Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.1)
Platform: NetBackup Flex Scale OS
  1. Preparing for NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      Deployment overview
    2.  
      Deployment options
    3.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale configuration requirements
    4.  
      Firewall and network ports requirements
    5.  
      Considerations for using IPv6 addresses
  2. Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      Assigning a public IP address to network adapter eth1 of a node
    2.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale configuration methods
    3.  
      Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale using the setup wizard
    4. Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale using a configuration file
      1.  
        YML configuration file for deploying NetBackup primary and media servers
      2.  
        YML configuration file for deploying media servers
    5.  
      Changing the maintenance user account password
  3. Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale logs
    2.  
      Connection timeout errors during patch installs, upgrades, and rollback operations
    3.  
      Initial configuration wizard displays a driver node not selected error
    4.  
      Initial configuration wizard displays a license error after successfully configuring the cluster
  4. NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and patch management
    1. About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEB
      1.  
        Pre-upgrade steps
      2.  
        Considerations for upgrade when disaster recovery is configured
    2.  
      Performing a patch upgrade using GUI
    3.  
      Installing EEBs using GUI
    4.  
      Performing a patch upgrade using REST APIs
    5.  
      Installing EEBs using REST APIs
    6.  
      About rolling upgrade
  5. Removing NetBackup Flex Scale
    1. About disk erasure
      1.  
        Configuring data erasure
      2.  
        Viewing the data erasure status
      3.  
        Aborting data erasure
    2.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale node factory reset
    3.  
      Performing a factory reset on a node
  6. Appendix A. Installing NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale software installation
    2.  
      Enabling remote IPMI connections
    3.  
      Setting up the RAID configuration on the nodes
    4.  
      Configuring the BIOS settings on the nodes
    5.  
      Downloading the product installer ISO
    6.  
      Mounting the ISO file on the nodes
    7.  
      Installing NetBackup Flex Scale using the ISO
    8.  
      Installing Emergency Engineering Binaries (EEBs)

Downloading the product installer ISO

Veritas NetBackup Flex Scale software components are packaged in the form of an ISO image file. To be able to install NetBackup Flex Scale in your environment, you must first download the ISO image from the Veritas product website.

Table: NetBackup Flex Scale installer ISO

ISO file name

Size

nbfs-2.1-20210907133406.iso

9 GB (approximately)

Note:

The actual ISO file name may vary depending on the product release version.

After downloading the ISO file locally, Veritas recommends that you use md5sum to verify that the MD5 hash value of the file matches with the one provided on the website. This validates the data integrity of the downloaded file.

To verify the MD5 hash of the installer file

  1. Run the following command from the location where you have downloaded the installer file:

    md5sum filename

    Here, substitute filename with the actual ISO image file name.

    The output of the command displays a unique alphanumeric code and that is the MD5 hash value of the file.

    For example, your command output might resemble the following:

    >> md5sum nbfs-1.3-20201104200100.iso

    >> c6779ec2960296ed9a04f08d67f64422 nbfs-1.3-20201104200100.iso

    Here, the value "c6779ec2960296ed9a04f08d67f64422" represents the hash value.

  2. Make a note of the hash value and match it with the value published on the website from where you downloaded the file.

    If the hash values match, it indicates that the file and its contents are authentic and have not been tampered with.

Once you have verified the data integrity of the file, you can use the ISO to install the software on the server nodes.

See Mounting the ISO file on the nodes.