NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters
- Introduction
- Section I. Deployment
- Prerequisites for Kubernetes cluster configuration
- Deployment with environment operators
- Deploying NetBackup
- Preparing the environment for NetBackup installation on Kubernetes cluster
- Recommendations of NetBackup deployment on Kubernetes cluster
- Limitations of NetBackup deployment on Kubernetes cluster
- Primary and media server CR
- Configuring NetBackup IT Analytics for NetBackup deployment
- Managing NetBackup deployment using VxUpdate
- Migrating the cloud node for primary or media servers
- Deploying NetBackup using Helm charts
- Deploying MSDP Scaleout
- Deploying MSDP Scaleout
- Prerequisites for AKS
- Prerequisites for EKS
- Installing the docker images and binaries
- Initializing the MSDP operator
- Configuring MSDP Scaleout
- Using MSDP Scaleout as a single storage pool in NetBackup
- Configuring the MSDP cloud in MSDP Scaleout
- Using S3 service in MSDP Scaleout for AKS
- Enabling MSDP S3 service after MSDP Scaleout is deployed for AKS
- Deploying Snapshot Manager
- Section II. Monitoring and Management
- Monitoring NetBackup
- Monitoring MSDP Scaleout
- Monitoring Snapshot Manager
- Managing the Load Balancer service
- Managing MSDP Scaleout
- Performing catalog backup and recovery
- Section III. Maintenance
- MSDP Scaleout Maintenance
- Upgrading
- Uninstalling
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting AKS and EKS issues
- View the list of operator resources
- View the list of product resources
- View operator logs
- View primary logs
- Socket connection failure
- Resolving an invalid license key issue
- Resolving an issue where external IP address is not assigned to a NetBackup server's load balancer services
- Resolving the issue where the NetBackup server pod is not scheduled for long time
- Resolving an issue where the Storage class does not exist
- Resolving an issue where the primary server or media server deployment does not proceed
- Resolving an issue of failed probes
- Resolving token issues
- Resolving an issue related to insufficient storage
- Resolving an issue related to invalid nodepool
- Resolving a token expiry issue
- Resolve an issue related to KMS database
- Resolve an issue related to pulling an image from the container registry
- Resolving an issue related to recovery of data
- Check primary server status
- Pod status field shows as pending
- Ensure that the container is running the patched image
- Getting EEB information from an image, a running container, or persistent data
- Resolving the certificate error issue in NetBackup operator pod logs
- Pod restart failure due to liveness probe time-out
- NetBackup messaging queue broker take more time to start
- Host mapping conflict in NetBackup
- Issue with capacity licensing reporting which takes longer time
- Local connection is getting treated as insecure connection
- Primary pod is in pending state for a long duration
- Backing up data from Primary server's /mnt/nbdata/ directory fails with primary server as a client
- Storage server not supporting Instant Access capability on Web UI after upgrading NetBackup
- Taint, Toleration, and Node affinity related issues in cpServer
- Operations performed on cpServer in environment.yaml file are not reflected
- Elastic media server related issues
- Troubleshooting AKS-specific issues
- Troubleshooting EKS-specific issues
- Troubleshooting AKS and EKS issues
- Appendix A. CR template
Installing the docker images and binaries
The MSDP package VRTSpddek.tar.gz for Kubernetes includes the following:
A docker image for MSDP operator
3 docker images for MSDP Scaleout: uss-controller, uss-mds, and uss-engine
A kubectl plugin: kubectl-msdp
To install the docker images and binaries for AKS
- Download
VRTSpddek.tar.gzfrom the Veritas site. - Load the docker images to your docker storage.
tar -zxvf VRTSpddek.tar.gz
ls VRTSpddek-*/images/*.tar.gz|xargs -i docker load -i {}
- Copy MSDP kubectl plugin to a directory from where you access AKS or EKS host. This directory can be configured in the PATH environment variable so that kubectl can load kubectl-msdp as a plugin automatically.
For example,
cp ./VRTSpddek-*/bin/kubectl-msdp /usr/local/bin/
- Push the docker images to the ACR. Keep the image name and version same as original.
docker login <your-acr-url> for image in msdp-operator uss-mds uss-controller uss-engine; do \ docker image tag $image:<version> <your-acr-url>/$image:<version>; \ docker push <your-acr-url>/$image:<version>; \ done
To install the docker images and binaries for EKS
- Download
VRTSpddek.tar.gzfrom the Veritas site. - Load the docker images to your docker storage.
tar -zxvf VRTSpddek.tar.gz
ls VRTSpddek-*/images/*.tar.gz|xargs -i docker load -i {}
- Copy MSDP kubectl plugin to a directory from where you access AKS or EKS host. This directory can be configured in the PATH environment variable so that kubectl can load kubectl-msdp as a plugin automatically.
For example,
cp ./VRTSpddek-*/bin/kubectl-msdp /usr/local/bin/
- Push the docker images to the ECR.
Log in.
aws ecr get-login-password \ --region <region> \ | docker login \ --username AWS \ --password-stdin \ <aws_account_id>.dkr.ecr.<region>.amazonaws.com
Create a repository.
See AWS documentation Creating a private repository
Push the docker images to ECR. Keep the image name and version same as original.
for image in msdp-operator uss-mds uss-controller uss-engine; do \ docker image tag $image:<version> <your-ecr-url>/$image:<version>; \ docker push <your-ecr-url>/$image:<version>; \ done