Veritas Appliance Management Guide
- Introduction
- Managing an AMS
- About configuring an AMS
- Configuring NetBackup appliances as AMS
- Configuring AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Configuring AMS as a container
- Unconfiguring AMS on NetBackup appliances
- Unconfiguring AMS as a container
- About the AMS user role on NetBackup appliances
- Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group on NetBackup appliances
- Adding a user or user group to an AMS container
- About collecting AMS logs
- Using the Appliance Management Console
- Managing appliances
- Viewing the appliance details
- Rebooting an appliance
- Viewing performance charts for appliance
- Exporting the appliance performance data
- Viewing the capacity utilization of an appliance
- Viewing the capacity utilization of multiple appliances
- Adding appliances to the Appliance Management Console
- Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
- About managing appliance software upgrades
- Updating firmware on NetBackup appliances
- Running hardware tests on NetBackup appliances
- Managing EEBs and other add-ons
- About staging packages
- About managing services on NetBackup appliances
- Installing maintenance release and security patch packages on NetBackup appliances
- Monitoring activities and events
- Managing the repository
- Applying management updates
- Index
Configuring AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
AMS can be deployed on NetBackup Virtual Appliance to address the following use cases:
Configure a VM to work as an AMS but not as a primary or a media server
See Configuring a standalone AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance.
Configure a VM to work as an AMS as well as a primary or a media server
See Configuring AMS on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance primary or media server.
Note:
Veritas recommends that you configure the NetBackup primary server or media server role on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance. Active Directory support is not available if such a role is not configured.
NetBackup Virtual Appliance OVF templates are available for download at:
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads
Download and use NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined primary and media server for remote offices and branch offices (ROBO) template, which is the (NetBackup_VA_ROBO_VMware_3.2_EN.ova) file.
The system requirements for AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance are as follows:
A minimum of 16 GB RAM
At least 500 GB of storage
A physical network connection is required for the transfer of large files (in GBs or larger).
Note:
For details about system requirements and the procedure for deployment, refer to the Veritas NetBackup Virtual Appliance documentation.
Sometimes, an appliance that is configured as an AMS may appear twice on the Home page of the Appliance Management Console. You can safely ignore this issue because it does not interfere with the working of AMS. You can click any of the repeated entries to view its details or select any one of them to perform further actions.
Note that the NetBackup Web Console is not available on NetBackup Virtual Appliance. You must log in through the Appliance Management Console.
Additionally, to change a user password for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance configured as an AMS, you must use the NetBackup Virtual Appliance shell menu, not the Appliance Management Console.
In this configuration, you create a VM and set up AMS on it without having to set up the VM as a primary or a media server. This gives you the ability to set up a VM quickly and with a low storage requirement because the VM is thinly provisioned.
Review the following considerations before you perform this configuration:
A 50-GB storage capacity is available for the AMS repository.
The NetBackup primary server or NetBackup media server options are not available.
If you configure this virtual appliance as a primary or a media server after you set it up as an AMS, the AMS configuration is erased. You can configure a fresh AMS after the appliance is configured as a primary server or a media server. All the appliances that were previously registered with the AMS must be re-registered on this freshly configured AMS.
The NetBackup Web Console is not available on NetBackup Virtual Appliance. You must log in through the Appliance Management Console.
To change a user password for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance configured as an AMS, you must use the NetBackup Virtual Appliance shell menu, not the Appliance Management Console.
To create a standalone AMS
Deploy the OVA, which has its default resource requirements.
The storage is thin-provisioned.
Set up the network and the host name.
Configure AMS from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu by using the commands sequence: Appliance > Management Server.
Set up users for signing in to AMS.
See Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group on NetBackup appliances.
In this configuration, you create a VM to act as a primary or a media server and also as an AMS. This is useful if you need a larger repository for AMS, as AMS uses the configuration partition.
To create an AMS and a primary or media server
Deploy the OVA, which has its default resource requirements.
The storage is thin-provisioned.
Set up the network and the host name.
Configure the NetBackup primary server or the NetBackup media server role.
Configure AMS from the NetBackup Appliance Shell menu by using the commands sequence: Appliance > Management Server.
Set up users for signing in to AMS.
See Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group on NetBackup appliances.