Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide
- Product overview
- Viewing information about the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster environment
- NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
- User management
- Considerations for managing NetBackup Flex Scale users
- Adding users
- Changing user password
- Removing users
- Modifying user roles
- Considerations for configuring AD/LDAP
- Configuring AD server for Universal shares and Instant Access
- Configuring AD/LDAP servers for NetBackup services
- Configuring additional AD/LDAP servers for managing NetBackup services/Universal Shares/Instant Access
- Configuring AD/LDAP servers on clusters deployed with only media servers
- Directory services and certificate management
- Region settings management
- About NetBackup Flex Scale storage
- About Universal Shares
- Cloud bucket support for NetBackup Flex Scale
- Backing up data to Data Domain storage
- Node and disk management
- NetBackup Flex Scale network cabling
- Adding a node to the cluster using the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface
- Adding a node using the REST APIs
- Replacing a node in a cluster
- Starting and stopping nodes
- Rebooting a node
- Adding an excluded node to the cluster
- Replacing a disk
- Adding an excluded disk to the cluster
- Viewing the disk sync status
- Viewing disk details
- Viewing node details
- Switching management console to another cluster node
- License management
- Stopping NetBackup service containers
- Starting NetBackup service containers
- Managing the Fibre Channel ports
- Requirements
- Enabling BOM (Bill of Materials) configuration for Fibre Channel
- Assigning Fibre Channel ports
- Discovering attached devices
- Rescanning Fibre Channel cards
- Cleaning Fibre Channel ports
- Unassigning Fibre Channel ports
- Viewing details about the Fibre Channel ports
- Disabling BOM (Bill of Materials) configuration for Fibre Channel
- Managing hardware vendor packages
- Updating credentials for HPE iLO administrator users
- User management
- NetBackup Flex Scale network management
- About network management
- Modifying DNS settings
- Configuring MTU on public interfaces
- Configuring the console FQDN
- About bonding Ethernet interfaces
- Bonding operations
- Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale in a non-DNS environment
- Data network configurations
- Choosing the correct input method for data network configuration
- Network configuration on plain device (eth5)
- Network configuration on VLAN (eth5)
- Network configuration on bonded interfaces (bond0 on eth5 and eth7)
- VLAN on bond of eth5 and eth7 (bond0)
- Network configuration on management interface (eth1)
- Network configurations for adding a partial data network
- Support for multiple VLAN when disaster recovery is configured
- Configuring static routes on a NetBackup Flex Scale cluster
- NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure monitoring
- Resiliency in NetBackup Flex Scale
- EMS server configuration
- Site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
- About site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
- Configuring disaster recovery using GUI
- Clearing the host cache
- Automated NetBackup SLP management
- DNS key management
- Managing disaster recovery using GUI
- Performing disaster recovery using RESTful APIs
- Active-Active disaster recovery configuration
- NetBackup optimized duplication using Storage Lifecycle Policies
- NetBackup Flex Scale security
- About the security meter
- STIG overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
- FIPS overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
- Managing the login banner
- Changing the password policy
- Support for immutability in NetBackup Flex Scale
- Authenticating users using digital certificates or smart cards
- About system certificates on NetBackup Flex Scale
- Deploying external certificates on NetBackup Flex Scale
- Configuring isolated recovery environment (IRE)
- Configuring multifactor authentication
- About multifactor authentication
- Considerations before configuring multifactor authentication
- Configuring multifactor authentication for your user account
- Disabling multifactor authentication for your user account
- Enforcing multifactor authentication for all users
- Configuring multifactor authentication for your user account when it is enforced in the cluster
- Resetting multifactor authentication for a user
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Appendix A. Maintenance procedures for HPE servers
- Replacement procedure for a chassis fan
- Replacement procedure for power supply
- Replacement procedure for a single OS disk
- Replacement procedure for both OS disks on a non- management console node
- Replacement procedure for NVMe disks (SSDs)
- Replacement procedure for RAID controller
- Replacement procedure for an Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) port
- Replacement procedure for quad-port NIC
- Procedure for memory expansion (DIMMs)
- Replacement procedure for memory (DIMMs)
- Replacement procedure for Mellanox port
- Replacement procedure for SFP port
- Replacement procedure for chassis
- Replacement procedure for a hard disk drive
- Replacement procedure for a Fibre Channel card for a cluster node
- Replacement procedure for a Fibre Channel card for a node that is not in a cluster
- Appendix B. Configuring NetBackup optimized duplication
- Appendix C. Disaster recovery terminologies
- Appendix D. Configuring Auto Image Replication
Managing hardware vendor packages
The vendor packages are preinstalled on out of the box appliance nodes. You do not have to install anything on the raw nodes after you take them out of the box. Use the following procedure if you want to install third-party vendor packages. If you want to install third-party vendor packages, download the required vendor packages from the hardware vendor site. You can uninstall or upgrade the vendor packages after they are installed.
To install vendor packages after the cluster is configured:
- Use any one of the following options to log on using the user account that you created when you configured the cluster:
Use a user account with both Appliance Administrator and NetBackup Administrator role, or a user account with only an Appliance administrator role to log on to the NetBackup Flex Scale web UI
https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN/webuiwhere ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address or the FQDN that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server during the cluster configuration, and then in the left pane click Cluster Management > Cluster settings > Software management.Use a user account with an Appliance Administrator role to log on to the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI
https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN:14161where ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address or the FQDN that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server during the cluster configuration, and then in the left pane click Settings > Software management.
Note:
If you access the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI by using the short host name from a node, set the DNS settings (name server, domain name, and search domain) or ensure that the entry for mapping the short host name to an IP address exists in the hosts file of the node.
- On the Software management page, click Vendor packages.
- On the Vendor packages tab click Verify.
- Do one of the following:
If there is a change in required vendor packages, download the existing
vendor_utilities.jsonfile, edit the file to update the vendor package list, and then upload the updated JSON file. The uploaded JSON file replaces the existing file and is now used a reference for the list of vendor packages that must be present on the node. To download the JSON file, on the Vendor packages tab click Download JSON file. Edit the downloaded file. To upload the updated file, click Next > Upload JSON file. Click Verify.If there is no change in the required vendor packages, click Next > Verify
- If the required vendor packages are missing or the installed package version is earlier than what is listed in the JSON file, the node is marked as unhealthy and the details about the missing packages are displayed for each node. Click Add.
- Download the required vendor packages from the vendor site.
- Upload the vendor packages to the driver node. On the Vendor packages tab, click Add and select the vendor packages that you downloaded. The selected vendor packages are uploaded to the
/system/inst/patch/incominglocation of the driver node and their status in the UI is shown as Available. - Optionally, to remove the uploaded vendor packages, select the vendor packages and click Remove.
- If the vendor packages are required to be installed in a specific sequence, click the arrows in the Reorder column to change the installation sequence.
- Install the uploaded vendor packages. Select all the vendor packages and click Install. Each package is installed on all the nodes. If the packages are installed successfully on all the nodes, a notification is displayed on the top of the page and the package status changes to Installed. If the installation fails on one of the nodes, the vendor package is rolled back on all the nodes and the package status is shown as Available.