Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.1)
Platform: NetBackup Flex Scale OS
  1. Preparing for NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      Deployment overview
    2.  
      Deployment options
    3.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale configuration requirements
    4.  
      Firewall and network ports requirements
    5.  
      Considerations for using IPv6 addresses
  2. Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      Assigning a public IP address to network adapter eth1 of a node
    2.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale configuration methods
    3.  
      Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale using the setup wizard
    4. Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale using a configuration file
      1.  
        YML configuration file for deploying NetBackup primary and media servers
      2.  
        YML configuration file for deploying media servers
    5.  
      Changing the maintenance user account password
  3. Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale logs
    2.  
      Connection timeout errors during patch installs, upgrades, and rollback operations
    3.  
      Initial configuration wizard displays a driver node not selected error
    4.  
      Initial configuration wizard displays a license error after successfully configuring the cluster
  4. NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and patch management
    1. About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEB
      1.  
        Pre-upgrade steps
      2.  
        Considerations for upgrade when disaster recovery is configured
    2.  
      Performing a patch upgrade using GUI
    3.  
      Installing EEBs using GUI
    4.  
      Performing a patch upgrade using REST APIs
    5.  
      Installing EEBs using REST APIs
    6.  
      About rolling upgrade
  5. Removing NetBackup Flex Scale
    1. About disk erasure
      1.  
        Configuring data erasure
      2.  
        Viewing the data erasure status
      3.  
        Aborting data erasure
    2.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale node factory reset
    3.  
      Performing a factory reset on a node
  6. Appendix A. Installing NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale software installation
    2.  
      Enabling remote IPMI connections
    3.  
      Setting up the RAID configuration on the nodes
    4.  
      Configuring the BIOS settings on the nodes
    5.  
      Downloading the product installer ISO
    6.  
      Mounting the ISO file on the nodes
    7.  
      Installing NetBackup Flex Scale using the ISO
    8.  
      Installing Emergency Engineering Binaries (EEBs)

Installing EEBs using GUI

You can perform an upgrade by installing EEBs using the GUI.

In the GUI, the installed EEBs are listed in ascending order of the dates on which they are installed.

See About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEB.

To install an EEB using the GUI

  1. Download the EEB on the local system.
  2. Go to Settings > Software management > Add-ons.

    • If you already have EEBs in your system, all the EEBs (available and installed) are displayed. Select the EEB and click Install.

    • If the EEB that you want to add is not in the list, click the Add icon. In the Upload EEBs screen, click Choose add-ons to choose add-ons. Click Add to upload the EEB to the system. In the Add-ons pane, select the EEB that you want to install and click Install.

    • If you have no EEBs in your system, click Choose add-ons to choose add-ons. Click Add to upload the EEB to the system. In the Add-ons pane, select the EEB that you want to install and click Install.

  4. Upgrade package progress information is displayed on top of the page. Expand the task to see sub tasks.
  5. After the upload is complete, you can choose to install or remove the EEBs. After installing an EEB, you can choose to roll back the EEB.

    If the EEB fails to install or roll back on any one of the cluster nodes, you can view the details about the failure by clicking View details.