Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Flex Appliance 4.0 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 4.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 4.2 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Supported update paths to this release
- Operational notes
- Flex Appliance 4.0 release content
- Flex Appliance 4.1 release content
- Flex Appliance 4.2 release content
- Getting started
- Managing network settings for instances
- Managing users
- Overview of the Flex Appliance default users
- Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
- Adding a tenant
- Editing a tenant
- Removing a tenant
- Adding a local user to the Flex Appliance Console
- Connecting a remote user domain to the Flex Appliance Console
- Editing a remote user domain in the Flex Appliance Console
- Importing a remote user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing single sign-on (SSO)
- Managing identity providers (IDPs)
- Importing a single sign-on user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Changing a local user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Expiring local user passwords in the Flex Appliance Console
- Unlocking a user account in the Flex Appliance Console
- Removing users from the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing the password policy
- Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
- Changing the sysadmin user password in the Veritas Remote Management Interface
- Managing multifactor authentication
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Creating application instances
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Resizing instance storage
- Editing instance network settings
- Assigning Fibre Channel ports to an instance
- Unassigning Fibre Channel ports from an instance
- Managing application add-ons on instances
- Viewing instance performance metrics
- Clearing a configuration error status on an application instance
- Deleting an application instance
- Upgrading application instances
- Updating an application instance to a newer revision
- About Flex Appliance updates
- Remote replication
- About remote replication
- Pairing appliances for remote replication
- Creating a replica
- Managing remote replication
- Remote replication best practices
- Monitoring remote replication
- Editing the replication network
- Repairing a lost connection between paired appliances
- Pausing and resuming replication
- Resolving discrepancies between an active and a replica instance
- Changing the replication role of an instance
- Unlinking active and replica instances
- Forgetting a paired appliance
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Registering an appliance
- Configuring alerts
- Monitoring the appliance from the System Health Insights portal
- Viewing the hardware status
- Viewing hardware faults
- Viewing system data
- Clearing the hardware status
- Forwarding logs
- Providing access for external monitoring
- Revoking access for external monitoring
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Reconfiguring the appliance network
- Changing DNS or Hosts file settings
- Shutting down the appliance
- Performing a factory reset
- Performing a reimage
- Recovering storage data after a factory reset or a reimage
- Performing a storage reset
- Removing a node
- Viewing or resetting the storage shelf order on a Veritas 52xx Appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Updating the firmware
Use the following procedure to update the appliance firmware.
If you make any hardware changes after you install a firmware update, make sure that you install the update again for the new hardware.
You can check the supported firmware for your hardware model from the Appliance Compatibility List.
Use the Veritas Appliance firmware update tool to get the latest firmware update RPMs.
To update the firmware
- On the Flex Appliance Console, click the Repository icon in the left-side navigation bar and navigate to the Appliance updates tab.
- Make sure that the update package you want to use is located in the repository. See Managing the repository.
- Navigate to System topology > Application instances to check the status of the application instances.
- Do one of the following:
If you have a single-node appliance, stop all running instances.
If you have a multi-node appliance, stop all running instances or select the node that you want to update first and relocate all of its instances to the other node.
- Return to the Appliance updates tab on the Repository page. Select the node that you want to update and click one of the following:
To install the firmware update for the first time, click Update.
To install the firmware update again because of new hardware, click Update again.
If the update requires a restart, you can monitor the restart progress from the Veritas Remote Management Interface. However, the interface briefly becomes unavailable during the update. To access the Veritas Remote Management Interface, refer to the initial configuration procedure. See Performing the initial configuration.
Warning:
Do not start any application instances while the update is in progress.
- When the update process is done, refresh your browser cache and sign back in to the Flex Appliance Console.
- If you have a multi-node appliance, stop or relocate all instances on the other node.
Then repeat the update on the other node.