Veritas InfoScale™ for Kubernetes Environments 8.0.300 - Linux

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (8.0.300)
  1. Overview
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Features of InfoScale in Containerized environment
    3.  
      CSI Introduction
    4.  
      I/O fencing
    5.  
      Disaster Recovery
    6.  
      Licensing
    7.  
      Encryption
  2. System requirements
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Supported platforms
    3.  
      Disk space requirements
    4.  
      Hardware requirements
    5.  
      Number of nodes supported
    6.  
      DR support
  3. Preparing to install InfoScale on Containers
    1. Setting up the private network
      1.  
        Guidelines for setting the media speed for LLT interconnects
      2.  
        Guidelines for setting the maximum transmission unit (MTU) for LLT
    2.  
      Synchronizing time settings on cluster nodes
    3.  
      Securing your InfoScale deployment
    4.  
      Configuring kdump
  4. Installing Veritas InfoScale on OpenShift
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Prerequisites
    3.  
      Additional Prerequisites for Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO)
    4.  
      Considerations for configuring cluster or adding nodes to an existing cluster
    5.  
      Creating multiple InfoScale clusters
    6. Installing InfoScale on a system with Internet connectivity
      1. Installing from OperatorHub by using web console
        1.  
          Adding Nodes to an InfoScale cluster by using OLM
        2.  
          Undeploying and uninstalling InfoScale
      2. Installing from OperatorHub by using Command Line Interface (CLI)
        1.  
          Configuring cluster
        2.  
          Adding nodes to an existing cluster
        3.  
          Undeploying and uninstalling InfoScale by using CLI
      3. Installing by using YAML
        1.  
          Configuring cluster
        2.  
          Adding nodes to an existing cluster
        3.  
          Undeploying and uninstalling InfoScale
    7. Installing InfoScale in an air gapped system
      1.  
        Prerequisites to install by using YAML or OLM
      2.  
        Additional prerequisites to install by using yaml
      3.  
        Installing from OperatorHub by using web console
      4.  
        Installing from OperatorHub by using Command Line Interface (CLI)
      5.  
        Installing by using YAML
    8.  
      Removing and adding back nodes to an Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO) cluster
  5. Installing Veritas InfoScale on Kubernetes
    1.  
      Introduction
    2. Prerequisites
      1.  
        Installing Node Feature Discovery (NFD) Operator and Cert-Manager on Kubernetes
    3.  
      Downloading Installer
    4. Tagging the InfoScale images on Kubernetes
      1.  
        Downloading side car images
    5.  
      Applying licenses
    6.  
      Considerations for configuring cluster or adding nodes to an existing cluster
    7.  
      Creating multiple InfoScale clusters
    8. Installing InfoScale on Kubernetes
      1.  
        Configuring cluster
      2.  
        Adding nodes to an existing cluster
    9.  
      Undeploying and uninstalling InfoScale
  6. Configuring KMS-based Encryption on an OpenShift cluster
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Adding a custom CA certificate
    3.  
      Configuring InfoScale to enable transfer of keys
    4.  
      Renewing with an external CA certificate
  7. Configuring KMS-based Encryption on a Kubernetes cluster
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Adding a custom CA certificate
    3.  
      Configuring InfoScale to enable transfer of keys
    4.  
      Renewing with an external CA certificate
  8. InfoScale CSI deployment in Container environment
    1.  
      CSI plugin deployment
    2.  
      Raw block volume support
    3.  
      Static provisioning
    4. Dynamic provisioning
      1.  
        Reclaiming provisioned storage
    5.  
      Resizing Persistent Volumes (CSI volume expansion)
    6. Snapshot provisioning (Creating volume snapshots)
      1.  
        Dynamic provisioning of a snapshot
      2.  
        Static provisioning of an existing snapshot
      3.  
        Using a snapshot
      4.  
        Restoring a snapshot to new PVC
      5.  
        Deleting a volume snapshot
      6.  
        Creating snapshot of a raw block volume
    7. Managing InfoScale volume snapshots with Velero
      1.  
        Setting up Velero with InfoScale CSI
      2.  
        Taking the Velero backup
      3.  
        Creating a schedule for a backup
      4.  
        Restoring from the Velero backup
    8. Volume cloning
      1.  
        Creating volume clones
      2.  
        Deleting a volume clone
    9.  
      Using InfoScale with non-root containers
    10.  
      Using InfoScale in SELinux environments
    11.  
      CSI Drivers
    12.  
      Creating CSI Objects for OpenShift
    13.  
      Creating ephemeral volumes
  9. Installing and configuring InfoScale DR Manager on OpenShift
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Prerequisites
    3.  
      Creating Persistent Volume for metadata backup
    4.  
      External dependencies
    5. Installing InfoScale DR Manager by using OLM
      1.  
        Installing InfoScale DR Manager by using web console
      2.  
        Configuring InfoScale DR Manager by using web console
      3.  
        Installing from OperatorHub by using Command Line Interface (CLI)
    6. Installing InfoScale DR Manager by using YAML
      1.  
        Configuring Global Cluster Membership (GCM)
      2.  
        Configuring Data Replication
      3.  
        Additional requirements for replication on Cloud
      4.  
        Configuring DNS
      5.  
        Configuring Disaster Recovery Plan
  10. Installing and configuring InfoScale DR Manager on Kubernetes
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Prerequisites
    3.  
      Creating Persistent Volume for metadata backup
    4.  
      External dependencies
    5. Installing InfoScale DR Manager
      1.  
        Configuring Global Cluster Membership (GCM)
      2.  
        Configuring Data Replication
      3.  
        Additional requirements for replication on Cloud
      4.  
        Configuring DNS
      5.  
        Configuring Disaster Recovery Plan
  11. Disaster Recovery scenarios
    1.  
      Migration
    2.  
      Takeover
  12. Configuring InfoScale
    1.  
      Logging mechanism
    2.  
      Configuring Veritas Oracle Data Manager (VRTSodm)
    3.  
      Enabling user access and other pod-related logs in Container environment
  13. Administering InfoScale on Containers
    1.  
      Adding Storage to an InfoScale cluster
    2.  
      Managing licenses
    3.  
      Monitoring InfoScale
    4.  
      Configuring Alerts for monitoring InfoScale
    5.  
      Draining InfoScale nodes
    6.  
      Using InfoScale toolset
  14. Migrating applications to InfoScale
    1.  
      Migrating applications to InfoScale from earlier versions
  15. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Adding a sort data collector utility
    2.  
      Collecting logs by using SORT Data Collector
    3.  
      Approving certificate signing requests (csr) for OpenShift
    4.  
      Cert Renewal related
    5.  
      Known Issues
    6.  
      Limitations

Monitoring InfoScale

With InfoScale installed in OpenShift or Kubernetes environments, monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and AlertManager are enabled for monitoring of your InfoScale installation. These tools are the monitoring mechanism that OpenShift and Kubernetes provide. Prometheus collects massive data at regular intervals and presents the data as 'Metrics'. You can use this data for monitoring of cluster components and analyze performance of your InfoScale installation.

Note:

For a deported diskgroup, metrics is not visible.

On an OpenShift cluster, after you install InfoScale and configure InfoScale clusters, Prometheus monitoring is automatically installed.

On a Kubernetes cluster, following are the additional steps to install Prometheus

  1. Check if helm is available on the Kubernetes cluster.
  2. If it is available, go to step 4.
  3. Run the following steps -

    url -fsSL -o get_helm.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/main/scripts/get-helm-3

    chmod 700 get_helm.sh

    ./get_helm.sh

  4. helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts

    helm repo update

    helm install <RELEASE_NAME> prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack

On an OpenShift cluster, following is the additional step

  • Create/Edit cluster-monitoring-config in the openshift-monitoring namespace as under
    apiVersion: v1                          
    kind: ConfigMap
    metadata:
      name: cluster-monitoring-config
      namespace: openshift-monitoring
    data:
      config.yaml: |
        enableUserWorkload: true

Run the following commands to verify -

whether pods are created oc/kubectl get pods -A |grep infoscale

whether Prometheus monitoring pods are successfully installed.

On an OpenShift cluster - oc get pods -n {openshift-monitoring} | grep prometheus

On a Kubernetes cluster - kubectl get pods -n {namespace} | grep prometheus

Complete the following steps to enable Prometheus.

  1. Run the following command to know the REST server name.

    oc/kubectl get svc -n {Namespace where InfoScale is installed} |grep rest | awk '{print $1}'

    Note infoscale-sds-rest-<numerical value> from the command output.

  2. Optionally, to collect metrics with TLS verification; a client certificate is required. Copy the following content into prom-secret.yaml and apply the file.

    apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
    kind: Certificate
    metadata:
      name: infoscale-prom-cert
      namespace: infoscale-vtas
    spec:
      commonName: infoscale-prom
      usages:
      - client auth
      duration: 2880h0m0s
      issuerRef:
        kind: ClusterIssuer
        name: infoscale-cert-issuer
      renewBefore: 720h0m0s
      secretName: infoscale-prom-tls
  3. Copy the following content into podmonitor.yaml and apply the file. Ensure that you update serverName .

    apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
    kind: PodMonitor
    metadata:
      name: infoscale-metrics
      namespace: infoscale-vtas
      labels:
        release: kube-prometheus
    spec:
      selector:
        matchLabels:
          cvmmaster: "true"
      podMetricsEndpoints:
      - path: /infoscale/api/2.0/metrics
        port: rest-endpoint
        interval: 2m
        scrapeTimeout: 30s
        scheme: https
        tlsConfig:
          ca:
            secret:
              key: ca.crt
              name: infoscale-prom-tls
          cert:
            secret:
              key: tls.crt
              name: infoscale-prom-tls
          keySecret:
            key: tls.key
            name: infoscale-prom-tls
          serverName: infoscale-sds-rest-<Cluster ID>