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
- Verifying Cloud Scale deployment
- Section II. Monitoring and Management
- Monitoring NetBackup
- Monitoring MSDP Scaleout
- Monitoring Snapshot Manager
- Managing the Load Balancer service
- Managing MSDP Scaleout
- Managing PostrgreSQL DBaaS
- Performing catalog backup and recovery
- Setting key parameters in Cloud Scale deployments
- Section III. Maintenance
- MSDP Scaleout Maintenance
- PostgreSQL DBaaS 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 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
- Failed to register Snapshot Manager with NetBackup
- Pods unable to connect to flexsnap-rabbitmq post Kubernetes cluster restart
- Troubleshooting AKS-specific issues
- Troubleshooting EKS-specific issues
- Troubleshooting AKS and EKS issues
- Appendix A. CR template
Tuning touch files
Some files are populated with default values, which are used to tune the performance parameters of NetBackup. Following table lists the files and a brief description of what each accomplishes:
Table: Files for tuning performance parameters of NetBackup
File location | Value set | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 800 | To set the timeout value for the Data Protection Server (DPS) proxy. For more information, see NetBackup Appliance Commands Reference Guide. |
| 1000000 | To control the frequency with which media servers send messages to the primary server to update job status in the activity monitor. For more information, see Knowledge base 100008521. |
| 25000000 | To regulate the frequency with which media servers send disk storage capacity update (RBDB update) messages to the primary server. For more information, see Knowledge base 100008521. |
| 3600 | To reduce traffic to the primary server. Not required when writing to MSDP server. |
| 64 | To change the limit of number of backed up images. For more information, see NetBackup Appliance Commands Reference Guide. |
| 262144 | To set the buffer size that the media server uses to buffer data between the network and the tape drive. It must be a multiple of 1024. For more information, see Knowledge base 100000498. |
| 100000 | To configure the number of metadata entries to be sent to the primary's catalog in each batch. For more information, see NetBackup Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide. |