Veritas Access Appliance Solutions Guide for NetBackup
- Access Appliance integration with NetBackup
- System requirements
- Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with Access Appliance
- About Veritas Data Deduplication
- Benefits of using Veritas Data Deduplication with Access Appliance
- Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the GUI
- Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access CLISH
- Support for multiple domains across networks for Veritas Data Deduplication
- Veritas Data Deduplication storage layout
- Configuring a Veritas Data Deduplication storage unit on NetBackup
- Configuring global deduplication using the Veritas Data Deduplication storage server across the domain
- Enabling Veritas Data Deduplication encryption
- Migrating the NetBackup images from existing storage to Veritas Data Deduplication storage
- Configuring Access Appliance as a cloud storage server with NetBackup CloudCatalyst
- Configuring backup and restore using NetBackup policies
- Configuring Access Appliance with the NetBackup client
- Configuring Access Appliance for NetBackup client
- Installing the NetBackup client add-on packages
- Prerequisites for configuring the NetBackup client
- Configuring the NetBackup client
- Adding an optional media server
- Adding multiple master servers
- Adding file systems to the backup configuration
- Removing file systems from backup configuration
- Changing the virtual IP address used by the NetBackup client
- Upgrade the NetBackup client
- Unconfiguring the NetBackup client
- Enabling Veritas Data Deduplication catalog backup with NetBackup client
- Disabling Veritas Data Deduplication catalog backup from NetBackup client
- Displaying the status of NetBackup services
- Configuring backup operations using NetBackup or other third-party backup applications
- Configuring Access Appliance for NetBackup cloud storage
- Restoring file systems backed up with NetBackup client
- Troubleshooting
- Index
Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the GUI
To configure Veritas Data Deduplication
- Log on to the Access Appliance application.
The Getting Started page is displayed.
Click Veritas Data Deduplication.
- By default, the Configure storage tab is displayed.
Create a storage pool, modify disk selections for the pool as required, and then click Create pool.
By default, all the available disks are selected for the pool.
When you create a Veritas Data Deduplication storage pool, you need to use five disks or volumes. You add disks or volumes in multiples of five.
- The storage pool gets configured. Click Finish.
- Under the Activate Policy tab, select the Veritas Data Deduplication policy, and then click Activate policy.
- The Veritas Data Deduplication policy is activated. Click Finish.
- Under the Provision storage tab, specify the storage options, enter the user name and password for the service, enter a virtual IP for the service, and then click Provision storage.
You are required to enter the following fields:
Size: Specify the size of the file system.
You can grow the deduplication storage pool to a maximum supported size of 1.24 PiB.
Note:
The shrink operation is not supported. You cannot shrink the size of the deduplication storage server pool after configuration.
Storage pool: Specify the name of the storage pool.
Virtual IP address: The virtual IP that you want to use to configure the Veritas Data Deduplication server. This IP should not be the console IP, replication IP, NetBackup client IP, or the loadbalancer IP. If you use any of these IPs to configure deduplication, storage provisioning fails.
Run the Network> ipaddress show command from the Access command-line interface to find an available virtual IP address. Or navigate to Infrastructure > Nodes in the GUI, and click on the node name to see the virtual IP address.
If a virtual IP is not available to configure the Veritas Data Deduplication server, you should add at least one virtual IP to the cluster using the Access command-line interface.
Username and password: Credentials with which the Veritas Data Deduplication server gets configured.
The same credentials are required later to add the Veritas Data Deduplication server to NetBackup.
- Click Finish.
The storage provisioning is now complete.
View the Recent Activity panel for the status of the task.
An alert appears in the GUI when the memory usage of the Veritas Data Deduplication server is more than 75%. The alert displays the amount of memory used and the total RAM usage. If the situation persists for more than 24 hours, an AutoSupport alert is raised and an email is sent.
If you receive this alert, go to > and restart the service once you reach this threshold. For information about the issues that are caused when the Veritas Data Deduplication service consumes large amount of memory, see https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100045745.