In Unisphere, navigate to Access > Initiators.

You will see the initiator for the ESXi host esxi60-1.hmarine.test.

Note the initiator has a yellow icon indicating there are no logged in initiator paths

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

Click the + icon to create a new datastore.

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

Select the Block radio button option.

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 esxi60-1 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

Tiering Policy: Start High Then Auto-Tier
Size: 10 GB
Thin: Checked
Host I/O Limit: No Limit

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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 Step Action

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 esxi60-1.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.

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 Step Action

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

Click Finish to create the datastore.

A Results screen will show the progress and status of the created datastore.

Close the window when the operation completes.

The newly created datastore is now listed.

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7 In Unisphere, open a new tab in Modzilla Firefox by clicking on the + icon.

In the address field, enter: https://vcsa.hmarine.test:9443

This launches the VMware Web Client.

Note: If the browser will display a security certificate warning. Click the Continue
to this website (not recommended) option. You will need to click this twice.

Login using the following credentials:

User name: student@vsphere.local

Password: Password123!

Click Login.

8 The VMware vSphere Web Client opens. From the left navigation pane, navigate
to Home. From the Inventories section, select the Hosts and Clusters object as
shown:

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9 If not already expanded, expand the tree vcsa.hmrine.test > Datacenter and select
the esxi60-1.hmarine.test host. Select the Manage tab from the page, and then
select the Storage sub-option and Storage Devices as shown:

The storage associated with this host is listed. The newly created and assigned
storage device is listed along with various details.

What is the Transport listed for this storage?

10 Now select the Related Objects tab and select the Datastores sub-option as
shown: (You will have to use the slide bar)

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.

Leave the vSphere Web Client 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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Part 3: Provision and Access VMware NFS Datastores
In this lab, you will create and configure access to an NFS Datastore from Unisphere. The
datastore will automatically be added as a datastore in vSphere.

Step Action

1 Open a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source.

Navigate to Storage > File > NAS Servers. You should find the two NAS
Servers created during the Storage Provisioning Lab.
Double click NAS_NFS and verify the following settings under the General
tab:
Server Name: NAS_NFS
Supported Protocols: NFS
Pool: FAST VP-2
Storage Processor: 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 new 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 esxi60-1 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 esxi60-1.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.

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

Click Finish to create the datastore.

A Results screen will show the progress and status of the created
datastore.

Close the window wizard when the operation completes.

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7 Return to the open vSphere Web Client tab. The navigation in the left
pane should be set to Hosts and Clusters with the esxi60-1.hmarine.test
host selected. The Related Objects tab should be selected on the page
with the Datastores sub-option selected as shown.

Click the Refresh icon at the top of the page.

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

From the information listed about the new datastore, record the value
shown for its Type: ___

This demonstrates again the integration Dell EMC 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

Lab Exercise: Host I/O Limits Setup

Purpose: This lab demonstrates how to set Host I/O Limits

(Quality of Service) to provisioned block storage
resources using the Unisphere user interface. Host I/O
Limits policies can be created for block storage
resources with host access limited by maximum
throughput in IO/s and/or maximum bandwidth in KBPS

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 or MBPS.

Tasks:  Verify the Host I/O Limit is licensed and enabled

in a Dell EMC Unity 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.

Part 1: Verify the Status of the Host I/O Limit Feature

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

Step Action

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 user interface, open the System Settings window.

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 Step Action

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, navigate to Management > Performance. The status of

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

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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 navigate 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 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.
Both I/O measures should default to zero since there is no write activity from the
Host to this LUN at the moment.
Keep the WIN1 LUN0 Properties window open.

8 From the Student Desktop system taskbar open a 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

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9 From the WIN1 system taskbar open File Explorer.

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

There are some sizeable files 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.

11 Double-click on the WIN1 LUN0 (E: ) disk from the Windows Explorer navigation
pane.

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

12 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.

13 Return to the RDC session to WIN1.

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

Close the window.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Part 2: Create a Host I/O Limits Policy for a LUN
Step Action

1 In this part of the lab we are going to create a Host I/O Limits policy and
associate it to WIN1 LUN0.

Open Unisphere session to UnityVSA-Source.

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

2 From the page we are able to 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 new limit. The Create Host I/O Limit wizard
opens.

3 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
I/O traffic to block storage resources (LUNs, Consistency Groups) can be
limited accordingly to the threshold that is configured here (throughput
and/or bandwidth).

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.

5 Skip the Snapshots section.

Click Next to continue.

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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 has completed, then click Close.

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

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9 Follow previous steps to create additional policies with the information

below:

Create a second policy with the settings below:

Name: Gold_Policy
Description: Better (Class – Service)
Shared: unchecked
Limit Type: Absolute Limit (radio button selected)
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-00, CG_LUN-01, CG_LUN-02

10 From Unisphere navigate to the Storage > Block > LUNs

Double click WIN1 LUN0 to open its properties page.

11 Select the Host I/O Limit tab.

Note there is a Host I/O Limit Silver Policy 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.

Close the WIN1 LUN0 Properties window.

12 This part of the lab exercise is complete. 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

Purpose: This lab demonstrates how to manually extend and

shrink the capacity of a UFS64 file system using the
Unisphere.
Verify the new advertised size and space is allocated
from the pool.
The UFS64 architecture allows 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.

Manually extend the capacity of the file system

Tasks:
Check the new file system capacity and the allocated
space

Manually shrink the capacity of a file system

Verify the file system capacity has been reduced

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Part 1: Extend a Thin UFS64 File System
In this lab section we will manually extend the capacity of a thin file system created on a Dell EMC
UnityVSA system using Unisphere

Step Action

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 mouse over blue

bar)

What is the used space? _______

What is the Unallocated space? _____________

What is the Pool free space? _______________

Observe that this is a thin UFS64 file system.

Click the Close button to close the Properties window.

4 Navigate to Storage > Pools.

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

5 From the FAST VP-2 properties window navigate to the Usage tab.

The Capacity option is selected and the Current Pool Capacity is

displayed.

Record the following:

- Pool Capacity: _______________

- Free space: __________________
- Subscribed %: ____________
- Used space: ________________

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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 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.

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.

For thick file systems, the extend operation increases the actual space
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 Unallocated space? ______________
What is the Pool free space? _______________

Close the SMB_fs Properties window.

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

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

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

_____________________

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

Pool Capacity: _______________

Free space: __________________
% Subscribed: ________________
Used space: _________________

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

Close the window.

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Part 2: Shrink a UFS64 Thin File System

Step Action

1 In this lab section we will manually shrink the capacity of a thin file system
using the Unisphere.

2 Navigate to Storage > Pools.

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

3 From the FAST VP-2 properties window navigate 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. The
pool subscribed information is also shown on the page. The subscribed
space used is the percentage of the pool’s total space that has been
requested by its associated storage resources. When this value is over
100%, the pool is oversubscribed. For example, you can create a thin
provisioned file system having a size that is greater than the pool’s
capacity and the pool would then be oversubscribed.

Record the following:

Pool Capacity: _________

Free space: ____________

Subscribed percentage: _____________

Used space: _________________

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4 Select the Storage Resources option.

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

Review the values displayed in the Total Pool Space Used (GB) column.
Add all of these values together and verify that the sum correlates to the
Pool’s Used space you recorded above.

Select the SMB_fs file system and record its Total Pool Space Used
(GB) value. ____ ___

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

5 The SMB_fs Properties window displays various space related

information. Record the following:

Allocated capacity: __ ____________ (hover mouse over blue bar)

Used space: _____ _________
Pool free space: _____ __________

6 From the SMB_fs Properties window

Change the size field to 5 GB.

Click the Apply button to commit the change.

7 A warning message is displayed alerting the user the file system will be
reduced in size with an estimate of how much space will be returned to
the pool.

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

Click Yes to continue with the operation.

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8 From the SMB_fs Properties window record the following:

Allocated capacity: ______________

Pool free space: _________________

Did the Pool free space value increase from the value recorded in step 5
above? ________ __

Did the increase in Pool free space correlate to the value recorded in step
7? ____

Close the SMB_fs Properties window.

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

Review the Total Pool Space Used (GB)

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

Notice that the space this file system uses from the pool is actually greater
that the file system’s capacity. To explain this, when a new file system is
created it uses space from the pool corresponding to its Minimum
Allocation size which is 3 GB in this case. It also allocates another 3 GB of
space used for tracking the pool slices that the file system uses. This is
metadata needed for file system operations as data gets stored on the file
system and as extensions to the file system are made.

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Lab Exercise: FAST VP Settings

Purpose: This lab demonstrates how to configure and use the

FAST VP support on Dell EMC Unity 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.

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 has the Start High Then Auto Tier
policy associated with it.
 Verify how FAST VP relocates data depending
on the storage tier policy assigned to the
storage resource.

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Part 1: Verify the Status of the FAST VP Feature
In this lab we will check if the FAST VP feature is licensed on the system and verify its status.

Step Action

1 In this lab we will check if the FAST VP feature is licensed on the system
and verify its status.

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 our Unity system we 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.

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

From the Settings window, navigate to Storage Configuration > FAST

VP. Check if the feature is active on the Unity system.

Note that the data relocation can be paused and resumed by clicking on the
Pause tab.

Are Data Relocations scheduled? _______________

What is the Data relocation rate? ________________

Is there any data scheduled to relocate? __________

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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.

Click the Modify data relocation schedule text.

6 The Modify data relocation schedule window appears.

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 there were data scheduled for relocation, then the
FAST VP Settings page will calculate the amount of data to relocate and
update 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 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

Also note that 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 on the blue text.

Close the properties window.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Part 2: 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.

Step Action

1 This part of the lab demonstrates how to check the data relocation
operation from a LUN and from a storage pool. You are going to perform a
simple write operation to WIN1 LUN0 and observe how FAST VP will
relocate the data depending on 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 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, then right click and select copy.

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

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

6 Return to the Unisphere session.

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

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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 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

Double click the FAST VP-1 storage pool.

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

Click Start Relocation.

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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.

Note that 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 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 will
refresh the data.

Extreme Performance Tier: ______________ %

Performance Tier: ______________ %

Capacity Tier: ______________ %

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

Close the properties window.

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.

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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.

Note that 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.

Logoff the RDC session to WIN1.

This part of the lab exercise is complete. You have successfully observed
the data relocation based on choice of Tiering Policy associated with a
storage resource.

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Lab Exercise: File System Quotas

Purpose: 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
EMC Unity systems both independently and in
combination. It is also possible to limit the amount of
storage consumed by a user storing data on a quota
tree.

Create a new User Quota on a file system. Select a

Tasks:
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.

Part 1: Create a User Quota

Step Action

1 In this lab we will create a new User Quota on a file system.

Establish a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system with an IP

address 192.168.1.113 and login.

2 Navigate to Storage > File > File Systems.

Double click ton SMB_fs to open its properties page.

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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 file system storage space 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 (user name)

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, will begin 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 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 has completed, then click Close.

11 The new User Quota will be displayed in the User Quota Report page.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Part 2: Testing the User Quota

In this section, you will conduct testing of the User Quota configured in the previous part of
this lab exercise.

Step Action

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1 Launch an RDC session to WIN1.

Login to the WIN1 system as swest.

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\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 or system taskbar 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.

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6 Return to the Unisphere session.

From the SMB_fs Properties page, select Quota.

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.

Click 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.

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

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

Also notice that users are list by User ID and not by Windows 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 that exceeded to Soft limit is HMARINE\SWest.

Close the window.

Note: Similar information is displayed by using the Find by Username

option on the User Quota Report page.

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 Hmarine_Sales share.

(\\NAS_SMB\Hmarine_Sales)

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14 The copy process will proceed, but eventually become 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.

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 copy because it caused the 3 GB
hard limit to be exceeded.

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

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 User Quota 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 Hmarine_Sales share. (\\NAS_SMB\Hmarine_Sales)

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 directory.

Close the Windows Explorer windows and logoff the RDC session.

This completes part 2 of the lab exercise.

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Part 3: Configure a Quota Tree

Step Action

1 In this section of the lab we are going to create a Quota Tree on a file system.

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.

Click Finish to create the quota.

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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 has completed, then click Close.

8 The new configuration will be 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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Part 4: Testing the Quota Tree

Step Action

1 In this section you will conduct testing of the Quota Tree configured in the
previous part of this Lab exercise.

Open a RDC session to WIN1.

2 Login to the WIN1 system as eplace.

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\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 taskbar 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.

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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 to update the information displayed.

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 Engineering_Data share.

(\\NAS_SMB\Engineering_Data)

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

The only way to allow 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 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 directory.

Close the Windows Explorer windows and logoff the RDC session.

This completes part 4 of the lab exercise.

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Part 5: Create a User Quota on a Quota Tree

In this section of the lab we are going to create a User Quota on a previously created Quota
Tree.

Step Action

1 Open a Unisphere session.

Navigate to the SMB_fs Properties page.

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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.

Click Finish to create the quota.

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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 has completed, then click Close.

10 The new configuration will be displayed in the Quota Tree Properties

page.

Note that the user name is NOT shown, but the User ID that corresponds
with the username is shown. Double click the quota to verify the username
in the Edit Selected User Quota Limits window.

Or click Find by Username and enter the domain and username.

Close the Edit Selected User Quota Limits window.

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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Part 6: Testing the User Quota on a Quota Tree Configuration

Step Action

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

Open an RDC session to WIN1.

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2 Login to the WIN1 system as epratt.

In the Computer(s): WIN1

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 taskbar, 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.

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

One of the files will get 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.

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9 Verify the User Quota configuration for Eldon Pratt.

Double click the user quota.

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 copied are on the share.

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

Tree.

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

Close the Windows 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.

End of Lab Exercise

Lab Exercise: Local LUN Move

Purpose: In this lab you will move a LUN from one storage pool to
another.

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 Tasks:  Move an existing LUN to a different storage pool
 Access data from the LUN prior to, during and
after the move operation
 Move the LUN back to its original storage pool

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Part 1: Move a LUN

Step Action

1 Launch Mozilla Firefox and 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 associated to this LUN.

This LUN is currently 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, enter Host Name (Linux1) or IP address

(192.168.1.111) of the destination system.

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/emcpowerb1 is mounted on

/emcpowerb.

If not mounted mount the file # mount /dev/emcpowerb1 /emcpowerb

Access the LUN by running the cd /emcpowerb command.

Run the ls command to see the LUN content.

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

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5 You will now 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 will display the move session progress. It
should show Running state.

7 Return to your PuTTY session and verify 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.

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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 the move status is Running.

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

Stop the script by pressing the <Ctrl> <c> keyboard keys at the same
time. The scrip will stop and return the prompt.

Type exit to close the PuTTY session.

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

This completes the lab exercise.

End of Lab Exercise

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Lab Exercise: LUN Snapshots

Purpose: This lab demonstrates how to create snapshots of a

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

Create a manual snapshot of an existing LUN. Also

Tasks:
create a snapshot schedule to automatically create LUN
snapshots.

Configure a host for snapshot access and attach the

host to the snapshot to access its point-in-time data
state. Also perform write operations to the snapshot.

Perform a snapshot restore operation to a LUN.

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Part 1: Create a Snapshot of a LUN

Step Action

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 created 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 Exit the file.

3 From your Student Desktop system taskbar launch Mozilla Firefox and
establish a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system and login.

Navigate to Storage > Block > LUNs and select WIN1 LUN0.

Click the Edit icon to open the LUN Properties window.

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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

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

The window displays several Local Retention Policy options with the Pool
Automatic Deletion Policy selected. You will keep this option; it allows the
snapshot to be retained until the pool the LUN was created from reaches
some pre-defined capacity threshold. Then delete the snapshot and return
the 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 will prevent 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.

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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

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 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 after the initial snapshot was taken.

Save and Exit the file.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Part 2: Access a LUN Snapshot

Step Action

1 You will now access the LUN snapshot from another Windows host –
WIN2.

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

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2 The WIN2 host needs to 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.

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 192.168.3.100 /3260.

Click OK to configure the settings.

Click OK in the Connect To Target window.

Click OK to close the iSCSI Initiator Properties window.

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3 From the Student Desktop system Unisphere session, navigate 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 should be 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

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.

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4 You will now attach this Snapshot (initial_snap) to the WIN2 host.

Attach the snapshot In Unisphere navigate 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 the Read/Write access type, by

default an option is checked for the system to automatically create a copy
of the existing snapshot to preserve its data state. You will keep the option
checked to create the copy but in the Name field remove the system
provided name and input: Initial_snap_copy and click OK to create the
copy and attach the host.

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 > Disks.

From the upper right corner Tasks dropdown, select Rescan Storage.

Click Yes to the Rescan Storage message

A 5.00 GB disk will be 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.

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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
prior to 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?
_____________ ___________________

9 Now you will 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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Part 3: Restore a LUN from a Snapshot

Step Action

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 Exit the file

2 Launch Server Manager from the WIN1 taskbar.

Navigate to File and Storage Services > 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.

Close the window.

In File Explorer verify 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 will automatically create 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. Click OK to perform the snapshot restore operation.

The LUN has now been restored to the data state that the Initial_snap snapshot
captured.

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4 Open the existing RDC session to WIN1.

In the Open Server Manager application 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.

Logoff the WIN1 RDC session.

This completes the LUN Snapshot lab exercise. You have created a LUN
snapshot and a snapshot schedule. You 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.

End of Lab Exercise

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Lab Exercise: File System Snapshots

Purpose: This lab demonstrates how to enable a snapshot

schedule during the creation of a file system, manually
create read-only and read/write snapshots of a file
system, configure access to a read/write file system
snapshot and access it, access read-only snapshots
from an SMB Windows client, and from a NFS Linux
client.

Enable a snapshot schedule during file system creation.

Tasks:
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.

Part 1: Enable a Snapshot Schedule during File System Creation

Step Action

1 Establish a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system IP

address: 192.168.1.113. The login credentials are: admin/Password123!

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2 In Unisphere navigate to Storage > File > File Systems. Click the + icon
to create a new 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: None, 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.

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.

The Summary section displays the details of the file system creation. 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 new DP_fs file system is displayed in the list.

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3 Check the DP_fs file system checkbox and click the Edit icon to open its
Properties page.

Select the Snapshots tab and navigate to the Snapshot Schedule page.
It displays the schedule enabled during the file system creation. The
schedule will automatically create snapshots every day at 4:00 AM and
retain them for 7 days.

Navigate to the Snapshots page. There are currently no snapshots of the

file system because the scheduled time for the automatic creation has not
yet occurred. The system will create 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 You will now access the DP_fs file system share and create data on it
prior to any snapshot creation.

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!

Click OK

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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 Exit the file.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Part 2: Create Read/Write and Read-only File System Snapshots
Step Action

1 From the existing Unisphere session, from the Snapshots tab, click the + icon
to create a new 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 Exit the file.

3 Return to your open Unisphere session. In the Snapshots tab, click the + icon
to create a new 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.

Close the properties window.

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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 Exit the file.

5 You will now place some data on the NFS_fs file system prior to 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 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

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 the text is
present by issuing the command: more epallis

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6 You will now 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 unchecking 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 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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Part 3: Access Read/Write and Read-only File System Snapshots

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1 Accessing read/write snapshots requires creating a specific share to the

snapshot. You will now create an SMB share to the read/write snapshot of the
DP_fs file system.

From the existing Unisphere session on your Student desktop, navigate 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 on the grid in the File
System field.

The Select a File System for share creation window opens.

Click on 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 will display the share creation process. Close the window
when the share is successfully created.

The newly created DP_fs_RW_snap_share is now listed.

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2 Open the existing RDC session to WIN1. It should have an open window to the
DP_FS_share. 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 Exit 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.

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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.

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 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? ________________________________________________________

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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.

Did the file get copied to the file system? ______________________________

Close the open windows to the file system share and the read-only snapshot.

Logoff the Win1 RDC session.

7 You will now 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 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? ________________________________________________________

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8 Stop accessing the NFS export by issuing the following command: cd /

Logoff the epallis user by issuing the following command: exit

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.

End of Lab Exercise

Lab Exercise: Thin Clones

Purpose: The lab demonstrates how to configure a Thin Clone

resource on Dell EMC Unity storage system.
This lab also demonstrates how refresh a Base LUN.

Create a Thin Clone from a base LUN.

Tasks:
Verify Thin Clone snapshot and clone configuration.

Restore a Base LUN to its original contents from a Thin

Clone

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Step Action

1 In this lab we will 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 created, one for the original Base LUN, and one
each for the Thin Clones created.

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

UnityVSA-Source with an IP address of 192.168.1.113 and login.

2 Navigate to Storage > Block > LUNs

Create a new 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, add WIN1 from the list of available
hosts by clicking the “+’ icon.

Click Ok.

WIN1 should appear with a green icon.

Click Next

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4 Click Next to the Snapshot, Replication windows.

5 Review the Summary page.

Click Finish and verify the LUN was created successfully.

Close the window.

6 Open a 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!

Click Ok

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7 From the WIN1 system taskbar click the Computer Management icon.

Click on Storage > Disk Management.

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. (Note the Disk number of the drive)

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

Select the first four 1 GB files, and copy the file to the Base LUN.

This will 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; navigate 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

Local Retention Policy; No Automatic Deletion

Click OK.

The snapshot is created. Note the time at which the snapshot was taken.
Also note the Auto-Delete and Attached columns. In order to create a
Thin Clone, these columns should display a status of No.

Close the window.

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11 With the Base LUN checked, select Clone from the More Actions
dropdown.

The Populate Thin Clone window appears. 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 appears.

Click the + icon, add host WIN1 and close the window.

Click Next to the next three windows.

From the Results page, verify the Thin Clone was created.

Close the window.

The Clone should appear in the LUNs page.

Highlight TC1_Snap1_Base_LUN4GB

View the clone properties from the right hand window

What is the Thin Clone Base LUN? ______________________________

What is the Clone Source LUN? _______________________________

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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.

Take the current Base LUN Offline. (Disk 2)

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. (Disk 3)

Rescan the bus then bring the other 15 GB LUN Online. (Disk 2) 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 new snapshot.

Name; Snap2_TC1_Base_LUN6GB

Retention Policy; No Automatic Deletion

Apply the changes.

Verify the snapshot appears under Snapshots and close the window.

Close the window.

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16 You will now create a Thin Clone of Snap2_TC1_Base_LUN6GB.

If not already selected, highlight 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 the Thin Clone was created and close the window

The Clone should appear 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? ____________________________

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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 appears.

Take the current Base LUN Offline. (Disk 2)

Bring the new 15 GB disk Online and open the LUN. (Disk 4)

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. (Disk 4)

Rescan the bus, and Online Disk 2 (The original Base LUN) and open it.

How many files are on the disk? ____________

This verifies that changes 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.

Part 2: Refresh a Base LUN from a Thin Clone snapshot

Step Action

1 In this lab section we are going to refresh the contents of the Base LUN
from a Thin Clone snapshot and verify the contents of the Base LUN.

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2 In Unisphere navigate to Storage > Block > LUNs

Check the box for Base LUN and select Refresh from the More Actions
dropdown. (uncheck any other LUNs)

Read the Host Access Message. Click Yes

3 The Refresh Base LUN window appears.

By default, a new snapshot is created using the current time stamp.

Leave the default name.

The window displays all the available snapshots 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

Snap2__TC1_Base_LUN6GB and click OK

4 From WIN1, Rescan the Disks.

Offline the original Base LUN. (Disk 2), then Online the Base LUN.

Open the LUN. It should display the six files since we refreshed the LUN
with the contents of TC2_Snap2_Base_LUN6GB.

Close the LUN.

5 In Unisphere; From the LUNs page, highlight 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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6 From WIN1, Rescan the Disks.

Offline the original Base LUN. (Disk 2), then Online the Base LUN.

Open the LUN. The LUN should display the original 4 GB files since we
refreshed the Base LUN with the contents of Snap1_Base_LUN4GB.

Close the window.

You have refreshed the Base LUN from two different images.

7 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, navigate 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.

8 Remove Host Access for other Thin Clones.

TC1_Snap1_Base_LUN4GB

TC2_Snap2_Base_LUN6GB

9 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.

10 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

Purpose: This lab demonstrates how to create Asynchronous

remote replication sessions for LUNs, NAS servers and
their associated file systems. Perform replication
Failover, Failback, Failover with synch, and Resume
operations.

Configure Replication communications between two

Tasks:
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.

Perform Failover, Failback, Failover with Sync, and

Resume operations on the sessions testing data access
with each operation.

References: EMC Unity: Replication Technologies A Detailed Review

white paper

Part 1: Create Replication Communications

Step

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1 This replication lab uses the UnityVSA-Source and UnityVSA-Destination

storage systems. You will configure replication communications between the two
systems in this part of the lab exercise.

From your Student Desktop system taskbar, launch Mozilla Firefox and establish
a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system at IP address
192.168.1.113. Open another 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 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, navigate 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: 192.168.4.100

In the Subnet/Prefix Length field input: 255.255.255.0

Leave the Gateway field blank.

Note: The Interfaces you will create on both systems are on the same network
so a Gateway will not be required. If Interfaces are created on both systems are
on different networks, the Gateway configuration would be needed.

Click OK to create the Interface.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination system navigate to

Protection & Mobility > Interfaces. Click the + icon to create an Interface for
3 replication.

In the Ethernet Port dropdown list, select Ethernet Port 2.

In the SPA IP Address field, input: 192.168.4.200

In the Subnet/Prefix Length field input: 255.255.255.0

Leave the Gateway field blank. Click OK to create the Interface.

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4 The next part of configuring the replication communications is to configure the

Replication Connections. These connections establish the channel used for
managing the replication between the systems.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system navigate 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 will be populated with credentials which
are: admin/Password123!

In the Local System Password field input: Password123!

Because Dell EMC 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 OK to create the Replication Connection. The new Connection between

the two systems is now listed.

5 Now access the UnityVSA-Destination and navigate 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 operation takes a moment to complete and will update the
connection. The Replication communications are now complete.

This completes part 1 of the lab exercise.

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Part 2: Create a Remote Replication of a LUN

Step Action

1 From the UnityVSA-Source session, navigate 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 defaults for the Replicate snapshot options

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 will have
on the destination system. You will keep the populated name of: WIN1 LUN0

The Pool field defines the destination system storage pool the LUN will be
created from. You will keep the populated pool of FAST VP-1

Thin: Checked

The destination Tiering Policy can also be configured. You will keep the default
policy of Start High Then Auto-Tier

Click Next to continue the wizard.

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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 Results display 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, navigate 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. Expand the window if needed to view the Edit icon.

Change the name to WIN1_LUN0_rep and click the OK button.

Close the session details page.

7 In the UnityVSA-Destination session, navigate to Protection & Mobility >

Replication > Sessions

The replication session is displayed. This will take a minute, use the refresh icon
until the name appears.

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 you will see no host has been granted access
to the LUN. Host access will need to be configured to the LUN so its replicated
data will be accessible to a host should the source site become unavailable and
the replication session failed over.

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11 Establish an RDC session to the WIN2 host as the local administrator.

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 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 192.168.3.107.
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.

13 Return to the Unisphere, UnityVSA-Destination session.

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.

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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 should be 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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Part 3: Create Remote Replication for a NAS Server and File Systems

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1 In the UnityVSA-Source Unisphere session, navigate 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

Leave the defaults for the Replicate snapshot options

Click Next to continue the wizard

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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 will have on the
destination system. You will keep the populated name of: NAS_SMB

The Pool field defines the destination system storage pool the storage
resource is created from. You will keep the populated pool of FAST VP-2

Storage Processor field of SP A since this is the only SP on a UnityVSA.

Destination System field should be: UnityVSA-Destination

The Associated File Systems/VMware NFS Datastore section will display

two file systems associated with the NAS Server; SMB_fs and DP_fs. Also
displayed is the destination pool the file systems will be created from. You
will 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 will take some time to complete so please 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.

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4 From the Storage > File > File Systems tab, select the SMB_fs file
system and click the Edit icon to open its properties page.

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.

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 NAS_SMB 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.

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8 In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination, navigate 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.

Select the interface and click the Edit icon.

Check the Override address checkbox.

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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Part 4: Remote Replication Operations for a LUN

Step Action

1 In this part of the lab you will perform replication operations on the
replicated LUN and access its data after the operations.

Launch a 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 should have 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 Exit the file.

3 Prior to performing the replication operation Failover with sync, you will
quiesce host IO to WIN1 LUN0 on the UnityVSA-Source system. This will
be done by using Server Manager to offline the disk.

From the WIN1 taskbar launch Server Manager.

In Server Manager navigate 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.

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4 Access the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source and navigate to

Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the WIN1_LUN0_rep session. From the More Actions dropdown

list, select the Failover with sync operation.

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 Open the RDC session to the WIN2 system.

From the WIN2 system taskbar launch Server Manager.

In Server Manager, navigate to File and Storage Services > Disks. In the
upper right corner from the Tasks dropdown, select Rescan Storage.
Right-click the 5.00 GB disk and select Bring Online.

Click Yes to bring the disk online.

7 From WIN2, launch File Explorer, open the New Text document.

Is the line of text added prior to 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 Exit the file.

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 Step Action

8 Next, you will 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, navigate to

Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the WIN1_LUN0_rep 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.

When completed, the session is displayed with a normal state. (Auto Sync
Configured)

9 Now you will 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 with the LUN on the UnityVSA-
Destination system being in the read/write state. The LUN on the
UnityVSA-Source is still unavailable for access.

To test this, open the existing RDC session to WIN1. From its open Server
Manager window, try to bring the LUN online again.

What were the results? ______________________________________

Close the Server Manager window.

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 Step Action

11 In the next few steps you will return the replication as it was prior to the
Failover with sync operation. But before doing that, the WIN2 host IO
should be queisced. You will do this using Server Manager to offline the
disk.

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 You will now 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, navigate to Protection

& Mobility > Replication > Sessions. Select the WIN1_LUN0_rep
session. If the session state is still showing 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 will now be 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
visable.

From the WIN1 Desktop or system taskbar, open File Explorer and select
the WIN1 LUN0 disk. Open the New Text Document.

Is the line that was written by the WIN2 host during failover present? ___

Close the document.

Note you can use the Disk Manager from Computer Management to bring
the disk online.

Close the File Explorer window..

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 Step Action

14 After the Failover operation, the Replication session is paused and will
need to be restarted by performing a Resume operation.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source, navigate 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.

The session is now shown in the normal state. (Auto Sync Configured)

The source of the replication is again on the Local System (UnityVSA-

Source) and the replication destination is the UnityVSA-Destination
system.

Logoff the RDC sessions to WIN1 and WIN2.

This completes part 4 of the lab exercise.

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Part 5: Remote Replication Operations for a NAS Server and File Systems

Step Action

1 In this part of the lab you will perform replication operations on the
replicated NAS Server and its file systems, and then access the data after
the operations.

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, you will 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 Exit the file.

Close the share window.

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 Step Action

3 From the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system, navigate 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.

Record the time displayed for Time of Last Sync _

Click the Sync button to perform a manual Sync of the replication session.
Click Yes to perform the sync operation.

Did the Time of Last Sync change?

Close the 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 Exit the file.

Close the share window.

5 Now you will perform a failover operation for the NAS Server and its
associated file systems. The NAS Server will be failed over first, then the
file systems.

From the Unisphere session on the UnityVSA-Destination system,

navigate to Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the NAS_SMB_rep session. From the More Actions dropdown list
select the Failover operation.

Review the information displayed in the Failover NAS Server and File
System Sessions window.

Verify that SMB_fs and DP_fs sessions are selected 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 will be listed as Failed Over state with a yellow triangle.

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 Step Action

6 Now you will 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.

Input the following command: ipconfig /flushdns

The command will flush 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 therefore needs to be flushed in order for it to be able to
access the NAS_SMB NAS Server at its new IP address

7 Now you will 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 prior to the manual sync operation present? ____

Is the line of text added prior to 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 Exit the file.

Close the share window.

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 Step Action

9 You will now perform a Failback operation on the three replication

sessions.

From a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination system.

Navigate to Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions and refresh
the page.

Select the SMB_fs_rep session and from the More Actions dropdown list
select the Failback operation. Click the Yes button to failback the session.

Did the operation succeed? _________________________________

Why? ___________________________________________________

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
the associated file systems are selected for Failback.

Select Failback

The replication sessions should display a normal state of Auto Sync

Configured

Open 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.

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? ____________________________________________________

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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? ________________________

13 Access the open Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination system

and 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? _________________________

14 In this step you will 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.

This completes part 5 of the lab.

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Part 6: Replicating a LUN Snapshot

Step Action

1 In this part of the lab you will take a snapshot of an existing LUN and
replicate the LUN along with the snapshot.

You will then restore the LUN to the original state using the replicated
snapshot.

2 WIN1 should have access to WIN1 LUN0 from the previous lab exercises.

From the WIN1 Desktop or system taskbar open File Explorer and select
the WIN1 LUN0 drive.

Open the New Text Document.

Delete all the text in the document.

Add the following line 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 Exit the file.

3 Create a snapshot of WIN1 LUN0.

From a Unisphere session on the UnityVSA-Source, navigate 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

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 Step Action

4 The WIN1_LUN0 Properties window appears. Close the window.

Prior to performing the replication operation Failover with sync, you will
quiesce host IO to WIN1 LUN0 on the UnityVSA-Source system. This will
be done by using Server Manager to offline the disk.

From the WIN1 taskbar launch Server Manager.

In Server Manager, navigate 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 Navigate to Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the WIN1_LUN0_rep session. From the More Actions dropdown

list, select the Failover with sync operation.

The WIN1_LUN0_rep session State will now be Failed Over with Sync.

The operation will make WIN1 LUN0 read/write on the UnityVSA-

Destination system. The operation will remove host access to WIN1 LUN0
on the UnityVSA-Source system.

6 Open the RDC session to the WIN2 system. Login as local administrator.

From the WIN2 Desktop or system taskbar launch Server Manager.

In Server Manager, navigate to File and Storage Services > Disks. In

the upper right corner from the Tasks dropdown, select Rescan Storage.
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.

Is the line of text added prior to the Failover with sync present in the file?
__ ___

Enter some text: This file was written during a Failover operation to
the UnityVSA-Destination.

Save and close the file.

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 Step Action

8 In Unisphere from the UnityVSA-Destination system, navigate to Storage

> Block > LUNs.

9 Highlight WIN1_LUN0 and select Edit.

10 Select the Snapshots tab.

With Snap1_WIN1_LUN0 checked, select Restore from the More Actions

dropdown.

11 From the Restore window, read the message and click OK. This will
create a backup restore point.

Click OK and close the window.

12 Next, you will perform the Resume operation on the replication session.
The resume operation will keep 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, navigate 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)

13 Perform a Sync operation to manually synchronize 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 selected, from the More Actions dropdown list,
select the Sync operation.

Click Yes in the Sync Session window to perform the synchronization

operation.

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 Step Action

14 In the next few steps you will return the replication as it was prior to the
Failover with sync operation. But before doing that, the WIN2 host IO
should be queisced. You will 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.

15 You will now perform a Replication Failover operation to return the LUN to
read/write status on the VSA-Source system.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source, navigate to Protection

& Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the WIN1_LUN0_rep session. If the session state is still showing

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 will now be shown in the Failed Over state.

16 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.

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 Step Action

17 After the Failover operation, the Replication session is paused and will
need to be restated by performing a Resume operation.

From the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source, navigate 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.

The session is now shown in the normal state. The source of the
replication is again on the VSA-Source system and the replication
destination is to the VSA-Destination system.

You have replicated a block resource along with its snapshots.

The snapshot was used to restore the original state of the source LUN.

Logoff the RDC sessions to WIN1 and WIN2.

This completes part 6 of the lab.

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Part 7: Replicating a File System Snapshot

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Step Action

1 In this part of the lab you will 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.

Launch the RDC session to WIN1 and log in as the Domain administrator.

2 Before performing replication operations, you will 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 input:
\\NAS_SMB\DP_fs_share.

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 is the original data on the Production LUN.

This file should be seen after restoring a snapshot from the WIN2.

Save and Exit the file.

Close the share window.

3 Take a snapshot of the Production data.

In Unisphere on the UnityVSA-Source, navigate to Storage > File > File

Systems.

Check the box for DP_fs and select the Edit icon.

The DP_fs Properties window opens.

Select the Snapshots tab.

4 Click the + icon to create a new snapshot.

Name: Snap1_DP_fs.

Local Retention Policy: No Automatic Deletion

Access Type: Read-only (hidden.CKPT access)

Replication Snapshot (async): Checked

Remote Retention Policy: Keep same as the source

Click OK.

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5 The new snapshot appears in the DP_fs Properties window. Close the
window.

6 Return to the RDC session to the WIN1 system. From the WIN1 Desktop
or system taskbar, click the Run icon.

Open field input: \\NAS_SMB\DP_fs_share.

Delete the two lines you created earlier, and add the following.

This line was created before the sync operation.

Save and Exit the file.

7 In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Source system, navigate 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.

Record the time displayed for Time of Last Sync ____

Click the Sync button to perform a manual Sync of the replication session.
Click Yes to perform the sync operation.

Did the Time of Last Sync change? ___________ __________________

8 Now you will perform a failover operation for the NAS Server and its
associated file systems and snapshots.

In the Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination system, navigate to

Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions.

Select the NAS_SMB_rep session. From the More Actions dropdown list
select the Failover operation.

Review the information displayed in the Failover NAS Server and File
System Sessions window. Verify that SMB_fs and DP_fs sessions are
selected 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 will be listed as Failed Over state.

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9 Now you will 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.

Input the following command: ipconfig /flushdns

The command will flush 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 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 therefore needs to be flushed in order for it to be able to
access the NAS_SMB NAS Server at its new IP address

10 Now you will access the DP_fs share from the NAS_SMB NAS Server.

Open a RDC to the WIN2 as domain administrator.

Double-click the Run icon.

In the Open field input: \\NAS_SMB\dp_fs_share

A window to the share opens. Open the New Text Document.

Is the line of text you added after the manual sync operation present? ___
_________________________________________________

Is the two lines of text added prior to the sync operation present? ____
Why?_____________________________________________________

11 Add the following line to the file: This line was added during failover to
the UnityVSA-Destination system.

Save and Exit the file.

Close the share window.

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12 Restore the DP_fs file system from the Snap1-DP_fs snapshot.

In Unisphere on the UnityVSA-Destination system, navigate 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.

Restore File System: Snap1_DP_fs_BU

Click OK. Close the window.

13 You will now perform a Failback operation on the three replication

sessions.

Open Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination system.

Navigate to Protection & Mobility > Replication > Sessions and refresh
the page.

14 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
the associated file systems are selected 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.

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15 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
input: \\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? ____________________________________________________

16 Logoff the WIN1 and WIN2 RDC sessions.

This completes the lab exercise.

Part 8: Creating a NAS Proxy Server

Step Action

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 Step Action

1 In this part of the lab you will create a Proxy NAS Server on the UnityVSA-
Destination system and access a file system snapshot replica.

Open a Unisphere session to the UnityVSA-Destination system.

Navigate to Storage > File > NAS Servers

2 Click the + icon to create a new NAS server.

Input the following;

Server Name: NAS_SMB_Proxy

Pool: FAST VP-2

Storage processor: SPA

Click Next

3 The Configure NAS Server Address window appears.

Input 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.

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4 The Configure Sharing Protocols window appears.

Input the following:

Windows Shares (SMB, CIFS): Checked

From the Join to the Active Directory Domain:

SMB Computer Name: NAS_SMB_Proxy

Windows Domain: hmarine.test

Domain Privileged Username: Administrator

Password: emc2Admin!

Linux/Unix shares (NFS): Checked

Click Next.

5 Click Next to the Configure Unix Directory Service window.

6 Verify DNS is enabled for 192.168.1.50.

Click Next.

7 The Provide a Replication Mode and RPO window appears.

Click Next.

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 Step Action

8 The Review Your Selections window appears.

Verify the settings are correct

Click Finish.

Once completed, read the Results and close the window.

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9 Configure the Proxy server for accessing replica data.

Navigate to System > Service > Service Tasks

Verify that the SSH protocol is Enabled. If not, Enable SSH access by
select Enable SSH and clicking the blue Execute tab.

Enter the service password of Password123! if prompted.

From the Service Password window enter Password123!

(click Yes to any certificate message)

Close the window.

10 From your student Desktop, open a putty session to the UnityVSA-

Destination system. (192.168.2.113)

Click Yes if you see a certificate warning

Username: service

Password: Password123!

11 Issue 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 the command was successful. It should state Command

Successful

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12 From a RDC session, open WIN1 as a domain administrator.

Select Run from the Desktop and open the \\nas_smb\dp_fs_share.

Open the New Text Document if not present, create a New text document.

Write the; Keep this file for restoring from the NAS proxy server.

Save and Exit the window, leave the share window open.

13 In Unisphere, on the UnityVSA-Destination, create a snapshot of the file.

Navigate to Storage > File > File systems.

Open the DP_fs file for editing.

14 Select Snapshots and create a new snapshot.

Name: File_restore

Local Retention Policy: Pool Automatic Deletion Policy

Access Type: Read-only (hidden CKPT access)

Click OK.

15 Verify the snapshot was created and close the window

16 From a RDC session, open WIN1.

Select Run from the Desktop and open the \\nas_smb\dp_fs_share if not
already open.

Delete the New Text Document on the share.

Leave the share open.

17 On WIN1, open \\nas_smb_proxy.

Open the NAS_SMB folder.

Open the File_Restore folder.

Locate and copy the New Text Document to \\nas_smb\dp_fs_share.

18 You have restored a file from a NAS proxy server to the production host.

Close all windows

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19 This concludes the lab.

End of Lab Exercise

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