Veritas Access Appliance 8.3 Upgrade Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.3)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350,Veritas 3360
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About the Access Appliance upgrade
    2.  
      About the supported software versions
    3.  
      Supported upgrade paths
    4.  
      Supported upgrade paths if continuous replication is configured
    5. About the preupgrade check
      1.  
        Error messages displayed during the preupgrade check
  2. Upgrading Access Appliance
    1.  
      Access Appliance upgrade overview
    2. Downloading the appliance software updates
      1. Downloading the software update using the UI
        1.  
          Downloading a software update from the Veritas Support website
      2. Downloading software updates using the Access Appliance shell menu
        1.  
          Downloading software updates directly to an Access Appliance node
        2.  
          Downloading software updates to an Access Appliance node using a client share
        3. Downloading software updates to an Access Appliance node using SCP
          1.  
            Installing OpenSSH
    3. Performing an upgrade pre-check
      1.  
        Running an upgrade pre-check using the UI
      2.  
        Running a pre-check from the appliance shell menu
    4. Completing pre-upgrade tasks
      1.  
        Performing manual preupgrade tasks
      2.  
        Performing preupgrade tasks when replication is configured
      3.  
        Considerations for Veritas Data Deduplication server if it is configured without WORM storage
    5. Performing an upgrade
      1.  
        Upgrading Access Appliance using the UI
      2.  
        Performing an upgrade from the appliance shell menu
    6. Completing post-upgrade tasks
      1.  
        Renewing internal certificate
      2.  
        Downloading and installing the required EEBs
      3.  
        Reconfiguring non-WORM Veritas Data Deduplication server
      4.  
        Increasing the Veritas Data Deduplication storage to 2.4 PiB
  3. Installing EEBs using the UI
    1.  
      About Access Appliance EEBs
    2.  
      Downloading EEBs
    3.  
      Installing EEBs
    4.  
      Rolling back EEBs
    5.  
      Removing EEBs

Increasing the Veritas Data Deduplication storage to 2.4 PiB

Starting with version 8.1, you can configure up to 2.4 PiB of storage for the Veritas Data Deduplication server. You can configure two instances of Veritas Data Deduplication with 1.2 PiB storage each for a total of 2.4 PiB of storage. If you plan to increase the storage, ensure that the appliance has sufficient system memory.

You require 0.5 GB of system memory for every 1 TB of storage when you configure the Veritas Data Deduplication server. If you want to configure 1.2 PiB storage, you require 768 GB of system memory as additional system memory kit can be purchased in 386 GB increments. If there is insufficient system memory, the Veritas Data Deduplication configuration fails. Ensure that you install additional system memory as per your requirements before you configure additional storage for the Veritas Data Deduplication server.

If you don't plan to provision storage for Veritas Data Deduplication, you don't require any additional system memory.

For more details, see the Veritas Access Appliance Solutions Guide for NetBackup Guide.