Veritas™ Information Studio Deployment Guide
- Before you begin
- About Information Studio deployment
- System requirements for Information Studio Hub
- System requirements for Remote Data Engine
- System requirements for Information Studio Windows Connectors
- Prerequisites for deploying an Information Studio Hub
- Prerequisites for deploying a Remote Data Engine
- Prerequisites for installing Windows Connectors Node
- Network requirements
- Deploying the Information Studio Hub and Data Engine
- Upgrading Information Studio v1.1 onwards
- Disk management
- Getting help
About Information Studio deployment
Veritas™ Information Studio comprises an Information Studio Hub and Data Engine(s) required for intelligently monitoring your data.
The Information Studio Hub allows you to visualize data collected from various content sources such as Native file servers and Veritas NetBackup (NBU), and store information about that data. The Information Studio Hub also makes this data available for various tasks such as creating and running reports related to compliance and data governance.
The Remote Data Engine is set up to connect to various data sources in the data center including File Servers, NBU Servers and others. It uses unique connectors like CIFS, NBU and others to connect to these sources through Veritas Data Connector Framework
If you are installing Veritas™ Information Studio for the first time, you will first need to deploy the Information Studio Hub. Information Studio Hub deployment includes the installation of the Information Studio Hub and a default Data Engine (as you can see in Use case 1 in Figure 1-1). You can eventually add more Remote Data Engines and Windows Connectors as per requirement (as you can see in Use case 2, 3, and 4 in Figure 1-1).
Components | Description |
|---|---|
Information Studio Hub | Provides information insights, decision support, business process workflow management, and internal system orchestration in a centralized big data repository. It manages and schedules jobs on Remote Data Engines and stores and analyses the metadata collected from content sources. |
Remote Data Engine | Interacts with the content sources such as Microsoft SharePoint online, cloud connectors, and file servers, to initiate scan and discovery, collect metadata, perform content classification, and transmit it to Information Studio Hub. |
Windows Connectors | The Windows Connectors is deployed on a Windows Server and is solely used for discovering and scanning metadata on CIFS-based Native File Servers, Microsoft SharePoint on-premises, Microsoft Exchange on-premises, , Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. |
Note:
Ensure that you install the Remote Data Engines and Windows Connectors to support the content sources mentioned above.
The following table lists the connectors that support the Information Studio Hub and Data Engine, separate Remote Data Engine, and the Windows Connectors.
Table: Supported connectors
Connectors | Supported by |
|---|---|
Veritas NetBackup version 7.6.x, 7.7.x, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, and 8.2 | Information Studio Hub's default Data Engine without the Windows Connectors configured |
Veritas NetBackup version 7.6.x, 7.7.x, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, and 8.2, Native File Server, Microsoft SharePoint On-premises, Microsoft Exchange On-premises, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database | Information Studio Hub's default Data Engine with Windows Connectors configured |
Veritas NetBackup version 7.6.x, 7.7.x, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, and 8.2, Box for Enterprise, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, Gmail, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online, CMIS (OpenText Documentum, Opentext LiveLink, IBM FileNet) | Remote Data Engine without Windows Connectors configured |
Veritas NetBackup version 7.6.x, 7.7.x, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, and 8.2, Box for Enterprise, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, Gmail, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online, Native File Server, Microsoft SharePoint On-Prem, Microsoft Exchange On-Prem, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, CMIS (OpenText Documentum, Opentext LiveLink, IBM FileNet) | Remote Data Engine with Windows Connectors configured |