NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters
- Introduction
- Section I. Configurations
- Prerequisites
- Recommendations and Limitations
- Configurations
- Configuration of key parameters in Cloud Scale deployments
- Tuning touch files
- Setting maximum jobs per client
- Setting maximum jobs per media server
- Enabling intelligent catalog archiving
- Enabling security settings
- Configuring email server
- Reducing catalog storage management
- Configuring zone redundancy
- Enabling client-side deduplication capabilities
- Parameters for logging (fluentbit)
- Section II. Deployment
- Section III. Monitoring and Management
- Monitoring NetBackup
- Monitoring Snapshot Manager
- Monitoring fluentbit
- Monitoring MSDP Scaleout
- Managing NetBackup
- Managing the Load Balancer service
- Managing PostrgreSQL DBaaS
- Managing fluentbit
- Performing catalog backup and recovery
- Section IV. Maintenance
- PostgreSQL DBaaS Maintenance
- Patching mechanism for primary, media servers, fluentbit pods, and postgres pods
- Upgrading
- Cloud Scale Disaster Recovery
- Uninstalling
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting AKS and EKS issues
- View the list of operator resources
- View the list of product resources
- View operator logs
- View primary logs
- Socket connection failure
- 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
- Pod restart failure due to liveness probe time-out
- NetBackup messaging queue broker take more time to start
- Host mapping conflict in NetBackup
- Issue with capacity licensing reporting which takes longer time
- Local connection is getting treated as insecure connection
- Primary pod is in pending state for a long duration
- Backing up data from Primary server's /mnt/nbdata/ directory fails with primary server as a client
- Storage server not supporting Instant Access capability on Web UI after upgrading NetBackup
- Taint, Toleration, and Node affinity related issues in cpServer
- Operations performed on cpServer in environment.yaml file are not reflected
- Elastic media server related issues
- Failed to register Snapshot Manager with NetBackup
- Post Kubernetes cluster restart, flexsnap-listener pod went into CrashLoopBackoff state or pods were unable to connect to flexsnap-rabbitmq
- Post Kubernetes cluster restart, issues observed in case of containerized Postgres deployment
- Request router logs
- Issues with NBPEM/NBJM
- Issues with logging feature for Cloud Scale
- The flexsnap-listener pod is unable to communicate with RabbitMQ
- Troubleshooting AKS-specific issues
- Troubleshooting EKS-specific issues
- Troubleshooting issue for bootstrapper pod
- Troubleshooting AKS and EKS issues
- Appendix A. CR template
- Appendix B. MSDP Scaleout
- About MSDP Scaleout
- Prerequisites for MSDP Scaleout (AKS\EKS)
- Limitations in MSDP Scaleout
- MSDP Scaleout configuration
- Installing the docker images and binaries for MSDP Scaleout (without environment operators or Helm charts)
- Deploying MSDP Scaleout
- Managing MSDP Scaleout
- MSDP Scaleout maintenance
Limitations of NetBackup deployment on Kubernetes cluster
Note the following limitations:
External Certificate Authority (ECA) is not supported.
In case of load balancer service updating the CR with dynamic IP address to static IP address and vice versa is not allowed.
Media server pods as NetBackup storage targets are not supported. For example, NetBackup storage targets like AdvancedDisk and so on are not supported on the media server pods.
NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) and Enhanced Auditing (EA) configuration are not supported.
Changes to the CorePattern which specifies the path used for storing core dump files in case of a crash are not supported. CorePattern can only be set during initial deployment.
AKS-specific
As per Microsoft, since the NFS file share is in Premium account, the minimum file share size is 100GB. If you create a PVC with a small storage size, the following error message is displayed:
"failed to create file share ... size (5)...".
The IP displayed is of POD IP. NetBackup installing on container takes the IP address of POD as configured IP. Even logs would have POD IP reference at many places.
(Applicable only for media servers) A storage class that has the storage type as
Azure fileis not supported. When the Config-Checker runs the validation for checking the storage type, the Config-Checker job fails if it detects the storage type asAzure file. But if the Config-Checker is skipped then this validation is not run, and there can be issues in the deployment. There is no workaround available for this limitation. You must clean up the PVCs and CRs and reapply the CRs.Only
NFSis supported as the protocol while performing data migration withAzure premium files.
EKS-specific
(Applicable only for media servers) A storage class that has the storage type as
EFSis not supported. When the Config-Checker runs the validation for checking the storage type, the Config-Checker job fails if it detects the storage type asEFS. But if the Config-Checker is skipped then this validation is not run, and there can be issues in the deployment. There is no workaround available for this limitation. You must clean up the PVCs and CRs and reapply the CRs.