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Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation

Last Published: 2018-06-28

Product(s): Appliances (3.1.1)

Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
  1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server role
  2. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server role
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance supported features
3. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance documentation
4. Known limitations of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.1.1 release
5. Operational Notes for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.1.1 release
6. NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.1.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
Preparing to deploy the appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product files (OVF templates)
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment methods
3. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment guidelines
  1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment checklist
Deploying and configuring the appliance
1. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
2. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
Post initial configuration procedures
1. About modifying the NetBackup Virtual Appliance settings
2. Adding a permanent license key if an evaluation license key expires
3. Managing license keys on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Appliance common tasks
1. Common tasks in NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Storage management
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
Network connection management
1. About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
2. Network settings for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Configuring DNS and host name mapping for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Setting the date and time on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
5. Configuring static routes on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Managing users
1. About managing NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
2. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance account types
3. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
4. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
5. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
6. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
7. Granting roles to NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
8. Revoking roles from NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
9. About user name and password specifications
10. Changing NetBackup Virtual Appliance user passwords
11. About password management and recovery
12. About authenticating LDAP users
13. About authenticating Active Directory users
  1. Adding an Active Directory server configuration
  2. Unconfiguring Active Directory user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
14. About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
  1. Adding a Kerberos-NIS authentication configuration on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
  2. Unconfiguring Kerberos-NIS user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
15. Generic user authentication guidelines
16. About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
17. Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
18. Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
Using the appliance
1. About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About Copilot functionality and Share management
3. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
  1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance as backup host: component overview
  2. Notes on NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
4. About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
5. About mounting a remote NFS
  1. Mounting a remote NFS drive
  2. Unmounting an NFS drive
6. About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
7. Generating certificates
Monitoring the appliance
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance alerts
2. Setting up email notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Setting up SNMP notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Enabling and disabling Call Home from the NetBackup and Access Appliance Shell Menu
5. Configuring a Call Home proxy server from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. About SNMP
  1. About the Management Information Base (MIB)
7. About Call Home
  1. Understanding the Call Home workflow
  2. About the Product Improvement Program
8. About AutoSupport
9. About storage email alerts
Appliance security
1. About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About data security
3. About data integrity
4. About data classification
5. About data encryption
6. About SSL usage
7. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion detection system
8. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion prevention system
9. Overriding the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion prevention system policy
10. Re-enabling the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion prevention system policy
11. Major components of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance OS
12. List of software packages included in the NetBackup Virtual Appliance OS
13. Disabled service accounts on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
14. Vulnerability scanning of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
15. About the appliance login banner
16. Setting the appliance login banner
  1. Creating the appliance login banner
  2. Removing the appliance login banner
17. Log Forwarding feature overview
Upgrading the appliance
1. About upgrades to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.1.1 and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system
2. Guidelines and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
  1. Upgrade time estimation
3. Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades
4. Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
  1. Downloading software updates directly to a NetBackup appliance
  2. Downloading software updates to a NetBackup appliance using a client share
5. Installing a NetBackup appliance software update using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. Post upgrade tasks for the upgrade to 3.1.1
7. Troubleshooting upgrade issues
Appliance restore
1. About appliance restore
2. Creating an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
3. Rollback to an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
4. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance factory reset
5. Factory reset best practices
6. How to factory reset the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
1. About decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. Decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance with the media server role
Troubleshooting
1. About troubleshooting the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About contacting Technical Support
3. Determining the NetBackup Virtual Appliance serial number
4. About disaster recovery
5. About NetBackup support utilities
  1. NetBackup Domain Network Analyzer (NBDNA)
  2. NetBackup Support Utility (NBSU)
6. Troubleshooting NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment issues
7. Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
8. NetBackup status codes applicable for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
9. Installing an EEB
10. Rolling back an EEB using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
Appliance logging
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files
2. Viewing log files using the Support command
3. Where to find NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files using the Browse command
4. Enabling and disabling VxMS logging
5. Gathering device logs on a NetBackup virtual appliance
6. About forwarding logs to an external server
Commands overview
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
2. Logging on to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
3. Using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
4. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu command views
Appendix A. Appliance commands
1. Appliance > Master
2. Appliance > Media
3. Appliance > ShowDedupPassword
4. Appliance > Status
5. Appliance > Configure
Appendix B. Manage commands
1. Manage > Software > Delete
2. Manage > Software > Download
3. Manage > Software > List
4. Manage > Software > LiveUpdateClients
5. Manage > Software > Install
6. Manage > Software > Share
7. Manage > Software > Readme
8. Manage > Software > Rollback
9. Manage > Software > Cancel
10. Manage > Software > DownloadProgress
11. Manage > Software > UpgradeStatus
12. Manage > Storage > Show
13. Manage > Storage > Add
14. Manage > Storage > Create
15. Manage > Storage > Delete
16. Manage > Storage > Edit
17. Manage > Storage > Monitor
18. Manage > Storage > Move
19. Manage > Storage > Remove
20. Manage > Storage > Resize
21. Manage > Storage > Scan
22. Manage > MountPoints > List
23. Manage > MountPoints > Mount
24. Manage > MountPoints > Unmount
25. Manage > License > Add
26. Manage > License > List
27. Manage > License > ListInfo
28. Manage > License > Remove
29. Manage > Certificates > Generate
30. Manage > Certificates > Delete
31. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Create
32. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Delete
33. Manage > NetBackupCLI > List
34. Manage > NetBackupCLI > PasswordExpiry
Appendix C. Monitor commands
1. Monitor > Uptime
2. Monitor > Who
3. Monitor > NetworkStatus
4. Monitor > Top
5. Monitor > MemoryStatus
6. Monitor > SDCS
7. Monitor > NetBackup
8. Monitor > Hardware
Appendix D. Network commands
1. Network > Configure
2. Network > Date
3. Network > DNS
4. Network > Gateway
5. Network > Hostname
6. Network > Hosts
7. Network > IPv4
8. Network > IPv6
9. Network > NetStat
10. Network > NTPServer
11. Network > Ping
12. Network > SetProperty
13. Network > Show
14. Network > TimeZone
15. Network > TraceRoute
16. Network > Unconfigure
17. Network > WANOptimization
Appendix E. Reports commands
1. Reports > Deduplication
2. Reports > Process
Appendix F. Settings commands
1. Settings > Deduplication
2. Settings > LifeCycle
3. Settings > LiveUpdateServer
4. Settings > LogForwarding
5. Settings > NetBackup
6. Settings > Password
7. Settings > SystemLocale
8. Settings > Share
9. Settings > Notifications > LoginBanner
10. Settings > Security > Authentication > LDAP
11. Settings > Security > Authentication > ActiveDirectory
12. Settings > Security > Authentication > Kerberos
13. Settings > Security > Authentication > LocalUser
14. Settings > Security > Authorization
15. Settings > Sysctl
16. Settings > Alerts > CallHome
17. Settings > Alerts > SNMP
18. Settings > Alerts > Email
19. Settings > Alerts > Hardware
Appendix G. Support commands
1. Support > Checkpoint
2. Support > DataCollect
3. Support > Disk
4. Support > Errors
5. Support > FactoryReset
6. Support > InfraServices
7. Support > iostat
8. Support > Logs
9. Support > Maintenance
10. Support > Messages
11. Support > NBDNA
12. Support > nbperfchk
13. Support > NBSU
14. Support > Processes
15. Support > Reboot
16. Support > Service
17. Support > Shutdown
18. Support > Storage SanityCheck
19. Support > Storage Reset
20. Support > Test

NetBackup Virtual Appliance product files (OVF templates)

This section describes the NetBackup Virtual Appliance product files (OVF templates) for deployment. The product files are different in appliance roles, CPU, memory, and initial storage capacity.

You can download the NetBackup Virtual Appliance product file from the Licensing Portal on the MyVeritas website.

Combined master and media server for remote offices and branch offices (ROBO)

For the combined master and media server, Veritas provides the automatic initial configuration option. By using a product file that supports this option, the deployment wizard passes in the appliance network and storage configuration as OVF properties during the deployment process. When the deployment is complete, the appliance network and storage are configured based on these values. Then, you need to perform the remaining steps from the appliance shell menu to complete the initial configuration.

Table: NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server product files

Profile file	Description
Product file 1	Note: This product file requires a VMware vCenter Server. How to perform initial configuration Automatic initial configuration CPU and memory 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory Storage capacity Flexible. When you deploy the appliance, select the desired initial capacity. The available options are 0.5 TB, 1 TB, and 2 TB. Disks One System disk at 512 GB. One Base disk. The size is defined by your capacity selection. Note: An additional 102 GB of disk space is created and used for storage metadata. For example, if you selected 0.5 TB (512 GB) for the storage capacity, the storage disk occupies 614 GB after the deployment is complete.
Product file 2	How to perform initial configuration Automatic initial configuration CPU and memory 4 vCPUs, 8 GB memory Storage capacity Fixed 2 TB storage. Disks One System disk at 512 GB. One Base disk. The size is about 2.1 TB. Note: An additional 102 GB of disk space is created and used for storage metadata.
Product file 3	Note: This product file requires a VMware vCenter Server. How to perform initial configuration Initial configuration from the shell menu CPU and memory 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory Storage capacity Flexible. When you deploy the appliance, select the desired initial capacity. The available options are 0.5 TB, 1 TB, and 2 TB. Disks One System disk at 512 GB. One Base disk. The size is defined by your capacity selection. Note: An additional 102 GB of disk space is created and used for storage metadata. For example, if you selected 0.5 TB (512 GB) for the storage capacity, the storage disk occupies 614 GB after the deployment is complete.

Note the following limitations with the products files with flexible initial storage:

You must have a vCenter Server to deploy product files with flexible initial storage.
If your VMware vSphere version is 6.5 and later, note that you cannot use the vSphere Web Client to deploy product files with flexible initial storage. This is a VMware limitation. To work around this limitation, use the VMware OVF Tool on a vCenter Server.

See About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server role.

Media server for data centers (DC)

Table: NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server product file

Profile file	Description
Only one product file	CPU and memory 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory Storage capacity No initial disk storage. After the deployment, you can create virtual disks to add to the virtual appliance from the virtualization software (VMware vSphere). Disks One System disk at 512 GB. No Base disk. Note: Create at least one virtual disk to add to the appliance after the deployment is complete. Otherwise you cannot perform the initial configuration.

Profile file

Description

Only one product file

CPU and memory
8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory
Storage capacity
No initial disk storage. After the deployment, you can create virtual disks to add to the virtual appliance from the virtualization software (VMware vSphere).
Disks
One System disk at 512 GB.
No Base disk.
Note:
Create at least one virtual disk to add to the appliance after the deployment is complete. Otherwise you cannot perform the initial configuration.

See About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server role.