Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Flex Appliance 4.0 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 4.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 4.2 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Supported update paths to this release
- Operational notes
- Flex Appliance 4.0 release content
- Flex Appliance 4.1 release content
- Flex Appliance 4.2 release content
- Getting started
- Managing network settings for instances
- Managing users
- Overview of the Flex Appliance default users
- 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 a remote user domain to the Flex Appliance Console
- Editing a remote user domain in the Flex Appliance Console
- Importing a remote user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing single sign-on (SSO)
- Managing identity providers (IDPs)
- Importing a single sign-on user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Changing a local user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Expiring local user passwords in the Flex Appliance Console
- Unlocking a user account in the Flex Appliance Console
- Removing users from the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing the password policy
- Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
- Changing the sysadmin user password in the Veritas Remote Management Interface
- Managing multifactor authentication
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Creating application instances
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Resizing instance storage
- Editing instance network settings
- Assigning Fibre Channel ports to an instance
- Unassigning Fibre Channel ports from an instance
- Managing application add-ons on instances
- Viewing instance performance metrics
- Clearing a configuration error status on an application instance
- Deleting an application instance
- Upgrading application instances
- Updating an application instance to a newer revision
- About Flex Appliance updates
- Remote replication
- About remote replication
- Pairing appliances for remote replication
- Creating a replica
- Managing remote replication
- Remote replication best practices
- Monitoring remote replication
- Editing the replication network
- Repairing a lost connection between paired appliances
- Pausing and resuming replication
- Resolving discrepancies between an active and a replica instance
- Changing the replication role of an instance
- Unlinking active and replica instances
- Forgetting a paired appliance
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Registering an appliance
- Configuring alerts
- Monitoring the appliance from the System Health Insights portal
- Viewing the hardware status
- Viewing hardware faults
- Viewing system data
- Clearing the hardware status
- Forwarding logs
- Providing access for external monitoring
- Revoking access for external monitoring
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Reconfiguring the appliance network
- Changing DNS or Hosts file settings
- Shutting down the appliance
- Performing a factory reset
- Performing a reimage
- Recovering storage data after a factory reset or a reimage
- Performing a storage reset
- Removing a node
- Viewing or resetting the storage shelf order on a Veritas 52xx 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, depending on the features that you have configured:
Create a new instance.
Create a replica.
See Creating a replica.
Use the Actions menu to the right of an 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.
Delete it.
Resize the storage.
Upgrade it.
Install add-ons.
Clear a configuration error status.
See Clearing a configuration error status on an application instance.
Pause or resume replication.
Change the replication role.
Unlink it from its active or replica instance.
Click on an existing instance to:
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.