Veritas Access Appliance 8.1 Solutions Guide for NetBackup

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Product(s): Appliances (8.1)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350
  1. Access Appliance integration with NetBackup
    1.  
      About Access Appliance as a NetBackup client
    2.  
      About Access Appliance as backup storage for NetBackup
    3.  
      Use cases for long-term data retention
  2. System requirements
    1.  
      Supported configurations and versions for NetBackup with Veritas Data Deduplication
    2.  
      Supported configurations and versions for NetBackup with MSDP-C
  3. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with Access Appliance
    1.  
      About Veritas Data Deduplication
    2.  
      Benefits of using Veritas Data Deduplication with Access Appliance
    3. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication without WORM
      1.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the GUI
      2.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access CLISH
    4. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM
      1.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM using GUI
      2.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM using the Access CLISH
    5.  
      Managing Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access CLISH
    6. Managing Veritas Data Deduplication using GUI
      1.  
        Viewing information about Veritas Data Deduplication
      2.  
        Starting or stopping the Veritas Data Deduplication service
      3.  
        Increasing storage for Veritas Data Deduplication
      4.  
        Unconfiguring Veritas Data Deduplication
      5.  
        Adding secondary IP for Veritas Data Deduplication
      6.  
        Deleting secondary IP for Veritas Data Deduplication
    7. Accessing Access Appliance storage shell for management tasks
      1. About the Access Appliance storage server shell
        1. About the dedupe command
          1.  
            Stopping and starting the MSDP services
        2.  
          About the retention command
        3.  
          About the setting command
        4.  
          About the support command
    8.  
      Support for multiple domains across networks for Veritas Data Deduplication
    9.  
      Veritas Data Deduplication storage layout
    10.  
      Configuring a Veritas Data Deduplication storage unit on NetBackup
    11.  
      Configuring global deduplication using the Veritas Data Deduplication storage server across the domain
    12.  
      Enabling Veritas Data Deduplication encryption
    13.  
      Support for bandwidth throttling during duplication
    14.  
      Setting up secure communication between Veritas Data Deduplication on Access Appliance and the NetBackup primary server
    15.  
      About MSDP encryption using NetBackup KMS service
    16. Support for NetBackup Auto Image Replication
      1.  
        Separating the duplication and replication network
    17.  
      Setting up Auto Image Replication (AIR) between two Access Appliances which have secure communication enabled
  4. Configuring MSDP-C with Access Appliance
    1.  
      Starting the Access S3 server and provisioning the S3 bucket
    2.  
      Configuring Access S3 bucket with NetBackup MSDP-C
  5. Migrating the NetBackup images from existing storage to Veritas Access storage
    1.  
      Migrating NetBackup images from CloudCatalyst/S3/MSDP-C to Veritas Data Deduplication storage
    2.  
      Migrating the NetBackup images from the Veritas Data Deduplication STU to the MSDP-C STU
  6. Configuring Access Appliance with the NetBackup client
    1.  
      Configuring Access Appliance for NetBackup client
    2.  
      Installing the NetBackup client add-on packages
    3.  
      Prerequisites for configuring the NetBackup client
    4.  
      Configuring the NetBackup client
    5.  
      Adding an optional media server
    6.  
      Adding multiple primary servers
    7.  
      Adding file systems to the backup configuration
    8.  
      Removing file systems from backup configuration
    9.  
      Changing the virtual IP address used by the NetBackup client
    10.  
      Upgrade the NetBackup client
    11.  
      Unconfiguring the NetBackup client
    12.  
      Enabling Veritas Data Deduplication catalog backup with NetBackup client
    13.  
      Disabling Veritas Data Deduplication catalog backup from NetBackup client
    14.  
      Displaying the status of NetBackup services
    15.  
      Configuring backup operations using NetBackup or other third-party backup applications
    16.  
      Restoring filesystems backed up with NetBackup client
  7. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Additional resources
    2.  
      Generating Access Appliance S3 server keys using the helper script
  8.  
    Index

Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the GUI

This section describes how you can configure Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access Appliance GUI.

To configure Veritas Data Deduplication

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance application.

    • The Getting Started page is displayed when you login for the first time.

      Click Veritas Data Deduplication.

    • Or, navigate to Quick Actions > Provision Storage > Storage for NetBackup > Veritas Data Deduplication.

    • Or, navigate to Settings > Veritas Data Deduplication Management.

  2. A default storage pool is created at the time of initial configuration with all the available disks.
  3. Under the Activate Policy tab, select the Veritas Data Deduplication policy.
  4. Complete all the prerequisites such as, selecting the storage pool to activate the Veritas Data Deduplication policy and click Activate policy.

    After the policy is activated, click Finish.

  5. Under the Provision storage tab, specify all the required fields.

    Select storage policy

    From the dropdown menu, choose Veritas Data Deduplication policy.

    Storage size

    Mention the capacity for Veritas Data Deduplication storage (size should be less than 1.2 PiB)

    Note:

    Reducing the storage for Veritas Data Deduplication is not supported using GUI. You can reduce storage for Veritas Data Deduplication using CLISH.

    See Managing Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access CLISH. for more details.

    Username

    Specify the username to be used

    Password/Confirm Password:

    Enter the password for the above username

    VIP (Virtual IP address)

    Specify a free virtual IP from the cluster (this IP should not be used by any protocol on the cluster)

    You can check if an IP is used by CIFS using the cifs share show <sharename> command.

    Run the network ip addr show command from the Access command-line interface to find an available virtual IP address. Or navigate to Infrastructure > Nodes in the GUI, and click on the node name to see the virtual IP address.

    If a virtual IP is not available to configure the Veritas Data Deduplication server, you should add at least one virtual IP to the cluster using the Access command-line interface.

    Node

    Name of the node on which deduplication service is to be configured (default is None which means any node can be configured)

    Configuration name

    Name for the deduplication service. Default value is msdp-engine.

    Note:

    This is an optional parameter when the first deduplication server is configured. It is mandatory when you configure the second deduplication server.

    Click Provision storage.

    If you configure a second deduplication server, then you have to specify the name of the deduplication service in the Configuration name field.

    View the Recent Activity panel for the status of the task.

    The storage provisioning is now complete.

An alert appears in the GUI when the memory usage of the Veritas Data Deduplication server is more than 75%. The alert displays the amount of memory used and the total RAM usage. If the situation persists for more than 24 hours, an AutoSupport alert is raised and an email is sent.

If you receive this alert, go to Settings > Veritas Data Deduplication management and restart the service once you reach this threshold. For information about the issues that are caused when the Veritas Data Deduplication service consumes large amount of memory, see https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100045745.