Veritas NetBackup™ AdvancedDisk Storage Solutions Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.0)
  1. Introducing AdvancedDisk
    1.  
      About the AdvancedDisk storage option
  2. Licensing AdvancedDisk
    1.  
      About the AdvancedDisk license
    2.  
      Licensing AdvancedDisk
  3. Configuring AdvancedDisk
    1.  
      Configuring the AdvancedDisk option
    2.  
      About AdvancedDisk file system requirements
    3.  
      Configuring credentials for CIFS storage and disk storage units
    4.  
      About AdvancedDisk storage servers
    5.  
      About AdvancedDisk data movers
    6.  
      About AdvancedDisk preferred or required read servers
    7.  
      About data encryption for AdvancedDisk storage
    8.  
      About key management for encryption of NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage
    9. Configuring key management for NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage encryption
      1.  
        Setting up the KMS database for NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage encryption
      2.  
        Creating a KMS key group for NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage encryption
      3.  
        Creating a KMS key for NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage encryption
      4.  
        Saving a record of the KMS key names for NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage encryption
    10. Configuring an AdvancedDisk storage server
      1.  
        AdvancedDisk storage server configuration options
    11.  
      About AdvancedDisk disk pools
    12.  
      Configuring a CIFS disk volume for AdvancedDisk encryption
    13. Configuring an AdvancedDisk disk pool
      1.  
        NetBackup nbdevconfig command options for AdvancedDisk disk pools
      2.  
        AdvancedDisk disk pool properties
    14. Configuring an AdvancedDisk storage unit
      1.  
        AdvancedDisk storage unit properties
      2. About AdvancedDisk storage unit recommendations
        1.  
          About configuring a favorable client-to-server ratio
        2.  
          About throttling traffic to the media servers
    15.  
      About storage lifecycle policies
    16. Creating a storage lifecycle policy
      1.  
        Storage Lifecycle Policy dialog box settings
    17.  
      Creating a backup policy
    18.  
      Resilient Network properties
    19.  
      Specifying resilient connections
  4. Managing AdvancedDisk
    1. Managing AdvancedDisk storage servers
      1.  
        Viewing AdvancedDisk storage servers
      2.  
        Determining AdvancedDisk storage server state
      3.  
        Viewing AdvancedDisk storage server attributes
      4.  
        Removing AdvancedDisk storage server attributes
      5.  
        Removing an AdvancedDisk storage server from disk pool access
      6.  
        Deleting an AdvancedDisk storage server
    2. Managing AdvancedDisk disk pools
      1.  
        Viewing AdvancedDisk disk pools
      2.  
        About changing the AdvancedDisk disk pool size
      3.  
        Adding volumes to an AdvancedDisk disk pool
      4.  
        Changing AdvancedDisk disk pool properties
      5.  
        Determining AdvancedDisk disk pool state
      6.  
        Changing AdvancedDisk disk pool state
      7.  
        Determining AdvancedDisk disk volume state
      8.  
        Changing AdvancedDisk disk volume state
      9.  
        Merging AdvancedDisk disk pools
      10.  
        Removing a volume from an AdvancedDisk disk pool
      11.  
        Inventorying a NetBackup disk pool
      12.  
        Deleting an AdvancedDisk disk pool
    3.  
      About monitoring AdvancedDisk storage capacity and usage
    4.  
      Monitoring NetBackup disk activity
    5.  
      Viewing AdvancedDisk disk reports
    6. Displaying detailed AdvancedDisk storage usage information
      1.  
        NetBackup disk volume capacity and usage reference
    7.  
      Displaying KMS key information for AdvancedDisk encryption
  5. Toubleshooting AdvancedDisk
    1. About unified logging
      1.  
        About using the vxlogview command to view unified logs
      2.  
        Examples of using vxlogview to view unified logs
    2. About legacy logging
      1.  
        Creating NetBackup log file directories for AdvancedDisk
    3.  
      NetBackup AdvancedDisk log files
    4.  
      AdvancedDisk troubleshooting
    5.  
      Resolving an incorrect storage type problem

NetBackup nbdevconfig command options for AdvancedDisk disk pools

Table: nbdevconfig command options for AdvancedDisk disk pools shows the options that you can use when you use the nbdevconfig command to configure an AdvancedDisk disk pool

Table: nbdevconfig command options for AdvancedDisk disk pools

Option

Description

-comment comment

A comment that is associated with the disk pool.

-dp disk_pool_name

The name of the disk pool. Use the same name that you used when you configured the disk volumes.

-dvlist filename

The name of the file that contains the information about the volumes for the disk pool.

-hwm high_watermark

The high_watermark setting is a threshold that triggers the following actions:

  • When an individual volume in the disk pool reaches the high_watermark, NetBackup considers the volume full. NetBackup chooses a different volume in the disk pool to write backup images to.

  • When all volumes in the disk pool reach the high_watermark, the disk pool is considered full. NetBackup fails any backup jobs that are assigned to a storage unit in which the disk pool is full. NetBackup also does not assign new jobs to a storage unit in which the disk pool is full.

  • NetBackup begins image cleanup when a volume reaches the high_watermark; image cleanup expires the images that are no longer valid. For a disk pool that is full, NetBackup again assigns jobs to the storage unit when image cleanup reduces any disk volume's capacity to less than the high_watermark.

    If the storage unit for the disk pool is in a capacity-managed storage lifecycle policy, other factors affect image cleanup.

The default is 98%.

-lwm low_watermark

The Low water mark is a threshold at which NetBackup stops image cleanup.

The Low water mark setting cannot be greater than or equal to the High water mark setting.

The default is 80%.

-M master_server

The name of the master server.

-max_io_streams n

Select this option to limit the number of read and write streams (that is, jobs) for each volume in the disk pool. A job may read backup images or write backup images. By default, there is no limit.

When the limit is reached, NetBackup chooses another volume, if available. If not available, NetBackup queues jobs until a volume is available.

Too many jobs that read and write data may degrade disk performance because of disk thrashing. (Disk thrashing is when the read and write heads move between the cylinders excessively as they seek the data for competing jobs.)

Fewer streams may improve throughput, which may increase the number of jobs that complete in a specific time period.

A starting point is to divide the Maximum concurrent jobs of all of the storage units by the number of volumes in the disk pool.

-reason "string"

The reason that you create the disk pool.

-storage_servers hostname

The name of each storage server that has a file system mount on the storage. Specify all NetBackup media servers that are storage servers for this disk pool.

-stype server_type

For AdvancedDisk with encryption, use AdvancedDisk_crypt, otherwise use AdvancedDisk.