Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.1)
Platform: NetBackup Flex Scale OS
  1. Preparing for NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      Deployment overview
    2.  
      Deployment options
  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 NetBackup primary and media server deployment
      2.  
        YML configuration file for media server only deployment
  3. NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and patch management
    1.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEBs
    2.  
      About rolling upgrade
    3.  
      About parallel upgrade and supported upgrade paths
    4. About the pre-upgrade check
      1.  
        Error messages displayed during the pre-upgrade check
    5. Upgrading NetBackup Flex Scale
      1. Performing pre-upgrade tasks
        1.  
          Considerations for upgrade when disaster recovery is configured
      2.  
        Performing an upgrade using GUI
      3.  
        Post upgrade tasks
      4.  
        Performing an upgrade using REST APIs
    6.  
      Installing EEBs using GUI
    7.  
      Installing EEBs using REST APIs
    8.  
      Updating the firmware in NetBackup Flex Scale clusters
  4. 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
  5. Appendix A. Installing NetBackup Flex Scale using a downloaded ISO file
    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 hardware vendor packages
    9.  
      Installing Emergency Engineering Binaries (EEBs)

Installing EEBs using GUI

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

  • Data EEBs (including NetBackup EEBs): You can use only the rolling method to install the EEBs. In the rolling method, EEBs are installed on each node successively.

  • Non-data EEBs (including non-data NetBackup EEBs and appliance EEBs): You can use the rolling or the parallel method to install the EEBs. In the rolling method, EEBs are installed on each node successively. In the parallel method, EEBs are installed on all the nodes in parallel.

  • Both data and non-data EEBs: You can use only the rolling method to install the EEBs. In the rolling method, EEBs are installed on each node successively.

Note:

The same restrictions apply when you roll back the installed EEBs.

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 EEBs.

To install an EEB using the GUI:

  1. Download the EEB on the local system.
  2. Go to Settings > Software management > Add-ons.
  3. To upload EEBs:

    • 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.

      You can upload multiple EEBs simultaneously.

      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. EEB installation progress information is displayed on top of the page. Expand the task to view the 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.