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
About viewing storage space information using the Show command
The Manage > Storage > Show command enables you to view the appliance storage information:
You can use the Storage > Show commands to do the following:
Show ALL - to view disk, partition, and distribution information together.
Show Disk - to view total capacity, unallocated storage capacity, and current status of a disk.
Show Partition [All/Configuration/Usage] - to view total, available, and used storage capacity of a partition.
Show Distribution - to view the distribution of partitions on a disk.
This disk information section provides a tabular representation of the storage disks that comprise your appliance and the partition distribution.
For example:
----------------------------------------------------------------- Disk ID | Type | Total | Unallocated | Status ----------------------------------------------------------------- SCSI(0:0) | System | 512 GB | - | N/A SCSI(0:1) | Base | 2.10 TB | 1.97 GB | In Use SCSI(0:1) (Base) ------------------------------ AdvancedDisk : 64 GB - 0 : 64 GB Configuration : 50 GB - 0 : 50 GB MSDP : 1.94 TB - 0 : 1.94 TB MSDP Catalog : 20 GB - 0 : 20 GB NetBackup Catalog : 30 GB - 0 : 30 GB
The columns are described in the following table:
Column names | Description |
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Disk ID | Displays the ID that is associated with the disk. Example: SCSI(0:1) |
Type | Displays the type of disk. Example: Base Table: Disk types describes each disk type. |
Total | Displays the total storage space within the disk. Example: 4.5429 TB |
Unallocated | Displays the available space within the disks. Example: 1.9172 GB |
Status | Displays the status of the disk. Example: In Use Table: Disk status describes each status. |
Table: Disk types lists the disk types that can appear depending on your appliance model.
Table: Disk types
Type | Description |
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System | Contains the appliance operating system, logs, etc. |
Base | Contains the appliance storage partitions. |
Unknown | This type appears when appliance cannot determine the disk type like when the disk is not accessible. |
Table: Disk status
Status | Description |
---|---|
In Use | Denotes that the disk is currently in use. Note: The appliance can only remove an In Use disk when the disk does not contain any partitions. |
N/A | Denotes that no commands or operations can be performed on disks with this status. An example of a disk that has an N/A status is System. |
New Available | Denotes that the disk is available to be added to the storage space. Note: The appliance can only add a New Available disk when the disk size is a multiple of 0.5 TB or 512 GB. |
Not Accessible | Storage disk that was In Use is not accessible any more. |
If you want to expand storage by provisioning new disks to the appliance, make sure the disk size is a multiple of 0.5 TB or 512 GB. Once these storage disks have been created, you must scan for the newly available disks by using the Storage > Scan command from the shell menu. The new disks have the New Available status. Once the newly available disks are displayed, you can add these disks to increase the storage space.
See Adding storage space for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance.
Note:
You can use the Datacollect command from the Main > Support shell menu to gather storage disk logs. You can share these disk logs with the Support team to resolve disk-related issues. More information about the Main > Support > Datacollect menu is available.
The partition information section shows the details about all the storage partitions that are configured on the appliance by type and by name (numeric).
For example:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Partition | Total | Available | Used | %Used | Status ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AdvancedDisk | 64 GB | 63.43 GB | 582.67 MB | 1 | Optimal Configuration | 50 GB | 49.25 GB | 771.95 MB | 2 | Optimal MSDP | 1.94 TB | 1.92 TB | 15.87 GB | 1 | Optimal MSDP Catalog | 20 GB | 19.78 GB | 228.21 MB | 2 | Optimal NetBackup Catalog | 30 GB | 29.44 GB | 573.84 MB | 2 | Optimal Unallocated | 1.96 GB | - | - | - | - AdvancedDisk ------------------------------------------------------------------- Partition | Total | Available | Used | %Used | Status ------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 | 64 GB | 63.43 GB | 582.67 MB | 1 | Mounted Configuration ------------------------------------------------------------------- Partition | Total | Available | Used | %Used | Status ------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 | 50 GB | 49.25 GB | 771.95 MB | 2 | Mounted ...
The columns are described in the following table:
Column Name | Description |
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Partition | Displays the type or name of the partition. Type example: AdvancedDisk Name example: 0 |
Total | Displays the total space within the partition. Example: 1.63 TB |
Available | Displays the free space within a partition. Example: 1.62 TB |
Used | Displays the used space within a partition. Example: 13.70 GB |
Used Percentage | Displays the percentage of used space in the partition. Example: 2% |
Status | Displays the status of the partition. Example: Optimal Table: Partition type status describes each partition status. |
Table: Partition type status describes the various status of a partition type.
Table: Partition type status
Status | Description |
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Optimal | The storage partition is accessible and the entire capacity is available for backups. |
Degraded | The entire storage capacity of the partition is not available in this state. Only a limited storage capacity of the partition is available. |
Not Accessible | The entire storage capacity of the partition is not available so no tasks can be performed. |
Not Configured | Storage is not configured or imported for the storage partition. |
Table: Partition name status describes the various status of a particular partition.
Table: Partition name status
Status | Description |
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Mounted | The partition is currently mounted. |
Not Mounted | The partition is not currently mounted. If the partition is not mounted, the status can either be Degraded or Not Accessible. See Table: Partition type status for more information. |
I/O Error | There is an I/O error with the partition. If the partition has an I/O error, the status can either be Degraded or Not Accessible. See Table: Partition type status for more information. |
Note:
The sizes that are displayed for the MSDP partition by using the
command may not be the full space that is available or used by the MSDP partition. This is because space is reserved by the file system and also by MSDP. The file system reserves space for its own use. In addition, MSDP reserves 4 percent of the storage space for the deduplication database and transaction logs. For more information, see the NetBackup Deduplication GuideCheck the MSDP disk pool sizes displayed on the NetBackup Administration Console to know the MSDP statistics.
The configuration information section shows the details about all the disk pool and storage unit names that are configured on the appliance.
For example:
AdvancedDisk ------------------------------------ Disk Pool (DP) | Storage Unit (STU) ------------------------------------ dp_adv_abc123 | stu_adv_abc123 MSDP ------------------------------------- Disk Pool (DP) | Storage Unit (STU) ------------------------------------- dp_disk_abc123 | stu_disk_abc123
The columns are described in the following table:
Column name | Description |
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Disk Pool (DP) | Displays the disk pool name for the partition type. |
Storage Unit (STU) | Displays the storage unit name for the partition type. |
See Viewing all storage information.
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