Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.1)
Platform: NetBackup Flex Scale OS
  1. Preparing for NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      Deployment overview
    2.  
      Deployment options
    3.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale configuration requirements
    4.  
      Firewall and network ports requirements
    5.  
      Considerations for using IPv6 addresses
  2. Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      Assigning a public IP address to network adapter eth1 of a node
    2.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale configuration methods
    3.  
      Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale using the setup wizard
    4. Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale using a configuration file
      1.  
        YML configuration file for deploying NetBackup primary and media servers
      2.  
        YML configuration file for deploying media servers
    5.  
      Changing the maintenance user account password
  3. Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale logs
    2.  
      Connection timeout errors during patch installs, upgrades, and rollback operations
    3.  
      Initial configuration wizard displays a driver node not selected error
    4.  
      Initial configuration wizard displays a license error after successfully configuring the cluster
  4. NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and patch management
    1. About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEB
      1.  
        Pre-upgrade steps
      2.  
        Considerations for upgrade when disaster recovery is configured
    2.  
      Performing a patch upgrade using GUI
    3.  
      Installing EEBs using GUI
    4.  
      Performing a patch upgrade using REST APIs
    5.  
      Installing EEBs using REST APIs
    6.  
      About rolling upgrade
  5. 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
  6. Appendix A. Installing NetBackup Flex Scale
    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
    8.  
      Installing Emergency Engineering Binaries (EEBs)

About rolling upgrade

Starting with version 2.1, NetBackup Flex Scale supports rolling upgrade of the cluster. Rolling upgrade minimizes the service and application downtime by limiting the downtime to the time it takes to stop and restart the NetBackup services on the cluster nodes.

The supported upgrade path for a rolling upgrade is from NetBackup Flex Scale version 1.3.1 to 2.1. If the upgrade fails on a node, all the nodes are automatically rolled back to the previous version.

The rolling upgrade is a two-phase process. In phase A, the infrastructure packages are upgraded. The infrastructure packages are upgraded on mirror partitions on all the cluster nodes in parallel. As the upgrade happens on a copy of the original partition, the original partition is not affected and NetBackup backup and restore jobs continue running on all the nodes in the cluster. After the packages are upgraded, each node is restarted successively and the node joins the cluster with the new upgraded packages from the mirrored partition.

In phase B, the NetBackup services and containers are stopped and NetBackup and MSDP packages are upgraded on all the nodes. This phase results in downtime, which causes the ongoing backup and restore jobs to fail. After the packages are upgraded the services are restarted. The jobs are restarted once the services are up and running. Jobs that are configured to create checkpoints during a backup, such as file system jobs, can be suspended before an upgrade. The jobs resume after the upgrade is complete.

For details about how to perform a rolling upgrade, See Performing a patch upgrade using GUI.

For details about upgrade logs See NetBackup Flex Scale logs.