Veritas™ Resiliency Platform 2.2 Deployment Guide

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Product(s): Resiliency Platform & CloudMobility (2.2)
  1. Section I. Overview and planning
    1. Overview of Resiliency Platform
      1.  
        About Veritas Resiliency Platform
      2. About Resiliency Platform features and components
        1.  
          Resiliency Platform deployment infrastructure
        2.  
          Resiliency domain
        3.  
          Resiliency Manager
        4.  
          Infrastructure Management Server (IMS)
        5.  
          Replication Gateways
      3.  
        Planning a resiliency domain for efficiency and fault tolerance
      4.  
        Replication in a Resiliency Platform deployment
    2. Recovery to premises using third-party replication technologies
      1.  
        About recovery to premises using third-party replication
      2.  
        Using third-party replication for recovery to premises- an overview
    3. Recovery to premises using Resiliency Platform Data Mover
      1.  
        About recovery to premises using Resiliency Platform Data Mover
      2.  
        Using Resiliency Platform Data Mover for recovery to premises- an overview
    4. Recovery to AWS using Resiliency Platform Data Mover
      1.  
        About recovery to AWS using Resiliency Platform Data Mover
      2.  
        Using Resiliency Platform Data Mover for recovery to AWS- an overview
    5. Recovery to vCloud Using Resiliency Platform Data Mover
      1.  
        About recovery to vCloud using Resiliency Platform Data Mover
      2.  
        Using Resiliency Platform Data Mover for recovery to vCloud- an overview
    6. System requirements
      1.  
        Supported hypervisors for deploying Resiliency Platform virtual appliance
      2.  
        System resource requirements for Resiliency Platform
      3.  
        Network and firewall requirements
  2. Section II. Deploying and configuring the virtual appliances
    1. Overview of Resiliency Platform deployment
      1.  
        About deploying the Resiliency Platform virtual appliance
      2.  
        Downloading the Resiliency Platform virtual appliances
    2. Deploying the virtual appliances on-premises
      1.  
        Deploying the virtual appliance through VMware vSphere Client
      2.  
        Deploying the virtual appliance through Hyper-V Manager
    3. Deploying the virtual appliances in AWS
      1.  
        Deploying the virtual appliances in AWS
      2.  
        Prerequisites for deploying the Resiliency Platform virtual appliances in AWS
      3.  
        Uploading the OVA file using web-based method
      4.  
        Uploading the OVA file using command-line method
      5.  
        Creating Amazon Machine Image
      6.  
        Launching the instances of virtual appliances
    4. Deploying the virtual appliances in vCloud
      1.  
        Deployment prerequisites for recovery to vCloud
      2.  
        Uploading OVA files to catalog
      3.  
        Deploying the virtual appliances in vCloud
    5. Configuring the Resiliency Platform virtual appliance
      1.  
        About configuring the Resiliency Platform components
      2.  
        Prerequisites for configuring Resiliency Platform components
      3.  
        Configuring the Resiliency Manager or IMS
      4.  
        Configuring the Replication Gateways
      5.  
        Password policies for Resiliency Platform virtual appliance
  3. Section III. Setting up and managing the resiliency domain
    1. Setting up the resiliency domain
      1.  
        Setting up the resiliency domain
      2.  
        About the web console
      3.  
        Connecting to the Resiliency Platform web console
      4.  
        Getting started with a new Resiliency Platform configuration
      5.  
        Adding a Resiliency Manager to an existing resiliency domain
      6.  
        Removing a Resiliency Manager from a resiliency domain
      7.  
        Viewing the status of a Resiliency Manager in a data center
    2. Managing Infrastructure Management Servers
      1.  
        How Infrastructure Management Servers relate to data centers
      2.  
        Adding an IMS
      3.  
        Regenerating registration URL for an IMS
      4.  
        Removing an IMS
      5.  
        Modifying an IMS
      6.  
        Reconnecting the IMS to a Resiliency Manager
      7. Managing on-premises data centers
        1.  
          Adding on-premises data centers
        2.  
          Editing on-premises data centers
        3.  
          Removing on-premises data centers
        4.  
          Viewing data centers
      8. Managing cloud server configurations
        1.  
          Adding a cloud server
        2.  
          Editing the configuration of a cloud server
        3.  
          Refreshing the configuration of a cloud server
        4.  
          Removing the cloud configuration
    3. Managing NetBackup and NetBackup Appliances
      1.  
        About NetBackup and NetBackup Appliances
      2.  
        About protecting assets with NetBackup using Resiliency Platform
      3.  
        Using NetBackup - an overview
      4.  
        Prerequisites for integrating NetBackup with Resiliency Platform
      5. Adding NetBackup master server
        1.  
          Adding Resiliency Manager to NetBackup using a URL
      6.  
        Adding IMS to NetBackup master server as an additional server
      7.  
        Editing the NetBackup master server
      8.  
        Removing the NetBackup master server
      9.  
        Removing IMS from NetBackup master server
      10.  
        Refreshing the NetBackup master server
    4. Managing Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Server
      1.  
        About Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager
      2.  
        Resiliency Platform support for InfoScale applications
      3.  
        Managing InfoScale applications using Resiliency Platform
      4.  
        Support matrix for InfoScale applications
      5.  
        Prerequisites for managing Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager server using Resiliency Platform
      6.  
        Adding a Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager server
      7.  
        Regenerating registration URL for a Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager server
      8.  
        Deleting a Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager server
      9.  
        Editing the details of a Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager server
      10.  
        Reconnecting the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager to a Resiliency Manager
    5. Managing Resiliency Platform Data Mover gateway pairing
      1.  
        Viewing Veritas Replication Gateways
      2.  
        About Veritas Replication Gateway pairs
      3.  
        How Resiliency Platform Data Mover supports encryption for data replication
      4.  
        Creating a Veritas Replication Gateway pair
      5.  
        Removing a Veritas Replication Gateway pair
      6.  
        Viewing Veritas Replication Gateway pairs
      7.  
        Modifying encryption for a Veritas Replication Gateway pair
  4. Section IV. Adding the asset infrastructure
    1. Managing asset infrastructure
      1.  
        Asset infrastructure use cases
      2.  
        Adding asset infrastructure for Hyper-V virtual machines
      3.  
        Adding asset infrastructure for VMware virtual machines
      4.  
        Adding asset infrastructure for application discovery on Hyper-V virtual machines
      5.  
        Adding asset infrastructure for application discovery on VMware virtual machines
      6.  
        Adding asset infrastructure for application discovery on physical systems
      7.  
        Adding the asset infrastructure
      8.  
        Managing host assets
      9.  
        Managing Hyper-V assets
      10.  
        Managing VMware virtualization servers
      11.  
        Managing enclosure assets
    2. Preparing and maintaining host assets
      1.  
        About adding host assets
      2.  
        Prerequisites for adding hosts
      3.  
        Adding a Windows Install host
      4.  
        Installing the host package on a Windows host
      5.  
        Adding application hosts
      6.  
        Preparing host for replication
      7.  
        Removing hosts
      8.  
        Refreshing host discovery information
      9.  
        Uninstalling the host package from a Linux host
      10.  
        Uninstalling the host package from a Windows host
    3. Managing Hyper-V virtualization server assets
      1.  
        About Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization discovery
      2.  
        Prerequisites for Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization discovery
      3.  
        Adding Hyper-V virtualization servers
      4.  
        Removing Hyper-V virtualization servers
      5.  
        Refreshing Hyper-V virtualization servers
      6.  
        Configuring asset infrastructure for replication for Hyper-V virtual machines
    4. Managing VMware virtualization server assets
      1.  
        Prerequisites for adding VMware virtualization servers
      2.  
        VMware vCenter Server privileges required for implementing Resiliency Platform Data Mover
      3.  
        About near real-time discovery of VMware events
      4.  
        Setting up near real-time discovery of VMware events
      5.  
        Configuring the VMware vCenter Server to generate SNMP traps
      6. About adding a host for discovery of VMware servers
        1.  
          Adding a host for discovery of VMware servers
      7.  
        Adding VMware virtualization servers
      8.  
        Editing a VMware virtualization discovery configuration
      9.  
        Viewing the details of a VMware virtualization discovery configuration
      10.  
        Removing a VMware vCenter Server discovery configuration
      11.  
        Refreshing VMware vCenter Server discovery information
    5. Managing enclosure assets
      1. About the discovery host for enclosures
        1. Adding a discovery host
          1.  
            Add Discovery host panel options
        2.  
          Refreshing a discovery host
        3.  
          Removing a discovery host
      2. Configuration prerequisites for adding storage enclosures to an IMS
        1. EMC Symmetrix configuration prerequisites
          1.  
            Configuring the remote SYMAPI server for EMC Symmetrix array discovery
          2.  
            Verifying the configuration of a remote SYMAPI server
        2. EMC CLARiiON configuration prerequisites
          1.  
            Using Password Security file for CLARiiON enclosure
          2.  
            Verifying NaviSecCLI communication with CLARiiON enclosure
        3.  
          EMC VNX configuration prerequisites
        4.  
          NetApp configuration prerequisites
        5.  
          Hitachi configuration prerequisites
        6.  
          HPE 3PAR configuration prerequisites
        7.  
          IBM SVC configuration prerequisites
        8.  
          IBM XIV configuration prerequisites
      3. Adding storage enclosures
        1.  
          Configure Server panel options
        2.  
          Select Enclosure panel options to enable discovery for selected enclosures
      4. Adding RecoverPoint appliance for replication
        1.  
          Add RecoverPoint panel options for configuration details for RecoverPoint
      5.  
        Editing the discovery configuration for an enclosure
      6.  
        Removing the discovery configuration for an enclosure
      7.  
        Refreshing enclosure discovery information
  5. Section V. Managing users and global product settings
    1. Managing licenses
      1.  
        Managing licenses
      2.  
        About licenses
      3.  
        Viewing and managing licenses
      4.  
        Viewing the License Entitlement report
    2. Managing user authentication and permissions
      1.  
        Managing user authentication and permissions
      2.  
        About user authentication in the web console
      3.  
        About user permissions in the web console
      4.  
        Predefined personas
      5.  
        About limiting object scope for personas
      6. Configuring authentication domains
        1.  
          Options for authentication domain configuration
      7.  
        Editing authentication domains
      8.  
        Unconfiguring authentication domains
      9.  
        Showing domains on login screen
      10.  
        Configuring user groups and users
      11.  
        Assigning permissions to user groups and users
      12.  
        Adding custom personas
      13.  
        Predefined jobs that can be used for custom personas
      14.  
        Configuring Windows global user
    3. Managing service objectives
      1.  
        Managing service objectives
      2.  
        About service objectives
      3.  
        Viewing or customizing service objectives
      4.  
        Deleting activated service objectives
    4. Managing reports
      1.  
        Managing reports
      2.  
        About reports
      3.  
        Managing report preferences
      4.  
        Scheduling a report
      5.  
        Running a report
      6.  
        Viewing and managing report schedules
    5. Managing settings
      1.  
        Managing settings for alerts and notifications and miscellaneous product settings
      2.  
        Adding, modifying, or deleting email settings
      3.  
        Adding, modifying, or deleting SNMP settings
      4.  
        Downloading the MIB file
      5.  
        Setting up rules for event notifications
      6.  
        Adding, modifying, or removing Syslog server
      7.  
        Modifying the purge setting for logs and SNMP traps
      8.  
        Modifying the purge setting for reports
      9.  
        Modifying the purge setting for activities
      10.  
        Enabling or disabling telemetry collection
  6. Section VI. Updating or uninstalling the product
    1. Updating Resiliency Platform
      1.  
        About updating Resiliency Platform
      2.  
        About applying updates to Resiliency Platform
      3.  
        Prerequisites for a repository server
      4.  
        Downloading the Resiliency Platform update
      5. Using YUM virtual appliance as YUM server
        1.  
          Configuring the YUM repository server
      6.  
        Setting up the repository server
      7.  
        Adding a repository server in Resiliency Platform
      8.  
        Assigning a repository server in Resiliency Platform
      9.  
        Applying updates to virtual appliances using the console
      10.  
        Applying updates to virtual appliance using klish menu
      11.  
        Applying update on Resiliency Managers
      12.  
        Applying update for InfoScale environment
      13.  
        Applying updates to Resiliency Platform Data Mover bundle
      14.  
        Applying updates to the hosts
      15.  
        Removing an update from the repository server
    2. Uninstalling Resiliency Platform
      1.  
        About uninstalling Resiliency Platform
  7. Section VII. Troubleshooting and maintenance
    1. Troubleshooting and maintenance
      1.  
        Viewing events and logs in the console
      2.  
        Accessing Resiliency Platform log files
      3. Displaying risk information
        1.  
          Predefined risks in Resiliency Platform
      4.  
        About the Resiliency Manager services
      5.  
        Components of Resiliency Platform virtual appliance
      6.  
        Troubleshooting discovery of assets
      7.  
        About the frequency of asset information discovery
      8.  
        Troubleshooting the connection between Resiliency Managers in a resiliency domain
      9.  
        Troubleshooting removing a Resiliency Manager from a resiliency domain
      10.  
        Manually recovering the replication gateway
      11.  
        Using Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools to find a Unique Message Identifier description and solution
  8. Section VIII. Reference
    1. Appendix A. Virtual appliance security features
      1.  
        Operating system security
      2.  
        Management Security
      3.  
        Network security
      4.  
        Access control security
      5.  
        Physical security
    2. Appendix B. Using klish menu in Resiliency Platform
      1.  
        About klish
      2.  
        Using klish
    3. Appendix C. Tips on using the web console
      1. Tour of the Resiliency Platform web console screen
        1.  
          Menu bar options
        2.  
          Navigation pane options
      2.  
        Using Quick Actions for shortcuts to common tasks
      3.  
        Filtering and searching for objects in the web console
      4.  
        About settings in the web console
      5.  
        About the Resiliency Platform Dashboard
      6.  
        Web console icons
  9.  
    Glossary

Using klish

After the product configuration, whenever you log in to the Resiliency Platform appliance, you get the main menu of klish. This menu is the starting point, from which you can configure, manage, monitor, and support your application using the command line.

You can reconfigure or modify some of the appliance settings that are configured through the product bootstrap. Following are the settings that you can reconfigure using klish:

  • Network settings: You can reconfigure the subnet mask, default gateway, DNS server, and search domains using the klish menu.

    You cannot reconfigure the hostname that you had configured through the bootstrap process. In case of static DHCP, you cannot change the network settings using the klish menu. You cannot change the network settings for any component that is configured in the cloud environment.

  • System settings: You can reset the timezone and NTP server using klish menu. Changing the system settings can affect the product functionality if incorrect values are set.

You can also perform logical volume management (LVM) operations such as adding a disk or removing a disk using the klish menu.

You can press the tab key to display the menu options or you can run the help command to get detailed help on how to use klish. Use space key for auto-completion of command. If you get the Syntax Error: Illegal command line error, press ? key to display detailed help on the required parameter.

If a klish command is expected to perform any operation on an entity such as start or stop services, it goes into lock mode and does not allow any other operation on the same entity from any other session to be performed till the first operation gets completed. In such a scenario, you may encounter the following warning:

Warning: Try to get lock. Please wait...

After waiting for some time, the command tries to perform the operation once again. If the operation still cannot be performed due to the lock, then you may encounter the following error:

Error: Can't get lock

In this case, you need to execute the same command after waiting for some time. The operation is performed if the lock gets released by that time.

Table: Options available in the main menu

Menu option

Description

back

Return to the previous menu

exit

Log out from the current CLI session

help

Display an overview of the CLI syntax

manage

Manage appliance

Table: Options available with manage command

monitor

Monitor appliance activities

Table: Options available with monitor command

network

Network configuration

Table: Options available with network command

settings

Appliance settings

Table: Options available with settings command

support

Access logs

Table: Options available with support command

updates

Manage updates and patches

Table: Options available with updates command

utilities

miscellaneous utilities

Table: Options available with utilities command

Table: Options available with manage command

Menu option

Description

back

Return to the previous menu

configure

Configure Resiliency Platform component or show the configured component

Table: Options available with configure command

datamover

Manage Resiliency Platform Data Mover activities and objects

This option is available only on a Replication Gateway or Storage Proxy appliance

Table: Options available with datamover command

exit

Log out from the current CLI session

help

Display an overview of the CLI syntax

infra-appliance

List or remove Replication Gateway appliance

Table: Options available with infra-appliance command

services

Manage the appliance services

Table: Options available with configure command

Menu option

Description

ims_register

Register the IMS using the registration URL obtained after initiating the Add IMS operation

See Adding an IMS .

show

Show the configured component

Table: Options available with datamover command

Menu option

Description

start

Start a Veritas Replication Set

abort

Stop a Veritas Replication Set

delete

Delete a Veritas Replication Set

clear-admin-wait

Clear the admin Wait status for the Veritas Replication Set

Table: Options available with infra-appliance command

Menu option

Description

list

List the Replication gateway appliance.

remove

Remove the Replication Gateway appliance.

You need to remove the Gateway pair before you remove the Gateway.

See Removing a Veritas Replication Gateway pair.

Table: Options available with services command

Menu option

Description

show

Show Resiliency Platform services. the short service names displayed here are used while exercising other options with services command such as restart, start, status.

restart

Restart Resiliency Platform services

Two options available are:

restart all where, all means all the services.

restart service name where, service name is the name of a particular service. You can provide multiple service names (comma separated).

start

Start Resiliency Platform services

Two options available are:

start all where, all means all the services.

start service name where, service name is the name of a particular service. You can provide multiple service names (comma separated).

status

Check the status of Resiliency Platform services

Two options available are:

status all where, all means all the services.

status service name where, service name is the name of a particular service. You can provide multiple service names (comma separated).

stop

Stop Resiliency Platform services

Two options available are:

stop all where, all means all the services.

stop service name where, service name is the name of a particular service. You can provide multiple service names (comma separated).

Table: Options available with monitor command

Menu option

Description

back

Return to the previous menu

exit

Log out from the current CLI session

datamover

Display VRP Datamover activities and objects

This option is available only on a Replication Gateway or Storage Proxy appliance

Table: Options available with datamover command

FSusage

Display filesystem usage

help

Display an overview of the CLI syntax

top

Display the top process information

uptime

Display the uptime statistics for the appliance

who

Display who is currently logged into the appliance

Table: Options available with datamover command

Menu option

Description

repl-sets

Display the details about Veritas Replication Sets including RPO, connection state, replication state

update-sets

Display the list of current update sets which are in transit

ingress-data

Display the IO statistics for the data transfer from protected virtual or physical machine to Gateway (IOReceiver statistics)

network-data

Display the network related statistics for data transfer between production site Gateway and recovery site Gateway (Transceiver statistics)

disk-data

Display the IO statistics for the data write on recovery site disks (Applier statistics)

Table: Options available with network command

Menu option

Description

back

Return to the previous menu

dns

Show or change the DNS

Table: Options available with dns command

exit

Log out from the current CLI session

gateway

Show or change the Gateway

Table: Options available with gateway command

help

Display an overview of the CLI syntax

hostname

Show the hostname

ip

Show or change the IP address

Table: Options available with ip command

netmask

Show or change the netmask

Table: Options available with netmask command

search-domain

Show or change the domain

Table: Options available with search-domain command

traceroute

Trace packet routes to a particular host. You can also specify a port to trace the packet routes.

Table: Options available with dns command

Menu option

Description

set

Configure Domain Name Server

show

Show the current Domain Name Server

Table: Options available with gateway command

Menu option

Description

set

Configure Gateway

show

Show the current Gateway

Table: Options available with ip command

Menu option

Description

set

Configure the IP address for additional NIC

show

Show the current IP address

Table: Options available with netmask command

Menu option

Description

set

Configure the netmask

show

Show the current netmask

Table: Options available with search-domain command

Menu option

Description

add

Add search-domain

remove

Remove the search domain name

show

Show the search domain settings

Table: Options available with settings command

Menu option

Description

back

Return to the previous menu

change-password

Change the admin user password for the appliance

date

Display the current date and time for the appliance

Table: Options available with date command

exit

Log out from the current CLI session

help

Display an overview of the CLI syntax

lvm

Perform operations related to logical volume manager on the appliance

Table: Options available with lvm command

ntp

Perform operations related to NTP server

poweroff

Shut down the appliance

reboot

Restart the appliance

timezone

Show or change the timezone for the appliance

Table: Options available with timezone command

Table: Options available with date command

Menu option

Description

show

Show the time and date

Table: Options available with lvm command

Menu option

Description

add-disk

Add disk to the data volume. You need to attach a disk before adding it.

list-free-disk

List the free disks

initialize-free-disk

Initialize the newly attached free disk

list-used-disk

List the disks used by the data volume

remove-disk

Remove disk from the data volume. Make sure that you have an extra disk to migrate the data before removing a disk.

Note:

In case you initialize the newely-added disk during add-disk or remove-disk operation, the existing data on the new disk is deleted.

Table: Options available with timezone command

Menu option

Description

set

Set the timezone for the appliance

show

Show the current timezone for the appliance

Table: Options available with support command

Menu option

Description

back

Return to the previous menu

exit

Log out from the current CLI session

help

Display an overview of the CLI syntax

loggather

  • If the appliance has been configured as a Resiliency Manager or an IMS, then various options will be available for collecting the Resiliency Manager and IMS logs.

    Table: Options available with loggather command

  • If the appliance has been configured as a Replication Gateway, then loggather command will collect the logs of the Replication gateway.

shell

Open the bash shell prompt for support user

Table: Options available with loggather command

Menu option

Description

basic

Gather logs of Resiliency Manager or IMS without database

full

Gather logs of Resiliency Manager or IMS with database

Table: Options available with updates command

Menu option

Description

apply-update

Apply the specified update

back

Return to the previous menu

config-repository

Configure the repository

Table: Options available with config-repository command

exit

Log out from the current CLI session

help

Display an overview of the CLI syntax

list-updates

List the applicable updates

remove-repository

Remove current repository configuration

show-readme

Show readme for the specified update

show-repository

Show current repository configuration

show-version

Show appliance version

Table: Options available with config-repository command

Menu option

Description

hostname

hostname of the repository server

protocol

Protocol on which the repository server is configured

port

Port on which the repository server is configured

RepoPath

Path on which the repository server is configured

Table: Options available with utilities command

Menu option

Description

clear

clear the screen

More Information

About klish

Accessing Resiliency Platform log files