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NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters
Last Published:
2025-03-18
Product(s):
NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (11.0)
- Introduction
- Section I. Configurations
- Prerequisites
- Preparing the environment for NetBackup installation on Kubernetes cluster
- Prerequisites for Snapshot Manager (AKS/EKS)
- Prerequisites for Kubernetes cluster configuration
- Prerequisites for Cloud Scale configuration
- Prerequisites for deploying environment operators
- Prerequisites for using private registry
- 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)
- Managing media server configurations in Web UI
- Prerequisites
- 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 logging
- 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 issues when media server PVs are deleted
- Resolving an issue related to insufficient storage
- Resolving an issue related to invalid nodepool
- 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
- 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
- Job remains in queue for long time
- Extracting logs if the nbwsapp or log-viewer pods are down
- 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
View the list of product resources
To view the list of product resources run the following command:
$ kubectl get --namespace <namespace> all,environments,primaryservers,mediaservers,msdpscaleouts
The output should look like the following:
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE pod/flexsnap-agent-5c87569449-rsg8r 1/1 Running 0 19h pod/flexsnap-api-gateway-5656578645-dcqkg 1/1 Running 0 19h pod/flexsnap-certauth-5f8d7f76bf-br9jd 1/1 Running 0 19h pod/flexsnap-coordinator-5df8df9f9b-8tmzm 1/1 Running 2 (66m ago) 19h pod/flexsnap-listener-6f6b55447b-hnffv 1/1 Running 0 19h pod/flexsnap-nginx-86f8b9c8b4-szt8n 1/1 Running 3 (66m ago) 19h pod/flexsnap-notification-7f6867467c-fd4wf 1/1 Running 2 (66m ago) 19h pod/flexsnap-rabbitmq-0 1/1 Running 0 19h pod/flexsnap-scheduler-85f56fd599-hn9fr 1/1 Running 2 (66m ago) 19h pod/media1-media-0 2/2 Running 0 55m pod/msdpx-uss-agent-859jc 1/1 Running 0 67m pod/msdpx-uss-controller-0 1/1 Running 0 19h pod/msdpx-uss-mds-1 1/1 Running 0 66m pod/nb-fluentbit-collector-54c59d8c65-7ds58 2/2 Running 0 19h pod/nb-fluentbit-daemonset-j2smx 1/1 Running 0 64m pod/nb-fluentbit-daemonset-pvgd5 1/1 Running 0 67m pod/nb-fluentbit-daemonset-wmd56 1/1 Running 0 67m pod/nb-postgresql-0 1/1 Running 0 69m pod/nbu-log-viewer-0 1/1 Running 0 69m pod/nbu-nbatd-0 4/4 Running 0 69m pod/nbu-nbmqbroker-0 2/2 Running 0 69m pod/nbu-nbwsapp-0 4/4 Running 0 69m pod/nbu-policyjob-0 5/5 Running 0 69m pod/nbu-policyjobmgr-0 5/5 Running 0 69m pod/nbu-primary-0 2/2 Running 0 69m pod/nbu-requestrouter-66f9cbbbd6-mk599 1/1 Running 0 19h pod/nbux-10-244-33-80.vxindia.veritas.com 2/2 Running 0 65m NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE service/flexsnap-api-gateway ClusterIP 10.10.76.161 <none> 8472/TCP 7d2h service/flexsnap-certauth ClusterIP 10.10.92.5 <none> 9000/TCP 7d2h service/flexsnap-nginx LoadBalancer 10.10.113.13 10.244.33.81 443:31203/TCP,5671:30421/TCP 7d2h service/flexsnap-rabbitmq ClusterIP 10.10.126.245 <none> 5671/TCP 7d2h service/ip-10-244-33-80-host-nbux-10-244-33-80-vxindia-veritas-com LoadBalancer 10.10.251.63 10.244.33.80 10082:30122/TCP,10102:30443/TCP,10090:30765/TCP,10086:31827/TCP,443:30778/TCP,111:31509/TCP,662:32352/TCP,875:30691/TCP,892:32171/TCP,2049:32705/TCP,45209:32061/TCP,58329:31674/TCP,139:31594/TCP,445:30993/TCP 7d2h service/log-viewer ClusterIP 10.10.43.73 <none> 8080/TCP 7d2h service/media1-media-0 ClusterIP 10.10.190.216 <none> 13724/TCP,1556/TCP 7d2h service/msdpx-uss-controller ClusterIP 10.10.103.214 <none> 10100/TCP 7d2h service/msdpx-uss-mds ClusterIP None <none> 2379/TCP,2380/TCP 7d2h service/msdpx-uss-mds-client ClusterIP 10.10.20.57 <none> 2379/TCP 7d2h service/nb-fluentbit-collector-svc ClusterIP None <none> 24224/TCP,24225/TCP,24226/TCP,24227/TCP,24228/TCP,24229/TCP 7d2h service/nb-postgresql ClusterIP None <none> 13787/TCP 7d2h service/nbatd ClusterIP 10.10.194.78 <none> 1556/TCP 7d2h service/nbmqbroker ClusterIP 10.10.18.54 <none> 13781/TCP,13777/TCP,13780/TCP 7d2h service/nbu-policyjob-0 ClusterIP 10.10.109.211 <none> 13724/TCP,1556/TCP 7d2h service/nbu-policyjobmgr-0 ClusterIP 10.10.200.164 <none> 13724/TCP,1556/TCP 7d2h service/nbu-primary LoadBalancer 10.10.2.26 10.244.33.79 13781:32084/TCP,13724:30101/TCP,1556:32450/TCP,443:30736/TCP 7d2h service/nbwsapp ClusterIP 10.10.38.84 <none> 443/TCP,1556/TCP,1558/TCP 7d2h service/policyjobmgr ClusterIP 10.10.112.28 <none> 13724/TCP,1556/TCP 7d2h service/primary ClusterIP 10.10.21.220 <none> 13781/TCP,13724/TCP,1556/TCP,443/TCP 7d2h NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE NODE SELECTOR AGE daemonset.apps/msdpx-uss-agent 1 1 1 1 1 agentpool=msdpxpool 7d2h daemonset.apps/nb-fluentbit-daemonset 3 3 3 3 3 <none> 7d2h NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE deployment.apps/flexsnap-agent 1/1 1 1 7d2h deployment.apps/flexsnap-api-gateway 1/1 1 1 7d2h deployment.apps/flexsnap-certauth 1/1 1 1 7d2h deployment.apps/flexsnap-coordinator 1/1 1 1 7d2h deployment.apps/flexsnap-listener 1/1 1 1 7d2h deployment.apps/flexsnap-nginx 1/1 1 1 7d2h deployment.apps/flexsnap-notification 1/1 1 1 7d2h deployment.apps/flexsnap-scheduler 1/1 1 1 7d2h deployment.apps/nb-fluentbit-collector 1/1 1 1 7d2h deployment.apps/nbu-requestrouter 1/1 1 1 7d2h NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY AGE replicaset.apps/flexsnap-agent-5c87569449 1 1 1 7d2h replicaset.apps/flexsnap-api-gateway-5656578645 1 1 1 7d2h replicaset.apps/flexsnap-certauth-5f8d7f76bf 1 1 1 7d2h replicaset.apps/flexsnap-coordinator-5df8df9f9b 1 1 1 7d2h replicaset.apps/flexsnap-listener-6f6b55447b 1 1 1 7d2h replicaset.apps/flexsnap-nginx-86f8b9c8b4 1 1 1 7d2h replicaset.apps/flexsnap-notification-7f6867467c 1 1 1 7d2h replicaset.apps/flexsnap-scheduler-85f56fd599 1 1 1 7d2h replicaset.apps/nb-fluentbit-collector-54c59d8c65 1 1 1 7d2h replicaset.apps/nbu-requestrouter-66f9cbbbd6 1 1 1 7d2h NAME READY AGE statefulset.apps/flexsnap-rabbitmq 1/1 7d2h statefulset.apps/msdpx-uss-controller 1/1 7d2h statefulset.apps/nb-postgresql 1/1 7d2h statefulset.apps/nbu-log-viewer 1/1 7d2h statefulset.apps/nbu-nbatd 1/1 7d2h statefulset.apps/nbu-nbmqbroker 1/1 7d2h statefulset.apps/nbu-nbwsapp 1/1 7d2h statefulset.apps/nbu-policyjob 1/1 7d2h statefulset.apps/nbu-policyjobmgr 1/1 7d2h statefulset.apps/nbu-primary 1/1 7d2h NAME READY AGE STATUS environment.netbackup.veritas.com/nbu 4/4 7d2h Success NAME TAG AGE STATUS primaryserver.netbackup.veritas.com/nbu 11.0-0031-new31 7d2h Success NAME TAG AGE PRIMARY SERVER STATUS mediaserver.netbackup.veritas.com/media1 11.0-0031-new31 7d2h nbux-10-244-33-79.vxindia.veritas.com Success NAME AGE TAG SIZE READY msdpscaleout.msdp.veritas.com/msdpx 7d2h 21.0-0024-new31 1 1 $
An environment is deployed successfully if all pods and environment CR display status as "Success".