If you own a Brik, you are familiar with creating new SLAs as it is one of the first things you would do after getting a Brik deployed.
In the world of Rubrik, everything is build around Service Level Agreements. With Rubrik’s unique approach to use SLAs for Backup and Recovery tasks, we have dramatically simplified the Backup Admin’s daily work. Traditionally a Backup Admin would create multiple backup jobs for full, incremental, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups. Additionally the backup admin would create some archival and replication jobs. With Rubrik’s SLA approach all of this can done within a single SLA and dramatically simplify the operational overhead associated with backup jobs.
Sometimes, a single or even a handful of SLAs might not be enough. In this case using the Rubrik interface becomes time-consuming. Luckily Rubrik has an API-First Architecture which means everything you can do in the GUI, can also be done via the APIs.
To make Rubrik’s API even easier to digest, we have a build-in API Explorer. You can get access to it via https:///docs/v1/playground
We have survived VMworld 2016 and it was a blast!!!
It was great to meet many old friends and make some new friends.
Overall, the show was great even tho I am not a big fan of the location at the Mandalay Bay Event Center. Moscone Center became familiar over the past years and I feel it is easier to navigate through.
Since I have been mainly busy at the Datrium booth, I haven’t seen much else of VMworld. For the folks who didn’t get a chance to take a look at the our booth, below are some pictures of what you have missed out on.
For the NetShelf Setup, make sure you allocate a minimum of 3 IPs (floating, controller 1 & controller 2) for the data network or a total of 6 IPs if you plan to separate the management and data networks. The actual setup is very simple and takes only 2-3 minutes.
Serial port settings
Serial port speed: 115200 Data bits: 8 Spot bit: 1 Parity: None
Datrium NetShelf Controller
Upon successful connection via serial cable, you will be presented with the Datrium DVX Setup Wizard. The wizard will guide you through the following areas:
DVX settings – 15 seconds
The wizard guides you through the following setup tasks:
- DVX settings
- Network configuration
- vCenter Server registration
Prompts show a suggested or existing value (if any) in [brackets]. Press ENTER to keep it.
Type CTRL-C at anytime to exit from the wizard. Use 'config initial-setup' to run it again.
Press ENTER to start...
DVX SETTINGS
To change the admin account password, type in the current password.
To keep the existing password, press ENTER.
Current password :
Changing password for admin in dvx31
New password :
Confirm password :
Password for admin changed
Enter the DVX name.
DVX name [dvx31] : dvx31
Network configuration – 1:45 minutes
NETWORK SETUP
Choose the network mode.
(a) Static IP configuration
(b) DHCP
Mode {a|b} [a] : a
Static IP configuration.
Enter the global static gateway and domain name.
Gateway [10.117.16.1] : 10.117.16.1
Domain name [datrium.com] : datrium.com
Enter up to 3 DNS servers separated by spaces.
DNS servers [10.2.0.2] : 10.2.0.2
Choose the port or failover pair for DATA traffic.
(a) eth3 SFP+ No link
(b) eth4 SFP+ No link
(c) eth5 10G BaseT No link
(d) eth6 10G BaseT Link
(e) eth3 eth4 (failover pair)
(f) eth5 eth6 (failover pair)
Data ports {a|b|c|d|e|f} [d] : d
eth6
Enter the DATA IP addresses and subnet mask.
Floating IP [10.117.32.10] : 10.117.32.10
Controller1 IP [10.117.32.20] : 10.117.32.20
Controller2 IP [10.117.32.30] : 10.117.32.30
Subnet mask [255.255.240.0] : 255.255.240.0
Choose a network for management (MGMT) traffic.
(a) Use dedicated mgmt network.
(b) Use data network for mgmt traffic.
Networks {a|b} [a] : a
Use dedicated mgmt network.
Choose the port or failover pair for MGMT traffic.
(a) eth1 1G BaseT Link
(b) eth2 1G BaseT No link
(c) eth1 eth2 (failover pair)
Mgmt ports {a|b|c} [a] : a
eth1
Enter the MGMT IP addresses and subnet mask.
Floating IP [10.117.16.10] : 10.117.16.10
Controller1 IP [10.117.16.20] : 10.117.16.20
Controller2 IP [10.117.16.30] : 10.117.16.30
Subnet mask [255.255.240.0] : 255.255.240.0
Confirm the network configuration.
Mode : Static
Gateway : 10.117.16.1
Domain name : datrium.com
DNS servers : 10.2.0.2
Data ports : eth6
Floating IP : 10.117.32.10
Controller1 IP : 10.117.32.20
Controller2 IP : 10.117.32.30
Subnet mask : 255.255.240.0
Mgmt traffic : Use dedicated mgmt network
Mgmt ports : eth1
Floating IP : 10.117.16.10
Controller1 IP : 10.117.16.20
Controller2 IP : 10.117.16.30
Subnet mask : 255.255.240.0
Enter 'no' to redo the network configuration
Apply network configuration {yes|no} : yes
Your terminal session may be terminated.
You will have 10 minutes to commit the network changes or the DVX will revert to the current configuration.
Applying network configuration. May take several minutes...
Commit network setup {yes|no} : yes
Committing network setup
After the network settings have been set, the setup wizard will move on to
vCenter Server Registration – 21 seconds
VCENTER SERVER REGISTRATION
vCenter Server support-vcsa is registered with this DVX.
If you register a new vCenter Server, the current one will be unregistered.
Enter the vCenter Server IP address or DNS name.
vCenter Server [support-vcsa] : support-vcsa.datrium.com
Enter the user name and password.
User name : root
Password :
Unregistering from vCenter: support-vcsa.
Registering with vCenter...
Successfully registered with vCenter.
Datrium DVX initial setup finished!
To access the Datrium Graphical User Interface:
1) If you are already logged in vSphere Web Client, log out.
2) Log back into the vSphere Web Client.
3) Click the Datrium icon in the Web Client home page.
To complete the DVX setup in the GUI:
1) Click on 'Configure DVX' for additional settings.
2) Click on 'Configure hosts' to add hosts to the DVX.
The NetShelf is now set up and ready to be used in under 3 minutes.
In the next post, I will go over adding hosts to the Datrium DVX.
Datrium just announced a brand new feature of the Datrium DVX – Insane Mode for Insane Performance.
The Datrium DVX Insane Mode allows VMware admins to quickly increase the storage performance by up to 2x, without any storage controller upgrade… I know it sounds too good to be true but the Datrium DVX is truly INSANE!
