Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Planning for an upgrade
- General upgrade planning information
- About upgrade tools
- Upgrade operational notes and limitations
- Master server upgrade
- Media server upgrade
- MSDP upgrade for NetBackup
- Client upgrade
- NetBackup Deployment Management with VxUpdate
- Appendix A. Reference
About Veritas Smart Meter
Veritas Smart Meter helps you manage your NetBackup deployment more efficiently, spot trends, and plan for the future. With accurate, near real-time reporting, it reveals the total amount of data that is backed up. Smart Meter alerts you if you are close to exceeding your licensed capacity limits. Smart Meter requires Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 and later.
Smart Meter provides:
Accurate, near real-time reporting of terabytes protected
Usage trends that are shown in a graphical display
Consumption assessments to alert before licensed capacity is exceeded
Easy capacity planning and budgeting
Identification of growth spikes or potential gaps in coverage
For customers who use capacity licensing (NDMP, Limited Edition, or Complete), Smart Meter helps accurately measure capacity usage. This measurement gives total visibility into how each of the protected workloads consumes storage and enables efficient capacity planning. Furthermore, Smart Meter eliminates the need for these customers to provide manual uploads of telemetry data to Veritas by automatically providing the necessary telemetry.
The following URL provides additional answers to frequently asked questions.
https://help.veritas.com/Welcome?context=veritas_smart_meter&token=vsm_nbu_faqs
To connect to Smart Meter, use the following URL.
Caution:
Smart Meter is compatible with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. Veritas does not recommend using Microsoft Internet Explorer, as it does not render all information correctly.