NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) Cluster
- Introduction to NetBackup on AKS
- Deployment with environment operators
- Assessing cluster configuration before deployment
- Deploying NetBackup
- Preparing the environment for NetBackup installation on AKS
- Recommendations of NetBackup deployment on AKS
- Limitations of NetBackup deployment on AKS
- About primary server CR and media server CR
- Monitoring the status of the CRs
- Updating the CRs
- Deleting the CRs
- Configuring NetBackup IT Analytics for NetBackup deployment
- Managing NetBackup deployment using VxUpdate
- Migrating the node pool for primary or media servers
- Upgrading NetBackup
- Deploying Snapshot Manager
- Migration and upgrade of Snapshot Manager
- Deploying MSDP Scaleout
- Upgrading MSDP Scaleout
- Monitoring NetBackup
- Monitoring MSDP Scaleout
- Monitoring Snapshot Manager deployment
- Managing the Load Balancer service
- Performing catalog backup and recovery
- Managing MSDP Scaleout
- About MSDP Scaleout maintenance
- Uninstalling MSDP Scaleout from AKS
- Uninstalling Snapshot Manager
- Troubleshooting
- View the list of operator resources
- View the list of product resources
- View operator logs
- View primary logs
- Pod restart failure due to liveness probe time-out
- Socket connection failure
- Resolving an invalid license key issue
- Resolving an issue where external IP address is not assigned to a NetBackup server's load balancer services
- Resolving the issue where the NetBackup server pod is not scheduled for long time
- Resolving an issue where the Storage class does not exist
- Resolving an issue where the primary server or media server deployment does not proceed
- Resolving an issue of failed probes
- Resolving token issues
- Resolving an issue related to insufficient storage
- Resolving an issue related to invalid nodepool
- Resolving a token expiry issue
- Resolve an issue related to KMS database
- Resolve an issue related to pulling an image from the container registry
- Resolving an issue related to recovery of data
- Check primary server status
- Pod status field shows as pending
- Ensure that the container is running the patched image
- Getting EEB information from an image, a running container, or persistent data
- Resolving the certificate error issue in NetBackup operator pod logs
- Data migration unsuccessful even after changing the storage class through the storage yaml file
- Host validation failed on the target host
- Primary pod is in pending state for a long duration
- Taint, Toleration, and Node affinity related issues in cpServer
- Operations performed on cpServer in environment.yaml file are not reflected
- Host mapping conflict in NetBackup
- NetBackup messaging queue broker take more time to start
- Local connection is getting treated as insecure connection
- Issue with capacity licensing reporting which takes longer time
- Backing up data from Primary server's /mnt/nbdata/ directory fails with primary server as a client
- Primary pod goes in non-ready state
- Appendix A. CR template
About NetBackup deployment on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) cluster
NetBackup provides the product deployment solution on Azure Kubernetes Services cluster (AKS), in the Azure Cloud. The solution facilitates an orchestrated deployment of the NetBackup components on AKS.
You can deploy NetBackup on AKS for scaling the capacity of the NetBackup host to serve a large number of requests concurrently running on the NetBackup primary server at its peak performance capacity.
This guide provides you two distinct methods of deployment. The first and the recommended one is by using the environment operators. In this method, you can deploy the entire NetBackup environment with ease. You can deploy, one primary, and optionally, one media with one or more replicas, and one MSDP Scaleout with four to 16 replicas and NetBackup Snapshot Manager. The guide describes a very comprehensive method to deploy, configure, and remove the NetBackup components using the environment operators.
You can also go for a discrete deployment of the NetBackup components without using the environment operator. This method is not the recommended method of deployment.
Supported platforms
Currently we support Azure Kubernetes Service.
About the guide
This guide contains the following sections:
Introduction to NetBackup and MSDP Scaleout - preparatory steps to ensure that your AKS cluster and hardware environment meet the deployment requirements.
Deploying with environment operators - deploy the entire NetBackup environment primary, media, and MSDP Scaleout servers together in a comprehensive way. This is the most recommended method of deployment.
Assessing cluster configuration before deployment - check the deployment environment to verify that the environment meets the requirements, before starting the primary server and media server deployments.
Deploying NetBackup - deploying NetBackup without the environment operator.
Deploying MSDP Scaleout - deploying MSDP Scaleout without the environment operator.
Deploying Snapshot Manager - deploying Snapshot Manager in Azure Kubernetes Service cluster environment.
Migration and upgrade of Snapshot Manager - migrate Snapshot Manager registered with NetBackup to Kubernetes Service cluster environment.
Monitoring NetBackup - monitor application health, view logs, expand storage volume and so on.
Monitoring MSDP Scaleout - monitor status, alerts, events, Azure container insights, and so on.
Configuring the Load Balancer service - configure the load balancer to access NetBackup from private IPs.
Performing catalog backup and recovery - how to back up the catalog and recover.
Configuring MSDP Scaleout - adding MSDP Scaleout engines and data volumes, disaster recovery, scaling and so on.
Maintaining MSDP Scaleout - running maintenance, logging, reinstalling the operator, and so on.
Uninstalling MSDP Scaleout from AKS - uninstall and cleanup the cluster and the operator.
Uninstalling Snapshot Manager - uninstall Snapshot Manager from AKS.
Scenarios for troubleshooting.
The intended audience for this document includes backup, cloud, system administrators, and architects.
Note:
NetBackup deployment for AKS offers only English language.