Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Flex Appliance 4.0 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 4.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 4.2 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Supported update paths to this release
- Operational notes
- Flex Appliance 4.0 release content
- Flex Appliance 4.1 release content
- Flex Appliance 4.2 release content
- Getting started
- Managing network settings for instances
- Managing users
- Overview of the Flex Appliance default users
- Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
- Adding a tenant
- Editing a tenant
- Removing a tenant
- Adding a local user to the Flex Appliance Console
- Connecting a remote user domain to the Flex Appliance Console
- Editing a remote user domain in the Flex Appliance Console
- Importing a remote user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing single sign-on (SSO)
- Managing identity providers (IDPs)
- Importing a single sign-on user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Changing a local user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Expiring local user passwords in the Flex Appliance Console
- Unlocking a user account in the Flex Appliance Console
- Removing users from the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing the password policy
- Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
- Changing the sysadmin user password in the Veritas Remote Management Interface
- Managing multifactor authentication
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Creating application instances
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Resizing instance storage
- Editing instance network settings
- Assigning Fibre Channel ports to an instance
- Unassigning Fibre Channel ports from an instance
- Managing application add-ons on instances
- Viewing instance performance metrics
- Clearing a configuration error status on an application instance
- Deleting an application instance
- Upgrading application instances
- Updating an application instance to a newer revision
- About Flex Appliance updates
- Remote replication
- About remote replication
- Pairing appliances for remote replication
- Creating a replica
- Managing remote replication
- Remote replication best practices
- Monitoring remote replication
- Editing the replication network
- Repairing a lost connection between paired appliances
- Pausing and resuming replication
- Resolving discrepancies between an active and a replica instance
- Changing the replication role of an instance
- Unlinking active and replica instances
- Forgetting a paired appliance
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Registering an appliance
- Configuring alerts
- Monitoring the appliance from the System Health Insights portal
- Viewing the hardware status
- Viewing hardware faults
- Viewing system data
- Clearing the hardware status
- Forwarding logs
- Providing access for external monitoring
- Revoking access for external monitoring
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Reconfiguring the appliance network
- Changing DNS or Hosts file settings
- Shutting down the appliance
- Performing a factory reset
- Performing a reimage
- Recovering storage data after a factory reset or a reimage
- Performing a storage reset
- Removing a node
- Viewing or resetting the storage shelf order on a Veritas 52xx Appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Flex Appliance 4.0 new features, enhancements, and changes
The following list describes the new features, enhancements, and changes in the Flex Appliance 4.0 release:
This release of Flex Appliance introduces NetBackup primary server resilience across any two Flex appliances with remote replication. Remote replication saves easy-to-manage replicas of your primary server application instances on another appliance. You can use remote replication to minimize downtime during planned maintenance or troubleshooting activities and as additional protection from a disaster scenario. You can also use remote replication to easily migrate your data from one Flex appliance to another.
A security administrator user role has been added in this release. A user with the security administrator role can manage users and oversee the security management of the appliance.
Deleting an application instance now requires multiperson authorization for the following versions:
NetBackup primary or media server instances on version 10.3.0.1 or later
NetBackup WORM storage server instances on version 19.0.1 or later
NetBackup WORM storage server instances on version 19.0 in the following scenarios:
The appliance is in compliance lockdown mode.
The appliance is in enterprise lockdown mode, and you do not have the security administrator role.
With multiperson authorization, the application administrator must unlock the deletion option before you can delete the instance. For details, see the topics "Authorizing a primary or a media server instance for deletion" and "Authorizing a WORM storage server for deletion" in the NetBackup Application Guide.
Multifactor authentication is now supported for the Flex Appliance Console and the Flex Appliance Shell. Each user can configure multifactor authentication individually, or a security administrator can enforce multifactor authentication for all console users.
The majority of the actions that you can perform from the Application instances section of the System topology page have moved from the table header to the Actions menu to the right of each instance. Click the three vertical dots to access the Actions menu.
You can now reconfigure the appliance network after initial configuration.
You can now choose whether or not to mask user data in the log packages that you generate from the Flex Appliance Console.
See Gathering logs.
This release introduces the support storage-shelf shutdown command to safely shut down the storage shelves on a 53xx appliance. Veritas recommends that you run this command before you physically turn off the storage shelves.
The One-Time Password that was previously required to unlock access in lockdown mode has been replaced with an access key. Veritas Support can generate the access key on their own, or you can generate it from System Health Insights.
This release introduces the show serial-number command to view the serial number of the node.
Flex appliances are no longer supported on the Appliance Management Server (AMS).
The critical alert threshold for disk usage alerts has been changed from 94% to 90%.