Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide
- Product overview
- Viewing information about the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster environment
- NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
- User management
- Considerations for managing NetBackup Flex Scale users
- Adding users
- Changing user password
- Removing users
- Modifying user roles
- Considerations for configuring AD/LDAP
- Configuring AD server for Universal shares and Instant Access
- Configuring AD/LDAP servers for NetBackup services
- Configuring additional AD/LDAP servers for managing NetBackup services/Universal Shares/Instant Access
- Configuring AD/LDAP servers on clusters deployed with only media servers
- Directory services and certificate management
- Region settings management
- About NetBackup Flex Scale storage
- About Universal Shares
- Cloud bucket support for NetBackup Flex Scale
- Backing up data to Data Domain storage
- Node and disk management
- NetBackup Flex Scale network cabling
- Adding a node to the cluster using the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface
- Adding a node using the REST APIs
- Replacing a node in a cluster
- Starting and stopping nodes
- Rebooting a node
- Adding an excluded node to the cluster
- Replacing a disk
- Adding an excluded disk to the cluster
- Viewing the disk sync status
- Viewing disk details
- Viewing node details
- Switching management console to another cluster node
- License management
- Stopping NetBackup service containers
- Starting NetBackup service containers
- Managing the Fibre Channel ports
- Requirements
- Enabling BOM (Bill of Materials) configuration for Fibre Channel
- Assigning Fibre Channel ports
- Discovering attached devices
- Rescanning Fibre Channel cards
- Cleaning Fibre Channel ports
- Unassigning Fibre Channel ports
- Viewing details about the Fibre Channel ports
- Disabling BOM (Bill of Materials) configuration for Fibre Channel
- Managing hardware vendor packages
- Updating credentials for HPE iLO administrator users
- User management
- NetBackup Flex Scale network management
- About network management
- Modifying DNS settings
- Configuring MTU on public interfaces
- Configuring the console FQDN
- About bonding Ethernet interfaces
- Bonding operations
- Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale in a non-DNS environment
- Data network configurations
- Choosing the correct input method for data network configuration
- Network configuration on plain device (eth5)
- Network configuration on VLAN (eth5)
- Network configuration on bonded interfaces (bond0 on eth5 and eth7)
- VLAN on bond of eth5 and eth7 (bond0)
- Network configuration on management interface (eth1)
- Network configurations for adding a partial data network
- Support for multiple VLAN when disaster recovery is configured
- Configuring static routes on a NetBackup Flex Scale cluster
- NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure monitoring
- Resiliency in NetBackup Flex Scale
- EMS server configuration
- Site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
- About site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
- Configuring disaster recovery using GUI
- Clearing the host cache
- Automated NetBackup SLP management
- DNS key management
- Managing disaster recovery using GUI
- Performing disaster recovery using RESTful APIs
- Active-Active disaster recovery configuration
- NetBackup optimized duplication using Storage Lifecycle Policies
- NetBackup Flex Scale security
- About the security meter
- STIG overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
- FIPS overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
- Managing the login banner
- Changing the password policy
- Support for immutability in NetBackup Flex Scale
- Authenticating users using digital certificates or smart cards
- About system certificates on NetBackup Flex Scale
- Deploying external certificates on NetBackup Flex Scale
- Configuring isolated recovery environment (IRE)
- Configuring multifactor authentication
- About multifactor authentication
- Considerations before configuring multifactor authentication
- Configuring multifactor authentication for your user account
- Disabling multifactor authentication for your user account
- Enforcing multifactor authentication for all users
- Configuring multifactor authentication for your user account when it is enforced in the cluster
- Resetting multifactor authentication for a user
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Appendix A. Maintenance procedures for HPE servers
- Replacement procedure for a chassis fan
- Replacement procedure for power supply
- Replacement procedure for a single OS disk
- Replacement procedure for both OS disks on a non- management console node
- Replacement procedure for NVMe disks (SSDs)
- Replacement procedure for RAID controller
- Replacement procedure for an Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) port
- Replacement procedure for quad-port NIC
- Procedure for memory expansion (DIMMs)
- Replacement procedure for memory (DIMMs)
- Replacement procedure for Mellanox port
- Replacement procedure for SFP port
- Replacement procedure for chassis
- Replacement procedure for a hard disk drive
- Replacement procedure for a Fibre Channel card for a cluster node
- Replacement procedure for a Fibre Channel card for a node that is not in a cluster
- Appendix B. Configuring NetBackup optimized duplication
- Appendix C. Disaster recovery terminologies
- Appendix D. Configuring Auto Image Replication
License management
You can add NetBackup Flex Scale storage and NetBackup licenses while configuring the cluster. The initial configuration wizard displays a license page where you can specify the license details. However, entering the licenses during the cluster configuration itself is not mandatory. In case you skip the licensing page, the cluster is automatically configured with an in-built trial license for NetBackup Flex Scale storage and for NetBackup. Thereafter, you can use the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI to manage your storage licenses. You must use the NetBackup UI to manage the NetBackup licenses. A valid license is required to maintain a working cluster. Veritas recommends that you add proper licenses before you start protecting production workloads with your appliance.
NetBackup Flex Scale supports the following types of licenses:
Trialware: A built-in evaluation license, which is automatically activated after the initial configuration of the cluster is completed and is valid for 60 days.
Subscription: A time-bound license that must be renewed at the end of the expiration date. Support and maintenance services are included in the time period.
Perpetual: An unlimited validity license with a one-time cost for using the appliance. Support and maintenance services are included for a limited time period.
The following terminology is used to define the storage capacity:
Licensed: Storage capacity for which a license is purchased. You can purchase a subset of the total cluster storage.
Used: Storage capacity that is used for data, excluding the storage required for the catalog file system. Alerts are generated if the used storage is more than the licensed storage.
Supported: Licensed capacity for which you are entitled to Veritas support and maintenance services. The support and maintenance services for the supported storage capacity are available for a limited time period and must be renewed after the expiration.
Based on your storage requirements, you can also license a subset of the total storage capacity of the cluster. With partial licensing, you can purchase a license based on your used capacity rather than the total usable capacity of the cluster. If you need additional storage capacity, you can add additional licenses as per your requirement.
You can add multiple subscription licenses to increase the total cumulative licensed capacity and the subscription period. When you add multiple subscription licenses, the total licensed capacity is the cumulative licensed capacity of all the active subscription licenses. Stacking of licenses is supported only for subscription and perpetual licenses. Stacking multiple trialware licenses is not supported.
The following table shows how the licenses can be stacked:
Existing license | Add additional license |
|---|---|
Trialware | Perpetual or Subscription |
Perpetual | Perpetual |
Subscription | Subscription |
Alerts are generated if you no longer meet the compliance standards for licensing. If AutoSupport is configured for the cluster, alerts are also emailed to the administrators. Alerts are generated in the following situations:
If used capacity is more than the licensed or supported capacity for a period of six hours an alert is generated and critical operations such as add node and upgrade are blocked.
If used capacity is more than 90% of the licensed or supported capacity for a period of six hours.
If one or more licenses expire, which results in not meeting the compliance standards.