Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Upgrade planning
- Pre-upgrade tasks
- Performing the upgrade
- Post upgrade tasks
- Troubleshooting
Obtain necessary third-party plug-ins
For upgrades from 2.6.1 or 2.6.1.x to 2.7.1 and later, the existing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) third-party plug-ins must be replaced with the appropriate Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions. The preflight upgrade script only identifies those plug-ins that are required for the upgrade. Software releases starting with version 2.7.1 contain the required RHEL third-party plug-ins to perform the upgrade. For any additional plug-ins that you use in your environment, check the vendor website for availability. For appliances that have already been upgraded to version 2.7.x, some third-party plug-ins that were not previously available may be available now.
To install RHEL plug-ins, do the following:
Locate the appropriate RHEL plug-ins from the listed vendor websites:
http://www.datadomain.com/products
http://www.falconstor.com/en/pages/?pn=VTL
http://www.necam.com/HYDRAstor
https://www.veritas.com/product/backup-and-recovery/netbackup-appliances?themeid=nbu-appliance
If you have other third-party plug-ins that you use, those must also be replaced with the appropriate RHEL versions. See the appropriate vendor website for details.
Open the following share from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu:
Manage > OpenStorage > Share > Open.
This command opens the
/inst/plugin/incomingshare for NFS and the\incoming_pluginsshare for Windows. Copy the required plug-ins to these locations.Close the share as follows:
Manage > OpenStorage > Share > Close.
Note:
For upgrades from 2.6.1 or 2.6.1.x, after the RHEL plug-in packages have been copied into the share and the share has been closed, do not run the Manage > OpenStorage > List Available command. The current 2.6.x SUSE appliance code flags the RHEL plug-in packages as invalid because the package naming conventions are different between SUSE and Red Hat environments. Since the appliance is still running on SLES, running the List Available command removes the RHEL plug-in packages from the share which prevents the upgrade.