Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Release Notes

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About the NetBackup appliance documentation

The following documents help to ensure that you can successfully install, configure, and use your appliance. In addition, you can find information about the appliance hardware documents from the following table.

All these documents are posted on the NetBackup Appliance Documentation page.

Table: NetBackup Appliance Software documentation

Guide

Description

NetBackup™ 52xx Initial Appliance Configuration Guide

This document guides you through the 52xx configuration process from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console or from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.

NetBackup™ 53xx Initial Appliance Configuration Guide

This document guides you through the 53xx configuration process from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console or from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.

NetBackup Appliance Upgrade Guide

This document guides you through the required steps to upgrade a NetBackup appliance.

NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide

The NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide contains the following types of information:

  • Deployment information

  • Administering your appliance

  • Monitoring information

NetBackup™ Appliance Command Reference Guide

The NetBackup™ Appliance Command Reference Guide provides a complete list of the commands that are available for you to use through the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.

Appliance Management Guide

This document helps you to use the Veritas Appliance Management Console to centrally manage multiple appliances. The Veritas Appliance Management Console provides enterprise-wide monitoring and management of NetBackup appliances. With 3.1 and later, you can manage software upgrades or install EEBs on multiple appliances.

NetBackup Appliance Release Notes

This document contains information about this version of NetBackup Appliance. It contains brief descriptions of new features within the release, operational notes that apply to the release update, and any known issues.

NetBackup Appliance Troubleshooting Guide

This document provides a general overview of how to troubleshoot NetBackup appliance issues and an explanation of the appliance troubleshooting tools and log files.

If you need more specific troubleshooting information about a particular issue, go to the NetBackup Appliance page on the Veritas Support website. You can use the search function to look for articles relating to specific issues.

NetBackup Appliance Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning Guide

This document contains information on how to optimize your backup environment and your NetBackup appliance. It helps you to analyze your backup requirements and design a system that best fits your needs.

NetBackup Appliance Security Guide

This document describes the security features in NetBackup Appliance and how to use those features to ensure that your appliance environment is secure.

NetBackup Appliance Fibre Channel Guide

This document describes the supported Fibre Channel (FC) capabilities and configurations for NetBackup appliances.

NetBackup Appliance iSCSI Guide

This document describes how iSCSI works on the NetBackup appliance.

NetBackup Appliance Decommissioning and Reconfiguration Guide

This document describes how to decommission and reconfigure a NetBackup appliance.

NetBackup Appliance SNMP Trap Reference Guide

This document provides a complete list of the NetBackup Appliance SNMP traps. It describes what each trap means and the recommended actions for when an error occurs.

NetBackup Copilot for Oracle Configuration Guide

This document outlines how to configure Copilot using NetBackup and the NetBackup Appliance.

NetBackup Appliance Third-party Legal Notices

The NetBackup Appliance Third-party Legal Notices document lists the third-party software that is included in this product, and it contains attributions for the third-party software.

This document is available from the following website:

https://www.veritas.com/about/legal/license-agreements

NetBackup™ Appliance AutoSupport 2.0 Reference Guide

This document contains the information about the AutoSupport 2.0. It helps you to understand the deployment of the AutoSupport infrastructure, and how does the AutoSupport infrastructure analyzes the Call Home data from each appliances.

NetBackup™ 53xx Appliance High Availability Reference Guide

This document contains the information about the High Availability (HA) solution. It helps you to understand the deployment of the high availability configuration.

Table: NetBackup Appliance Hardware documentation

Guide

Description

NetBackup™ 5230 Appliance and Storage Shelf Product Description

This guide introduces you to the NetBackup 5230 Appliance and Storage Shelves.

NetBackup™ 5240 Appliance Product Description

This guide introduces you to the NetBackup 5240 Appliance and Storage Shelf.

NetBackup™ 5330 Appliance Product Description

This guide introduces you to the NetBackup 5330 Appliance and Storage Shelves.

NetBackup™ 5340 Appliance Product Description

This guide introduces you to the NetBackup 5340 Appliance and the 5U84 Storage Shelves.

NetBackup™ Appliance Safety and Maintenance Guide

This document provides safety maintenance information for the following hardware:

  • NetBackup 52xx appliances

  • NetBackup 53xx appliances

  • Veritas 3U16 24TB/36TB Storage Shelves

  • Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf

  • Veritas 5U84 Storage Shelves