Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance High Availability Reference Guide
Introduction to NetBackup 53xx high availability solution
Starting with NetBackup Appliance release 3.1, Veritas offers a high availability (HA) solution for 53xx appliances. The HA solution helps to ensure system throughput and operational availability for data protection operations.
The 53xx high availability solution is a dual-node solution that provides the following benefits:
Two 53xx compute nodes (a node and a partner node) that operate in an active/active mode through an HA configuration.
The two nodes efficiently share the storage workload.
All stored data is available and accessible through either node.
All system jobs can be run on one node while its partner node is serviced or upgraded.
Automatic failover and job retry for a single-node failure.
Existing systems can be converted for an HA solution.
The following diagram illustrates the internal communications in the a 53xx HA solution:
Color legend | Explanation |
|---|---|
Red line | Transactions through the physical host name or IP address of the compute node |
Blue line | Transactions through the physical host name or IP address of the partner node |
Orange line | Transactions through virtual host name of the HA configuration |
Black line with two arrows | HA communication between the two nodes |
Black line with one arrow | Network assignment |
Black dashes | Communication between the master server and the HA configuration |