Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.2)
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 public IP address to a management network interface
      1.  
        Assigning a public IP address to network adapter eth1 or to a VLAN on eth1 of a node
      2.  
        Configuring a bond device and assigning an IP address to the bonded device or to a VLAN on the bonded device
    2.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale configuration methods
    3.  
      Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale using the setup wizard
    4.  
      YML configuration file
  3. Upgrading NetBackup Flex Scale to 3.2
    1.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEBs
    2.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale upgrade overview
    3.  
      About parallel upgrade and supported upgrade paths
    4.  
      Downloading the upgrade file
    5.  
      Uploading the upgrade file and performing an upgrade precheck
    6. Performing pre-upgrade tasks
      1.  
        Considerations for upgrade when disaster recovery is configured
    7.  
      Performing an upgrade using GUI
    8. Performing post-upgrade tasks
      1.  
        Downloading and installing the required EEBs
      2.  
        Verifying appliance firmware compatibility
      3.  
        Adding NetBackup license file
      4.  
        Saving the default password of the HPE iLO Administrator user
      5.  
        Collecting logs post upgrade
    9.  
      Collecting logs for an upgrade precheck failure
  4. Upgrading NetBackup Flex Scale to 3.2.100
    1.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEBs
    2.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale upgrade overview
    3.  
      Supported upgrade paths
    4.  
      Downloading the upgrade file
    5.  
      Uploading the upgrade file and performing an upgrade precheck
    6. Performing pre-upgrade tasks
      1.  
        Considerations for upgrade when disaster recovery is configured
    7.  
      Performing an upgrade using GUI
    8. Performing post-upgrade tasks
      1.  
        Downloading and installing the required EEBs
      2.  
        Rolling back NetBackup EEBs
      3.  
        Verifying appliance firmware compatibility
      4.  
        Adding NetBackup license file
      5.  
        Saving the default password of the HPE iLO Administrator user
      6.  
        Collecting logs post upgrade
    9.  
      Collecting logs for an upgrade precheck failure
  5. Upgrading the firmware in NetBackup Flex Scale cluster
    1.  
      About firmware upgrades
    2.  
      Determining if a firmware upgrade is required
    3.  
      Downloading the firmware package
    4.  
      About the firmware upgrade options
    5. Upgrading the firmware
      1. Updating the firmware in NetBackup Flex Scale clusters using HPE iLO
        1.  
          Upgrading the firmware using the rolling method
        2.  
          Upgrading the firmware using the parallel method
        3.  
          Updating the ACL file on the cluster nodes
  6. Managing EEBs
    1.  
      Downloading EEBs
    2.  
      Installing EEBs using GUI
    3.  
      Installing EEBs using REST APIs
  7. 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
  8. Appendix A. Installing NetBackup Flex Scale 3.2 from a USB drive
    1.  
      Installing NetBackup Flex Scale on HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers using a USB drive
    2.  
      Installing NetBackup Flex Scale on HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen11 servers using a USB drive
  9. Appendix B. 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
  10. Appendix C. Upgrading a NetBackup Flex Scale node
    1.  
      Upgrading a node that is not in a cluster

Upgrading a node that is not in a cluster

You can directly upgrade a NetBackup Flex Scale 3.2 node to version 3.2.100. Use the following procedure to upgrade an out of the box appliance node that is on version 3.2 and is not yet a part of the cluster to version 3.2.100.

To upgrade a node:

  1. Download the upgrade RPM file to a Windows system that can access the Download Center and the NetBackup Flex Scale node.
    • Go to the Veritas Support website (https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US) and click Downloads, which redirects you to the Download Center.

    • In the Veritas Download Center, in the Products list, select Appliances, in the Sub product list select NetBackup Flex Scale. Select the version as 3.2 and click Explore.

    • Expand Updates.

      Select the VRTSnbfs_app_update-3.2.100 -1.x86 _64.rpm file from this section and click Download. You must sign in with your Veritas account credentials to download the upgrade file.

  2. Open an SSH session and log on to the appliance node as the admin user.
  3. In the NetBackup Flex Scale Appliance shell menu, use the following command to open NFS shares:

    system software share open

  4. On the local system where you downloaded the upgrade file, complete the following steps to copy the upgrade file to the /system/inst/patch/incoming folder of the appliance node:
    • Mount the NFS share:

      Node_management_IP:/system/inst/patch/incoming

      where Node_management_IP is the IP address that is assigned to the eth1 network interface of the node.

    • Copy the upgrade file from your local system to the mapped directory.

    • Unmount or unmap the share.

  5. On the appliance node, in the NetBackup Flex Scale Appliance shell menu, enter the following command to close the NFS shares:

    system software share close

  6. To install the upgrade file, run the following command:

    system software install-update update-name=update-name where update-name is the name of the upgrade file that you want to install.

    For example: system software install-update update-name=VRTSnbfs_app_update-3.2.100-1.x86_64.rpm

  7. To check the upgrade status, run the following command:

    system software upgrade-status