Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (1.3.1)
Platform: NetBackup Flex Scale OS
  1. Preparing for NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      Deployment overview
    2.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale configuration requirements
    3.  
      Firewall and network ports requirements
    4.  
      Considerations for using IPv6 addresses
  2. Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      Assigning a public IP address to network adapter eth1 of a node
    2.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale configuration methods
    3.  
      Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale using the setup wizard
    4. Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale using a configuration file
      1.  
        YML configuration file
  3. Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale logs
    2.  
      Connection timeout errors during patch installs, upgrades, and rollback operations
    3.  
      Initial configuration wizard displays a driver node not selected error
    4.  
      Initial configuration wizard displays a license error after successfully configuring the cluster
  4. NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and patch management
    1. About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEB
      1.  
        Pre-upgrade steps
    2.  
      Performing a patch upgrade using GUI
    3.  
      Installing EEBs using GUI
    4.  
      Performing a patch upgrade using REST APIs
    5.  
      Installing EEBs using REST APIs
  5. Removing NetBackup Flex Scale
    1. About disk erasure
      1.  
        Configuring data erasure
      2.  
        Viewing the data erasure status
      3.  
        Aborting data erasure
    2.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale node factory reset
    3.  
      Performing a factory reset on a node
  6. Appendix A. Installing NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale software installation
    2.  
      Enabling remote IPMI connections
    3.  
      Setting up the RAID configuration on the nodes
    4.  
      Configuring the BIOS settings on the nodes
    5.  
      Downloading the product installer ISO
    6.  
      Mounting the ISO file on the nodes
    7.  
      Installing NetBackup Flex Scale using the ISO

Considerations for using IPv6 addresses

Note the following if you plan to configure a NetBackup Flex Scale cluster using only IPv6 addresses:

NetBackup Flex Scale appliance does not support communication between a pure IPv6 and a pure IPv4 address configuration. A NetBackup Flex Scale cluster with an all IPv6 address configuration cannot communicate with a system that is assigned an IPv4 address. The system must be configured either using a pure IPv6 address or using a pure IPv4 address network configuration.

A system in this context refers to a host that NetBackup uses to authenticate and then discover the workloads that need to be protected. For example, if you wish to protect VMware virtual machines, then the VMware vCenter Server or the VMware ESXi server that you add to NetBackup must be configured either to use a pure IPv6 address or use a mixed mode dual stack IP address configuration for communicating over an IP network.