I have done a few Avamar installation that use vlan’s to
control that backup traffic. I have also
setup Data Domains to use vlan’s to control data flow to it. The
last install I did however was the first time I encountered setting up an
Avamar/Data Domain implementation that need to use vlan’s.
The issue is, how to get the Avamar to tell the clients the
correct vLAN to use when the client sends data to the Data Domain. Both Avamar and Data Domain documentation
show how to configure each to use vLANs, so I won’t go into the setup in detail,
but there is no information on how the two work together.
The basic steps to configure it:
- Configure Avamar to communicate with the public/management
IP address as if there were no vlans
- Avamar does not need to have any vlans setup on
the grid, this is because very little data is sent from the client to the Avamar
node and all the Avamar node is doing is starting the backup job.
- Configure all necessary vlans on the Data Domain
- Group all the vlan IP address together in an
Interface Group under DDBoost.
When Avamar tells a client to start a backup, it tells the
client to direct its backup to the Data Domain.
The client talks to DDBoost over the public/management IP used when it
is added to the Avamar during the initial install. DDBoost then looks at the IFGroup that has
the IP address that Avamar gave the client initially. DDboost will then choose the correct IP/vlan
to respond back to the client on based on the clients IP and tells the client
to use that IP/vlan to send its backup data to the Data Domain.
Labels: Avamar, Data Domain, Network, VLAN