Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.1)
Platform: NetBackup Flex Scale OS
  1. Product overview
    1.  
      About Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale
  2. Viewing information about the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster environment
    1.  
      Accessing the NetBackup web user interface on the appliance
    2.  
      About the NetBackup Flex Scale management console
    3. About the Dashboard view
      1.  
        Viewing all the activities
    4.  
      Working with NetBackup Flex Scale APIs
  3. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
    1. User management
      1.  
        Considerations for managing NetBackup Flex Scale users
      2.  
        Adding users
      3.  
        Removing users
      4.  
        Configuring AD server for Universal shares and Instant Access
      5.  
        Configuring AD/LDAP servers for NetBackup services
      6.  
        Configuring additional AD/LDAP servers for managing NetBackup services/Universal Shares/Instant Access
    2.  
      Directory services and certificate management
    3.  
      Region settings management
    4.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale storage
    5.  
      About Universal Shares
    6.  
      Creating a Protection Point for a Universal Share
    7. Node and disk management
      1.  
        NetBackup Flex Scale network cabling
      2. Adding a node to the cluster using the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface
        1.  
          Considerations for adding a node when disaster recovery is configured
      3.  
        Adding a node using the REST APIs
      4.  
        Replacing a node in a cluster
      5.  
        Starting and stopping nodes
      6.  
        Replacing a disk
      7.  
        Viewing disk details
      8.  
        Viewing node details
    8. License management
      1.  
        Adding or removing storage licenses
      2.  
        Adding NetBackup licenses
  4. NetBackup Flex Scale network management
    1.  
      About network management
    2.  
      Modifying DNS settings
    3.  
      About bonding Ethernet interfaces
    4. Bonding operations
      1.  
        Creating a bond
      2.  
        Modifying a bond
      3.  
        Removing a bond
    5. Data network configurations
      1. Network configuration on plain device (eth5)
        1.  
          Adding a data network
        2.  
          Modifying a data network
        3.  
          Deleting a data network
      2.  
        Network configuration on VLAN (eth5)
      3. Network configuration on bonded interfaces (bond0 on eth5 and eth7)
        1.  
          Adding a data network
      4.  
        VLAN on bond of eth5 and eth7 (bond0)
      5.  
        Support for multiple VLAN when disaster recovery is configured
  5. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure monitoring
    1. About alert management
      1.  
        Viewing information about alerts
      2.  
        Managing alerts
    2. About event notification
      1.  
        Purging events
    3. About AutoSupport and Call Home
      1.  
        Setting up email alerts
      2.  
        Setting up SNMP alerts
      3.  
        Configuring Call Home settings
    4.  
      Monitoring hardware components
    5.  
      Monitoring usage and licensed capacity using Veritas NetInsights Console
  6. Resiliency in NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      Erasure coding in NetBackup Flex Scale
    2.  
      Handling split-brain scenario in NetBackup Flex Scale
    3.  
      High availability of the NetBackup primary service
    4.  
      High availability of NetBackup services
    5.  
      NetBackup catalog protection
    6. NetBackup primary service catalog protection using checkpoints
      1.  
        Performing a recovery of the catalog file system using GUI
      2.  
        Performing a recovery of the catalog file system using REST APIs
  7. EMS server configuration
    1.  
      Configuring an external BYOS media server
    2.  
      Configuring an external NBA media server
  8. Site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      About site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
    2.  
      Configuring disaster recovery using GUI
    3.  
      Clearing the host cache
    4.  
      Managing disaster recovery using GUI
    5. Performing disaster recovery using RESTful APIs
      1.  
        Establishing trust and setting up authentication
      2.  
        Configuring disaster recovery
      3.  
        Managing disaster recovery
    6.  
      Active-Active disaster recovery configuration
    7.  
      NetBackup optimized duplication using Storage Lifecycle Policies
  9. NetBackup Flex Scale security
    1. STIG overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
      1.  
        STIG-compliant password policy rules
      2.  
        Enabling STIG for NetBackup Flex Scale
      3.  
        Viewing the NetBackup Flex Scale STIG status
    2. FIPS overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
      1.  
        Viewing the NetBackup Flex Scale FIPS status
    3.  
      Managing the login banner
    4.  
      Changing the password policy
    5. Support for immutability in NetBackup Flex Scale
      1.  
        About lockdown modes
      2.  
        Selecting or changing the lockdown mode
      3.  
        Configuring immutability using GUI
    6. Deploying external certificates on NetBackup Flex Scale
      1.  
        Deploying ECA using the GUI
      2.  
        Log locations
      3.  
        Considerations for performing other operations when ECA is deployed
  10. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Services management
    2. Collecting logs for cluster nodes
      1.  
        Uploading logs to Veritas Support
      2.  
        Downloading logs
    3.  
      Checking and repairing storage
    4. Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale issues
      1.  
        If cluster configuration fails (for example because an IP address that was already in use is specified) and you try to reconfigure the cluster, the UI displays an error but the configuration process continues to run
      2.  
        Validation error while adding VMware credentials to NetBackup
      3.  
        NetBackup Web UI incorrectly displays some NetBackup Flex Scale processes as failed
      4.  
        Unable to create BMR Shared Resource Tree (SRT) on NetBackup Flex Scale Appliance
      5.  
        NetBackup configuration files are not persistent across operations that require restarting the system
  11. Appendix A. Configuring NetBackup optimized duplication
    1. Configuring a Storage Lifecycle Policy for optimized duplication
      1.  
        Creating a Storage Lifecycle Policy for optimized duplication
      2.  
        Configuring a policy to use an SLP
      3.  
        Updating the policy to reverse the replication direction
  12. Appendix B. Disaster recovery terminologies
    1.  
      VVR technology in disaster recovery
    2.  
      About response fields in the GET disaster recovery API
  13. Appendix C. Configuring Auto Image Replication
    1.  
      Auto Image Replication configuration

Replacing a disk

If a disk of a node is in a faulted state, replace the disk to maintain the resiliency of the cluster. A cluster with up to five nodes can tolerate a loss of one node and a disk. A cluster with six or more nodes provides resiliency of two nodes, or two SSDs, or four HDDs. The NetBackup jobs continue to run as long as the fault tolerance is not exceeded. If the failures exceed the fault tolerance, the cluster runs in a degraded state where NetBackup and MSDP services might not be running on all the nodes.

Alerts are generated for faulty disks. See Viewing information about alerts. If Call Home is configured for your setup, diagnostic information is sent to the AutoSupport server.

Before you begin the disk replacement operation, ensure that replacement disk is the correct size and is formatted.

Warning:

Ensure that the following steps are followed correctly; else it might lead to data loss.

To replace a disk:

  1. Remove the faulty disk from the node and replace the faulty disk with a replacement disk.

    Note:

    On HPE ProLiant Server setup, you must power off the node before physically replacing the faulty NVMe SSD disk.

  2. 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.

  3. In the left navigation pane, click Monitor, and then click Infrastructure.
  4. Click Disks.

    The disks of all the nodes are displayed. In the Status column, the failed disks are marked as faulted.

  5. Click the faulty disk that you want to replace, and then click Replace disk.

    The replacement disk is detected and added to the node.

    After the disk is replaced, data rebuild process begins and you can monitor the progress at the bottom of the screen when you click Infrastructure > Monitor > Disks. Time taken to rebuild the data depends on the amount of data.