Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.0)
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
    2.  
      About rolling upgrade
    3.  
      About the pre-upgrade check
    4.  
      Installing EEBs using GUI
    5.  
      Installing EEBs using REST APIs
  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 hardware vendor packages
    9.  
      Installing Emergency Engineering Binaries (EEBs)

Installing hardware vendor packages

If you don't use the out of the box appliance that is pre-installed with an operating system and the NetBackup Flex Scale software and instead install the ISO image manually, ensure that you install the hardware vendor package that is compatible with your hardware vendor platform. You can download the vendor package from the Veritas Support website.

To install the hardware vendor package:

  1. Open an SSH session and log on to the appliance node as an admin user.
  2. To verify that the hardware vendor package is not already installed on the appliance, on the Appliance shell menu run the following command:

    system self-test software

    If the vendor package is not installed, the vendor utilities test fails.

    Checking whether required vendor utilities are installed... [FAIL]
  3. Use the following command to open an NFS share:

    system software share open

  4. To download the vendor package, on a local system, complete the following steps:

    • Mount the NFS share: Node_management_IP:/system/inst/patch/incoming where Node_management_IP is the IP address that is assigned to the eth1 network interface of the node.

    • Download the hardware vendor package from the Veritas support website. Choose the vendor package that is compatible with your appliance hardware platform:

      • VRTSnbfs_DELL_Utilities_5562_v1.0.tar 3.58MB

      • VRTSnbfs_HPE_Utilities_5551_v1.0.tar 32.01MB

    • Copy the package from your local system to the mapped directory.

    • Unmount the share.

  5. On the appliance node, in the Appliance shell menu, run the following command to close the NFS share:

    system software share close

  6. To install the vendor package, enter the following command:

    system install hw-vendor-packages

    The following message is displayed after the package is installed successfully:

    [Info] V-409-775-30005: Installed the hardware vendor package on the system
 successfully.

    Optionally, you can run the self test again to ensure that the vendor utilities test completes successfully:

    system self-test software

    Checking whether required vendor utilities are installed... [PASS]