NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters
- Introduction
- Section I. Deployment
- Prerequisites for Kubernetes cluster configuration
- Deployment with environment operators
- Deploying NetBackup
- Preparing the environment for NetBackup installation on Kubernetes cluster
- Recommendations of NetBackup deployment on Kubernetes cluster
- Limitations of NetBackup deployment on Kubernetes cluster
- Primary and media server CR
- Configuring NetBackup IT Analytics for NetBackup deployment
- Managing NetBackup deployment using VxUpdate
- Migrating the cloud node for primary or media servers
- Deploying NetBackup using Helm charts
- Deploying MSDP Scaleout
- Deploying MSDP Scaleout
- Prerequisites for AKS
- Prerequisites for EKS
- Installing the docker images and binaries
- Initializing the MSDP operator
- Configuring MSDP Scaleout
- Using MSDP Scaleout as a single storage pool in NetBackup
- Configuring the MSDP cloud in MSDP Scaleout
- Using S3 service in MSDP Scaleout for AKS
- Enabling MSDP S3 service after MSDP Scaleout is deployed for AKS
- Deploying Snapshot Manager
- Verifying Cloud Scale deployment
- Section II. Monitoring and Management
- Monitoring NetBackup
- Monitoring MSDP Scaleout
- Monitoring Snapshot Manager
- Managing the Load Balancer service
- Managing MSDP Scaleout
- Managing PostrgreSQL DBaaS
- Performing catalog backup and recovery
- Setting key parameters in Cloud Scale deployments
- Section III. Maintenance
- MSDP Scaleout Maintenance
- PostgreSQL DBaaS Maintenance
- Upgrading
- Uninstalling
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting AKS and EKS issues
- View the list of operator resources
- View the list of product resources
- View operator logs
- View primary logs
- Socket connection failure
- Resolving an issue where external IP address is not assigned to a NetBackup server's load balancer services
- Resolving the issue where the NetBackup server pod is not scheduled for long time
- Resolving an issue where the Storage class does not exist
- Resolving an issue where the primary server or media server deployment does not proceed
- Resolving an issue of failed probes
- Resolving token issues
- Resolving an issue related to insufficient storage
- Resolving an issue related to invalid nodepool
- Resolving a token expiry issue
- Resolve an issue related to KMS database
- Resolve an issue related to pulling an image from the container registry
- Resolving an issue related to recovery of data
- Check primary server status
- Pod status field shows as pending
- Ensure that the container is running the patched image
- Getting EEB information from an image, a running container, or persistent data
- Resolving the certificate error issue in NetBackup operator pod logs
- Pod restart failure due to liveness probe time-out
- NetBackup messaging queue broker take more time to start
- Host mapping conflict in NetBackup
- Issue with capacity licensing reporting which takes longer time
- Local connection is getting treated as insecure connection
- Primary pod is in pending state for a long duration
- Backing up data from Primary server's /mnt/nbdata/ directory fails with primary server as a client
- Storage server not supporting Instant Access capability on Web UI after upgrading NetBackup
- Taint, Toleration, and Node affinity related issues in cpServer
- Operations performed on cpServer in environment.yaml file are not reflected
- Elastic media server related issues
- Failed to register Snapshot Manager with NetBackup
- Pods unable to connect to flexsnap-rabbitmq post Kubernetes cluster restart
- Troubleshooting AKS-specific issues
- Troubleshooting EKS-specific issues
- Troubleshooting AKS and EKS issues
- Appendix A. CR template
Configuring MSDP Scaleout
After you push the docker images to ACR and initialize MSDP operator, configure MSDP Scaleout.
To configure MSDP Scaleout
- Create a dedicated namespace for MSDP Scaleout to run.
kubectl create ns <sample-namespace>
- Create an MSDP Scaleout Secret. The Secret is used in CR.
kubectl apply -f <secret-yaml-file>
See Secret.
- This step is applicable only for AKS and is an optional step.
Create an MSDP S3 root credential secret. The secret is used in CR.
$ kubectl msdp generate-s3-secret --namespace <sample-namespace> --s3secret <s3-secret-name>
- Display the custom resource (CR) template.
kubectl msdp show -c
- Save the CR template.
kubectl msdp show -c -f <file path>
- Edit the CR file in the text editor.
- Apply the CR file to the cluster.
Caution:
Add MSDP_SERVER = <first Engine FQDN> in
/usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conffile on the NetBackup primary server before applying the CR YAML.kubectl apply -f <sample-cr-yaml>
- Monitor the configuration progress.
kubectl get all -n <namespace> -o wide
In the STATUS column, if the readiness state for the controller, MDS and engine pods are all Running, it means that the configuration has completed successfully.
In the READINESS GATES column for engines, 1/1 indicates that the engine configuration has completed successfully.
- If you specified spec.autoRegisterOST.enabled: true in the CR, when the MSDP engines are configured, the MSDP operator automatically registers the storage server, a default disk pool, and a default storage unit in the NetBackup primary server.
A field ostAutoRegisterStatus in the Status section indicates the registration status. If ostAutoRegisterStatus.registered is True, it means that the registration has completed successfully.
You can run the following command to check the status:
kubectl get msdpscaleouts.msdp.veritas.com -n <sample-namespace>
You can find the storage server, the default disk pool, and storage unit on the Web UI of the NetBackup primary server.