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)

Performing pre-upgrade tasks

Before you begin the upgrade, ensure that you complete the following tasks:

Verify that the maintenance account password is not set to the default password

For increased security, password changes are enforced to ensure that known default passwords do not exist on the system. If the maintenance account password is set to the default password P@ssw0rd, you must change the password before you upgrade the cluster. To change the default password of the maintenance account:

To change the maintenance user account password

  • Sign in to the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI.

    Open a web browser and type the following URL in the address bar:

    https://consoleIP:14161

    Here, consoleIP is the public IP address that you specified for the infrastructure management UI during the cluster configuration.

    Use the following user account to sign in:

    • User name: maintenance

    • Password: P@ssw0rd

    As you are signing in for the first time, you are automatically required to change the default account password.

    On the Change Password screen, enter the existing password (mentioned earlier), then set a new password for the user account, and then click Save.

    Refer to the Veritas NetBackup Flex Scale Administrator's Guide for more information about NetBackup Flex Scale user management.

Verify that the account passwords do not expire in seven days

Before upgrading, ensure that the password for the maintenance account and for users with the Appliance administrator role does not expire within seven days. If the password expires within seven days for any of these users, change the password before you start the upgrade; else the pre-upgrade check fails and you cannot proceed with the upgrade.

Verify appliance firmware compatibility

Ensure that the firmware version of the appliance components is updated to the latest versions as listed on the https://sort.veritas.com/acl website. After a product upgrade, the system must have the latest firmware version.

Extract the vendor packages tar file

In earlier versions, the RPMs for the vendor packages were included and installed from a tar file. However, in version 3.1, individual RPMs are copied and installed from the /system/inst/patch/incoming location of the node. Before you upgrade from 3.0.0.1 or earlier versions, extract the tar file to the /system/inst/patch/incoming location on all the cluster nodes so the installed vendor packages are detected and displayed in the UI post upgrade.

Install EEB to enable parallel upgrade option

If you want to perform a parallel upgrade, install VRTSnbfsapp_EEB_ET4104073-3.0.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm on version 3.0 or 3.0.0.1. After you install this EEB, the UI displays an option for performing either a rolling or a parallel upgrade. Without this EEB, this option is not displayed and you can only perform a rolling upgrade.

See About parallel upgrade and supported upgrade paths.

Renew the NetBackup license if expired

Check if the NetBackup license keys are valid and have not expired using the NetBackup Java UI Console. If the NetBackup Java UI Console is not configured, complete the following steps to check the validity of the NetBackup license:

To check if the NetBackup license is valid:

  1. Log in to the NetBackup primary server using the FQDN or IP address.

    To get the FQDN or the IP address of the NetBackup primary server, navigate to Settings > Network in the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI.

  2. On the NetBackup primary server, use the following command to check the license type and expiration date:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpminlicense -list_keys -verbose

To renew the license, contact Veritas Support and use the following procedure to add the renewed license:

To add a license:

  1. Use a user account with both Appliance Administrator and NetBackup Administrator role to sign in to the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN/webui where ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address or the FQDN that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server during the cluster configuration.
  2. In the left navigation pane, click Settings, and then click Licensing management.
  3. Click NetBackup Licenses, and then click Add license.
  4. In the Add NetBackup licenses dialog box, enter the NetBackup license key in the License key field.
  5. Click Add.

    A notification about the status of the add license operation is displayed at the top in the UI, and an event is generated regarding the success or failure of the operation.

    Alternatively, you can also click the Recent activity icon in the top right of the UI to see the status of the ongoing and recently completed operations in the cluster.