NetBackup™ Web UI Kubernetes Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.0)
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web UI
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
    4.  
      Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
  2. Monitoring NetBackup
    1.  
      The NetBackup dashboard
    2.  
      Job monitoring
    3.  
      Jobs: cancel, suspend, restart, resume, delete
    4.  
      Search for or filter jobs in the jobs list
  3. Overview of NetBackup for Kubernetes
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Features of NetBackup support for Kubernetes
  4. Deploying and configuring the NetBackup Kubernetes operator
    1.  
      Deploy service package on NetBackup Kubernetes operator
    2.  
      Port requirements for Kubernetes operator deployment
    3.  
      Upgrade the NetBackup Kubernetes operator
    4.  
      Delete the NetBackup Kubernetes operator
    5.  
      Configure NetBackup Kubernetes datamover
    6.  
      Configure settings for NetBackup snapshot operation
    7.  
      Troubleshooting NetBackup servers with short names
    8. Managing image groups
      1.  
        About image expiration
      2.  
        About image copy
  5. Deploying certificates on NetBackup Kubernetes operator
    1.  
      Deploy certificates on the Kubernetes operator
    2.  
      Perform Host-ID-based certificate operations
    3.  
      Perform ECA certificate operations
    4.  
      Identify certificate types
  6. Managing Kubernetes assets
    1.  
      Add a Kubernetes cluster
    2.  
      Configure settings
    3.  
      Add protection to the assets
  7. Managing Kubernetes intelligent groups
    1.  
      About intelligent group
    2.  
      Create an intelligent group
    3.  
      Delete an intelligent group
    4.  
      Edit an intelligent group
  8. Protecting Kubernetes assets
    1.  
      Protect an intelligent group
    2.  
      Remove protection from an intelligent group
    3.  
      Configure backup schedule
    4.  
      Configure backup options
    5.  
      Configure backups
    6.  
      Configure storage units
  9. Recovering Kubernetes assets
    1.  
      Explore and validate recovery points
    2.  
      Restore from snapshot
    3.  
      Restore from backup copy
  10. Troubleshooting Kubernetes issues
    1.  
      Error during certificate deployment on the Kubernetes operator
    2.  
      Error during the primary server upgrade: NBCheck fails
    3.  
      Error during an old image restore: Operation fails
    4.  
      Error during persistent volume recovery API
    5.  
      Error during restore: Final job status shows partial failure
    6.  
      Error during restore on the same namespace
    7.  
      Datamover pods exceed the Kubernetes resource limit
    8.  
      Error during restore: Job fails on the highly loaded cluster
    9.  
      Custom Kubernetes role created for specific clusters cannot view the jobs

Features of NetBackup support for Kubernetes

Table: NetBackup for Kubernetes

Feature

Description

Integration with NetBackup role-based access control (RBAC)

The NetBackup web UI provides RBAC roles to control which NetBackup users can manage Kubernetes operations in NetBackup. The user does not need to be a NetBackup administrator to manage Kubernetes operations.

Licensing

Capacity-based licensing.

Protection plans

The following benefits are included:

  • Use a single protection plan to protect multiple Kubernetes namespaces. The assets can be spread over multiple clusters.

  • You are not required to know the Kubernetes commands to protect the Kubernetes assets.

Intelligent management of Kubernetes assets

NetBackup automatically discovers the namespaces, persistent volumes, persistent volume claims, and so on, in the Kubernetes clusters. You can also perform manual discovery. After the assets are discovered, the Kubernetes workload administrator can select one or more protection plans to protect them.

Kubernetes specific credentials

Kubernetes service accounts used to authenticate and manage the clusters.

Discovery

  • Full discovery

  • Incremental discovery

Discovery using Discovery now option is always a full discovery.

Discovery when a new cluster is added to the NetBackup is always a full discovery. 

Once the Kubernetes cluster is added, auto discovery cycle is triggered to discover all the assets available on the Kubernetes cluster. The first auto discovery of the day is a full discovery and subsequent auto discoveries are incremental. 

Backup features

  • Snapshot only backups

  • Backup from snapshot

The following features are available for backup:

  • Backups are managed entirely by the NetBackup server from a central location. Administrators can schedule automatic, unattended backups for namespaces on different Kubernetes clusters.

  • The NetBackup web UI supports backup and restore of namespaces from one interface.

  • Backup schedule configuration for full backups.

  • Manual backups and snapshot only backups.

  • Resource throttling for each cluster to improve the performance of backups.

  • NetBackup can perform backups of Kubernetes namespaces with snapshot methodology, achieving faster recovery time objectives.

Restore features

  • Restore from snapshot

  • Restore from backup copy

The following features are available for restore:

  • Restore Kubernetes namespaces and persistent volumes to different locations.

  • Restore to a different Kubernetes cluster flavor using restore from a backup copy.