Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Getting Started Guide

The following list describes the known limitations for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.0 release:

• The appliance software is currently available in English only.

• The NetBackup Virtual Appliance Web Console and the Veritas Remote Management interface (IPMI) are not supported. Use the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu or the NetBackup Administration Console to log on and manage the appliance.

• Recovery operations such as user checkpoints and factory reset are not available, so you cannot return your appliance to an earlier state. If you encounter any severe issues, contact Veritas Support for assistance. You may need to redeploy the appliance if the issue cannot be resolved.

• You cannot add additional media servers to the appliance.

• You cannot add additional storage to the appliance beyond the licensed capacity. The configured backend storage cannot be expanded beyond 2 TB.

• The following storage features are not supported:

  • Resizing the partitions

  • Tape devices and libraries

  • NetBackup Cloud Storage

  • The NetBackup OpenStorage option (OST)

• The following network features are not available:

  • Fibre Channel

  • Fibre Transport

  • SAN Client

  • VLAN

  • Link Aggregation (bonds)

  • IPsec

  • iSCSI

• The Copilot feature is not available.

• The LogForwarding feature is not available.

• The self-test feature is limited to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance software.

• You cannot register your appliance or access the MyAppliance portal for this release. The Call Home and AutoSupport features are still supported and are enabled by default. Appliance monitoring is limited to the following:

  • Partition information

  • MSDP statistics

  • NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version

  • NetBackup version

  • Appliance model

  • Appliance configuration

  Note:

  The Settings > Alerts > CallHome Registration Show command is available in the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu. However, it directs users to the MyAppliance portal, which does not allow registration for the virtual appliance.

• The Symantec Data Center Security (SDCS) managed mode is not currently available. SDCS operates in unmanaged mode on the appliance.

• You cannot configure IPv6 addresses during deployment. IPv6 can be configured after deployment from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu.