Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Getting Started Guide
- Product overview
- Preparing the initial deployment
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Introduction to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
- Appendix A. Limitations and Operational Notes
- Appendix B. New features, enhancements, and changes
NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
The following list describes the new features, enhancements, and changes in the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.1 release:
Starting with software version 3.1, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system upgrades to the version 7.3.
Starting with software version 3.1, the NetBackup Virtual Appliance supports storage management operations including adding and removing storage disks, resizing storage partitions, scanning storage devices, and monitoring storage management tasks.
Starting with software version 3.1, the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment supports the VMware vSphere 6.5 and the VMware OVF Tool.
When you deploy the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.1 with the combined master and media server role, you can do the following:
Specify an initial storage capacity of 0.5T, 1T or 2T
Configure IPv6 network
When you deploy the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.1, you can choose whether to write the host name and IP address of the appliance to the HOSTS file. This is to ensure the host name lookup check for initial configuration is successful when DNS is not available.
Starting with software version 3.1, the NetBackup Virtual Appliance supports the following features:
Log Forwarding
Checkpoint creation and rollback
Starting with software version 3.1, the NetBackup Virtual Appliance supports the media server role. The NetBackup Virtual Appliance with the media server role includes the following additional features compared to combined master and media server role:
Factory reset
Copilot
Starting with software version 3.1, the NetBackup Virtual Appliance supports two new AutoSupport plugins to monitor the status of the virtual memory and CPUs. See the Main > Monitor > Hardware command for more information.
Starting with software version 3.1, the command UpgradeStatus shows an upgrade progress bar, upgrade logs, Appliance model, upgrade path, and upgrade time.