NetBackup™ AdvancedDisk Storage Solutions Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (11.0)
  1. Introducing AdvancedDisk
    1.  
      About the AdvancedDisk storage option
  2. Licensing AdvancedDisk
    1.  
      About the AdvancedDisk license
    2.  
      License AdvancedDisk
  3. Configuring AdvancedDisk
    1.  
      Configuring the AdvancedDisk option
    2.  
      About AdvancedDisk file system requirements
    3.  
      Configure the NetBackup service credentials for CIFS storage and disk storage units
    4.  
      About AdvancedDisk storage servers
    5.  
      About AdvancedDisk data movers
    6.  
      About AdvancedDisk preferred or required read servers
    7.  
      About data encryption for AdvancedDisk storage
    8.  
      About key management for encryption of NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage
    9. Configuring key management for NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage encryption
      1.  
        Set up the KMS database for NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage encryption
      2.  
        Create a KMS key group for NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage encryption
      3.  
        Create a KMS key for NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage encryption
      4.  
        Save a record of the KMS key names for NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage encryption
    10. Configure an AdvancedDisk storage server
      1.  
        AdvancedDisk storage server configuration options
    11.  
      About AdvancedDisk disk pools
    12.  
      Configure a CIFS disk volume for AdvancedDisk encryption
    13. Configure an AdvancedDisk disk pool
      1.  
        NetBackup nbdevconfig command options for AdvancedDisk disk pools
      2.  
        AdvancedDisk disk pool properties
    14. Configure an AdvancedDisk storage unit
      1.  
        AdvancedDisk storage unit properties
      2. About AdvancedDisk storage unit recommendations
        1.  
          About configuring a favorable client-to-server ratio
        2.  
          About throttling traffic to the media servers
    15.  
      About storage lifecycle policies
    16. Creating a storage lifecycle policy
      1.  
        Storage lifecycle policy settings
    17.  
      Creating a backup policy
    18.  
      Resilient network properties
    19.  
      Specify resilient connections for clients
  4. Managing AdvancedDisk
    1. Manage AdvancedDisk storage servers
      1.  
        View AdvancedDisk storage servers
      2.  
        Determine the AdvancedDisk storage server state
      3.  
        View AdvancedDisk storage server attributes
      4.  
        Remove AdvancedDisk storage server attributes
      5.  
        Remove an AdvancedDisk storage server from disk pool access
      6.  
        Delete an AdvancedDisk storage server
    2. Manage AdvancedDisk disk pools
      1.  
        View AdvancedDisk disk pools
      2.  
        About changing the AdvancedDisk disk pool size
      3.  
        Adding volumes to an AdvancedDisk disk pool
      4.  
        Change the AdvancedDisk disk pool properties
      5.  
        Determine the AdvancedDisk disk pool state
      6.  
        Changing AdvancedDisk disk pool state
      7.  
        Determine the AdvancedDisk disk volume state
      8.  
        Change AdvancedDisk disk volume state
      9.  
        Merge AdvancedDisk disk pools
      10.  
        Remove a volume from an AdvancedDisk disk pool
      11.  
        Delete an AdvancedDisk disk pool
    3.  
      About monitoring AdvancedDisk storage capacity and usage
    4.  
      Monitor NetBackup disk activity
    5.  
      View AdvancedDisk disk reports
    6. Display detailed AdvancedDisk storage usage information
      1.  
        NetBackup disk volume capacity and usage reference
    7.  
      Display KMS key information for AdvancedDisk encryption
  5. Troubleshooting AdvancedDisk
    1. About unified logging
      1.  
        About using the vxlogview command to view unified logs
      2.  
        Examples of using vxlogview to view unified logs
    2. About legacy logging
      1.  
        Creating NetBackup log file directories for AdvancedDisk
    3.  
      NetBackup AdvancedDisk log files
    4.  
      AdvancedDisk troubleshooting
    5.  
      Resolve an incorrect storage type problem

About using the vxlogview command to view unified logs

Only the vxlogview command can assemble and display the unified logging information correctly. The unified logging files are in binary format and some of the information is contained in an associated resource file. These logs are stored in the following directory. You can display vxlogview results faster by restricting the search to the files of a specific process.

UNIX

/usr/openv/logs

Windows

install_path\NetBackup\logs

 

Table: Fields in vxlogview query strings

Field name

Type

Description

Example

PRODID

Integer or string

Provide the product ID or the abbreviated name of product.

PRODID = 51216

PRODID = 'NBU'

ORGID

Integer or string

Provide the originator ID or the abbreviated name of the component.

ORGID = 116

ORGID = 'nbpem'

PID

Long Integer

Provide the process ID

PID = 1234567

TID

Long Integer

Provide the thread ID

TID = 2874950

STDATE

Long Integer or string

Provide the start date in seconds or in the locale-specific short date and time format. For example, a locale can have the format 'mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss AM/PM'

STDATE = 98736352

STDATE = '4/26/11 11:01:00 AM'

ENDATE

Long Integer or string

Provide the end date in seconds or in the locale-specific short date and time format. For example, a locale can have the format 'mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss AM/PM'

ENDATE = 99736352

ENDATE = '04/27/11 10:01:00 AM'

PREVTIME

String

Provide the hours in 'hh:mm:ss' format. This field should be used only with operators =, <, >, >=, and <=

PREVTIME = '2:34:00'

SEV

Integer

Provide one of the following possible severity types:

0 = INFO

1 = WARNING

2 = ERR

3 = CRIT

4 = EMERG

SEV = 0

SEV = INFO

MSGTYPE

Integer

Provide one of the following possible message types:

0 = DEBUG (debug messages)

1 = DIAG (diagnostic messages)

2 = APP (application messages)

3 = CTX (context messages)

4 = AUDIT (audit messages)

MSGTYPE = 1

MSGTYPE = DIAG

CTX

Integer or string

Provide the context token as string identifier or 'ALL' to get all the context instances to be displayed. This field should be used only with the operators = and !=.

CTX = 78

CTX = 'ALL'

 

Table: Examples of query strings with dates

Example

Description

(PRODID == 51216) && ((PID == 178964)|| ((STDATE == 
'2/5/15 09:00:00 AM') && (ENDATE == '2/5/15 
12:00:00 PM'))

Retrieves the log file message for the NetBackup product ID 51216 between 9AM and 12PM on 2015-05-02.

((prodid = 'NBU') && ((stdate >= '11/18/14 
00:00:00 AM') && (endate <= '12/13/14 12:00:00 PM'))) || 
((prodid = 'BENT') && ((stdate >= '12/12/14 00:00:00 
AM') && (endate <= '12/25/14 12:00:00 PM')))

Retrieves the log messages for the NetBackup product NBU between 2014-18-11 and 2014-13-12 and the log messages for the NetBackup product BENT between 2014-12-12 and 2014-25-12.

(STDATE <= '04/05/15 0:0:0 AM')

Retrieves the log messages that were logged on or before 2015-05-04 for all of the installed Cohesity products.