Dell DL1300 Appliance User's Guide

The roadmap for managing a repository covers tasks such as creating, configuring, and viewing a repository, and includes the following topics:

• Creating A Repository
• Viewing Repository Details
• Modifying Repository Settings
• Expanding existing repository
• Adding A Storage Location To An Existing Repository
• Checking A Repository
• Deleting A Repository
• Recovering A Repository

Before you begin using your appliance, you must set up the repository on the core server. A repository stores your protected data. More specifically, it stores the snapshots that are captured from the protected servers in your environment.

By configuring repository, you can perform various tasks such as specifying where to locate the data storage on the Core server, how many locations can be added to each repository, the name of the repository, how many current operations the repositories support.

When you create a repository, the Core preallocates the space required for storing data and metadata in the specified location. To further increase the size of a repository, you can add new storage locations or volumes.

All the DL1300 versions support in-box upgrades. The initial repository size available after provisioning storage in your appliance corresponds to the version of your system. For example: After provisioning the DL1300 3 TB+2VM appliance, the repository size available is 3 TB. The unused storage space in your system can be used to expand the existing repositories by upgrading your license. To expand the repository, see Expanding existing repository .