Veritas NetBackup™ Installation Guide

• Make sure that you have applied the most current operating system patches and updates. If you are not certain that your operating system is current, contact your operating system vendor and request the latest patches and upgrades.

• For a complete list of compatible Windows operating systems, refer to the Software Compatibility List (SCL) at the following website:

  http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility

• Master servers in a production environment should have a minimum of 16 GB of memory and four cores each.

  NetBackup does not enforce minimum memory requirements. Veritas does, however, recommend using at least the minimum recommended memory. Failure to use the minimum recommended memory amounts can result in unacceptable performance.

• Media servers in a production environment with several database agents enabled should have a minimum of 4 GB of memory each.

• An NTFS partition.

• The exact amount of space that is required to accommodate the server software and the NetBackup catalogs depends on the hardware platform. More information about this topic is available.

  NetBackup Release Notes for 8.2

• For upgrades, you must have an additional 500 MB of disk space on the drive where Windows is installed. After the upgrade is complete, this additional space is not needed.

• NetBackup catalogs contain information about your backups that become larger as you use the product. The disk space that the catalogs require depends primarily on the following aspects of your backup configuration:

  • The number of files that are backed up.

  • The frequency of your backups.

  • The amount of time that you set to retain your backup data.

• Veritas recommends that you have a minimum available disk space of 5% in any Disk Storage Unit volume or file system.

Make sure that you have all of the following items:

• NetBackup installation ESD images

• Appropriate license keys

• Administrator account and password for all servers

• Screen resolution configured for at least 1024x768, 256 colors.

In addition to all previously stated installation requirements, the following guidelines apply to remote installations and cluster installations:

• All nodes in the cluster must run the same operating system version, service pack level, and NetBackup version. You cannot mix versions of server operating systems.

• The installation account must have administrator privileges on all remote systems or on all nodes in the cluster.

• The source system (or primary node) must run Windows 2008/2008 R2 Server/Windows 2012/2012 R2/Windows 2016.

  For Windows 2008 R2, clusters are only supported on Enterprise and Data Center editions and not Standard edition.

• The destination PC (or clustered nodes) must have Windows 2008/2008 R2/Windows 2012/2012 R2/Windows 2016.

• The Remote Registry service must be started on the remote system.

  The NetBackup installer can enable and start the Remote Registry service on the remote system. If the Remote Registry service is not started, the installation receives the following error message:

  Attempting to connect to server server_name failed with the following error: Unable to connect to the remote system. One possible cause for this is the absence of the Remote Registry service. Please ensure this service is started on the remote host and try again.

• NetBackup virtual name and IP address

  Have the virtual name and IP address for NetBackup available. You must provide this information during installation.

• Cluster support changes for media servers

  You cannot perform a new installation of a clustered media server.

• Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC)

  • The shared disk that the NetBackup Group uses must already be configured in the cluster and online on the active node.

  • Install NetBackup from the node with the shared disk (that is, the active node).

  • Computer or host names cannot be longer than 15 characters.

• Cluster server (VCS) clusters:

  All NetBackup disk resources must be configured in Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) before you install NetBackup.

• Cluster node device configuration and upgrades

  When you upgrade clusters, the ltid and the robotic daemons retrieve the device configuration for a particular cluster node from the EMM database. The cluster node name (provided by gethostname) stores or retrieves the device configuration in the EMM database. The cluster node name is used when any updates are made to the device configuration, including when ltid updates the drive status. The cluster node name is only used to indicate where a device is connected. The NetBackup virtual name is employed for other uses, such as the robot control host.

• NetBackup services and port numbers must be the same across the network.

• Veritas suggests that you use the default port settings for NetBackup services and Internet service ports. If you modify the port numbers, they must be the same for all master servers, media servers, and clients. The port entries are in the following file:

  %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\services. To change the default settings, you must perform a custom installation of NetBackup or manually edit the services file.