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Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
Last Published:
2024-07-23
Product(s):
Appliances (4.2, 4.1, 4.0)
Platform: Flex Appliance OS
- 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
Changing the replication role of an instance
You can change the replication role of an instance so that the active instance becomes the replica, and the replica becomes the active instance. You can use this option during planned downtimes on the appliance with the active instance so that the primary server can continue to run.
Use the following procedure to change the replication role. The replication network must be connected, and the data status between the instances must be consistent before you begin.
To change the replication role
- Sign in to the Flex Appliance Console on the appliance where the active instance is located.
- Navigate to the Application instances section of the System topology page and locate the instance that you want to change the replication role of. If it is running, click Actions > Stop.
- Click Actions > Change replication role.
Alternatively, you can navigate to the Remote replication page, locate the instance, and click Change replication role.
You are redirected to the Activity Monitor to view the progress.
- If you use DNS, and the server is different on the other appliance, update your media servers and clients with the new settings.
- Ask the other appliance administrator to start the instance.