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Veritas Alta Recovery Vault for NetBackup

Article: 100051821
Last Published: 2024-06-13
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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection

Description

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault for NetBackup provides a seamless, fully managed hosted, air-gapped, scalable public cloud based secondary storage as a service (SaaS) available from Veritas.  Veritas Alta Recovery Vault offers a single, flexible repository for on-premises to your public cloud workloads. Anything that NetBackup can protect can be safely stored in Veritas Alta Recovery Vaults. 

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is available for the NetBackup 9.0.0.1, 9.1.0.1 and 10.0 releases.  Currently it supports Microsoft Azure Cloud, Microsoft Azure Government Cloud, Amazon Cloud (AWS), or Amazon Government Cloud as the backend storage.  In future releases additional cloud providers will be added.  Veritas Alta Recovery Vault uses similar technologies as NetBAckup MSDP Cloud and can only be configured as MSDP Cloud storage. 

 

Deployment

To use Veritas Alta Recovery Vault there are Emergency Engineering Binaries (EEBs) that must be installed on top of the NetBackup release.  These include:

  • An updated cloudProvider.xml file.  (reference Etrack 4054855 for 9.0.0.1 and 4054859 for 9.1.0.1, both are version 2).  Make sure to run "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/csconfig r" after installing the EEB.
  • An update to the WebUI and API.   (reference Etrack 4054767 (version 3) for 9.0.0.1 and 4054766 (version 4) for 9.1.0.1)
  • An update to the Open Cloud Storage Daemon (OCSD) on media servers. (reference Etrack 4038043 (version 3) for 9.0.0.1 , 4055084 (version 10) for 9.1.0.1 , 4069637 (version 8) for 10.0)
  • Updates for NetBackup 10.0.0.1 include Etrack 4096006 version 3 (install on primary server) and Etrack 4079016 version 12 (install on media server)
  • Update for NetBackup 10.1 includes Etrack 4090334 version 7 (install on media server) 

The cloudProviider.xml and WebUI EEBs are available for all platforms including NetBackup appliances.  These two EEBs are to be applied to the primary (master) server.  Optionally deploying the cloudProvider.xml file as found in  Veritas NetBackup ™ Enterprise Server and Server 9.0 - 9.x.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (HCL)  (article 100033434) can be done instead of applying the xml EEB.

The OCSD EEB is available for NetBackup 9.0.0.1/9.1.0.1 on Redhat Linux only.  It is to be applied to media servers and does require a restart of NetBackup services.  

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is included within the NetBackup 10.0 release. An EEB per Etrack 4069637 (OCSD update, version 8) is needed to be installed on NetBackup 10.0 media servers.

Also included with the latest EEBs for NetBackup 9.1.0.1 and 10.0 is support for WORM for AWS (immutability). NetBackup 10.0 adds WORM support for Azure.

You must also obtain the necessary credentials to the Cloud storage from Veritas to configure Veritas Alta Recovery Vault.  Please contact your sales representative for more information.

Appliance Notes:

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is supported for NetBackup Appliance 4.0.0.1 and 4.1.0.1 as well as Flexscale/Flex versions 1.3.1 and 2.1.

In FlexScale/Flex appliance environments the EEB installers cannot replace all the necessary files. To install, first apply the NetBackup webUI EEB (4054767 rpm  for 9.0.0.1 and 4054766 rpm for 9.1.0.1) then download  a new version of the CloudProvider XML 2.8.6  from   Veritas NetBackup ™ Enterprise Server and Server 9.0 - 9.x.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (HCL)  (article 100033434 - under Cloud Configuration Files)

and install it as per the readme.

Clustered Environments:

The EEB installer that contains a new CloudProvider.xml (ET4054855 for 9.0.0.1 and ET4054859 for 9.1.0.1) will install the CloudProvider.xml file locally on each node.  For clustered primary (master) servers this needs to be installed on the shared drive. 

To install, first apply the NetBackup webUI EEB (4054767 rpm  for 9.0.0.1 and 4054766 rpm for 9.1.0.1) then download  a new version of the CloudProvider XML 2.8.6  from  Veritas NetBackup ™ Enterprise Server and Server 9.0 - 9.x.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (HCL) (article 100033434 - under Cloud Configuration Files)

and install it as per the readme.

Licensing

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault will be its own license.  It is a subscription based license.  Please contact your account manager or sales team to learn more and get started with Veritas Alta Recovery Vault.

Configuration:

The media servers on which the MSDP Cloud is configured must be NetBackup 9.0 or higher version.   Pre-9.0 media servers cannot be used with this feature.  

Please note that even though the Veritas Alta Recovery Vault providers may appear when configuring native cloud storage they are only supported when configuring for MSDP Cloud storage.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault does require TCP ports 80 and 443 be opened to communicate to the Cloud storage.

Following is information on configuring the storage server and diskpool for Veritas Alta Recovery Vault.

To add an MSDP storage server, disk pool and storage unit

1) Log into the NetBackup web UI.

 

2) On the left, click Storage > Storage configuration and then click Add.

 

3) Select Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) from the list.

 

4) In Basic properties, enter all required information and click Next.

You must select your media server by clicking on the field. If you do not see the media server you want to use, you can use Search to find it.

 

5) In Storage server options, enter all required information and click Next.

If you use Key Management Service (KMS), it must be configured before you can select the KMS option.

 

6) (Optional) In Media servers, click Add to add any additional media servers you want to use.

Click Next after selecting additional media servers or if you want to continue without selecting additional media servers.

 

7) On the Review page, confirm that all options are correct and click Save.

If the MSDP storage server creation is unsuccessful, follow the prompts on the screen to correct the issue.

 

To configure MSDP to use cloud storage, use the following procedure to select one of the Veritas Alta Recovery Vault options:

 

8) On the left, click Storage > Storage configuration, click the Disk pools tab, and then click Add.

Another way to create a disk pool is to click Create disk pool at the top of the screen after you have created a storage server.

 

9) In Disk pool options, enter all required information and click Next.

Click Change to select a storage server.

If Limit I/O streams is left cleared, the default value is Unlimited and may cause performance issues.

 

10) In Volumes, use the Volume drop down to select a volume or add a new volume.

To use one of the Veritas Alta Recovery Vault options, click the Add volume option in the drop-down.

Select the cloud storage provider as NetBackup Veritas Alta Recovery Vault Azure and enter the required details of the storage provider. Enter the credentials that the Enterprise Vault Cloud team provides to access the cloud storage provider

(Optional) Enter any Advanced settings.

For the Cloud bucket, retrieve list of buckets and select the bucket or create by clicking +Add.

Enter all required information based on the selection and click Next.

 

11) In Replication, click Add to add replication targets to the disk pool.

This step lets you select a trusted primary server or add a trusted primary server. You can add a primary server that supports NetBackup Certificate Authority (NBCA), ECA, and ECA together with NBCA.

Replication is supported only on MSDP.

Review all the information that is entered for the replication targets and then

click Next.

 

12) On the Review page, verify that all settings and information are correct. Click Finish.

The disk pool creation and replication configuration continue in the background if you close the window. If there is an issue with validating the credentials and configuration of the replication, you can use the Change option to adjust any settings.

 

13) (Optional) Create a storage unit for the disk pool you just created.

 

References

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