Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Flex Appliance 3.0 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 3.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 3.2 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 3.3 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Supported upgrade and update paths to this release
- Operational notes
- Flex Appliance 3.0 release content
- Flex Appliance 3.1 release content
- Flex Appliance 3.2 release content
- Flex Appliance 3.3 release content
- Getting started
- Initial configuration guidelines and checklist
- Performing the initial configuration
- Adding a node
- Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Shell
- Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing the appliance from the Appliance Management Console
- Setting the date and time for appliance nodes
- Common tasks in Flex Appliance
- Managing network settings
- Managing users
- Overview of the Flex Appliance default users
- Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
- Adding a tenant
- Editing a tenant
- Removing a tenant
- Adding a local user to the Flex Appliance Console
- Connecting a remote user domain to the Flex Appliance Console
- Editing a remote user domain in the Flex Appliance Console
- Importing a remote user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing single sign-on (SSO)
- Managing identity providers (IDPs)
- Importing a single sign-on user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Changing a local user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Expiring local user passwords in the Flex Appliance Console
- Unlocking a local user account in the Flex Appliance Console
- Removing users from the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing the password policy
- Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
- Changing the sysadmin user password in the Veritas Remote Management Interface
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Creating application instances
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Upgrading application instances
- Updating an application instance to a newer revision
- About Flex Appliance updates
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Registering an appliance
- Configuring alerts
- Monitoring the appliance from the System Health Insights portal
- Viewing the hardware status
- Viewing hardware faults
- Viewing system data
- Clearing the hardware status
- Forwarding logs
- Providing access for external monitoring
- Revoking access for external monitoring
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Flex Appliance 3.2 new features, enhancements, and changes
The following list describes the new features, enhancements, and changes in the Flex Appliance 3.2 release:
This release introduces support of the Veritas 5360 Appliance and the Veritas 5260 Appliance.
The Veritas 5360 Appliance is a hardware and software storage system that scales up to a total of 1,920TiB (2,111TB) of usable backup capacity. It consists of one or two 2U 5360 Appliance compute nodes and one required externally attached 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf, which is used for data storage purposes. By itself, the 5360 Appliance compute node does not provide internal disk space for data storage. You can add up to three optional 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelves if you require additional data storage space. For complete details, see the Veritas 5360 Appliance Product Description Guide.
The Veritas 5260 Appliance is a hardware and software storage system that can scale to 429.4 TiB of available backup capacity. It consists of a Veritas 5260 Appliance and up to six optional Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB storage shelves. By itself, the 2U Veritas 5260 Appliance offers internal storage from 9.1 TiB to 36.4 TiB, depending on the appliance configuration purchased. For complete details, see the Veritas 5260 Appliance Product Description Guide.
The term "upgrade" has been discontinued for Flex Appliance. The packages and procedures that were previously referred to as "upgrades" now use the term "updates." The term "upgrade" still applies for application instances.
As part of this change, you can now install all software updates from the Flex Appliance Console. The system upgrade command has been removed.
You can now commit all software updates from the Flex Appliance Console. To commit an update, click on the Appliance updates tab of the Repository page. The system upgrade-commit command has been removed.
You can now schedule automatic updates for Flex Appliance from System Health Insights. See the System Health Insights User Guide for details.
You can now change the port to use for SSH access to the Flex Appliance Shell.
This release adds a new show hardware-data storage-shelf command that shows detailed information about the 53xx storage shelf components.
See Viewing storage shelf information on a Veritas 53xx Appliance.
You can now use the support clear-hardware-status command to clear the hardware monitoring status. You may need to clear the status if you replace a hardware component or experience any issues with the hardware monitoring data.
If you have configured an isolated recovery environment (IRE) on a WORM storage server instance, you can now view the live firewall settings from the Flex Appliance Console. To view the settings, navigate to the Application instances section of the System topology page and click the instance name, then .