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)

Performing a patch upgrade using GUI

You can download available patches using the GUI.

See About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEB.

  1. Use any one of the following options to log in using the user account that you created when you configured the cluster:
    • Using an user account with an Appliance Administrator and NetBackup Administrator role, log in to the NetBackup web interface https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN where ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server and API gateway during the cluster configuration, and then in the left pane click Appliance management.

    • Using an user account with an Appliance Administrator role, log in to the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN:14161 where ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server and API gateway during the cluster configuration.

  2. In the left navigation click Settings, and then Software management.
  3. On the software management page click Software updates.
  4. To check if any upgrade packages are available on the Veritas website, click Check online for upgrade.

    If any upgrade packages are available on the website, the list of available upgrade packages is displayed under Available upgrades.

  5. If you want to upload an upgrade package from a local system, click Upload file, select the file and then click Upload.

    After uploading the package, it is displayed under Downloaded package files.

  6. Download the upgrade package. Under Available upgrades, next to the upgrade package that you want to download from the Actions menu (vertical ellipsis) click Download package.

    After the download is complete, the package is displayed under Downloaded package files and the status is displayed as Available. To view details about the upgrade package, click the package name.

  7. To start the upgrade, under Downloaded package files for the upgrade package, from the Actions menu (vertical ellipsis) click Start upgrade.

    When prompted for confirmation click Start upgrade.

    You can view the progress of the upgrade operation on the Software management page. To view detailed status, click View details.

    After the upgrade is complete, a notification about successful upgrade is displayed on the top of the page. The version displayed on the page is updated to the newer version and the status of the package in the Downloaded package files changes to Installed.

    If the upgrade fails on any one of the cluster nodes, message about successful rollback is displayed in the upgrade progress details and all the nodes in the cluster are automatically rolled back to the previous version. You can view the details about the failure by clicking View tasks. To troubleshoot any issues during an upgrade, you can download upgrade logs by going to Settings > Diagnostics and selecting the Upgrade component on the Basic tab.