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
Cloud LSU disaster recovery
Scenario 1: MSDP Scaleout and its data is lost and the NetBackup primary server remains unchanged and works well
- Redeploy MSDP Scaleout on a cluster by using the same CR parameters and NetBackup re-issue token.
- When MSDP Scaleout is up and running, re-use the cloud LSU on NetBackup primary server.
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbdevconfig -setconfig -storage_server <STORAGESERVERNAME> -stype PureDisk -configlist <configuration file>
Credentials, bucket name, and sub bucket name must be the same as the recovered Cloud LSU configuration in the previous MSDP Scaleout deployment.
Configuration file template:
V7.5 "operation" "reuse-lsu-cloud" string V7.5 "lsuName" "LSUNAME" string V7.5 "lsuCloudUser" "XXX" string V7.5 "lsuCloudPassword" "XXX" string V7.5 "lsuCloudAlias" "<STORAGESERVERNAME_LSUNAME>" string V7.5 "lsuCloudBucketName" "XXX" string V7.5 "lsuCloudBucketSubName" "XXX" string V7.5 "lsuKmsServerName" "XXX" string
If the LSU cloud alias does not exist, you can use the following command to add it.
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/csconfig cldinstance -as -in <instance-name> -sts <storage-server-name> -lsu_name <lsu-name>
- On the first MSDP Engine of MSDP Scaleout, run the following command for each cloud LSU:
sudo -E -u msdpsvc /usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin/cacontrol --catalog clouddr <LSUNAME>
- Restart the MSDP services in the MSDP Scaleout.
Option 1: Manually delete all the MSDP engine pods.
kubectl delete pod <sample-engine-pod> -n <sample-cr-namespace>
Option 2: Stop MSDP services in each MSDP engine pod. MSDP service starts automatically.
kubectl exec <sample-engine-pod> -n <sample-cr-namespace> -c uss-engine -- /usr/openv/pdde/pdconfigure/pdde stop
- This is an optional step and applicable to AKS only.
If MSDP S3 service is configured, restart MSDP S3 service after MSDP services are restarted.
kubectl exec <sample-engine-pod> -n <sample-cr-namespace> -c uss-engine -- systemctl restart pdde-s3srv
Scenario 2: MSDP Scaleout and its data is lost and the NetBackup primary server was destroyed and is re-installed
- Redeploy MSDP Scaleout on a cluster by using the same CR parameters and new NetBackup token.
- When MSDP Scaleout is up and running, reuse the cloud LSU on NetBackup primary server.
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbdevconfig -setconfig -storage_server <STORAGESERVERNAME> -stype PureDisk -configlist <configuration file>
Credentials, bucket name, and sub bucket name must be the same as the recovered Cloud LSU configuration in previous MSDP Scaleout deployment.
Configuration file template:
V7.5 "operation" "reuse-lsu-cloud" string V7.5 "lsuName" "LSUNAME" string V7.5 "lsuCloudUser" "XXX" string V7.5 "lsuCloudPassword" "XXX" string V7.5 "lsuCloudAlias" "<STORAGESERVERNAME_LSUNAME>" string V7.5 "lsuCloudBucketName" "XXX" string V7.5 "lsuCloudBucketSubName" "XXX" string V7.5 "lsuKmsServerName" "XXX" string
If KMS is enabled, setup KMS server and import the KMS keys.
If the LSU cloud alias does not exist, you can use the following command to add it.
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/csconfig cldinstance -as -in <instance-name> -sts <storage-server-name> -lsu_name <lsu-name>
- On the first MSDP Engine of MSDP Scaleout, run the following command for each cloud LSU:
sudo -E -u msdpsvc /usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin/cacontrol --catalog clouddr <LSUNAME>
- Restart the MSDP services in the MSDP Scaleout.
Option 1: Manually delete all the MSDP engine pods.
kubectl delete <sample-engine-pod> -n <sample-cr-namespace>
Option 2: Stop MSDP services in each MSDP engine pod.
kubectl exec <sample-engine-pod> -n <sample-cr-namespace> -c uss-engine -- /usr/openv/pdde/pdconfigure/pdde stop
- This is an optional step and applicable to AKS only.
If MSDP S3 service is configured, restart MSDP S3 service after MSDP services are restarted.
kubectl exec <sample-engine-pod> -n <sample-cr-namespace> -c uss-engine -- systemctl restart pdde-s3srv
- Create disk pool for the cloud LSU on NetBackup server.
- Do two-phase image importing.
See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I
For information about other DR scenarios, see NetBackup Deduplication Guide.