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

Specifying resilient connections

Use the following procedure to specify resilient connections for NetBackup clients.

See Resilient Network properties.

Alternatively, you can use the resilient_clients script to specify resilient connections for clients:

  • Windows: install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\resilient_clients

  • UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/resilient_clients

To specify resilient connections

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Master Servers in the left pane.
  2. In the right pane, select the master server on which to specify properties.
  3. On the Actions menu, click Properties.
  4. In the properties dialog box left pane, select Resilient Network.
  5. In the Resilient Network dialog box, use the following buttons to manage resiliency for clients:

    Add

    To add resilient settings

    1. Click Add.

      The Add Resilient Network Settings dialog box appears

    2. Enter a client host name, an IP address, or an address range.

      If you specify the client host by name, Veritas recommends that you use the fully qualified domain name.

      For address ranges, use Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation (for example, 192.168.100.0/24 or fd00::/8).

    3. Ensure that the Resiliency On option is selected.

    4. Click Add.

    5. Repeat until you have finished entering clients or address ranges.

    6. When you finish adding network settings, click Close.

    Add To All

    If you select multiple hosts in the NetBackup Administration Console, the entries in the Resilient Network list may appear in different colors, as follows:

    • The entries that appear in black type are configured on all of the hosts.

    • The entries that appear in gray type are configured on some of the hosts only.

    For the entries that are configured on some of the hosts only, you can add them to all of the hosts. To do so, select them and click Add To All.

    Change

    To change resilient settings

    1. Select the client host name, the IP address, or the address range.

    2. Click Change.

      The Change Resilient Network Settings dialog box appears

    3. Select the desired Resiliency setting.

    4. Click OK.

    Remove

    Remove the select host or address rang

    1. Select the client host name, the IP address, or the address range.

    2. Click Remove.

      The client is removed immediately; a confirmation dialog box does not appear.

    Up arrow
    Down arrow

    Move an item in the list of items

    1. Select the client host name, the IP address, or the address range.

    2. Click the appropriate button to move up the item or move down the item.

      The order of the items in the list is significant.

      See Resilient Network properties.

  6. After specifying resilient connections, click OK.

    The settings are propagated to the affected hosts through normal NetBackup inter-host communication, which can take up to 15 minutes.

  7. If you want to begin a backup immediately, restart the NetBackup services on the master server.