Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation
- Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
- Preparing to deploy the appliance
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Appliance common tasks
- Storage management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- Network connection management
- Managing users
- About authenticating LDAP users
- About authenticating Active Directory users
- About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
- About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Using the appliance
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- About SNMP
- About Call Home
- Appliance security
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Setting the appliance login banner
- Upgrading the appliance
- About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.1.2
- Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
- Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
- Appliance restore
- Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
- Troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery
- About NetBackup support utilities
- Appliance logging
- Commands overview
- Appendix A. Appliance commands
- Appendix B. Manage commands
- Appendix C. Monitor commands
- Appendix D. Network commands
- Appendix E. Reports commands
- Appendix F. Settings commands
- Appendix G. Support commands
Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades
To prepare for an upgrade, the following tasks must be performed on each appliance that you plan to upgrade:
To help ensure a successful upgrade, download and run the latest available version of the Appliance Upgrade Readiness Analyzer (analyzer tool).
To download the analyzer tool, see the following article:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100040055
The following describes the recommended best practices for when to use the analyzer tool:
Run the analyzer tool prior to your upgrade maintenance window.
Do this to ensure that you have enough time to implement any required changes that are reported in the analyzer tool results.
Run the analyzer tool again right before you upgrade.
Do this to verify whether any changes within your environment since the previous analysis could impact the upgrade.
The preflight check verifies whether there are any active jobs. To help ensure a successful upgrade, perform the following:
Log on to the NetBackup Administration Console as the administrator.
Before master server upgrades, pause all jobs and any SLPs (Storage Lifecycle Policies).
Before media server upgrades, stop all jobs that are currently running and suspend the jobs that may start during the upgrade. You must prevent jobs from attempting to start on the media server during an upgrade.
After all jobs have been stopped or suspended and all SLPs have been paused, run the following command from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu for a validation test:
Support > Test Software
The software self-test result must show Pass.
Note:
This command performs a backup and a restore test to the
/tmp
directory. If the/tmp
directory for the appliance you are upgrading is on the NetBackup exclude list, you must remove it from that list before you run the self-test command. Otherwise, the self-test fails.
To make sure that there is enough space for the installation of the new version, all previously downloaded release updates, client packages, and client add-ons must be removed from the appliance before the upgrade.
If you do not delete the previously downloaded packages and the /inst
directory on the appliance does not contain enough space, the preflight check notifies you of the problem and prevents the upgrade. Even if enough space exists to allow the upgrade to start, the upgrade may fail if the old client add-ons are not removed.
Note:
As a best practice, always remove downloaded packages after all appliances and clients have been upgraded.
The following table describes the package removal methods for appliances.
Table: Methods for deleting previously downloaded release updates, client packages, and client add-ons (for appliances that never had version 2.6.0.1 installed)
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