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Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation

Last Published: 2019-11-04

Product(s): Appliances (3.1.2)

Platform: NetBackup Virtual Appliance

Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance supported features
3. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance documentation
4. NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.1.2 new features, enhancements, and changes
5. Known limitations of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.1.2 release
6. Operational Notes for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.1.2 release
Preparing to deploy the appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product files (OVF templates)
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment methods
3. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment guidelines
  1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment checklist
Deploying and configuring the appliance
1. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
2. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
3. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
4. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst
Post initial configuration procedures
1. About modifying the NetBackup Virtual Appliance settings
2. Adding a permanent license key if an evaluation license key expires
3. Managing license keys on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Appliance common tasks
1. Common tasks in NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Storage management
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
Network connection management
1. About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
2. Network settings for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Configuring DNS and host name mapping for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Setting the date and time on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
5. Configuring static routes on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
6. Expanding the bandwidth on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Managing users
1. About managing NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
2. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance account types
3. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
4. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
5. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
6. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
7. Granting roles to NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
8. Revoking roles from NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
9. About user name and password specifications
10. Changing NetBackup Virtual Appliance user passwords
11. About password management and recovery
12. About authenticating LDAP users
13. About authenticating Active Directory users
  1. Adding an Active Directory server configuration
  2. Unconfiguring Active Directory user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
14. About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
  1. Adding a Kerberos-NIS authentication configuration on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
  2. Unconfiguring Kerberos-NIS user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
15. Generic user authentication guidelines
16. About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
17. Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
18. Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
Using the appliance
1. About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About Copilot functionality and Share management
3. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
  1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance as backup host: component overview
  2. Notes on NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
4. About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
5. About mounting a remote NFS
  1. Mounting a remote NFS drive
  2. Unmounting an NFS drive
6. About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
7. Generating certificates
Monitoring the appliance
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance alerts
2. Setting up email notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Setting up SNMP notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Enabling and disabling Call Home from the appliance shell menu
5. Configuring a Call Home proxy server from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. About SNMP
  1. About the Management Information Base (MIB)
7. About Call Home
  1. Understanding the Call Home workflow
  2. About the Product Improvement Program
8. About AutoSupport
9. About storage email alerts
Appliance security
1. About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About data security
3. About data integrity
4. About data classification
5. About data encryption
6. About SSL usage
7. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion detection system
8. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion prevention system
9. Major components of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance OS
10. Vulnerability scanning of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
11. About the appliance login banner
12. Setting the appliance login banner
  1. Creating the appliance login banner
  2. Removing the appliance login banner
13. Log Forwarding feature overview
Upgrading the appliance
1. About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.1.2
2. Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
  1. Upgrade time estimation
3. Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades
4. Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
  1. Downloading software updates directly to a NetBackup appliance
  2. Downloading software updates to a NetBackup appliance using a client share
5. Installing a NetBackup Virtual Appliance software update using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. Troubleshooting upgrade issues
Appliance restore
1. About appliance restore
2. Creating an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
3. Rollback to an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
4. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance factory reset
5. Factory reset best practices
6. How to factory reset the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
1. About decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. Decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance with the media server role
Troubleshooting
1. About troubleshooting the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About contacting Technical Support
3. Determining the NetBackup Virtual Appliance serial number
4. About disaster recovery
  1. Recovering a NetBackup appliance master server using NetBackup catalog restore
5. About NetBackup support utilities
  1. NetBackup Domain Network Analyzer (NBDNA)
  2. NetBackup Support Utility (NBSU)
6. Troubleshooting NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment issues
7. Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
8. NetBackup status codes applicable for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
9. Installing an EEB
10. Rolling back an EEB using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
Appliance logging
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files
2. Viewing log files using the Support command
3. Where to find NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files using the Browse command
4. Enabling and disabling VxMS logging
5. Gathering device logs on a NetBackup virtual appliance
6. About forwarding logs to an external server
Commands overview
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
2. Logging on to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
3. Using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
4. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu command views
Appendix A. Appliance commands
1. Appliance > Master
2. Appliance > Media
3. Appliance > ShowDedupPassword
4. Appliance > Status
5. Appliance > Configure
Appendix B. Manage commands
1. Manage > Software > Delete
2. Manage > Software > Download
3. Manage > Software > List
4. Manage > Software > Install
5. Manage > Software > Share
6. Manage > Software > Readme
7. Manage > Software > Rollback
8. Manage > Software > Cancel
9. Manage > Software > DownloadProgress
10. Manage > Software > UpgradeStatus
11. Manage > Storage > Show
12. Manage > Storage > Add
13. Manage > Storage > Create
14. Manage > Storage > Delete
15. Manage > Storage > Edit
16. Manage > Storage > Monitor
17. Manage > Storage > Move
18. Manage > Storage > Remove
19. Manage > Storage > Resize
20. Manage > Storage > Scan
21. Manage > MountPoints > List
22. Manage > MountPoints > Mount
23. Manage > MountPoints > Unmount
24. Manage > License > Add
25. Manage > License > List
26. Manage > License > ListInfo
27. Manage > License > Remove
28. Manage > Certificates > Generate
29. Manage > Certificates > Delete
30. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Create
31. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Delete
32. Manage > NetBackupCLI > List
33. Manage > NetBackupCLI > PasswordExpiry
Appendix C. Monitor commands
1. Monitor > Uptime
2. Monitor > Who
3. Monitor > NetworkStatus
4. Monitor > Top
5. Monitor > MemoryStatus
6. Monitor > SDCS
7. Monitor > NetBackup
8. Monitor > Hardware
Appendix D. Network commands
1. Network > Configure
2. Network > Date
3. Network > DNS
4. Network > Gateway
5. Network > Hostname
6. Network > Hosts
7. Network > IPv4
8. Network > IPv6
9. Network > LinkAggregation
10. Network > NetStat
11. Network > NTPServer
12. Network > Ping
13. Network > SetProperty
14. Network > Show
15. Network > TimeZone
16. Network > TraceRoute
17. Network > Unconfigure
18. Network > WANOptimization
Appendix E. Reports commands
1. Reports > Deduplication
2. Reports > Process
Appendix F. Settings commands
1. Settings > Deduplication
2. Settings > LifeCycle
3. Settings > LogForwarding
4. Settings > NetBackup
5. Settings > Password
6. Settings > SystemLocale
7. Settings > Share
8. Settings > Sysctl
9. Settings > Notifications > LoginBanner
10. Settings > Security > Authentication > LDAP
11. Settings > Security > Authentication > ActiveDirectory
12. Settings > Security > Authentication > Kerberos
13. Settings > Security > Authentication > LocalUser
14. Settings > Security > Authorization
15. Settings > Alerts > CallHome
16. Settings > Alerts > SNMP
17. Settings > Alerts > Email
18. Settings > Alerts > Hardware
Appendix G. Support commands
1. Support > Checkpoint
2. Support > DataCollect
3. Support > Disk
4. Support > Errors
5. Support > FactoryReset
6. Support > InfraServices
7. Support > iostat
8. Support > Logs
9. Support > Maintenance
10. Support > Messages
11. Support > NBDNA
12. Support > nbperfchk
13. Support > NBSU
14. Support > Processes
15. Support > Reboot
16. Support > Service
17. Support > Shutdown
18. Support > Storage SanityCheck
19. Support > Storage Reset
20. Support > Test

NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment checklist

This checklist is intended to help you plan for the initial configuration of your appliance. Use the checklist together with the initial deployment procedure.

For a new appliance, use the following tables to record the initial deployment settings for the appliance. When using a printed version of this checklist, make sure to place the completed checklist in a secure location.

Data center details

Table: Data center details

Parameter	Setting
Appliance name
Data center name
ESX/ESXi host name
Destination datastore

Network configuration

Table: Network configuration

Parameter	Setting
Appliance host name (Veritas recommends FQDN)
DNS domain name
Appliance IPv4 address
(Optional) Appliance IPv6 address
(Optional) Appliance IPv6 prefix length
Netmask
Gateway IPv4 address
(Optional) Gateway IPv6 address
Primary DNS server IPv4 address
(Optional) Additional DNS server IPv4
(Optional) Additional DNS server IPv6

Master server and NTP

Table: Master server and NTP

Parameter	Setting
Master server name (required if it is a media server or CloudCatalyst)
(Optional) NTP

Storage configuration

You do not need to provide the storage details for a master server appliance or a CloudCatalyst appliance.

Table: Storage configuration

Parameter	Setting
AdvancedDisk disk pool name
AdvancedDisk storage unit name
AdvancedDisk storage size (media server only)
MSDP disk pool name
MSDP storage unit name
MSDP storage size (media server only)

Password change

Table: Password change

Parameter	Setting
New admin password
New maintenance password
New nbasecadmin password (master server and combined master and media server only)

NetBackup CloudCatalyst

Table: NetBackup CloudCatalyst

Parameter	Settings
Cloud provider
(Optional) Proxy for cloud service access
MSDP cache disk pool name
MSDP cache storage unit name

More Information

NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment guidelines