NetBackup IT Analytics Certified Configuration Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.2)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      NetBackup IT Analytics Overview
    2.  
      Purpose of this document
    3.  
      Software and hardware disclaimer
  2. Portal and database servers
    1.  
      Portal supported operating systems
    2.  
      Recommended portal configurations
    3.  
      Oracle Database and Memory Requirements
    4. Supported browsers and display resolution
      1.  
        Linux portal server: Exported and emailed reports
    5.  
      Supported third-party and open source products
  3. Data Collector server configurations
    1.  
      Data Collector supported operating systems
    2. Data Collector server memory and CPU guidelines
      1.  
        Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections
      2.  
        Factors impacting Data Collector performance and memory requirements
    3.  
      Data Collector prerequisites
    4.  
      Firewall configuration: Default ports
  4. Capacity Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported systems and access requirements
    2.  
      IBM Arrays: Modify profile
    3.  
      Creating a NetApp user with API privileges
    4.  
      Creating a NetApp cluster-mode user with API privileges
    5. Array/LUN performance Data Collection
      1.  
        Port performance metrics
    6. EMC Isilon array performance metrics
      1.  
        EMC Isilon Array Performance
      2.  
        EMC Isilon Disk Performance
      3.  
        EMC Isilon Node Performance
      4.  
        EMC Isilon OneFS Performance
      5.  
        EMC Isilon Protocol Performance
    7. NetApp Cluster-Mode performance metrics
      1.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Aggregate Performance
      2.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode CIFS Performance
      3.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Disk Performance
      4.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Fiber Channel Protocol Logical Interface Performance
      5.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode LUN Performance
      6.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode NFS Performance
      7.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Processor Node Performance
      8.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Processor Performance
      9.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode RAID Performance
      10.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode SMB (Server Message Block) Performance
      11.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode System Performance
      12.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Target Port Performance
      13.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Volume Performance
    8. EMC Symmetrix enhanced performance metrics
      1.  
        Create enhanced EMC Symmetrix Performance report templates
      2.  
        EMC Symmetrix Array Performance
      3.  
        EMC Symmetrix Backend Director Performance
      4.  
        EMC Symmetrix Frontend Director Performance
      5.  
        EMC Symmetrix Front-end Port Performance
      6.  
        EMC Symmetrix Storage Group Performance
      7.  
        EMC Symmetrix Database Performance
      8.  
        EMC Symmetrix Disk Group Performance
      9.  
        EMC Symmetrix Disk Performance
      10.  
        EMC Symmetrix Device Groups Performance
      11.  
        EMC Symmetrix Disk by Technology Performance
      12.  
        EMC Symmetrix Storage Tier Performance
      13.  
        EMC Symmetrix Thin Tier Performance
      14.  
        EMC Symmetrix Thin Pool Performance
      15.  
        EMC Symmetrix Enhanced Performance metrics
    9.  
      Hitachi Vantara array performance metrics
    10.  
      Host resources prerequisites and configurations
    11. Host access privileges, sudo commands, ports, and WMI proxy requirements
      1.  
        Access requirements by OS
    12.  
      WMI proxy requirements for Windows host Data Collection
    13.  
      Host resources supported configurations
    14.  
      Pure Storage Flash Array performance metrics
    15.  
      Supported host bus adapters (HBAs)
    16.  
      Compute Resources supported configurations
  5. Cloud configurations
    1.  
      Supported systems and access requirements
  6. Virtualization Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported versions
    2. Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for VMware
      1.  
        Creating a VMware Read-Only user
    3.  
      Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V
  7. File Analytics configurations
    1. Data Collector probes by storage type
      1.  
        CIFS shares
      2.  
        Host inventory probe
      3.  
        File Analytics probe
  8. Fabric Manager configurations
    1. Switch vendors
      1.  
        Download Cisco Data Center Network Manager
  9. Backup Manager configurations
    1.  
      Backup solutions and versions
    2.  
      Centralized NetBackup Data Collection requirements
    3. Veritas NetBackup 8.1 (and later) requirements for centralized collection
      1.  
        Required Software
  10. ServiceNow configurations
    1.  
      ServiceNow configurations
  11. Internal TCP port requirements
    1.  
      Internal TCP port requirements
    2.  
      Internal portal server ports
    3.  
      Internal data collector ports

Host resources supported configurations

You can configure Capacity Manager to collect the following Host Resources data:

Table: Host Resources Supported Configurations

Host Resource

Supported Configurations/Versions

Port

Prerequisites and Notes

Applications

Exchange: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

389

The user name must have privileges to search under the DN within the Active Directory. Typically, this is an Administrator.

Microsoft Exchange 2010: Data collection requires PowerShell remoting to be enabled on the Exchange server. The Data Collector connects to PowerShell via the WMI Proxy to execute PowerShell commands. For details on remoting, see the Microsoft Administrator's Guide to Windows PowerShell Remoting.

 

Oracle: Oracle 12c

1521

Oracle user must have SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE role granted

 

Oracle ASM: Oracle ASM, v10gR1, 10gR2, 11gR1, 11gR2, 12c

1521

Oracle ASM requires a user with SYSASM (Oracle-supported only for 11g and above) or SYSDBA privileges

Containers

Oracle Containers

Sometimes referred to as Solaris Zones.

Clustering

Clustering technologies, both active-active and active-passive

Clusters are listed as Related Hosts in reports. This relationship is established when multiple servers are accessing the same storage.

File Systems

  • Solaris ZFS; Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) Metastat

  • AIX 5.2, 5.3 JFS and JFS2, with correlation to SAN disks

  • SUSE SLES 9, 10; 32 & 64 bit REISER FS & EXT3 & Logical Volume Manager (LVM & LVM2)

  • VxFS on all supported Operating Systems

  • Windows NTFS

  • Oracle ASM

  • Linux ext4 file systems

Multi-pathing

  • EMC PowerPath

  • Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (HDLM)

  • VERITAS Dynamic Multi-Pathing (VxDMP)

  • Device Mapper Multipath for Linux

  • Microsoft MPIO - Windows 2003, 2008 (R2), Windows 2012 (R2) drivers

If using a non-supported MPIO driver, storage capacity may be double-counted in capacity reports.

Operating Systems

  • RedHat Linux Enterprise Server, CentOS, SUSE

  • Solaris

  • Windows Server

  • IBM AIX

  • HP-UX

In general, these operating systems up to and including the latest OS patch level are supported.

Volume Managers

  • Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 and 5.1 (Supported OS: RedHat Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Windows)

  • Solaris Volume Manager

  • Linux Logical Volume Manager

  • AIX Logical Volume Manager

  • HP-UX Logical Volume Manager

Besides Veritas Volume Manager, each of the operating systems comes with its own built-in logical volume manager, so no specific version numbers are mentioned