Veritas Access Appliance 8.2 Solutions Guide for NetBackup

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Product(s): Appliances (8.2)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350,Veritas 3360
  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.  
      Supported features with different versions of Veritas Data Deduplication
    4. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication without WORM
      1.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the GUI
      2.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access CLISH
    5. 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
    6.  
      Managing Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access CLISH
    7. 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.  
        Changing the primary IP for Veritas Data Deduplication
      8.  
        Upgrade the deduplication version for Veritas Data Deduplication
      9.  
        Setting affinity node for Veritas Data Deduplication
    8. 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
    9.  
      Support for multiple domains across networks for Veritas Data Deduplication
    10.  
      Veritas Data Deduplication storage layout
    11.  
      Configuring a Veritas Data Deduplication storage unit on NetBackup
    12.  
      Configuring global deduplication using the Veritas Data Deduplication storage server across the domain
    13.  
      Enabling Veritas Data Deduplication encryption
    14.  
      Support for bandwidth throttling during duplication
    15.  
      Setting up secure communication between Veritas Data Deduplication on Access Appliance and the NetBackup primary server
    16.  
      About MSDP encryption using NetBackup KMS service
    17. Support for NetBackup Auto Image Replication
      1.  
        Separating the duplication and replication network
    18.  
      Setting up Auto Image Replication (AIR) between two Access Appliances which have secure communication enabled
  4. NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle
    1.  
      Support for NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Configuring isolated recovery environment (IRE)
    1.  
      Requirements
    2.  
      Configuring the network isolation
    3.  
      Configuring an isolated recovery environment using the command line
    4.  
      Configuring an isolated recovery environment on a storage server
    5.  
      Managing an isolated recovery environment on a storage server
    6.  
      Configuring data transmission between a production environment and an IRE storage server
  9. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Additional resources
    2.  
      Generating Access Appliance S3 server keys using the helper script
  10.  
    Index

Veritas Data Deduplication storage layout

The layout of the Veritas Data Deduplication storage is such that when you configure Veritas Data Deduplication, multiple file systems of 100TiB and a separate catalog file system of size 5TiB are created.

The dedupe grow command creates a new file system for every 100TiB. If you perform upgrade and you had previously configured Veritas Data Deduplication, then the old layout of Veritas Data Deduplication is preserved. If a separate catalog file system existed before upgrade, the same catalog file system is present after the upgrade also. If the size of data filesystems is more than 100 TiB, then those filesystems remain as it is but new data filesystems are created for every 100 TiB that is grown using the dedupe grow command.

Note:

Veritas Data Deduplication configuration requires 5 TiB for creating the catalog file system. This is over and above the size specified for the deduplication pool in the GUI.

Reconfiguration is a two-step process involving unconfiguring the Veritas Data Deduplication without destroying the filesystems and configuring it again with the same existing filesystems. After an upgrade, if you want to reconfigure the Veritas Data Deduplication service, the following checks are performed:

  • If a separate catalog file system existed before reconfiguration, then the same catalog file system is passed to the dedupe config command during reconfiguration.

  • If a separate catalog file system did not exist before reconfiguration, then the catalog file system cannot be passed to the dedupe config command during reconfiguration.

After unconfiguration, you can use dedupe config command to reconfigure the deduplication server.

Reconfiguration of Veritas Data Deduplication can be done only using CLISH.

Starting with the 8.1 release, MSDP has to be reconfigured. For detailed steps, refer to the Veritas Access Appliance Upgrade Guide.

To reconfigure Veritas Data Deduplication

  1. Run the dedupe show command and make a note of the file system names for both the data and catalog file system.
  2. Unconfigure Veritas Data Deduplication using the dedupe unconfig command.
    Dedupe> unconfig
  3. Run the following command to configure Veritas Data Deduplication: 
    Dedupe> config filesystem_list virtual_IP username [catfs_name]  
vdd_version [encryption] [worm] [minret] [maxret] [node_name] [config_name]

    where the catfs_name depends on the configuration and filesystem_list is a comma-separated list of filesystems without space.

    The vdd_version should be specified as 17.1.

    The credentials should be the same that you used when you previously configured Veritas Data Deduplication.

The catalog file system needs to be mentioned only if the previous Veritas Data Deduplication configuration had a catalog file system.

Note:

If encryption was not enabled during initial configuration but is enabled during reconfiguration by specifying encryption=yes, encryption is enabled for the reconfigured Veritas Data Deduplication server. Any new data sent to the deduplication server is encrypted.

If encryption was enabled during initial configuration but it is not enabled during reconfiguration, then encryption is not disabled.