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
Replacement procedure for a chassis fan
This topic describes the process for replacing a chassis fan in a NetBackup Flex Scale node. Each node contains six fans.
The following section describes how to identify a chassis fan failure from NetBackup Flex Scale:
An alert is generated for the node where the fan is malfunctioning. To view the alert, do one of the following from the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI:
Click in the left pane. In the Alerts area, click to see a complete list of alerts.
At the top of any screen, click the icon.
Click . On the Alerts and notifications page, use the filters to locate specific types of alerts.
Note:
If Call Home is configured for your setup, diagnostic information is sent to the AutoSupport server.
The node where the fan malfunctions is shown as Unhealthy. In the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI, navigate to to view the health of the nodes.
Navigate to , click the node that is unhealthy and for which the alert was generated, and then click . The state of the fan is shown as Failed.
The following section describes how to identify a chassis fan failure from third-party tools:
The HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) remote console shows a failure. Navigate to and note the details in the Summary section for malfunctioning fan.
You need to shut down the node on which the fan is malfunctioning. For a cluster with fewer than six nodes, only a single node can be down, stopped, or shut down at any given point in time. For a larger cluster of up to 16 nodes, a maximum of two nodes can be down, stopped, or shut down at any given point in time. When you shut down a node, the cluster services running on the node are stopped and the NetBackup jobs running on the node fail over to other cluster nodes. After the hardware maintenance is complete, you need to turn on the node. When you start a node, the cluster services are started on the node, the node joins the cluster and can start running backup jobs. If you shut down the node where the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI is running, it fails over to another node. It can take a few minutes for the UI to be up on another node.
Note:
If the loss of nodes exceeds the supported fault tolerance, either due to node failures or because the nodes are stopped or shut down, the cluster goes in an inconsistent state.
To shut down the node:
- Shut down the node where the chassis fan failed. Navigate to Monitor > Infrastructure > Nodes and click Shutdown node.
- Confirm that the node is shut down successfully. In the UI, you can view the notification at the top of the page. In the iLO remote console, wait until the system shows the System halted message.
- Shut down the node. Press the Power button on the front panel of the server or from the iLO remote console use the Server Power > Press and Hold option.
- Contact the hardware vendor to replace the hardware component.
The HPE representative replaces the chassis fan.
After the hardware vendor notifies you that the hardware component is replaced, verify that the issue is resolved.
Power on the server from the iLO remote console using the option and wait till it joins the cluster.
Check the node status and the services status in the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI:
Verify the fan status in the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI. Navigate to .
Verify the fan status in the iLO remote console. Navigate to .
