Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.1)
Platform: NetBackup Flex Scale OS
  1. Preparing for NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      Deployment overview
    2.  
      Deployment options
  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 NetBackup primary and media server deployment
      2.  
        YML configuration file for media server only deployment
  3. NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and patch management
    1.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEBs
    2.  
      About rolling upgrade
    3.  
      About parallel upgrade and supported upgrade paths
    4. About the pre-upgrade check
      1.  
        Error messages displayed during the pre-upgrade check
    5. Upgrading NetBackup Flex Scale
      1. Performing pre-upgrade tasks
        1.  
          Considerations for upgrade when disaster recovery is configured
      2.  
        Performing an upgrade using GUI
      3.  
        Post upgrade tasks
      4.  
        Performing an upgrade using REST APIs
    6.  
      Installing EEBs using GUI
    7.  
      Installing EEBs using REST APIs
    8.  
      Updating the firmware in NetBackup Flex Scale clusters
  4. 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
  5. Appendix A. Installing NetBackup Flex Scale using a downloaded ISO file
    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)

About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEBs

NetBackup Flex Scale supports software version upgrades. The upgrade operation is supported using both the GUI and RESTful APIs.

Open a web browser and type the following URL in the address bar to sign in to the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI:

https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN:14161

If you are using IPv6 addresses, use the following URL syntax:

https://[ManagementServerIP]:14161

Here, ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address, the FQDN, or the short host name that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server and API gateway during the cluster configuration.

Note:

If you access the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI by using the short host name from a node, set the DNS settings (name server, domain name, and search domain) or ensure that the entry for mapping the short host name to an IP address exists in the hosts file of the node.

You can find the RESTful APIs at https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN:14161/swagger/infra/v1.0/

If you are using IPv6 addresses, use the following URL syntax:

https://[ManagementServerIP]:14161/swagger/infra/v1.0/

The upgrade process attempts to download the latest plug-ins from SORT, which are used to determine if the appliance nodes are healthy and ready for upgrade. If the plug-ins are downloaded successfully, these are used to perform the pre-upgrade tests. If the download fails, the upgrade process checks if the latest plug-ins are already downloaded to the appliance node. If the plug-ins are already downloaded, these are used for the pre-upgrade tests; else the plug-ins that are included in the upgrade package are used to perform the pre-upgrade tests.

The GUI supports the following operations:

  • Check SORT for the availability of major upgrades, and patches. The Check online for upgrade option shows the details of packages available on SORT.

  • You can download available major upgrades, and patches from SORT.

  • The GUI displays the download package progress.

  • You can upload major upgrades, patches, and EEBs from your local systems.

  • The GUI displays the details of downloaded and installed major upgrades, patches, and EEBs.

  • You can delete major upgrades, and patches which are downloaded in the system through the GUI.

  • You can delete downloaded EEBs which are not installed on the system.

  • You can install major upgrades and patches when all nodes are healthy.

  • You can install and roll back EEBs from the system if all the nodes are reachable.

  • Depending on the EEB, you might need to ensure that there are no jobs running before you install or roll back the EEB.

  • If a node goes down during an upgrade, rollback will be triggered automatically. But if the nodes remains down, the rollback will fail and you must contact Veritas Support to resolve the issue.

  • The GUI disables other operations when upgrade or rollback operations are in progress.

Note:

If disaster recovery is configured, make sure that you install the EEBs and patches on the secondary site.

Any operation that changes the configuration is not allowed during an upgrade.

You cannot perform the following operations if an upgrade is in progress:

  • Add another node to the cluster.

  • Replace an existing node in the cluster.

  • Add or modify existing data networks.

  • Create, edit, or delete a network bond.

  • Create, edit, or delete a user.

  • Factory reset a node.

  • Start or stop containers

  • Deploy external certificate