Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation
- Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
- Preparing to deploy the appliance
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Appliance common tasks
- Storage management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
- Network connection management
- Managing users
- About user name and password specifications
- About authenticating LDAP users
- About authenticating Active Directory users
- About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
- About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Using the appliance
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- About SNMP
- About Call Home
- Appliance security
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Setting the appliance login banner
- Upgrading the appliance
- About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.2
- Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
- Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
- NetBackup client upgrades with VxUpdate
- Appliance restore
- Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
- Troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery
- About NetBackup support utilities
- Appliance logging
- Commands overview
- Appendix A. Appliance commands
- Appendix B. Manage commands
- Appendix C. Monitor commands
- Appendix D. Network commands
- Appendix E. Reports commands
- Appendix F. Settings commands
- Appendix G. Support commands
Using the vSphere Client to deploy a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
The section describes how to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server by using the vSphere Client.
To ensure a successful deployment, make sure that you meet all of the deployment guidelines before you begin these procedures.
See NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment guidelines.
Note:
The following procedure is based on the VMware vSphere Client. It also applies to the browser-based VMware vSphere Web Client. Note that the order of the steps are slightly different with the web client.
To deploy a master server appliance using the VMware vSphere Client
- Using the VMware vSphere Client, log on to the vCenter Server where you want to deploy your appliance.
Note:
Your vCenter Server user account must have at least the minimum privileges required to deploy an OVF template. Refer to the VMware documentation for more information.
- Select File > Deploy OVF Template to start the deployment wizard.
- On the Source page of the deployment wizard, click Browse to navigate to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance product file. If you split the file when you downloaded it, make sure that all of the pieces are saved in the same folder and navigate to that folder.
Verify the path and click Next.
- Review the OVF Template Details page and click Next.
- On the End User License Agreement page, read through the EULA and click Accept, and then Next.
- Enter the destination details as follows:
Name: Enter a unique name for your appliance.
Inventory Location: Select the folder or the data center where you want the appliance to be located. The options are autopopulated based on what is available to that vCenter Server.
Click Next.
- Select the resource location where you want the deployed template to run.
Click Next.
- Select the destination storage where you want to store the appliance files.
Click Next.
Caution:
If you select a storage cluster, make sure that one of the datastores in the cluster has enough storage space for the entire appliance. If none of the individual datastores in the cluster has enough space, the deployment fails.
- Select Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed as the provisioning format for the appliance disks. For more information on provisioning, refer to the VMware documentation.
Click Next.
- Select the destination networks to map the networks used in the OVF template.
Click Next.
- Read through and verify the deployment options that you entered. If everything is correct, click Finish to start the deployment.
The amount of time that it takes for the deployment process to complete varies depending on your network connection. The process can take up to 30 minutes to complete.
After the deployment is complete, proceed to perform the initial configuration steps in the following topic.
See Performing the initial configuration on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server.
After the appliance is configured and operational, you are ready to install NetBackup client software on the computers that you want to back up.
See the NetBackup Installation Guide for how to install NetBackup clients.