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)

About parallel upgrade and supported upgrade paths

Starting with version 3.1, NetBackup Flex Scale supports parallel upgrade of the cluster.

In a parallel upgrade, all the nodes in the cluster are upgraded and restarted simultaneously and the services downtime is part of the overall upgrade duration.

The following upgrade paths are supported for a parallel upgrade:

  • From version 3.0 to 3.1

  • From version 3.0.0.1 to 3.1

Note:

You must install VRTSnbfsapp_EEB_ET4104073-3.0.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm on version 3.0 and 3.0.0.1 to support parallel upgrade.

If the upgrade fails on a node, all the nodes are automatically rolled back to the previous version. The detailed logs for parallel upgrade are located in the /log/upgrade/upgrade_3.1.log file on the node where the upgrade was started. The parallel upgrade is a two-phase process. In phase A, the infrastructure packages are upgraded. The nodes are restarted simultaneously and the cluster services are not available. In phase B, the NetBackup services and containers are stopped and NetBackup and MSDP packages are upgraded on all the nodes. The cluster services are not available during phase B.