Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Manual (Page 6)

ESG LAB VALIDATION
Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered by CommVault
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selecting the ‗Automatic‘ disk configuration policy to allow the CommVault software to configure available
physical disks for use by CommVault backup software.
Using the automatic disk configuration policy, the configuration wizard found all un-configured physical disks in
the MD1000 enclosure and automatically created disk groups and virtual volumes.
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ESG Lab noted that it took
just seven mouse clicks in less than seven minutes to configure basic appliance settings, establish login
credentials, and provision available storage.
Figure 4 shows the DL2000 configuration wizard at the end of the initial setup of the appliance, prior to the
automated installation and configuration of CommVault Simpana software.
FIGURE 4. DELL POWERVAULT CONFIGURATION WIZARD
The wizard continued with the installation and configuration of the pre-loaded CommVault backup software and
the Dell OpenManage utility used to manage and monitor the appliance. One mouse click and eight minutes
later, the wizard automatically installed the CommVault backup software and configured backup storage pools.
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Default disk configuration will locate and combine each set of 7 physical disks into a RAID 5 volume.