Dell PowerVault DR6000 - Manual (Page 58)

Using this page and the NFS or CIFS tab lets you perform the following tasks for NFS or CIFS clients (for information
about RDA clients, see
Clients Page (Using the RDA Tab) . The Clients page displays a summary of the NFS (or CIFS)
clients, and lists the following types of NFS and CIFS client-related information:
• Number of NFS (or CIFS) Clients — lists number of NFS (or CIFS) clients
• Name — lists each client by name
• Idle Time — lists idle time (nonactivity) for each client
• Connection Time — lists connection time for each client
Clients Page (Using the RDA Tab)
To display the Clients page, click Storage→ Clients. This page displays the total number of clients that are connected to
the DR Series system, and this number reflects all of the clients based listed under the Clients tab (NFS, CIFS, and RDA).
Using this page and the RDA tab lets you perform the following tasks for RDS or OST clients:
• Update a client (you are limited to modifying the mode type)
• Edit a client password
This page displays an RDS or OST Clients Summary table that lists the following types of RDS or OST client-related
information:
• Name — lists client by name
• Type — lists client type
• Plug-In — lists plug-in version that is installed on the client
NOTE: The RDA plug-in is installed by default if you are running the latest version of Dell NetVault Backup
(NVBU). You must download and install the RDA plug-in for NVBU only if there is a plug-in version mismatch
between the DR Series system software and NVBU.
• Backup Software — lists backup software used with this client
• Idle Time — lists the idle time for this client
• Connection — lists the number of connections for this client
• Mode — lists the mode types that can be set for this client:
– Auto: DR will set the deduplication to Dedupe or Passthrough, based on the client’s number of cores and
whether it is 32– or 64–bit.
– Passthrough: The client will pass all data to DR for deduplication processing (appliance-side deduplication).
– Dedupe: The client will process hashing on data, so deduplication processing occurs on the server side (client-
side deduplication).
If an OST or RDS client has four or more CPU cores, it is considered to be dedupe-capable. However, the OST or RDS
client operating mode depends upon how it is configured in the DR Series system (Dedupe is the default RDA client
mode).
• If the administrator did not configure an OST or RDS client to operate in a specific mode and it is dedupe-capable, it
will run in the Dedupe mode.
• If an OST or RDS client is not dedupe-capable (meaning the OST or RDS client has less than four CPU cores), and the
administrator sets it to run in the Dedupe mode, it will only run in the Passthrough mode.
• If an OST or RDS client is set to run in Auto mode, the OST or RDS client will run in the mode setting determined by
the media server.
The following table shows the relationship between the configured OST or RDS client mode types and the supported
client mode based on client architecture type and corresponding number of CPU cores. For information about Rapid NFS
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