Dell PowerVault DR6000 - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction to the DR Series System....................................................................................10
About the DR Series System GUI Documentation .................................................................................................. 10
What's New In This Release .................................................................................................................................. 10
Other Information You May Need ...........................................................................................................................10
Source Code Availability .........................................................................................................................................11
2 Understanding the DR Series System....................................................................................12
About the DR Series System ...................................................................................................................................13
Drive and Available Physical Capacities ................................................................................................................ 13
Internal Drive Capacity .....................................................................................................................................14
External Drive Capacity ...................................................................................................................................14
Data Storage Terminology and Concepts ...............................................................................................................15
Data Deduplication and Compression ..............................................................................................................17
Streams vs. Connections ..................................................................................................................................19
Replication ........................................................................................................................................................19
Replication Seeding ......................................................................................................................................... 20
Reverse Replication ......................................................................................................................................... 20
Reverse Replication: Alternate Method ...........................................................................................................21
Supported File System Protocols ............................................................................................................................21
NFS ...................................................................................................................................................................21
CIFS .................................................................................................................................................................. 22
CIFS ACL Support ............................................................................................................................................. 22
Access Control List Support in Containers ...................................................................................................... 22
Unix Permissions Guidelines ............................................................................................................................23
Windows Permissions Guidelines ....................................................................................................................24
Rapid NFS and Rapid CIFS ......................................................................................................................................24
DR Rapid for the DR Series System ........................................................................................................................ 25
RDA with OST for the DR Series System ................................................................................................................ 25
Software Components and Operational Guidelines .........................................................................................26
DR Series System (DR4X00/DR6000) and Data Operations .....................................................................................27
DR Series Expansion Shelf ...............................................................................................................................27
Understanding the Process for Adding a DR Series Expansion Shelf ............................................................. 28
Supported Software and Hardware ........................................................................................................................28
Terminal Emulation Applications ......................................................................................................................29
DR Series (DR4X00/DR6000) — Expansion Shelf Cabling .......................................................................................29
Adding a DR Series System (DR4X00/DR6000) Expansion Shelf .............................................................................31
3 Setting Up the Physical DR Series System........................................................................... 33