NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Data Center Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center installation
- About the deployment approach
- Hosting NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Meeting system requirements
- Host sizing recommendations
- Creating an instance or preparing the host to install NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Installing container platform (Docker, Podman)
- Creating and mounting a volume to store data
- Verifying that specific ports are open on the instance or physical host
- Deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center using container images
- Before you begin installing NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Installing NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center in the Docker/Podman environment
- Securing the connection to NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Verifying that NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center is installed successfully
- Restarting NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Associating NetBackup media server(s) with Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- About NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center upgrades
- Supported upgrade path
- Upgrade scenarios
- Preparing to upgrade NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center using patch or hotfix
- Migrating and upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Before you begin migrating NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Migrate and upgrade NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center on RHEL 8.6 or 8.4
- Uninstalling NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Snapshot Manager for Data Center catalog backup and recovery
- Configure NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Storage array replication
- Storage array plug-ins for Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Configure the storage array plug-ins for Snapshot Manager for Data Center
- Dell EMC PowerMax and VMax array
- Dell EMC PowerMax and VMax plug-in configuration prerequisites
- Supported Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations on Dell EMC PowerMax and VMax
- DELL EMC PowerMax and VMax Plug-in configuration parameters
- Roles and privileges on Dell EMC Unisphere for PowerMax and VMax
- Dell EMC XtremIO plug-in considerations and limitations
- Dell EMC PowerFlex array
- Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)
- Supported NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center Operation on DELL EMC PowerScale (Isilon)
- DELL EMC PowerScale (Isilon) plug-in configuration prerequisites
- Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) plug-in configuration parameters
- Using SmartConnect with Snapshot Manager
- Roles and privileges on Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)
- Snapshot replication for Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)
- Supported Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) replication topologies
- Consideration for Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)
- Dell EMC PowerStore SAN and NAS plug-in
- Dell EMC XtremIO SAN array
- Dell EMC Unity Array
- Fujitsu Eternus AF/DX SAN array
- Fujitsu Eternus AB/HB SAN array
- HPE RMC plug-in
- HPE XP plug-in
- HPE Alletra 9000 SAN array
- HPE Alletra 6000 SAN array
- Hitachi NAS array
- Hitachi SAN array
- IBM Storwize SAN V7000 plug-in
- InfiniBox SAN array
- InfiniBox NAS array
- Lenovo DM 5000 series array
- NetApp Storage array
- Supported NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations on NetApp storage
- NetApp plug-in configuration prerequisites
- NetApp plug-in configuration parameters
- Roles and privileges on NetApp storage array for the ZAPI interface
- Roles and privileges on NetApp storage array for REST interface
- Domain user permissions on the NetApp array
- Configuring a dedicated LIF for NetBackup operation
- NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO)
- Snapshot Replication
- Supported NetApp replication topologies
- Considerations for NetApp plug-in
- NetApp E-Series array
- Nutanix Files array
- Pure Storage FlashArray SAN
- Supported Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations on Pure Storage SAN array models
- Pure Storage SAN plug-in configuration pre-requisites
- Pure Storage SAN plug-in configuration parameters
- Roles and privileges on Pure Storage FlashArray
- Pure Storage FlashArray plug-in considerations and limitations
- Pure Storage FlashBlade plug-in configuration notes
- PowerMax eNAS array
- Qumulo NAS array
- Supported Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations on Qumulo plug-in
- Qumulo plug-in configuration prerequisites
- Qumulo plug-in configuration parameters
- Permissions and privileges on Qumulo cluster
- Domain user permissions on the Qumulo cluster
- Configuring a dedicated VLAN for NetBackup access
- Qumulo plug-in considerations and limitations
- Configuring storage lifecycle policies for snapshots and snapshot replication
- About configuring storage lifecycle policies for snapshots and snapshot replication
- Creating a storage lifecycle policy for snapshots and snapshot replication
- Operation types in a storage lifecycle policy
- Retention types for storage lifecycle policy operations
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager logging
- About NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center logging mechanism
- How Fluentd-based NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center logging works
- About the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center fluentd configuration file
- Modifying the fluentd configuration file
- Viewing NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center logs
- Fluentd-based logging requirements and considerations
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center logs
- Troubleshooting
Pre-requisites for Lenovo DM 5000 SnapDiff
On the clustered Data ONTAP SnapDiff RPC API V2 is supported from ONTAP release 9.4 onwards till ONTAP 9.9.
You must enable SnapDiff RPC service on the SVM. Follow the steps:
controller> vserver snapdiff-rpc-server on <svm_name>
For more information, refer to the Lenovo DM documentation for latest and accurate methods to enable snapdiff-rpc-server.
To improve performance while fetching the SnapDiff data between two snapshots, max_diffs and max_sessions must be set on the filer.
By default, SnapDiff RPC API V2 max_diff is set to 256 and max_sessions are set to 16.
Max limit for max_diff is 4096 and max_sessions is 64.
Procedure
Set max_diff limit to 4096
controller> node run -node * options replication.spinnp.snapdiff.max_diffs 4096
Set max_session limit to 64
controller> node run -node * options replication.spinnp.snapdiff.max_sessions 64
For more information on the latest and accurate methods to set max_diffs/max_sessionsto, refer to the Lenovo DM documentation.
To configure ACL on Lenovo DM array, follow the steps:
Log on to the On Command System Manager.
Navigate to the respective SVM where the SMB volume is created.
Click the SVM setting.
On the left click the Windows under Host Users and Groups. The Groups and Users tabs are displayed.
In the Groups tab, click the BUILTIN\Backup Operators and select Edit option.
In the Modify dialog, under the Members section, add the domain user and select the SetBackupPrivilege, SetRestorePrivilege, and SetSecurityPrivilege privileges.
In Lenovo DM array NetBackup discovers the volumes, LUNs that are created on the storage array. It also, discovers the snapshots of these assets.
NetBackup discovers all the NFS and SMB shares using volumes NAS path on the Lenovo DM storage.
Discovers the Lenovo DM Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs) from which the NFS and SMB shares are created to mount.
It will only discover volumes which are online.
If old snapshot is selected during restore (PIT), all new snapshots created after that snapshot gets deleted automatically from the array.
A single LUN can be part of only one volume at a time.
The host on which the snapshot is exported must be zoned and added to the Storage Virtual Machine (SVM).
A snapshot cannot be exported multiple hosts.
An exported snapshot cannot be deleted.
The export operation fails if the volume is attached only to the Default export policy on Lenovo DM. You must assign the NAS volume to a non-default export policy.
Minimum supported ONTAP version for ZAPI is 8.3
Minimum supported ONTAP version is for REST 9.10
Minimum supported ONTAP version for SnapDiff is 9.4 for Lenovo DM NAS Volume snapshots till ONTAP 9.9.