Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (6.1, 6.0)
Platform: Flex Appliance OS
  1. Product overview
    1.  
      Introduction to Veritas Flex Appliance
    2.  
      Flex Appliance terminology
    3.  
      About the Flex Appliance documentation
  2. Release notes
    1.  
      Flex Appliance 6.0 new features, enhancements, and changes
    2.  
      Flex Appliance 6.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
    3.  
      Supported update paths to this release
    4.  
      Operational notes
    5.  
      Flex Appliance 6.0 release content
    6.  
      Flex Appliance 6.1 release content
  3. Getting started
    1.  
      Initial configuration guidelines and checklist
    2.  
      Performing the initial configuration
    3.  
      Adding a node
    4.  
      Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Shell
    5.  
      Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Console
    6.  
      Setting the date and time for appliance nodes
    7.  
      Common tasks in Flex Appliance
  4. Managing network settings for instances
    1.  
      Creating a network bond
    2.  
      Editing a network bond
    3.  
      Deleting a network bond
    4.  
      Configuring or editing a network interface
    5. Managing the appliance Fibre Channel ports
      1.  
        Viewing the devices that are connected to the Fibre Channel ports
  5. Managing users
    1.  
      Overview of the Flex Appliance default users
    2. Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
      1.  
        Adding a tenant
      2.  
        Editing a tenant
      3.  
        Removing a tenant
      4.  
        Adding a local user to the Flex Appliance Console
      5.  
        Connecting a remote user domain to the Flex Appliance Console
      6.  
        Editing a remote user domain in the Flex Appliance Console
      7.  
        Importing a remote user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
      8.  
        Managing single sign-on (SSO)
      9.  
        Managing identity providers (IDPs)
      10.  
        Importing a single sign-on user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
      11.  
        Managing user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
      12.  
        Changing a local user password in the Flex Appliance Console
      13.  
        Expiring local user passwords in the Flex Appliance Console
      14.  
        Unlocking a user account in the Flex Appliance Console
      15.  
        Managing open sessions
      16.  
        Removing user or service accounts from the Flex Appliance Console
    3.  
      Changing the password policy
    4.  
      Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
    5.  
      Changing the sysadmin user password in the Veritas Remote Management Interface
    6. Managing multifactor authentication
      1.  
        Configuring or reconfiguring multifactor authentication
      2.  
        Enforcing multifactor authentication
      3.  
        Resetting multifactor authentication
      4.  
        Disabling multifactor authentication
    7. Using Flex Appliance Console accounts for API automation
      1.  
        Managing personal API tokens
      2.  
        Managing service accounts
  6. Using Flex Appliance
    1. Managing the repository
      1.  
        Adding files to the repository
      2.  
        Removing files from the repository
    2.  
      Creating application instances
    3.  
      Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
    4. Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
      1.  
        Resizing instance storage
      2.  
        Editing instance network settings
      3.  
        Assigning Fibre Channel ports to an instance
      4.  
        Unassigning Fibre Channel ports from an instance
      5. Managing application add-ons on instances
        1.  
          Installing application add-ons
        2.  
          Uninstalling application add-ons
        3.  
          Changing the application add-on installation order
        4.  
          Updating an application add-on to a newer revision
      6.  
        Clearing a configuration error status on an application instance
      7.  
        Deleting an application instance
    5. Upgrading application instances
      1.  
        Warnings and considerations for instance rollbacks
    6.  
      Updating an application instance to a newer revision
    7. About Flex Appliance updates
      1.  
        Updating Flex Appliance
      2.  
        Updating the firmware
    8.  
      Changing the BIOS password
    9.  
      Locating the node serial number
  7. Remote replication
    1.  
      About remote replication
    2.  
      Pairing appliances for remote replication
    3.  
      Creating a replica
    4. Managing remote replication
      1.  
        Remote replication best practices
      2.  
        Monitoring remote replication
      3.  
        Editing the replication network
      4.  
        Repairing a lost connection between paired appliances
      5.  
        Pausing and resuming replication
      6.  
        Resolving discrepancies between an active and a replica instance
      7.  
        Changing the replication role of an instance
      8.  
        Unlinking active and replica instances
      9.  
        Forgetting a paired appliance
  8. Appliance security
    1.  
      Security overview
    2. About lockdown mode
      1.  
        Changing the lockdown mode
    3.  
      Using a sign-in banner
    4.  
      Using an external certificate
    5. Using network access control
      1.  
        Changing the SSH port
    6.  
      Recommended settings for the remote management (IPMI) port
  9. Monitoring the appliance
    1.  
      Registering an appliance
    2. Configuring alerts
      1. About AutoSupport and Call Home
        1.  
          Configuring Call Home
      2.  
        Configuring email alerts
      3.  
        Configuring SNMP alerts
      4.  
        Setting the threshold values for disk usage alerts
    3.  
      Viewing performance metrics
    4.  
      Monitoring the appliance from the System Health Insights portal
    5. Viewing the hardware status
      1.  
        Viewing node information
      2.  
        Viewing storage shelf information on a Veritas 53xx Appliance
      3.  
        Viewing storage shelf information on a Veritas 52xx Appliance
    6.  
      Viewing hardware faults
    7.  
      Viewing system data
    8.  
      Clearing the hardware status
    9.  
      Forwarding logs
    10.  
      Providing access for external monitoring
    11.  
      Revoking access for external monitoring
  10. Reconfiguring the appliance
    1.  
      Reconfiguring the appliance network
    2.  
      Changing DNS or Hosts file settings
    3.  
      Shutting down the appliance
    4.  
      Performing a factory reset
    5.  
      Performing a reimage
    6.  
      Recovering storage data after a factory reset or a reimage
    7.  
      Performing a storage reset
    8.  
      Removing a node
    9.  
      Viewing or resetting the storage shelf order on a Veritas 52xx Appliance
  11. Troubleshooting guidelines
    1.  
      General troubleshooting steps
    2.  
      Unlocking access in lockdown mode
    3. Gathering logs
      1.  
        Deleting logs

Viewing performance metrics

Depending on the information that you want to see, you can view performance metrics from the Flex Appliance Console or the Flex Appliance Shell.

Viewing performance metrics from the Flex Appliance Console

You can view performance metrics of the nodes and the application instances from the Home page on the Flex Appliance Console. Locate the Performance section and use the tabs to switch between the nodes and the instances.

Note the following information about how the node and the instance data relate to each other:

  • The percent of CPU that all instances use should add up to approximately the same percent of CPU that the nodes use. If it does not, there may be an issue with the appliance.

  • The Available memory graph for the nodes shows how much memory is available, whereas the Memory utilization graph for the instances shows how much memory is used.

  • The Network throughput graph for the nodes shows how much data is transferred and received per network interface. If an interface is shared with multiple instances, it shows the cumulative throughput across those instances. The Network throughput graph for the instances shows how much data is transferred and received per interface on that instance only.

Viewing performance metrics from the Flex Appliance Shell

You can view live performance metrics of all of the instances on your appliance from the support shell command view in the Flex Appliance Shell.

To view instance performance metrics from the Flex Appliance Shell

  1. Log in to the Flex Appliance Shell on the node that you want to view performance metrics for.

  2. To view metrics for all instances, enter the following commands:

    • support shell

    • podman stats --no-stream

    To view metrics for a specific instance, enter the following commands:

    • support shell

    • podman stats --no-stream <instance name>

    The following information displays for each of the instances on the node, including the Flex Appliance infrastructure instances:

    • CID: An instance identifier

    • CPU: The CPU usage of the instance

    • MEM: The memory usage of the instance

    • NET RX/TX: The amount of data that is being transmitted and received

    • IO R/W: The amount of data that is being read from and written to the instance storage disk(s)

    • PIDS: The total number of processes that are running on the instance

  3. When you are done reviewing the information, enter q to return to the main Flex Appliance Shell view.