Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Getting Started Guide
- Product overview
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance supported features
- About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance documentation
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance 4.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Known limitations of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 4.1 release
- Operational Notes for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 4.1 release
- Preparing the initial deployment
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined primary and media server
- Using the vSphere Client to deploy a combined primary and media server appliance
- Using the OVF Tool to deploy a combined primary and media server appliance
- Performing the initial configuration on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined primary and media server
- Completing the initial configuration of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined primary and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance primary server
- Troubleshooting NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment issues
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined primary and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Introduction to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server role
In this role, a NetBackup Virtual Appliance operates as a media server with user-added disk storage.
After the deployment, the virtual appliance contains only the internal storage that is used for storing the operating system, checkpoints, and system logs. The internal storage cannot be used for storing any data or taking any backups. For backup and restore, you must first add disk storage to this virtual machine from the vitualization software(VMware).
You can also configure the NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server for MSDP cloud applications. See Configuration overview for NetBackup Virtual Appliance MSDP cloud applications.
This appliance role provides a simplified administrative interface for the local network and for disk storage management. However, the majority of NetBackup administration such as backup management is performed on the primary server.
When you perform the initial configuration on the appliance, specify the associated primary server:
See About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance primary server role.
See About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined primary and media server role.