Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.0)
Platform: NetBackup Flex Scale OS
  1. Product overview
    1.  
      About Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale
  2. Viewing information about the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster environment
    1.  
      Accessing NetBackup Flex Scale and NetBackup
    2.  
      Accessing the NetBackup web user interface on the appliance
    3.  
      About the NetBackup Flex Scale management console
    4. About the Dashboard view
      1.  
        Viewing all the activities
    5.  
      Working with NetBackup Flex Scale APIs
  3. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
    1. User management
      1.  
        Considerations for managing NetBackup Flex Scale users
      2.  
        Adding users
      3.  
        Changing user password
      4.  
        Removing users
      5.  
        Considerations for configuring AD/LDAP
      6.  
        Configuring AD server for Universal shares and Instant Access
      7.  
        Configuring AD/LDAP servers for NetBackup services
      8.  
        Configuring additional AD/LDAP servers for managing NetBackup services/Universal Shares/Instant Access
      9.  
        Configuring AD/LDAP servers on clusters deployed with only media servers
      10.  
        Directory services and certificate management
    2.  
      Region settings management
    3.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale storage
    4. About Universal Shares
      1.  
        Creating a Protection Point for a Universal Share
    5. Node and disk management
      1.  
        NetBackup Flex Scale network cabling
      2. Adding a node to the cluster using the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface
        1.  
          Considerations for adding a node when disaster recovery is configured
      3.  
        Adding a node using the REST APIs
      4.  
        Replacing a node in a cluster
      5.  
        Starting and stopping nodes
      6.  
        Replacing a disk
      7.  
        Viewing disk details
      8.  
        Viewing node details
    6. License management
      1.  
        Adding or removing storage licenses
      2.  
        Adding NetBackup licenses
  4. NetBackup Flex Scale network management
    1.  
      About network management
    2.  
      Modifying DNS settings
    3.  
      About bonding Ethernet interfaces
    4. Bonding operations
      1.  
        Creating a bond
      2.  
        Modifying a bond
      3.  
        Removing a bond
    5.  
      Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale in a non-DNS environment
    6. Data network configurations
      1. Network configuration on plain device (eth5)
        1.  
          Adding a data network
        2.  
          Modifying a data network
        3.  
          Deleting a data network
      2.  
        Network configuration on VLAN (eth5)
      3. Network configuration on bonded interfaces (bond0 on eth5 and eth7)
        1.  
          Adding a data network
      4.  
        VLAN on bond of eth5 and eth7 (bond0)
      5.  
        Support for multiple VLAN when disaster recovery is configured
  5. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure monitoring
    1. About alert management
      1.  
        Viewing information about alerts
      2.  
        Managing alerts
    2. About event notification
      1.  
        Purging events
    3. About AutoSupport and Call Home
      1.  
        Setting up email alerts
      2.  
        Setting up SNMP alerts
      3.  
        Configuring Call Home settings
    4.  
      Monitoring hardware components
    5.  
      Monitoring usage and licensed capacity using Veritas NetInsights Console
  6. Resiliency in NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      Erasure coding in NetBackup Flex Scale
    2.  
      Handling split-brain scenario in NetBackup Flex Scale
    3.  
      High availability of the NetBackup primary service
    4.  
      High availability of NetBackup services
    5.  
      NetBackup catalog protection
    6. NetBackup primary service catalog protection using checkpoints
      1.  
        Performing a recovery of the catalog file system using GUI
      2.  
        Performing a recovery of the catalog file system using REST APIs
  7. EMS server configuration
    1.  
      Configuring an external BYOS media server
    2.  
      Configuring an external NBA media server
  8. Site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      About site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
    2.  
      Configuring disaster recovery using GUI
    3.  
      Clearing the host cache
    4.  
      Managing disaster recovery using GUI
    5. Performing disaster recovery using RESTful APIs
      1.  
        Establishing trust and setting up authentication
      2.  
        Configuring disaster recovery
      3.  
        Managing disaster recovery
    6.  
      Active-Active disaster recovery configuration
    7.  
      NetBackup optimized duplication using Storage Lifecycle Policies
  9. NetBackup Flex Scale security
    1. STIG overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
      1.  
        STIG-compliant password policy rules
      2.  
        Enabling STIG for NetBackup Flex Scale
      3.  
        Viewing the NetBackup Flex Scale STIG status
    2. FIPS overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
      1.  
        Viewing the NetBackup Flex Scale FIPS status
    3.  
      Managing the login banner
    4.  
      Changing the password policy
    5. Support for immutability in NetBackup Flex Scale
      1.  
        About lockdown modes
      2.  
        Selecting or changing the lockdown mode
      3.  
        Configuring immutability using GUI
    6. Deploying external certificates on NetBackup Flex Scale
      1.  
        Deploying ECA using the GUI
      2.  
        Log locations
      3.  
        Considerations for performing other operations when ECA is deployed
  10. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Services management
    2. Collecting logs for cluster nodes
      1.  
        Uploading logs to Veritas Support
      2.  
        Downloading logs
    3.  
      Checking and repairing storage
    4. Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale issues
      1.  
        If cluster configuration fails (for example because an IP address that was already in use is specified) and you try to reconfigure the cluster, the UI displays an error but the configuration process continues to run
      2.  
        Validation error while adding VMware credentials to NetBackup
      3.  
        NetBackup Web UI incorrectly displays some NetBackup Flex Scale processes as failed
      4.  
        Unable to create BMR Shared Resource Tree (SRT) on NetBackup Flex Scale Appliance
      5.  
        NetBackup configuration files are not persistent across operations that require restarting the system
  11. Appendix A. Configuring NetBackup optimized duplication
    1. Configuring a Storage Lifecycle Policy for optimized duplication
      1.  
        Creating a Storage Lifecycle Policy for optimized duplication
      2.  
        Configuring a policy to use an SLP
      3.  
        Updating the policy to reverse the replication direction
  12. Appendix B. Disaster recovery terminologies
    1.  
      VVR technology in disaster recovery
    2.  
      About response fields in the GET disaster recovery API
  13. Appendix C. Configuring Auto Image Replication
    1.  
      Auto Image Replication configuration

Managing disaster recovery using GUI

You can manage disaster recovery using the NetBackup Flex Scale GUI. You can perform both takeover and migrate operations using the GUI. It is also possible to pause the replication and resume it later.

Performing migration

To perform migration using GUI

  1. Log in to the NetBackup Flex Scale GUI of the secondary site.
  2. Go to Settings > Master service replication. Click Change Replication Roles.
  3. The Change Replication Roles window appears.

    If you want to perform a migration, select the Switch roles option. Ensure that you have updated the DNS entries of the NetBackup primary service FQDNs to resolve to the secondary site. Click Change roles.

    Note:

    Only the Switch roles option is enabled when both the primary and secondary sites are up. The Make primary option is disabled.

Note:

In case of non-DNS sites (either one or both), updating the DNS entry for the NetBackup primary service IP is not applicable.

Performing takeover

You can perform a takeover operation only if the primary site is fully down. The Dashboard of the secondary site should show that the replication status as Disconnected.

To perform takeover using GUI

  1. Log in to the NetBackup Flex Scale GUI of the secondary site.
  2. Go to Settings > Master service replication. Click Change Replication Roles.
  3. The Change Replication Roles window appears.

    If you want to perform a takeover, select the Make primary option. Ensure that you have updated the DNS entries of the NetBackup primary service FQDNs to resolve to the secondary site. Click Change roles.

    Note:

    The Make primary option is enabled only when the primary site is fully down. The Switch roles option is disabled.

Note:

In case of non-DNS sites (either one or both), updating the DNS entry for the NetBackup primary service IP is not applicable.

Pause replication

You can pause an ongoing replication operation.

To pause replication

  1. Go to Settings > page of the primary or the secondary site.
  2. Click Pause. A task is initiated in the GUI. After task completion, replication is paused on both the clusters and the Resume button gets enabled on both the clusters.
Resume replication

You can resume a replication operation which is in paused state.

To resume replication

  1. Go to Settings > page of the primary or the secondary site.
  2. Click Resume to resume replication. A task is initiated in the GUI. After task completion, replication is resumed on both the clusters and the Pause button gets enabled on both the clusters.

Note:

You can perform a resume operation only if the replication is in paused state. The pause and resume operations can be performed from either of the primary or secondary sites.