Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Getting started
- Managing network settings
- Managing users
- Overview of the Flex Appliance default users
- Changing the password policy
- Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
- Adding a tenant
- Editing a tenant
- Removing a tenant
- Adding a local user to the Flex Appliance Console
- Connecting an Active Directory domain to the Flex Appliance Console
- Importing an Active Directory user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Editing an Active Directory domain in the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing a user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Expiring a user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Removing a user from the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
- Changing the sysadmin user password in the Veritas Remote Management Interface
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Creating application instances
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Upgrading application instances
- About Flex Appliance upgrades and updates
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
You can manage some aspects of your application instances from the System topology page of the Flex Appliance Console. To access your existing instances, click on the box on the home page or the icon in the left-side navigation bar, then navigate to the Application instances section.
Under Application instances, you can perform the following tasks:
Create a new instance.
Select an existing instance to:
Relocate it to another node if you have a multi-node appliance.
Stop or start it.
Note:
When you start an instance, Flex Appliance automatically determines which node to start it on for optimal load balancing. Therefore, it may not start on the same node that it was located on when it was stopped. If you want the instance to run on a specific node, you can relocate it after it starts.
Use the drop-down to delete it.
Use the drop-down to resize the storage.
Use the drop-down to upgrade it.
Click on an existing instance to perform the following tasks:
View the instance details.
Edit the network settings, including IP address and interface pairs.
Manage add-ons.
Manage the assigned Fibre Channel ports
You can also view live performance metrics of all of the instances on your appliance from the Flex Appliance Shell. See Viewing instance performance metrics.
Note:
Flex Appliance does not support adding local directories or manually editing most files on application instances. If you create a local directory or manually edit a file and the instance is relocated or stopped for any reason, the changes are not maintained when the instance restarts.
However, if you must store a small amount of critical data on an instance, you can store it in the /mnt/nblogs directory. Note that this directory has 250GB of storage space that cannot be resized. If you use too much storage space, the instance may be affected.
See the NetBackup Application Guides for specific details.