Hello everyone

I share with the community the installation and configure of Quantum's DXi V5000 Community Edition excellent deduplication appliance.

Reduce Backup Costs with Efficient and immutability Data Reduction DXi inline, variable-length deduplication and compression minimizes overall storage footprint and reduces WAN traffic when replicating and tiering to other locations. Achieve data reduction rates up to 70:1.*

General Info DXi

• Quantum DXi V5000 Community Edition for Free! | Quantum

• Quantum DXi V5000 integration with Veeam - Veeam Data Mover service is not enabled | Veeam Community Resource Hub
• Free Quantum DXi V5000 Community Edition | Veeam Community Resource Hub
• Quantum DXi - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com)

• KB1745: Deduplication Appliance Best Practices (veeam.com)

Infrastructure background

vcsa.vpsphere.local  VMware vCenter Server 7.0.3.00100 - Build number: 18778458

Phischal Esxi x 4 - Vmware Cluster: VMware ESXi 6.5.0 - Build number 18678235
vbr12 100.66.13.207 ESXi 6.5 and later (VM version 13) - Microsoft Windows Server 2016 or later (64-bit)

DXi-V5000-01 100.66.13.208 ESXi 6.5 and later (VM version 13) - CentOS 7 (64-bit)

DXi Installation Type

• What We’re Doing here

DXi Installation

• DXi Installation (quantum.com)

Planning Your Storage Strategy

• Planning Your Storage Strategy (quantum.com)
• Quantum DXi V5000 Community Version Install Planning - Quantum Forum V

• Prepare ISO Installation & Vmware VM

• vDisk Thin Provisioning mode for Lab scope.

• Iso boot:

• PowerOn VM and boot from ISO

After installation VM Auto powerOFF

•  PowerOn VM , enter in console:

• Default User & password:

Admin

password

• Set up new password:

Strong Random Password Generator (passwordsgenerator.net)

Admin

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• Configure Static IP Address

•  Time Setting

Recommended setup externa NTP server.

• Logon in the appliance console after configuration rebbot

• Check DXi Web console from network

•  DXi Veeam Installation (quantum.com)
• My Document (quantum.com)

• Setup NFS share for Veeam

Wizard setup: For lab scope & security use Workgroup

• Exemple Setup Domain Join

• 

• Created a user custom to access at the share NFS:

vbr-nfs

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• Enable VDMS need more 16/24 GB RAM

Quantum DXi V5000 integration with Veeam - Veeam Data Mover service is not enabled | Veeam Community Resource Hub

• User to Backup Repository VBR side:

User: Veeam

Passeod: D7SBN)=RMCG$[3*dy#PV"'

• Note: The reboot takes up to 20 minutes to complete.

• Check VDSM Is running

• Configure Security access SSH

User: cliadmin

Pwd: gmPS7XeaH%u#6q's!F+2DZ

• Veeam Configuration

• “Go to managed Servers”

• Go to Veeam Infrastructure

Create the corresponding copy job on the new target backup deduplication repository.