NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) Cluster

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.1)
  1. Introduction to NetBackup on AKS
    1.  
      About NetBackup deployment on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) cluster
    2.  
      Required terminology
    3.  
      User roles and permissions
    4.  
      About MSDP Scaleout
    5.  
      About MSDP Scaleout components
    6.  
      Limitations in MSDP Scaleout
  2. Deployment with environment operators
    1. About deployment with the environment operator
      1.  
        Prerequisites
      2.  
        Contents of the TAR file
      3.  
        Known limitations
    2.  
      Deploying the operators manually
    3.  
      Deploying NetBackup and MSDP Scaleout manually
    4.  
      Deploying NetBackup and Snapshot Manager manually
    5.  
      Configuring the environment.yaml file
    6.  
      Uninstalling NetBackup environment and the operators
    7.  
      Applying security patches
  3. Assessing cluster configuration before deployment
    1.  
      How does the Config-Checker utility work
    2.  
      Config-Checker execution and status details
    3.  
      How Data-Migration works
    4.  
      Data-Migration execution and status details
  4. Deploying NetBackup
    1.  
      Preparing the environment for NetBackup installation on AKS
    2.  
      Recommendations of NetBackup deployment on AKS
    3.  
      Limitations of NetBackup deployment on AKS
    4. About primary server CR and media server CR
      1.  
        After installing primary server CR
      2.  
        After Installing the media server CR
    5.  
      Monitoring the status of the CRs
    6.  
      Updating the CRs
    7.  
      Deleting the CRs
    8.  
      Configuring NetBackup IT Analytics for NetBackup deployment
    9.  
      Managing NetBackup deployment using VxUpdate
    10.  
      Migrating the node pool for primary or media servers
  5. Upgrading NetBackup
    1.  
      Preparing for NetBackup upgrade
    2.  
      Upgrading NetBackup operator
    3.  
      Upgrading Snapshot Manager operator
    4.  
      Upgrading NetBackup application
    5.  
      Upgrading Snapshot Manager
    6.  
      Post-migration tasks
    7.  
      Upgrade NetBackup during data migration
    8.  
      Procedure to rollback when upgrade fails
  6. Deploying Snapshot Manager
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Prerequisites
    3.  
      Installing the docker images
  7. Migration and upgrade of Snapshot Manager
    1.  
      Migration and upgrade of Snapshot Manager
  8. Deploying MSDP Scaleout
    1.  
      Deploying MSDP Scaleout
    2.  
      Prerequisites
    3.  
      Installing the docker images and binaries
    4.  
      Initializing the MSDP operator
    5.  
      Configuring MSDP Scaleout
    6.  
      Using MSDP Scaleout as a single storage pool in NetBackup
    7.  
      Configuring the MSDP cloud in MSDP Scaleout
  9. Upgrading MSDP Scaleout
    1.  
      Upgrading MSDP Scaleout
  10. Monitoring NetBackup
    1.  
      Monitoring the application health
    2.  
      Telemetry reporting
    3.  
      About NetBackup operator logs
    4.  
      Expanding storage volumes
    5.  
      Allocating static PV for Media pods
  11. Monitoring MSDP Scaleout
    1.  
      About MSDP Scaleout status and events
    2.  
      Monitoring with Azure Container insights
    3.  
      The Kubernetes resources for MSDP Scaleout and MSDP operator
  12. Monitoring Snapshot Manager deployment
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Logs of Snapshot Manager
    3.  
      Configuration parameters
  13. Managing the Load Balancer service
    1.  
      About the Load Balancer service
    2.  
      Notes for Load Balancer service
    3.  
      Opening the ports from the Load Balancer service
  14. Performing catalog backup and recovery
    1.  
      Backing up a catalog
    2.  
      Restoring a catalog
  15. Managing MSDP Scaleout
    1.  
      Adding MSDP engines
    2.  
      Adding data volumes
    3. Expanding existing data or catalog volumes
      1.  
        Manual storage expansion
    4.  
      MSDP Scaleout scaling recommendations
    5. MSDP Cloud backup and disaster recovery
      1.  
        About the reserved storage space
      2.  
        Cloud LSU disaster recovery
    6.  
      MSDP multi-domain support
    7.  
      Configuring Auto Image Replication
    8. About MSDP Scaleout logging and troubleshooting
      1.  
        Collecting the logs and the inspection information
  16. About MSDP Scaleout maintenance
    1.  
      Pausing the MSDP Scaleout operator for maintenance
    2.  
      Logging in to the pods
    3.  
      Reinstalling MSDP Scaleout operator
    4.  
      Migrating the MSDP Scaleout to another node pool
  17. Uninstalling MSDP Scaleout from AKS
    1.  
      Cleaning up MSDP Scaleout
    2.  
      Cleaning up the MSDP Scaleout operator
  18. Uninstalling Snapshot Manager
    1.  
      Uninstalling Snapshot Manager from AKS
  19. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      View the list of operator resources
    2.  
      View the list of product resources
    3.  
      View operator logs
    4.  
      View primary logs
    5.  
      Pod restart failure due to liveness probe time-out
    6.  
      Socket connection failure
    7.  
      Resolving an invalid license key issue
    8.  
      Resolving an issue where external IP address is not assigned to a NetBackup server's load balancer services
    9.  
      Resolving the issue where the NetBackup server pod is not scheduled for long time
    10.  
      Resolving an issue where the Storage class does not exist
    11.  
      Resolving an issue where the primary server or media server deployment does not proceed
    12.  
      Resolving an issue of failed probes
    13.  
      Resolving token issues
    14.  
      Resolving an issue related to insufficient storage
    15.  
      Resolving an issue related to invalid nodepool
    16.  
      Resolving a token expiry issue
    17.  
      Resolve an issue related to KMS database
    18.  
      Resolve an issue related to pulling an image from the container registry
    19.  
      Resolving an issue related to recovery of data
    20.  
      Check primary server status
    21.  
      Pod status field shows as pending
    22.  
      Ensure that the container is running the patched image
    23.  
      Getting EEB information from an image, a running container, or persistent data
    24.  
      Resolving the certificate error issue in NetBackup operator pod logs
    25.  
      Data migration unsuccessful even after changing the storage class through the storage yaml file
    26.  
      Host validation failed on the target host
    27.  
      Primary pod is in pending state for a long duration
    28.  
      Taint, Toleration, and Node affinity related issues in cpServer
    29.  
      Operations performed on cpServer in environment.yaml file are not reflected
    30.  
      Host mapping conflict in NetBackup
    31.  
      NetBackup messaging queue broker take more time to start
    32.  
      Local connection is getting treated as insecure connection
    33.  
      Issue with capacity licensing reporting which takes longer time
    34.  
      Backing up data from Primary server's /mnt/nbdata/ directory fails with primary server as a client
    35.  
      Primary pod goes in non-ready state
  20. Appendix A. CR template
    1.  
      Secret
    2.  
      MSDP Scaleout CR

Installing the docker images

The Snapshot Manager package netbackup-flexsnap-$(SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION).tar.gz for Kubernetes includes the following:

  • A docker image for Snapshot Manager operator

  • 10 docker images for Snapshot Manager: flexsnap-certauth, flexsnap-rabbitmq, flexsnap-api, flexsnap-fluentd, flexsnap-datamover, flexsnap-nginx, flexsnap-idm, flexsnap-mongodb, flexsnap-core, flexsnap-deploy

To install the docker images

  1. Download netbackup-flexsnap-$(SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION).tar.gz from the Veritas site.
  2. Load the docker images to your docker storage.

    docker load -i netbackup-flexsnap-$(SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION).tar.gz

  3. Tag the images.

    $ docker tag veritas/flexsnap-fluentd:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION} ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-fluentd:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker tag veritas/flexsnap-datamover:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION} ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-datamover:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker tag veritas/flexsnap-nginx:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION} ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-nginx:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker tag veritas/flexsnap-idm:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION} ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-idm:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker tag veritas/flexsnap-mongodb:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION} ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-mongodb:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker tag veritas/flexsnap-core:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION} ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-core:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker tag veritas/flexsnap-deploy:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION} ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-deploy:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

  4. Push the images.

    $ docker push ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-certauth:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker push ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-rabbitmq:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker push ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-api-gateway:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker push ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-fluentd:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker push ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-datamover:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker push ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-nginx:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker push ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-idm:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker push ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-mongodb:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker push ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-core:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

    $ docker push ${REGISTRY}/veritas/flexsnap-deploy:${SNAPSHOT_MANAGER_VERSION}

Configure Snapshot Manager

After you push the docker images to Azure container registry, then initialize Snapshot Manager (flexsnap) operator and configure Snapshot Manager. The Snapshot Manager operator starts with NetBackup operator. For more information, refer to the following section:

Configure Snapshot Manager

  1. Create (or use existing) a dedicated namespace for Snapshot Manager to run:

    kubectl create ns <sample-namespace>

  2. Create a Snapshot Manager Secret. The Secret is used in CR.

    kubectl create secret generic cp-creds --from-literal=username='admin' --from-literal=password='Cloudpoint@123' -n $ENVIRONMENT_NAMESPACE

  3. Edit the cpServer CR section of the environment.yaml file in the text editor.

    See Configuring the environment.yaml file.

  4. Apply the CR file to the AKS cluster:

    kubectl apply -f <sample-cr-yaml>

  5. Monitor the configuration process:

    kubectl get all -n <namespace> -o wide

  6. Verify the status by running the following command:

    kubectl get cpservers -n <sample-namespace>

More Information

Deploying the operators manually

Deploying NetBackup and Snapshot Manager manually