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Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage and Veritas Enterprise Vault

Interoperability Test Report

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Executive Summary

Axians Global (“Axians”) assessed the interoperability of Veritas Enterprise Vault software with Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage. The goal of the assessment is to validate that Enterprise Vault software is interoperable with Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage.

In the assessment, Axians has determined that Enterprise Vault software archive and retrieve jobs will function with Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage for the following scenarios:

Test Scenario

Storage Involved

Protocol(s) Tested

Result

Archive Target – CIFS

OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage

CIFS

Passed

Archive Source – CIFS

OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage

CIFS

Passed

In this document, you will find details on the above test cases and the captured output. The procedures conducted in the tests are referenced from standard online documentation from Veritas Enterprise Vault and Huawei.

1Environment Configuration

1.1 Networking diagram

Figure 1.1 Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Function Compatibility Test Networking

Networking description:

  • Deployment at the production end: Preconfigure production data in VM for Enterprise Vault archive.
  • Deploy the AD Controller: Use one Windows server VM as the AD controller for software deployment.
  • Deploy the Enterprise Vault software: Use one Windows server VM as the Enterprise Vault server.
  • Deploy the SQL Server: Use one Windows server VM as the SQL server.
  • All storage devices are connected to the Enterprise Vault server via 10g ethernet.

1.2 Hardware and software configuration

1.2.1 Storage Configuration

Table 1-1 Huawei Storage configuration table

Name

Model

Version

Quantity

Storage

Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage

(Hereinafter referred to as “the storage device” as well)

V6 / V700

1

1.2.2 Matching Hardware Configuration

Table 1-2 Hardware Configuration

Name

description

Usage

Quantity

VMWare ESXi


x86 server

  • CPU:2* Gold 6130

  • Memory: 256 GB

  • Network: 4 x 10GE optical ports

Enterprise Vault server deployment

1

AD Controller


x86 server

  • CPU: 32* vCPUs

  • Memory: 32GB

Network: 10GE vNIC

Used for providing Active Directory Domain service

1


Enterprise Vault

Administration Console


x86 server

  • CPU: 32* vCPUs

  • Memory: 32GB

  • Network: 10GE vNIC

Deploys archive software to schedule archive tasks and transfer archive data

1


Enterprise Vault

File Server


x86 server

  • CPU: 32* vCPUs

  • Memory: 32GB

Network: 10GE vNIC

Deploys Enterprise Vault FSA Agent

1

SQL Server

x86 server

  • CPU: 32* vCPUs

  • Memory: 32GB

Network: 10GE vNIC

Deploys database server for Enterprise Vault configuration

1

Ethernet switch

Huawei 6855 10GE Network Switch

10GE network switch on the OceanStor Dorado archive service plane

2

1.2.3 Test Software and Tools

Table 1-3 Test Software and Tool List

Software Name

description

Version

Quantity

VMware ESXi

VMWare virtualization platform

7

1

Enterprise Vault

Deploys Enterprise Vault

15.0

1

SQL Server

Deploys database server for Enterprise Vault configuration

SQL Server 2019

1

Operation System

Installing Windows Hosts

Windows Server 2019

1

2 Test Preparation

2.1 Create the Account on the storage device

2.2 Configure the DNS on the storage device

Configure DNS on the storage device. The Storage device joins the AD Domain same as Enterprise Vault Server.

2.3 Create the Logical Ports on the storage device

2.4 Create the Filesystem on the storage device

2.5 Create the CIFS share on the storage device

2.6 Enable NAS WORM policy and Auto Lock feature

3 OceanStor Dorado NAS archive Interconnection with Veritas Enterprise Vault

3.1 Adding a NAS share as Partition via CIFS protocol (WORM enabled)

Test Purpose

Adding a NAS share as Partition via CIFS protocol (WORM enabled)

Test Networking

Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Function Compatibility Test Networking

Prerequisites


  1. Deployment of storage device, archive server and networking have been completed.
  2. The storage is running properly.
  3. Filesystem and CIFS share have been configured on storage device.
  4. Archive server and storage are in the same AD domain.

Test Procedure


1. Right click on an existing vault store and select New Partition.
2. Select storage type of “Huawei Device”.
3. Enter CIFS share UNC path and enable WORM mode.
4. Finish creation of new partition in vault group.

Expected Result

Step 4 partition creation finishes successfully.

Test Result

1. Right click on an existing vault store and select New Partition.
2. Select storage type of “Huawei Device”.
3. Enter CIFS share UNC path and enable WORM mode.
4. Finish creation of new partition in vault group.

Test Conclusion

Passed

3.2 Adding a NAS share as Volume via CIFS protocol

Test Purpose

Adding a NAS share as Volume via CIFS protocol

Test Networking

Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Function Compatibility Test Networking

Prerequisites


  1. Deployment of storage device, archive server and networking have been completed.
  2. The storage is running properly.
  3. Filesystem and CIFS share have been configured on storage device.
  4. Archive server DNS is configured properly.
  5. Volume Policy is configured properly.

Test Procedure

1. Add a File Server via Veritas Enterprise Vault Management Shell.
2. Change the Value of the FileServerType to 5 in table for the corresponding CIFS File Server added in step 1 on the EnterpriseVaultDirectory.
3. Right click on an existing File Servers and select New->Volume.
4. Select share type of “Regular”.
5. Select a NAS share as Volume.
6. Select a Vault Store.
7. Select a Volume policy.
8. Finish creation of new Volume in File Servers.
9. Right click on an existing Volume and select New->Folder.
10. Select a folder on the share added in step 8.
11. Finish creation of new folder in the Volume.

Expected Result

Step 1 success to add the dorado as a File Server.

Step 8 success to add the NAS share as a volume.

Step11 success to add the folder as the archiving source.

Test Result


1. Add a File Server via Veritas Enterprise Vault Management Shell.

evtest.yzxad.com is the full name of the storage device in the AD domain.

2. Change the Value of the FileServerType to 5 in table for the corresponding CIFS File Server added in step 1 on the EnterpriseVaultDirectory.
3. Right click on an existing File Servers and select New->Volume.
4. Select share type of “Regular”.
5. Select a NAS share as Volume.
6. Select the existing Vault Store.
7. Select the existing Volume policy.
8. Finish creation of new Volume in File Servers.
9. Right click on an existing Volume and select New->Folder.
10. Select a folder on the share added in step 8.

A single backslash(“\”) can be entered to indicate the volume root.

11. Finish creation of new folder in the Volume.

Test Conclusion

Passed

3.3 Archiving files to vault store partition

Test Purpose

Archiving files to vault store partition

Test Networking

Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Function Compatibility Test Networking

Prerequisites

  1. Deployment of storage device, archive server and networking have been completed.
  2. The storage is running properly.
  3. Filesystem and CIFS share have been configured on storage device.
  4. Volume of archive source is configured properly.
  5. Partition of vault store is configured properly.

Test Procedure

  1. Configure archive policy retention days.
  2. Select archive target and run archiving in normal mode.
  3. Check archive job status and media space usage.

Expected Result

Step 3 archive job finishes successfully.

Test Result

  1. Configure archive policy retention days.
    2. Select archive target and run archiving in normal mode.
    3. Check archive job status and media space usage.

Test Conclusion

Passed

3.4 Retrieving archived files via Enterprise Vault Search

Test Purpose

Archiving files to partition and retrieve archived files via Enterprise Vault Search

Test Networking

Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Function Compatibility Test Networking

Prerequisites

  1. Deployment of storage device, archive server and networking have been completed.
  2. The storage is running properly.
  3. Filesystem and CIFS share have been configured on storage device.
  4. Archive server DNS is configured properly.
  5. Partition of vault store is configured properly.
  6. Archive job finishes successfully.

Test Procedure

  1. Select files from the Enterprise Vault Search. Right-click and select Copy to File System -> Original Location.
  2. Check data consistency after data retrieval finishes.

Expected Result

Step 1 retrieval job finishes successfully.

Step 2 retrieved files are the same as original.

Test Result

  1. Retrieve archived data and check data consistency.

Source data:

Retrieving archived data:

Test Conclusion

Passed

3.5 Retention period test of WORM enabled filesystem

Test Purpose

Retention period test of WORM enabled filesystem

Test Networking

Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Function Compatibility Test Networking

Prerequisites

  1. Deployment of storage device, archive server and networking have been completed.
  2. The storage is running properly.
  3. Filesystem and CIFS share have been configured on storage device.
  4. Archive job finishes successfully.

Test Procedure

  1. Check accessed time attribute of archive objects in file explorer.
  2. Delete archive data within retention period in archive software.
  3. Delete archive data within retention period in file explorer.
  4. Delete archive data out of retention period in archive software.
  5. Check the archive data via file explorer.

Expected Result

Step 1 access time same as the retention policy.

Step 2 archive data deletion fails.

Step 3 archive data deletion fails.

Step 4 archive data is deleted successfully.

Step 5 archive data is deleted synchronously.

Test Result

  1. Check accessed time attribute of archive objects in file explorer.
    2. The Access time same as the retention policy.2. Delete archive data within retention period in archive software.
3. Delete archive data within retention period in file explorer.
4. Delete archive data out of retention period in archive software.
5. The archive data is deleted synchronously.

Test Conclusion

Passed

4 Reference

4.1 Enterprise Vault™ Setting up File System Archiving (FSA)

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/14499690-161897156-0/index

4.2 Enterprise Vault File System Archiving (FSA) support for CIFS compliant NAS devices

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100022216