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)

Setting up the RAID configuration on the nodes

You must initialize and set up the RAID configuration on each node before you install the NetBackup Flex Scale software on the node. Set up a RAID 1 configuration and configure the two 1.92 TB SATA storage devices as the RAID volumes.

The following procedure provides a high level overview of the process. For detailed information, refer to the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Server documentation.

To initialize RAID on the node

  1. Power ON the node and press the F10 key on the boot screen to launch the Intelligent Provisioning module.
  2. Click Smart Storage Administrator to begin the RAID configuration.
  3. On the welcome page, from under the Available Devices displayed on the left, click HPE Smart Array P816i-a SR Gen10.
  4. On the Actions dialog, click Create Array.
  5. On the Create Array page, select the SSD storage devices to configure in the array.

    Perform the following steps:

    • From the Drive Type drop down menu, select SATA SSD.

    • Then click Select All to select the two SSD storage devices that are displayed.

    • Click Create Array and then click Yes to proceed to the RAID settings page.

  6. On the Create Logical Drive page, modify the RAID settings for the array.

    Perform the following steps:

    • Under Strip Size / Full Stripe Size, select 64 KiB / 64 KiB.

    • Under SSD Over Provisioning Optimization, select Do not perform SSD over Provisioning Optimization on the Array.

    • Leave the other settings to their default values.

    • Click Create Logical Drive to start the configuration.

  7. On the confirmation page, make a note of the name listed under Logical Drives, and then click Finish.

    For example, here the name of the logical drive created appears as Logical Drive 1. You will use the name to identify the drive in the subsequent steps.

  8. On the Actions dialog, click Set Bootable Logical Drive/Volume.
  9. Under Boot Logical Drive/Volume Precedence, identify the logical drive based on the name that you noted in the earlier step and then select it as the Primary Boot Logical Drive/Volume.
  10. Click OK and then click Finish to complete the process and exit.