Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

• NMC Client Configuration Wizard- This does not support square brackets. For example, Client Name:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x
• NMC Client properties- This supports both with and without square brackets. For example, Name:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x, Name:[x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]
• CLI-nsradmin- This supports both with and without square brackets. For example, name:"x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x", name:"[x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]"

• Data Domain Device

  • Using NMC Device Configuration Wizard- Adding of a Data Domain system during device configuration. Without square bracket is only supported. For example, Add a new Data Domain system - x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x

  • Using NMC Device Properties- The remote storage node name and the device name needs to be enclosed in square brackets in the Data Domain Device Name. For example,
    • Data Domain Device Name- rd=[x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]:[x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]_DD_Device
    • Device Access Information- x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:/<server_name>/DD_Device
  • Using CLI - nsradmin- For example,
    • Data Domain Device Name- rd=[x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x]\:[x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x]_DD_Device;
    • Device Access Information- "x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:/<server_name>/DD_Device";
• Advanced File Type Device
  • Using NMC Device Configuration Wizard- For example,

    • On an NFS share, without square bracket is only supported. Network Path is x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:/data/col1/testnfs
    • On a CIFS share, without square bracket is only supported. Network Path is

      \\x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x.ipv6-literal.net\x$

  • Using NMC Device Properties- On an NFS share, provide the Device Access Information and the name in square brackets. For example,

    • Name- rd=[x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]:AFTD_Device
    • Device Access Information- [x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]:/data/col1/testnfs
    On a CIFS share, provide the name in square brackets. For example,

    • Name- rd=[x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]:AFTD_Device
    • Device Access Information- \\x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x.ipv6-literal.net\x$
  • Using CLI- nsradmin- For example on an NFS share,
    • Name- rd=[x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x]\:AFTD_Device;
    • Device Access Information- x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:/data/col1/testnfs
    For example on a CIFS share,

    • Name- rd=[x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x\:x]\:AFTD_Device ;
    • Device Access Information- \\\\x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x.ipv6-literal.net\\x$;

• NMC- For example, Name:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x, Name:[x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]
• CLI - nsradmin- For example, name:"x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x", name:"[x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]"

Bare Metal Recovery is supported in both pure IPv6 and Dual stack environment.

• NetWorker server FQDN
• vProxy appliance FQDN
• Data Domain FQDN
• vCenter FQDN
• ESXi FQDN

The FQDNs listed above should return only AAAA records from the DNS and should not have any unreachable IPv4 records in the DNS.

• Client configuration-

  POST https://[ x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]:9090/nwrestapi/v3/global/clients
  {
      "aliases": ["Windows-client"],
      "backupType": "Filesystem",
      "blockBasedBackup": false,
      "hostname": "x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x",
      "parallelSaveStreamsPerSaveSet": true,
      "parallelism": 4,
      "protectionGroups": ["MyGroup"],
      "remoteAccessUsers": [],
      "saveSets": ["C:\\MySavesets"],
      "scheduledBackup": true
      }
  

• vProxy Registration-

  POST https://[ x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]:9090/nwrestapi/v3/global/vmware/vproxies
  {
  "enabled": true,
  "hostname": "x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x",
  "maxHotaddSessions": 13,
  "maxNbdSessions": 13,
  "userName": "admin",
  "vCenterHostname": "fqdn.domainname.com",
  "password":"password",
  "vProxyPort": 9090
  }
  

• Data Domain Device Configuration-

  POST https://[ x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x]:9090/nwrestapi/v3/global/devices
        {    
              "deviceAccessInfo": "x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:<folder structure>",
              "mediaType": "Data Domain",
              "name": "RESTAPI",
              "password": "password",
              "remoteUser": "remoteuser"
          }