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)

Installing Emergency Engineering Binaries (EEBs)

Emergency Engineering Binaies (EEBs) provide critical fixes that are not included as part of the ISO image. If you factory reset a node or install the NetBackup Flex Scale ISO image on the node to start a fresh deployment, you do not have access to product REST APIs or the UI. In such cases if you are required to install EEBs, you must install these manually using the following procedure.

For details about the list of EEBs and the sequence in which to install these EEBs, see https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads/detail.REL459049.

Note:

Use a computer that is connected to the appliance and the Internet to complete the following steps:

  1. Open an SSH session and log on to the appliance node as the admin user.
  2. In the NetBackup Flex Scale Appliance shell menu, use the following command to open NFS shares:

    system software share open

  3. On the local computer, complete the following steps:

    • Mount the NFS share:

      Node_management_IP:/system/inst/patch/incoming

      where Node_management_IP is the IP address that is assigned to the eth1 network interface of the node.

    • Download the EEB from the Veritas Support website site (https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US). On the Veritas Support website click Downloads, which redirects you to the Download Center. You must sign in with your Veritas account credentials to download the EEB.

    • Copy the EEB from your local computer to the mapped directory.

    • Unmount or unmap the share.

  4. On the appliance node, in the NetBackup Flex Scale Appliance shell menu, enter the following command to close the NFS shares:

    system software share close

  5. To display the list of downloaded updates, enter the following command. Make a note of the EEB that you want to install.

    system software downloaded

  6. To install the EEB, enter the following command:

    system software install-update update-name=eeb_name

    where eeb_name is the name of the EEB that you want to install. Ensure that the name you enter matches the name of the EEB that was downloaded to the appliance.

    The following message is displayed after the EEB is installed successfully:

    - [Info] V-409-777-7003: Installed EEB eeb_name successfully.

  7. To verify that the EEB you installed is displayed in the list of installed EEBs, run the following command:

    system software installed-eebs