1、Symantec NetBackup Appliance Release NotesRelease 2.6NetBackup 52xxSymantec NetBackup Appliance Release NotesThe software described in this book is furnished under only in accordance with the terms of the agreement.Documentation version: 2.6nse agreement and may be usedLegal NoticeCopyright 2013 Sym

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10、chnical support policy.About Symantec OperationsSymantec Operationsiness Toolsiness Tools (SORT) is a set of web-based tools thatsupports Symantec enterprise products. For NetBackup, SORT provides the ability to collect, analyze, and report on host configurations across UNIX/Linux or Windowsenvironm

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21、rica and Latin AmericasupportsolutionsContentsTechnical Support3Chapter 1NetBackup Appliance 2.6 features, enhancements,and changes8NetBackup 52xx hardware features9About NetBackup Appliance 2.6 new features, enhancements, andchanges14About the new appliance home page14About the new NetBackup Applia

22、nce Web Console15About changesto the NetBackup Appliance Shell. 17About storage enhancements17About upgrade and rollback enhancements17About appliance restore enhancements18About LDAP server configuration and authentication19About data migration19About hardware monitoring and alerting20About fault h

23、andling and healing20About the enhanced contexsitive Help21About AutoSupport22About the new international environment features23About changesin NetBackup Appliance 2.5.2 and later24Chapter 2NetBackup Appliance compatibility26About NetBackup Appliance 2.6 version numbering26About upgrade paths to the

24、 NetBackup Appliance 2.6 line ofreleases27About software release types28About NetBackup Appliance release compatibility29About NetBackup Appliance software upgrades30About NetBackup Appliance third-party legal notices31Chapter 3Operational notes32About operational notes for NetBackup Appliance 2.632

25、General NetBackup Appliance notes33Contents7NetBackup Appliance user interface notes34Installation and configuration notes36Upgrade and rollback notes38Reimage and factory reset notes39Updating the deduplication storage password40Storage notes42Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expans

26、ion diskfor optimum performance43Migration Utility notes44VMware notes45Logging notes46Internationalization and localization notes47Documentation notes48About NetBackup support utilities50NetBackup Domain Network Analyzer (NBDNA)50NetBackup Support Utility (nbsu)51About working with log files51Appen

27、dix ARelease content55About the current release content55About release content conventions56NetBackup Appliance 2.6 release content56NetBackup Appliance 2.6 Emergency Engineering Binary (EEB)listing58Appendix BRelated documents61About related NetBackup Appliance documents61About getting started guid

28、es62About administrator guides62About troubleshooting guides62About release notes62About other documents63 1 ChapterNetBackup Appliance 2.6 features, enhancements, and changesThis chapter includes the following topics:NetBackup 52xx hardware featuresAbout NetBackup Appliance 2.6 new features, enhanc

29、ements, and changesAbout the new appliance home pageAbout the new NetBackup Appliance Web ConsoleAbout changesto the NetBackup Appliance ShellAbout storage enhancementsAbout upgrade and rollback enhancementsAbout appliance restore enhancementsAbout LDAP server configuration and authenticationAbout d

30、ata migrationAbout hardware monitoring and alertingAbout fault handling and healingAbout the enhanced contexsitive HelpAbout AutoSupportAbout the new international environment featuresNetBackup Appliance 2.6 features, enhancements, and changesNetBackup 52xx hardware features9 About changesin NetBack

31、up Appliance 2.5.2 and laterNetBackup 52xx hardware featuresNote: Hardware enhancements may be released in between software version releases. To see if any new hardware enhancements are available, please see the following tech note on the Symantec Support website:This release supports the 52xx hardw

32、are architectures for the appliance. These architectures run the same software so you can configure them in any of the following modes: An appliance master server An appliance master and media server An appliance media server onlyAll appliance architectures support the following features and functio

33、nalities:Dual processor, Quad Core, Intel-based systems. Each has a number of hot swap external drives.Fibre Channel connectivity that supports external tape drives. The base configuration supports a Gigabit Ethernet network. High-performance hardware RAID controller.The Intel X520 SR2 10 Gb Etherne

34、t card is either standard on the systems or an option.Each uses NetBackup as their code base.Linux operating system (provided by Symantec).Each can run the latest version of NetBackup Appliance software.The NetBackup 5220 Appliance contains eight internal storage disk drives with a total formatted s

35、torage capacity of 4 TB.The NetBackup 5230 Appliance contains eight internal storage disk drives that are available in 1-TB and 3-TB storage capacities. The 1-TB disks provide a total formatted storage capacity of 4 TB. The 3-TB disks provide a total formatted storage capacity of 14 TB.NetBackup App

36、liance 2.6 features, enhancements, and changesNetBackup 52xx hardware features10The NetBackup 5220 and 5230 can be used with attached Symantec Storage Shelves for additional storage. A storage shelf can support either 2-TB or 3-TB disk drives, but all drives within a shelf must be the same capacity.

37、Figure 1-1 shows the available, formatted storage capacity of the NetBackup 5220 Appliance, with or without attached storage shelves.NetBackup 5220 storage capacityAppliance server and two storage shelvesFigure 1-1Appliance server and one storage shelfAppliance server and zero storage shelves4 TB28

38、TB40 TB52 TB64 TB76 TBKeyGrey indicates an appliance server with 1-TB drives. Green indicates a storage shelf with 2-TB drives.Blue indicates a storage shelf with 3-TB drives.24 TB36 TB4 TB4 TB24TB4 TB36 TB4 TB24TB24TB4 TB36TB24TB4 TB36 TB36 TB4 TBNetBackup Appliance 2.6 features, enhancements, and

39、changesNetBackup 52xx hardware features11Figure 1-2 shows the available, formatted storage capacity of the NetBackup 5230 Appliance, with or without attached storage shelves.NetBackup 5230 storage capacityFigure 1-2Appliance server and two storage shelvesAppliance server and one storage shelfApplian

40、ce server and zero storage shelves64 TB86 TB4 TB14 TBKey50 TB52 TB76 TB28 TB40 TBGrey indicates an appliance server with 1-TB drives. Tangerine indicates an appliance server with 3-TB drives. Green indicates a storage shelf with 2-TB drives.Blue indicates a storage shelf with 3-TB drives.4 TB14 TB24

41、 TB36 TB4 TB14 TB24TB4 TB36 TB4 TB36 TB14 TB24 TB24 TB4 TB36TB24TB4 TB36TB36TB4 TB36 TB36 TB14 TBNetBackup Appliance 2.6 features, enhancements, and changesNetBackup 52xx hardware features12NetBackup 5230 hardware featuresThe following list includes features specifically for the 5230 appliance:The d

42、eduplication engine provides up to 100 times reduction in storage. The side plug-in provides similar levels of bandwidth reduction.Due to fingerprinting and RAID redundancy, the overall storage capabilities are not a simple multiplication of the disk size and the total number of disks.A NetBackup 52

43、30 Appliance provides 4 TB (with 1-TB drives) or 14 TB (with 3-TB drives) of storage without added storage shelves. The 5230 appliance ships with zero, one, or two Symantec Storage Shelves. Each storage shelf hasa capacity of 24 TB (with 2-TB disks) or 36 TB (with 3-TB disks). The capacity of a 5230

44、 appliance with two attached storage shelves is 86 TB.umFigure 1-2 shows all available storage configurations of the NetBackup 5230 Appliance, with or without attached storage shelves.Supports redundant power modules and fan modules. The 5230 also supports hot swappable disk modules and power module

45、s.The system disk drives are external to the chassis. They can be hot-swapped without opening the chassis or shutting down the system. This is an improvement over the NetBackup 5220.Provides separate out-of-band management network interfaces. You can remotely turn on, turn off, and reset appliances

46、through the network.Supports remotely configuring and managing the appliances through KVM over IP.Supportss and automatically reports alarms.Supports reporting the disk information through the out-of-band management channel.RAID 1 and RAID 6: Appliance system disks: RAID 1 (software RAID) Storage sh

47、elf data storage disks: RAID 6The NetBackup 5230 Appliance can be ordered with one, four, or five FC HBAcards aly installed. You can order a SAS RAID card to be preinstalled ifyou plan to use one or more storage shelves. A 10 Gb Ethernet card can also be ordered and preinstalled.Rear panel ports: Tw

48、o SAS ports that are located on a card in one of the PCI riser assemblies. The SAS ports connect to the storage shelf. One 1 Gb/s IPMI management network port.NetBackup Appliance 2.6 features, enhancements, and changesNetBackup 52xx hardware features13 One VGA port. Three USB 2.0 ports. Four 1GE net

49、work ports, with link and activity LEDs. Two 10GE network ports, with link and activity LEDs. Only one SAS card and one 10 Gb Ethernet can be installed in the six PCI slots. The other slots can be used for additional Fibre Channel connections.Table 1-1 outlines the differences between the NetBackup

50、5220 and 5230 Appliances.Table 1-1Comparison of NetBackup 5220 and NetBackup 5230 AppliancesParameterNetBackup 5220NetBackup 5230Cores46Cache (MB)1215RAID Cache512 MB1 GBSpeed (GHz)2.42.0Turbo Speed (GHz)2.662.5QPI Speed (GT/s)5.867.2System memory (GB)96128Memory Config (DIMMs)8GB x 128GB x 16Therma

51、l (Watts)8095Data RetentionOne Li-ion battery backup unitTwo maintenance- backup units (MFBU) with Flash and SupercapacitorPCI add-in card slots56On-board 10 Gb Ethernet ports02Additional 10 Gb Ethernet cards in PCI assemblyYesYesAdditional 1 Gb Ethernet cards in PCI assemblyYesNoNetBackup Appliance

52、 2.6 features, enhancements, and changesAbout NetBackup Appliance 2.6 new features, enhancements, and changes14About NetBackup Appliance 2.6 new features, enhancements, and changesIn addition to a number of new features, this release offers many enhancements to the issues and improvements from previ

53、ous NetBackup Appliance releases. Information about the new features, enhancements, and changes in this release of NetBackup Appliance can be found in the following sections of this chapter.When an appliance is released, the latest version of NetBackup is used as a basis on which the appliance code

54、is built. That ensures that all applicable features, enhancements, and fixes that were released within NetBackup are included in the latest release of the appliance.NetBackup 7.6 is the version of NetBackup software that the NetBackup Appliance2.6 release installs. Information about the new features

55、, enhancements, and fixes found in NetBackup 7.6 can be found in the NetBackup 7.6 Release Notes document on the Symantec Support website:About the new appliance home pageWhen you log in to the appliance, it displays the Welcome to Symantec NetBackup home page. This page is displayed after you have configured the appliance as a media or a master server. We have created a new home page that provides a quick Dashboard view of your appliance. It displays the status of the following components that determine the successf