Installation and Upgrade Checklist Report for NetBackup Enterprise Server 8.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, z/Architecture
This platform is supported only as a media server and client.
NEW! = New content since the last release of SORT
| Install Information | Back to top |
Procedure Overview:
Install the NetBackup Enterprise Server 8.1 release.
To obtain the 8.1 release, please go to Veritas Download Center
In order to install NetBackup Enterprise Server 8.1, follow the installation instructions found in the NetBackup 8.1 Installation Guide
Be sure to review the Updates, Patches and Late Breaking News for NetBackup 8.1, NetBackup 8.1.1 and NetBackup 8.1.2.
For NetBackup clients, Veritas has developed deployment templates for Chef & SCCM, so that customers can deploy them at scale. The templates will help you to perform installation, upgrade and uninstall NetBackup clients.
To obtain the 8.1 release, please go to Veritas Download Center
In order to install NetBackup Enterprise Server 8.1, follow the installation instructions found in the NetBackup 8.1 Installation Guide
Be sure to review the Updates, Patches and Late Breaking News for NetBackup 8.1, NetBackup 8.1.1 and NetBackup 8.1.2.
For NetBackup clients, Veritas has developed deployment templates for Chef & SCCM, so that customers can deploy them at scale. The templates will help you to perform installation, upgrade and uninstall NetBackup clients.
| Compatibility between NetBackup versions for Media Server and Client | Back to top |
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For compatibility between major versions, the latest available release of NetBackup is compatible with media servers and clients that run a release of NetBackup that is up to one major version behind. However, this compatibility ceases to be supported in any configuration once the previous major version has reached its End of Support Life.
For information on Veritas End of Life Policy, refer to https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000116439
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NetBackup does not support any scenario where a media server or client runs a software release update version that is higher than that of their Master server.
For more information, refer to the NetBackup Release Notes and the NetBackup Upgrade Guide: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000116412
| NetBackup Master Server | NetBackup Media Server | NetBackup Client |
| 8.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 |
| 8.0 | 7.0.1 | 7.0, 7.0.1 |
| 8.0 | 7.1, 7.1.0.x | 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.1.0.x |
| 8.0 | 7.5, 7.5.0.x | 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.1.0.x, 7.5, 7.5.0.x |
| 8.0 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x | 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.1.0.x, 7.5, 7.5.0.x, 7.6, 7.6.0.x |
| 8.0 | 7.6.1, 7.6.1.x | 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.1.0.x, 7.5, 7.5.0.x, 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x |
| 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.1.0.x, 7.5, 7.5.0.x, 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7 |
| 8.0 | 7.7.1 | 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.1.0.x, 7.5, 7.5.0.x, 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1 |
| 8.0 | 7.7.2 | 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.1.0.x, 7.5, 7.5.0.x, 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2 |
| 8.0 | 7.7.3 | 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.1.0.x, 7.5, 7.5.0.x, 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3 |
| 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.1.0.x, 7.5, 7.5.0.x, 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 8.0 |
| 8.1 | 7.7 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7 |
| 8.1 | 7.7.1 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1 |
| 8.1 | 7.7.2 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2 |
| 8.1 | 7.7.3 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3 |
| 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 8.0 |
| 8.1 | 8.1 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 8.0, 8.1 |
| 8.1.1 | 7.7 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7 |
| 8.1.1 | 7.7.1 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1 |
| 8.1.1 | 7.7.2 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2 |
| 8.1.1 | 7.7.3 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3 |
| 8.1.1 | 8.0 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 8.0 |
| 8.1.1 | 8.1 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 8.0, 8.1 |
| 8.1.1 | 8.1.1 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1 |
| 8.1.2 | 7.7 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7 |
| 8.1.2 | 7.7.1 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1 |
| 8.1.2 | 7.7.2 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2 |
| 8.1.2 | 7.7.3 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3 |
| 8.1.2 | 8.0 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 8.0 |
| 8.1.2 | 8.1 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 8.0, 8.1 |
| 8.1.2 | 8.1.1 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1 |
| 8.1.2 | 8.1.2 | 7.6, 7.6.0.x,7.6.1,7.6.1.x, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2 |
| 8.2 | 8.0 | 7.7.3, 8.0 |
| 8.2 | 8.1 | 7.7.3, 8.0, 8.1 |
| 8.2 | 8.1.1 | 7.7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1 |
| 8.2 | 8.1.2 | 7.7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2 |
| 8.2 | 8.2 | 7.7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.2 |
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Other general rules for compatibility:
• OpsCenter/OpsCenter Analytics must always be running the same or higher Dot-Zero or Single-Dot or Double-Dot release as the master servers in the environment.
• All components (master, media, client, console, and agent) on an individual system must be at the same version.
• Backup images created under an older version of NetBackup will always be recoverable with a newer version of NetBackup
• A new feature may not be functional until the master, media and client are updated.
• Administration Consoles cannot be at an earlier version than the NetBackup server version they connect to via the "change server" functionality in the console
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| Late Breaking News - Available Hot Fixes for Media Server and Client | Back to top |
There are no hot fixes available for NetBackup 8.1 on this platform.
For known issues on other platforms and issues for which there is not a hot fix, consult the Late Breaking News documentation:
| Patches for NetBackup for Media Server and Client | Back to top |
For download and installation instructions, please go to Veritas Download Center.
- NetBackup Documentation References:
- NetBackup 8.1 Release Notes
- NetBackup 8.1 Self Service Release Notes
| NetBackup Appliances | Back to top |
- NetBackup Appliances are Veritas-branded devices offering backup and deduplication solutions for enterprise environments in an appliance form factor. For more information, see the "NetBackup Appliances" page.
NetBackup 5200 Series (Master/Media Server/CloudCatalyst), 5300 Series (Media Server), Virtual, and Flex Appliances
- The following tables list NetBackup 5200 Series, 5300 Series, and Virtual release versions, the Appliance models supported with each version, and the NetBackup Release version on which it is based.
- There is also a table listing NetBackup Flex Appliance versions, the Appliance models supported with each version, and the Master Server and Media Server versions supported with each version.
- Documentation for NetBackup Appliances is available here. Late breaking news related to NetBackup Appliances is available here.
- NetBackup Appliance packages and hotfixes are available on SORT.
- NOTE: References to NetBackup 5200 and 5220 Appliances have been removed from this document since these models are no longer supported.
NetBackup 5300 Series - Supported Versions
| NetBackup 5300 Series Appliance Release | Supported NetBackup Appliance Models | Based on NetBackup Release |
| 3.1.2 | 5340, 5330 | 8.1.2 |
| 3.1.1 | 5340, 5330 | 8.1.1 |
| 3.1 | 5340, 5330 | 8.1 |
| 3.0 | 5330 | 8.0 |
| 2.7.3 | 5330 | 7.7.3 |
| 2.7.2 | 5330 | 7.7.2 |
| 2.7.1 | 5330 | 7.7.1 |
NetBackup 5200 Series - Supported Versions
| NetBackup 5200 Series Appliance Release | Supported NetBackup Appliance Models | Based on NetBackup Release |
| 3.1.2 | CloudCatalyst 5240, 5240, 5230 | 8.1.2 |
| 3.1.1 | CloudCatalyst 5240, 5240, 5230 | 8.1.1 |
| 3.1 | CloudCatalyst 5240, 5240, 5230 | 8.1 |
| 3.0 | 5240, 5230 | 8.0 |
| 2.7.3 | 5240, 5230 | 7.7.3 |
| 2.7.2 | 5230 | 7.7.2 |
| 2.7.1 | 5230 | 7.7.1 |
NetBackup Virtual Appliance - Supported Versions
| NetBackup Virtual Appliance Release | Based on NetBackup Release |
| 3.1.2 | 8.1.2 |
| 3.1.1 | 8.1.1 |
| 3.1 | 8.1 |
| 3.0 | 8.0 |
NetBackup Flex Appliance - Supported Versions
| NetBackup Flex Appliance Release | Supported NetBackup Appliance Models | Supported NetBackup Master Server Versions | Supported NetBackup Media Server Versions |
| 1.3 | 5340 (Configuration A), 5150 | 8.2, 8.1.2, 8.1.1, 8.1[1] | 8.2, 8.1.2, 8.1.1, 8.1[1] |
Footnotes
- 1. Veritas strongly recommends running NetBackup 8.2 or later with Flex Appliance.
Configuring Cloud Solutions with NetBackup CloudCatalyst Appliances
- The table below shows when a NetBackup cloud configuration and device mappings RPM package is required for configuring cloud providers with NetBackup CloudCatalyst Appliances. "Included in release" means that version of the NetBackup Appliance software contains the information needed for configuring that cloud provider, so installing an RPM is not required.
When to install a Cloud Configuration/Device Mappings RPM for NetBackup CloudCatalyst Appliance
| Cloud solution | NetBackup Appliances running 3.1 | NetBackup Appliances running 3.1.1 | NetBackup Appliances running 3.1.2 |
| ACP CS3 (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) | Not supported | Install RPM 1.0.2 or later | Included in release |
| Amazon GovCloud Simple Storage Service (S3) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| Amazon GovCloud Simple Storage Service - Infrequent Access (S3) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| Amazon Simple Storage Service - Infrequent Access (S3) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| Amazon Simple Storage Service - OneZone-Infrequent Access (S3) | Not supported | Install RPM 1.0.5 or later | Install RPM 1.0.5 or later |
| AT&T Cloud Storage (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| China Mobile CMCC Cloud Storage (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| China Telecom OOS (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Chunghwa Telecom Hicloud S3 (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Cloudian HyperStore Object Storage (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Deutsche Telekom Open Telekom Cloud (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Fujitsu ETERNUS CD10000 (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Google Cloud Storage - Multi-Regional (S3) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| Google Cloud Storage - Regional (S3) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| Google Cloud Storage Coldline (S3) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| Google Cloud Storage Nearline (S3) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| HGST Active Archive and ActiveScale Systems (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| IBM Cloud Object Storage - Cold Vault (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| IBM Cloud Object Storage - Flex (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| IBM Cloud Object Storage - Private (S3) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| IBM Cloud Object Storage - Standard (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| IBM Cloud Object Storage - Vault (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Infoniqa SWISS3CLOUD (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.2 or later | Install RPM 1.0.2 or later | Included in release |
| Iron Mountain Iron Cloud (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.5 or later | Install RPM 1.0.5 or later | Install RPM 1.0.5 or later |
| Kingsoft Standard Storage Service (KS3) - Standard (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.3 or later | Install RPM 1.0.3 or later | Install RPM 1.0.5 or later |
| Kingsoft Standard Storage Service (KS3) - Standard IA (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.4 or later | Install RPM 1.0.4 or later | Install RPM 1.0.5 or later |
| Microsoft Azure (Azure) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| Microsoft Azure Germany (Azure) | Install RPM 1.0.6 or later | Install RPM 1.0.6 or later | Install RPM 1.0.6 or later |
| Microsoft Azure Government (Azure) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| NEC Cloud IaaS (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.2 or later | Install RPM 1.0.2 or later | Included in release |
| NEC HYDRAstor HS3 and HS8 (4th Gen), iStorage HS3 and HS8 (4th Gen) and NEC Storage HS3 and HS8 (4th Gen) (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.2 or later | Install RPM 1.0.2 or later | Included in release |
| NEC HYDRAstor HS3 and HS8 (5th Gen), iStorage HS3 and HS8 (5th Gen) and NEC Storage HS3 and HS8 (5th Gen) (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.2 or later | Install RPM 1.0.2 or later | Included in release |
| NetApp StorageGRID Webscale Object Storage (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| NooBaa (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Oracle Cloud Service (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (S3) | Not supported | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release |
| Quantum Lattus Object Storage (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Scality RING Storage (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| SwiftStack Object Storage (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.1 or later | Included in release | Included in release |
| Telefonica Open Cloud (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.2 or later | Install RPM 1.0.2 or later | Included in release |
| Veritas Access (S3) | Included in release | Included in release | Included in release |
| Veritas Access 3340 Appliance (S3) | Not supported | Included in release | Included in release |
| Veritas Cognitive Object Storage (S3) | Install RPM 1.0.3 or later | Install RPM 1.0.3 or later | Install RPM 1.0.3 or later |
NetBackup 5200 Series, 5300 Series, and Virtual Appliance Supported Functionality
- The following table lists NetBackup 5200 Series, 5300 Series, and Virtual Appliance supported functionality and indicates the minimum NetBackup Appliance Release version required for support of that functionality. NetBackup 5200 Series, 5300 Series, and Virtual Appliances can be used with all supported core NetBackup clients (see the "NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List"), application and database agents (see the "NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Database and Application Agent Compatibility List"), and Snapshot client configurations.
NetBackup 5200 Series, 5300 Series, and Virtual Appliances - Supported Functionality
| Functionality | Minimum Appliance Release | Supported Appliance Models | Notes |
| NetBackup Master/Media Server | 2.7.1 (5200 Series)
3.1.2 (Virtual) | 5200 Series, Virtual | The Master Server role is only supported on 5200 Series and Virtual Appliances. Key Management Service (KMS) and NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) are not supported when the Appliance is configured as a Master Server. |
| NetBackup Media Server | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | The Master Server in the NetBackup domain must be running a version of NetBackup equal to or newer than the NetBackup version on which the appliance is based. Support begins with NetBackup 7.0.1. |
| NetBackup CloudCatalyst Appliance | 3.1 (5240G)
3.1.2 (Virtual) | 5240 (Configuration G with 192 GB of memory), Virtual | |
| Accelerator (for files and folders) | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | |
| Accelerator with NDMP | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | Supported with Dell EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS filers (requires NetBackup Appliance version 3.1 or later), and NetApp AFF, FAS, and V series filers.
When using this feature with a NetBackup Virtual Appliance, monitor the /dev/mapper/system-log partition to ensure it does not exceed 50% of capacity, and manage log files to increase remaining partition capacity. For information on managing accelerator track log files, see "About the track log for Accelerator for NDMP" . For more information on this feature, see the "About NetBackup Accelerator for NDMP" . |
| Accelerator with VMware-type policies | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | |
| Auto Image Replication to MSDP/5200 Series or 5300 Series over Ethernet | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | |
| Auto Image Replication to MSDP/5200 Series or 5300 Series over Fibre Channel (FC) | 2.7.3 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series | |
| Auto Image Replication to PDDO/5000 Series | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | |
| Client Deduplication / Client Direct over Ethernet | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | Veritas allows NetBackup Clients to write data directly to NetBackup Storage Server Appliances. The client hosts the deduplication plug-in that deduplicates the backup data. The plug-in sends only unique segments to the Storage Server, reducing network traffic and distributing CPU load. For the list of supported clients, see the "Deduplication Supported Operating Systems" section of the "NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List" . |
| Copilot for Oracle | 2.7.1 | 5230, 5240, 5330, 5340 | For more information on this feature, see the "NetBackup Copilot for Oracle Configuration Guide" . |
| Fibre Transport Media Server | 2.7.1 | 5230, 5240, 5330, 5340 | Supported with 8 Gb HBAs in NetBackup 5230, 5240, 5330, and 5340 Appliances.
Supported with 16 Gb HBAs in NetBackup 5240 and 5340 Appliances running 3.1.2 or later. |
| FIPS-compliant encryption | 3.1.2 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | FIPS-compliant encryption, as defined by the Federal Information Processing Standards 140-2, can be enabled from the NetBackup Shell Menu. For more information, see the "NetBackup Appliance Security Guide" . |
| Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | |
| Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) with VMware-type policies | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | Support for VMware-type backup policies with Application Protection options enabled for Exchange or SharePoint. |
| Instant Data Access | 3.1.2 | 5240, 5330, 5340 | This feature allows you to create an Instant Access VM from a NetBackup backup image. The VM is available almost instantaneously, achieving a near-zero recovery time objective. NetBackup mounts the VM snapshot directly on the backup storage device to allow your ESXi host or cluster to treat the snapshot as a normal VM. For more information, see the "NetBackup Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide" . |
| Instant Recovery for VMware | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | Support for restoring virtual machines with Instant Recovery is described in the
"NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide"
.
For details on supported platforms for instant recovery restore hosts, see "Support for NetBackup 7.x and 8.x in virtual environments" . |
| iSCSI Initator - Hardware-assisted with TCP Offload Engine (TOE) card | 3.0 | 5240 (Configuration H), 5340 (Configurations A, B, C, D, and E) | Supports backup of VMware virtual machines using VADP with SAN transport.
For more information on this feature, see the "NetBackup Appliance iSCSI Guide" and the "NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide" . |
| Key Management Service (KMS) | 2.7.1
3.1.2 (MSDP) | 5200 Series, 5300 Series | With version 3.1.2 and later, KMS supports encryption for MSDP.
With version 2.6 and later, KMS is supported with Appliances configured as either a Master or a Media Server. With a NetBackupCLI administrator account in the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu, an Appliance Master Server can administrate KMS with tape devices connected to itself or another NetBackup Appliance. Regenerating the data encryption key is the only supported method of recovering KMS on an Appliance Master Server. With versions earlier than 2.6, KMS is only supported when the Appliance is configured as a Media Server, and a non-Appliance Master Server is required to administrate KMS with devices connected to a NetBackup Appliance. |
| NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series | Supported when the Appliance is configured as a Media Server only.
Not supported when the Appliance is configured as a Master Server. |
| NDMP | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | Supported NDMP solutions are listed in the NDMP devices Vendor Compatibility section. |
| NetBackup Cluster | There are no plans to support this feature. | ||
| NetBackup OpenStorage Cloud and Third-Party Plug-in Support | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series | Supported plug-ins are listed in the "Support with NetBackup Appliance" tables shown in the
OST Cloud
and
OST Storage Servers
Vendor Compatibility sections.
For instructions on installing vendor plug-in packages on NetBackup Appliances, see "About OpenStorage plugin installation" . |
| OpsCenter | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | |
| OpsCenter Managed Server | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | |
| Optimized Duplication (Opt_Dup) over Ethernet | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | Supported from 5200/5300 Series/Virtual to 5000 Series (MSDP to PDDO) and from 5200/5300 Series/Virtual to 5200/5300 Series/Virtual (MSDP to MSDP). |
| Optimized Duplication (Opt_Dup) over Fibre Channel (FC) | 2.7.1
2.7.3 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series | Supported from 5200/5300 Series to 5000 Series (MSDP to PDDO).
Supported from 5200/5300 Series to 5200/5300 Series (MSDP to MSDP) with versions 2.7.3 or later. |
| Optimized Synthetics (Opt_Synth) | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series, Virtual | NetBackup Appliance version 2.0 or later/NetBackup 7.1 or later is recommended for Optimized Synthetics support. |
| Tape Drive Support | 2.7.1 (FC)
3.1 (SAS) | 5200 Series, 5300 Series | Supported tape drives are listed in the "Support with NetBackup Appliance" tables shown in the Tape Drives Vendor Compatibility section. Shared Storage Option (SSO) is supported. |
| Tape Library Support | 2.7.1 (TLD & ACS)
3.1 (SAS tape-out) | 5200 Series, 5300 Series | Supported tape libraries are listed with the notes "This library is also supported with NetBackup 5200 Series and 5300 Series Appliances" and "This library is also supported with the NetBackup 5240 Series Appliance with a SAS tape-out adapter" in the Tape Libraries Vendor Compatibility section. Use the NetBackup Device Configuration Wizard within the NetBackup Adminstration Console to configure robots and tape drives on the NetBackup Appliance. |
| Universal Shares | 3.1 | 5240, 5330, 5340 | For more information on configuring Universal Shares, see Manage > Storage > Universal Shares |
| Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Support | 2.7.1 | 5200 Series, 5300 Series | Supported VTLs are listed in the "Support with NetBackup Appliance" tables shown in the Virtual Tape Libraries Vendor Compatibility section. Use the NetBackup Device Configuration Wizard within the NetBackup Adminstration Console to configure VTLs and emulated tape drives on the NetBackup Appliance. |
NetBackup 5000 Series Appliances (Deduplication)
- The following table lists NetBackup 5000 Series release versions, the Appliance models supported with each version, and the equivalent Deduplication Appliance software versions. Documentation for NetBackup Appliances is available here. Late breaking news related to NetBackup Appliances is available here.
- NOTE: References to NetBackup 5000 and 5020 Appliances have been removed from this document since these models are no longer supported.
NetBackup 5000 Series - Supported Versions
| NetBackup 5000 Series Appliance Release | Supported NetBackup Appliance Models | NetBackup 5000 Series Appliance Software Version |
| 1.4.5 | 5030 | 6.6.5 |
NetBackup 5000 Series Appliance Supported Functionality
- The following table lists NetBackup 5000 Series supported functionality and indicates the Appliance software version at which that functionality was first supported.
NetBackup 5000 Series - Supported Functionality
| Functionality | Minimum Appliance Release | Supported Appliance Models | Notes |
| Accelerator (for files and folders) | 1.4.5 | 5030 | |
| Auto Image Replication | 1.4.5 | 5030 | |
| Call Home | 1.4.5 | 5030 | |
| Client Deduplication / Client Direct over Ethernet | 1.4.5 | 5030 | Veritas allows NetBackup Clients to write data directly to NetBackup Storage Server Appliances. The client hosts the deduplication plug-in that deduplicates the backup data. The plug-in sends only unique segments to the Storage Server, reducing network traffic and distributing CPU load. For the list of supported clients, see the "Deduplication Supported Operating Systems" section of the "NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List" . |
| Fibre Channel support for PDDO | 1.4.5 | 5030 | |
| Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) | 1.4.5 | 5030 | |
| Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) support | 1.4.5 | 5030 | |
| NetBackup OST Storage Server | 1.4.5 | 5030 | Supported OpenStorage functionality and Media Server platforms are listed in the OST Storage Servers section of OST Secondary Storage Solutions. |
| Optimized Duplication (Opt_Dup) | 1.4.5 | 5030 | |
| Optimized Duplication (Opt_Dup) from PDDO to MSDP | 1.4.5 | 5030 | Supported from 5000 Series to 5200/5300 Series. |
| Optimized Synthetics (Opt_Synth) | 1.4.5 | 5030 | |
| PureDisk Remote Office Appliance | 1.4.5 | 5030 | Supported clients: Apple Mac OS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP-UX, IBM AIX, Microsoft Windows, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Solaris. Supported application agents: Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Oracle. For specific versions see the "NetBackup PureDisk 6.6.1 Compatibility List" . |
| Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) | 1.4.5 | 5030 |
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| NetBackup Self Service | Back to top |
- Veritas NetBackup Self Service offers large enterprises and service providers a single store front for all backup and recovery service offerings. Customers and business users can perform self-service backup and restore operations using intuitive, custom-designed interface themes. A single instance supports the registration of multiple tenants or business units to allow secure separation between clients. Codeless, visually-designed forms and process workflows cater to most self-service needs. Service Level Agreement (SLA) measurement, notification, chargeback, and reporting make it easy to manage the service.
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NetBackup 8.1 Self Service Documentation:
• All NetBackup Self Service PDFs in a single .zip file: http://www.veritas.com/docs/100015204
| Self Service Versions | NetBackup Versions |
| NetBackup 8.0 Self Service | NetBackup 8.0
NetBackup 7.7.3 NetBackup 7.7.2 NetBackup 7.7.1 NetBackup 7.7 NetBackup 7.6.1 NetBackup 7.6.1.1 NetBackup 7.6.1.2 |
| NetBackup 8.1 Self Service | NetBackup 8.1
NetBackup 8.0 NetBackup 7.7.3 NetBackup 7.7.2 NetBackup 7.7.1 NetBackup 7.7 NetBackup 7.6.1 NetBackup 7.6.1.1 NetBackup 7.6.1.2 |
| NetBackup 8.1.2 Self Service | NetBackup 8.1.2
NetBackup 8.1.1 NetBackup 8.1 NetBackup 8.0 NetBackup 7.7.3 NetBackup 7.7.2 NetBackup 7.7.1 NetBackup 7.7 |
| NetBackup 8.2 Self Service | NetBackup 8.2
NetBackup 8.1.2 NetBackup 8.1.1 NetBackup 8.1 NetBackup 8.0 |
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| Software Compatibility List (SCL) for Media Server | Back to top |
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NetBackup is supported on all editions (Advanced, Base, DC, etc.) and on all vendor GA updates (n.1, n.2, etc.) or service packs (SP1, SP2, etc.) unless stated otherwise in the tables below.
IBM POWER 8 platform is supported only with Little Endian hardware architecture.
For Red Hat Security Enhanced Linux considerations refer to https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH76714 .
Red Hat Enterprise Linux - NetBackup Server
| OS | CPU Architecture | OS Bits | NetBackup Master Server | NetBackup Media Server | NetBackup Bits | NBAC | OpsCenter Server | OpsCenter Managed Server | NDMP | Minimum NetBackup Level |
| Enterprise Linux 7 | z/Architecture | 64 | Y | 64 | Y | 8.0 |
| System Requirements for Media Server | Back to top |
NetBackup Binary Size
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Approximate binary size of the NetBackup server software (includes client software) for an initial install.
| OS - All Versions | CPU Architecture | 32-bit server | 64-bit server | Notes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | z/Architecture | 4091MB | Media server or client compatibility only. |
Media Server Minimum Physical Memory Requirement
| OS/Version | CPU Architecture | Minimum Memory Requirement |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | z/Architecture | 4 GB |
File Descriptor and File Size Requirements
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The number of file descriptors for the Media Server must be set to at least 8000. See 'ulimit -n' output value.
The file size limit for the Media Server must be set to unlimited. See 'ulimit -f' output value.
Operating System Tuning Requirements
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The following semaphore values can impact performance of the Server.
The recommended semaphore values are as follows:
| SEMMSL | SEMMNS | SEMOPM | SEMMNI |
| 300 | 307200 | 32 | 1024 |
Temporary Disk Space Requirement for Install or Upgrade
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After downloading the software, temporary disk space is required for the installation process. You may designate where this temporary space is located via use of environment variables, NB_TMPDIR or TMPDIR. NB_TMPDIR is used if set, TMPDIR next if set, otherwise /tmp. You will need approximately 388 MBs of temporary disk space during the install.
If using Live Update, you will need 4.5 GBs of temporary disk space. The location of the temporary disk space is designated in the 'workdir' setting in the /usr/openv/netbackup/nblu.conf file with /tmp being the default.
Valid Characters in Host Names Requirement
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NetBackup requires host names to comply with RFC-1123, meaning only ASCII characters "a" thru "z", case insensitive, and digits "0" thru "9" and the hyphen character.
| Replication Director for Media Server and Client | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Virtual Systems Compatibility for Media Server and Client | Back to top |
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This Statement of Support for NetBackup in a Virtual Environment document describes the extent of support for NetBackup within a virtual environment. Ideally, every NetBackup configuration supported in a traditional physical environment would also be supported in any virtual environment without qualification. While that is our mission, it is not always possible.
Therefore, the purpose of this document is to:
• Clarify differences between NetBackup support in physical vs. virtual environments
• Describe general guidelines for support in virtual environments.
• Describe impact upon specific NetBackup components: clients, servers, options, etc.
• Provide references to related information.
VMware Compatibility
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Virtual Systems Compatibility - Refer: Support for NetBackup in a Virtual Environment - https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100040093
• For supported vSAN configurations, refer article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/55071
• NetBackup supports all minor patch releases (like: EP, U1x) unless otherwise noted.
• Software Defined Data-Center(SDDC) environments which includes NSX, NSX-T or other networking technologies are transparent to NetBackup and are supported.
• VMware Cloud on AWS(VMC) support starts from NetBackup 8.1.2
| NetBackup Versions | VDDK Versions | vSphere Versions | vCloud Director Versions | Backup/Restore Host Versions |
| 8.1 | 6.5.1 | vSphere 6.7, 6.7 U1
vSphere 6.5, 6.5 U1, 6.5 U2 vSphere 6.0, 6.0 U1, 6.0 U2, 6.0 U3 vSphere 5.5, 5.5 U1, 5.5 U2, 5.5 U3 VMware vSAN 6.5, 6.6, 6.6.1 Refer VMware VDDK release notes URL below for additional information on supported vCenter and ESXi versions. | 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5, 5.5.6
5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3 Service Provider Versions: 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.10, 8.20, 9.0 5.6.5, 5.6.4, 5.6.3 | All 64 bit only:
Windows Server 2016, 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2 Windows 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7, 6.8, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP4, 12 SP1 |
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• For vCloud Director 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2 to determine the host name: Refer to https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000108257
• For vCloud Director 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2 NetBackup restores to vCloud: Refer to http://www.veritas.com/docs/000108831
• NetBackup does not support the vCloud Director 8.20, 9.0 and 10 feature called "Automatic discovery and import of vCenter VMs."
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Note the following:
• VMware version information can also be obtained from the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix, and is subject to change by VMware. For the latest information, see the following:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php
• NetBackup supports installation of the backup host in a virtual machine (VMware "hotadd"). The guest operating systems that NetBackup supports for hotadd are the same as the above.
• For the Linux VMware backup host or restore host, locales other than UTF-8 are not supported.
• NetBackup 8.0 and later supports VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols)
• NetBackup 8.1.2 introduces Instant Access for VMware for vCenter and ESXi versions 5.5 and later.
• NetBackup supports all triple-dot versions of VMware vCloud Director, unless otherwise noted.
• Install "VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201511001 (2137545)" for consistent backups. This ESX patch is mandatory, according to VMware, to fix the data loss situation reported in VMware KB article 2136854.
For more information about the cause and the resolution of this issue, see: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2136854
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VMware VDDK Release Notes:
• VDDK 6.0.2 Release Notes: https://code.vmware.com/docs/3930/vddk-6-0-2-release-notes
• VDDK 6.5.1 Release Notes: https://code.vmware.com/docs/5584/virtual-disk-development-kit-6-5-1-release-notes
• VDDK 6.5.2 EP1 Release Notes: https://code.vmware.com/docs/6175/virtual-disk-development-kit-6-5-2-ep1-release-notes
• VDDK 6.5.3 Release Notes: https://code.vmware.com/docs/6842/virtual-disk-development-kit-6-5-3-release-notes
• VDDK 6.7.2 Release Notes: https://code.vmware.com/docs/8100/virtual-disk-development-kit-6-7-2-release-notes
Hyper-V Servers Compatibility
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Hyper-V is supported on Microsoft Windows Server Editions which are compatible with NetBackup Client. Refer to Operating System Compatibility table for details.
Hyper-V Servers Compatibility - Reference Article: TECH127089 Statement of Support for NetBackup in a Virtual Environment: http://www.veritas.com/docs/000006177
Note:
• NetBackup Client must be installed on the Hyper-V server
• Master and Media Server platform support as supported by the appropriate NBU release
| NetBackup Versions | Hyper-V Server Versions | System Center Virtual Machine Manager Versions | Comments |
| 8.0
8.1 8.1.1 8.1.2 8.2 | Hyper-V Server 2019
Hyper-V Server 2016 Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 U1 Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 U2 Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 U3 Hyper-V Server 2012 Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server 2008SP2 | NetBackup Add-In and Hyper-V Intelligent Policy for
• SCVMM 2012 R2 • SCVMM 2012 R2 Rollup 1 through 8 • SCVMM 2016 • SCVMM 2019[1][2] | • Hyper-V Intelligent Policy supported only for Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (and associated updates), Hyper-V Server 2016, Hyper-V Server 2019.
• VHD and VHDX support |
Footnotes
- 1. Refer to TECH231399 for important notes on SCVMM 2012 R2 Update Rollup 5 and onwards support: http://www.veritas.com/docs/000025555
- 2. Refer to 8.0 release notes : http://www.veritas.com/docs/000003214
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File-level recovery from a Hyper-V backup is not supported in case of following scenarios.
• Any guest OS volume that resides on a 4Kn virtual disk (VHDX file).
• Files in guest OS that reside on REFS or NTFS deduplicated volume.
WMI backup features and limitations:
• WMI method is supported for Windows Server 2016 and above.
• Requires a VM configuration version later than 5.
• VMs can be hosted on either the NTFS, ReFS, Windows Storage Spaces, Storage Spaces Direct or SMB 3.0 file shares.
• WMI backup method does not support backup or restore of user-created checkpoints of the VM.
• Faster Hyper-V backup and recovery feature requires block-level incremental to be enabled and can only be saved to deduplication storage unit.
VSS backup limitations:
• VMs must reside on the NTFS file system (ReFS or NTFS Deduplication is not supported).
• Block-level incremental backup is not supported.
• Backing up VM's residing on SMB 3.0 file shares is not supported.
Hyper-V Limitations
• Backup of a Hyper-V guest OS that use VHD Sets or shared VHDX file is not supported.
• Hyper-V Server 2019 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019 is supported from NetBackup version 8.1.2
• Hyper-V Server on windows Server Semi-Annual Channel builds are supported with partial functionality.
Refer technote for additional details https://www.veritas.com/docs/100041472
Red Hat Virtualization Compatibility
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Supported RedHat Virtualization (RHV) Versions
• NetBackup currently supports only x86-64 editions of RHV servers.
| NetBackup Versions | RHV Versions |
| 8.2 | 4.2
4.3 |
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Note:
• Support of Red Hat Virtulization Manager and Hypervisor starts from version 4.2.7
• NetBackup 8.2 supported x86-64 platforms of Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server will work as backup hosts.
• Application consistent backup needs RHV Guest Agent.
• Pass through disk cannot be backed up by RHV agent. Please install NetBackup client inside the VM to protect data on such disks.
• RHV 4.3.3 has issue in restoring thick provision disk. Till fix is available from RedHat, please restore disk as thin provision.
• VMs in suspended state cannot be protected.
• Cinder storage is currently not supported.
• Backup of VMs based on a template (thin clone) may fail to delete snapshots created by the backup job. If such a condition is encountered, then subsequent backups would fail.
This issue is related to a race condition in RHV Manager versions 4.2.x, 4.3.0 to 4.3.3. Red Hat recommends upgrading RHV Manager to 4.3.4 before protecting such VMs.
Refer: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhev
OpenStack Virtualization Compatibility
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Supported OpenStack Versions
Distributions which include the following OpenStack versions are supported.
Supported Hypervisor: KVM
| NetBackup Versions | OpenStack Revisions | Backup/Restore Host Versions |
| 8.2 | Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Pike, Queens | NetBackup 8.2 supported x86-64 platforms of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will work as backup hosts. |
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| Deduplication Supported Operating Systems for Media Server | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| Descriptions of Disk Storage Unit Types for Media Server | Back to top |
- NetBackup permits the creation of an unlimited number of disk storage units. The types of storage units are described in the table below.
Disk Storage Unit Types
BasicDisk
- A BasicDisk type storage unit consists of a directory on a locally-attached disk or a network-attached disk that is exposed as a file system to a NetBackup media server. NetBackup stores backup data in the specified directory.
BasicDisk - Considerations
| Subject | Notes |
| Configuration considerations | 1. Do not include the same volume or file system in multiple BasicDisk storage units.
2. BasicDisk storage units cannot be used in a storage lifecycle policy. |
AdvancedDisk
- An AdvancedDisk type storage unit is used for a dedicated disk that is directly attached to a NetBackup media server. AdvancedDisk is available only when the Data Protection Optimization Option is licensed. NetBackup assumes exclusive ownership of the disk resources that comprise an AdvancedDisk disk pool. If the resources are shared with other users, NetBackup cannot manage disk pool capacity or storage lifecycle policies correctly. For AdvancedDisk, the NetBackup media servers function as both data movers and storage servers. For more information on configuring AdvancedDisk, see the "NetBackup AdvancedDisk Storage Solutions Guide".
AdvancedDisk - Considerations
| Subject | Notes |
| Support assumptions | 1. Veritas NetBackup has an open support policy for AdvancedDisk storage units.
The storage must be seen as local disk by the NetBackup Media Server, regardless of connection method (SCSI, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc), to be supported as an AdvancedDisk storage unit.
Please note: Due to the open support policy, and the range of 3rd party storage solutions, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that the chosen storage solution meets the specific performance needs in the specific production environment. Veritas NetBackup features that are performance-dependent, such as Granular Restore Technology (GRT) are not supported with AdvancedDisk storage units. Hybrid storage solutions, with a mix of both local (LAN or FC) and WAN (remote or cloud) based storage tiers, have become available. Thorough testing of these storage solutions, when used as AdvancedDisk storage units, needs to be completed by the customer, to the customer's satisfaction, particularly in the area of restore operations, to ensure that timeouts do not occur. Some specific hybrid storage solutions have been tested as NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage units, in Veritas labs, with joint effort and in cooperation with Veritas storage partners. Resulting white papers and reference materials will appear here: - Microsoft Azure StorSimple: "Configure StorSimple with Veritas NetBackup" All-flash storage solutions are included in the AdvancedDisk open support policy. Some specific all-flash storage solutions have been tested as NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage units, in Veritas labs, with joint effort and in cooperation with Veritas storage partners. Examples are: - Pure Storage FlashBlade - Violin Systems Flash Storage Platform 2. Veritas InfoScale Foundation and Storage Foundation are supported with NetBackup AdvancedDisk. For information on disk arrays that are supported with the InfoScale Foundation or Storage Foundation version you're running, please see "Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)" . 3. AdvancedDisk functionality is subject to all functional limitations as imposed either by the operating system or by the underlying file system. |
| Configuration considerations | 1. For UNIX NetBackup Media Servers, AdvancedDisk requires that all LSUs (Logical Storage Units) are active mount points within the UNIX host.
Using the NFS automount feature is not recommended with AdvancedDisk.
2. Access to NFS storage requires NetBackup daemons to run as root. The NFS server exporting the file system must be configured to allow root access to the file system. 3. To ensure support, the disk array must be combined with interconnect hardware that is supported by the disk array manufacturer and the operating system vendor. Refer to the respective vendor's support lists for this information. 4. When installing and configuring HBA drivers it is recommended that the array vendor-qualified HBA drivers be used as opposed to the general HBA drivers that are released for each operating system. These array vendor-qualified HBA drivers are typically found in a separate section of the HBA vendor or array vendor's website, often separated by array model. 5. Performance may vary depending on the array hardware used. |
OpenStorage
- An OpenStorage type storage unit is used for disk storage, usually provided by a third party vendor. The actual name of the disk type depends on the vendor. OpenStorage is available only when the OpenStorage Disk Option is licensed. The storage is integrated into NetBackup through an API. The storage vendor partners with Veritas to integrate the storage into NetBackup. The storage host is the storage server. The NetBackup media servers function as the data movers. The storage vendor's plug-in must be installed on each media server that functions as a data mover. The logon credentials to the storage server must be configured on each media server. For more information on configuring OpenStorage, see the "NetBackup OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk".
PureDisk
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A PureDisk disk type storage unit is used for deduplicated data for the following storage destinations:
Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP):
NetBackup deduplicates the data and hosts the storage. MSDP is available only when the NetBackup Data Protection Optimization Option is licensed. For more information on configuring MSDP, see the "NetBackup Deduplication Guide".
PureDisk storage pool:
A NetBackup 5000 Series Appliance hosts the storage. For more information on configuring a PureDisk storage pool, see the "Configuring a storage server for a PureDisk Deduplication Pool".
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Cloud Configuration Files for Media Server | Back to top |
- The latest version of this file is included in NetBackup release updates and is also available for download independently on the Veritas support site. This file is updated whenever new cloud provider support is needed, independent of NetBackup release updates. This file is cumulative, so the most recent version contains all support added in earlier versions. The column "NetBackup version" indicates the NetBackup Master Server version that the Cloud Configuration package requires for installation.
- For more information on configuring Cloud solutions see "About the cloud storage vendors for Veritas NetBackup".
Cloud Configuration File Packages
| Cloud Configuration Package version | NetBackup version | URL | Providers added |
| 2.6.2 | Media Server: 8.0 or later | Media Server: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD971796.html | Added support:
- Amazon (S3) - Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region - Amazon (S3) - Middle East (Bahrain) region - Google (S3) - Asia East 2 region - Google (S3) - Asia Northeast 2 region - Google (S3) - Europe West 6 region - Orange Business Systems Flexible Engine OBS (S3) - SandStone MOS (S3) - SwiftStack Object Storage (S3) buffer size changes |
| 2.6.1 | Media Server: 8.0 or later | Media Server: Use the most recent version above. | Added support:
- Google (S3) - Asia-South1 region - Google (S3) - EU-North1 region - Google (S3) - EU-West4 region - Google (S3) - NorthAmerica-Northeast1 region - Google (S3) - SouthAmerica-East1 region - Google (S3) - US-West2 region Adding earlier support not included in NetBackup 8.2 release: - Nutanix Buckets (S3) |
| 2.5.5 | Media Server: 8.0 or later | Media Server: Use the most recent version above. | Added support:
- Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - Corrected service host endpoint - Nutanix Buckets (S3) |
| 2.5.4 | Media Server: 8.0 or later | Media Server: Use the most recent version above. | Added support:
- Amazon GovCloud - Glacier Deep Archive (S3) - Amazon Glacier (S3) - Changed from Amazon zero-day lifecycle configuration to direct upload - Amazon Glacier Deep Archive (S3) - Changed from Amazon zero-day lifecycle configuration to direct upload - Amazon GovCloud - Glacier (S3) - Changed from Amazon zero-day lifecycle configuration to direct upload |
| 2.5.3 | Media Server: 8.0 or later | Media Server: Use the most recent version above. | Added support:
- Amazon Glacier Deep Archive (S3) |
| 2.5.2 / RPM 1.0.6 | NetBackup Appliance: 3.1 or later
Media Server: 8.0 or later | NetBackup Appliance: https://www.veritas.com/docs/100039718
Media Server: Use the most recent version above. | Added support:
- Microsoft Azure Germany (Azure) |
| 2.5.1 / RPM 1.0.5 | NetBackup Appliance: 3.1 or later
Media Server: 8.0 or later | Use the most recent version above. | Added support:
- Amazon OneZone IA (S3) - Amazon (S3) - Europe (Paris) region - IronMountain IronCloud certificate change Adding earlier support not included in NetBackup 8.1.2 release: - Amazon (S3) - China (Ningxia) region - Kingsoft Standard Storage Service (KS3) - Standard (S3) - Kingsoft Standard Storage Service (KS3) - Standard IA (S3) - Veritas Cognitive Object Storage (S3) |
| 2.4.5 / RPM 1.0.4 | NetBackup Appliance: 3.1 or later
Media Server: 8.0 or later | Use the most recent version above. | - Kingsoft Standard Storage Service (KS3) - Standard IA (S3) - corrected header |
| 2.4.4 / RPM 1.0.3 | NetBackup Appliance: 3.1 or later
Media Server: 8.0 or later | Use the most recent version above. | - Amazon (S3) - China (Ningxia) region
- Kingsoft Standard Storage Service (KS3) - Standard (S3) - Kingsoft Standard Storage Service (KS3) - Standard IA (S3) - Veritas Cognitive Object Storage (S3) |
| 2.4.3 / RPM 1.0.2 | NetBackup Appliance: 3.1 or later
Media Server: 8.0 or later | Use the most recent version above. |
- IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - Object size improvement
- Telefonica Open Cloud (S3) |
| 2.4.2 | NetBackup Appliance: 3.1 or later
Media Server: 8.0 or later | Use the most recent version above. | - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - added public default cloud instance
- Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - Asia Pacific NE 1 (Tokyo) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - Asia Pacific SE 1 (Singapore) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - Asia Pacific SE 2 (Sydney) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - Asia Pacific SE 3 (Kuala Lumpur) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - Asia Pacific SE 5 (Jakarta) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - Asia Pacific SOU 1 (Mumbai) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - China East 1 (Hangzhou) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - China East 2 (Shanghai) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - China North 1 (Qingdao) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - China North 2 (Beijing) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - China North 3 (Xhangjiakou) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - China North 5 (Hohhot) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - China South 1 (Shenzhen) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - Germany 1 (Frankfurt) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - Hong Kong region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - Middle East 1 (Dubai) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - US East 1 (Virginia) region - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) (S3) - US West 1 (Silicon Valley) region - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - Asia Pacific Cross Region - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - EU Great Britain region - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - Melbourne, Australia single datacenter endpoint - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - Toronto, Canada single datacenter endpoint - Infoniqa SWISS3CLOUD (S3) - NEC HYDRAstor/iStorage/NEC Storage (S3) - NEC IaaS (S3) |
| 2.4.1 / RPM 1.0.1 | NetBackup Appliance: 3.1 or later
Media Server: 8.0 or later | Use the most recent version above. | - Updated for NetBackup 8.1.1 and 3.1.1
- Added CloudCatalyst Appliance support for many cloud providers |
| 2.3.3 | 8.0 or later | Use the most recent version above. | - Deutsche Telekom Open Telekom Cloud(S3) - Changed default URL style
- IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - Cold storage class - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - Flex storage class - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - Standard storage class - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - Vault storage class - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - Vault storage class - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - EU Cross Region - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - US Cross Region - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - US East Region - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - EU South Region - Iron Mountain Iron Cloud (S3) - NetApp StorageGRID (S3) - LAN - NetApp StorageGRID (S3) - Changed default URL style for WAN - NooBaa (S3) - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (S3) |
| 2.3.2 | 8.0 or later | Use the most recent version above. | - Amazon Glacier (S3) (requires NetBackup 8.1 or later)
- Amazon GovCloud - Glacier (S3) (requires NetBackup 8.1 or later) |
| 2.3.1 | 8.0 or later | Use the most recent version above. | - CMCC Cloud Storage authentication v5.x (requires NetBackup 8.1 or later)
- Fujitsu Cloud Service K5 (requires NetBackup 8.1 or later) - Microsoft Azure Government Cloud (requires NetBackup 8.1 or later) - Amazon (S3) - Object size improvement - NetApp StorageGRID WAN (S3) - IBM COS WAN (S3) - enables custom cloud instances for VPC URL support - IBM COS WAN (S3) - US South region - IBM COS WAN (S3) - US East region - IBM COS WAN (S3) - EU Cross-region |
| 2.2.9 | 8.0 | Use the most recent version above. | - ACP IT Solutions CS3 Cloud (S3)
- Amazon (S3) - Changed "Standard" region to "US East (N. Virginia)" - China Telecom OOS Cloud (S3) - Google (S3) - Australia-Southeast1 region - Google (S3) - Europe-West2 region - Google (S3) - Europe-West3 region - Google (S3) - US-East4 region - Google Coldline & Nearline (S3) - added regions |
| 2.2.8 | 8.0 | Use the most recent version above. | - Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS CD10000 (S3)
- SUSE Enterprise Storage (S3) |
| 2.2.7 | 8.0 | Use the most recent version above. | - Deutsche Telekom Open Telekom Cloud (S3)
- Google Cloud Storage - Regional (S3) - Google Cloud Storage - Multi-Regional (S3) - Hitachi Cloud Services (S3) - Changed to "Hitachi Content Platform - WAN" - Red Hat Ceph Storage (S3) - Veritas Access (S3) - Verizon Cloud (S3) - Removed support |
| 2.2.6 | 8.0 | Use the most recent version above. | - Amazon (S3) - Canada Central region
- Amazon (S3) - London region - Amazon (S3) - Ohio region - IBM Cloud Object Storage (S3) - Local and WAN performance improvement |
| 2.2.5 | 8.0 | Use the most recent version above. | - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Amazon custom cloud instance (S3)
- Amazon (S3) - Mumbai region - AT&T Cloud Storage (S3) - IBM Cloud Object Storage - Local and WAN (S3) |
| 2.2.4 | 8.0 | Use the most recent version above. | - Amazon GovCloud (S3) - Infrequent Access
- China Mobile CMCC Cloud Storage (S3) - Chunghwa Telecom Hicloud (S3) - default Cloud Instance - EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (S3) - Google Cloud Storage (S3) - Coldline Storage Class - Oracle Cloud Service (Swift) - IBM Softlayer (Swift) - Microsoft Azure (Azure) - Oracle Cloud Service (S3) - Quantum Lattus Object Storage (S3) - Scality RING Storage for LAN (S3) - Scality RING Storage for WAN (S3) - SwiftStack (Swift) |
Cloud Configuration File Versions released with NetBackup and NetBackup Appliances
| NetBackup / NetBackup Appliance version | Cloud Configuration File version |
| 8.1.2 / 3.1.2 | 2.5.0 |
| 8.1.1 / 3.1.1 | 2.4.0 |
| 8.1 GA / 3.1 | 2.3.0 |
| 8.0 GA / 3.0 | 2.2.0 |
Cloud Configuration File Versions included in NetBackup Appliance cloud configuration and device mappings RPMs
| NetBackup Appliance RPM version | Cloud Configuration File version |
| 1.0.6 | 2.5.2 |
| 1.0.5 | 2.5.1 |
| 1.0.4 | 2.4.5 |
| 1.0.3 | 2.4.4 |
| 1.0.2 | 2.4.3 |
| 1.0.1 | 2.4.1 |
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| OST Secondary Storage Solutions - General Information for Media Server | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Cloud Storage Solutions for Media Server | Back to top |
- NetBackup Cloud Storage plug-ins enable Veritas NetBackup to access Cloud Storage Solutions. Either the storage vendor or Veritas provides a software plug-in, which is installed on each NetBackup Media Server that is connected to the cloud solution.
- NetBackup Cloud support information is listed in the tables below, organized by vendor. These tables provide information on supported versions of plug-ins and functionality, and other important notes about the hardware and its compatibility.
Cloud Storage - Considerations
| Subject | Notes |
| Support assumptions | For details on supported operating systems, please refer to the
"NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List"
.
1. In the vendor compatibility tables below, the column "NetBackup Version Containing Plug-in" indicates the NetBackup 8.x version at which that cloud storage solution was first supported. 2. Cloud support on Windows platforms requires Windows 2008 R2 or later. 3. Where support for Ceph storage is shown, it means that vendor's Ceph solution is supported. Other Ceph-based solutions are not supported. |
| Configuration considerations | 1. NetBackup is configured to trust a number of well-known public Certificate Authorities (CA) related to Cloud storage.
However, there are instances where, for internal purposes, you may need to add your own self-signed CA certificate.
For information on adding a self-signed CA certificate, please refer to
"Cloud Storage Configuration: How To Add a Self-Signed CA Certificate"
.
2. NetBackup-provided Cloud connectors are not supported with IPv6, unless noted otherwise. Configuring these plug-ins with IPv6 may result in unpredictable behavior. |
| Operating system support dropped |
1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1 and later.
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. 3. CentOS 5 is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1 and later. 4. CentOS 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. 5. Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP-UX (all versions) is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. For information on migrating HP-UX master and media servers to other platforms, see the "NetBackup Master Server Migration Guide" and the "NetBackup Media Server Migration Guide" . 6. IBM AIX (all versions) is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. For information on migrating AIX master and media servers to other platforms, see the "NetBackup Master Server Migration Guide" and the "NetBackup Media Server Migration Guide" . 7. Oracle Linux 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. |
- NetBackup supports Cloud-based storage providers using a variety of technology methods, described below.
| Contents (for details click on the checkbox) | ||
|---|---|---|
| S3 Storage | Swift Storage | Microsoft Azure Storage |
| Atmos Cloud Storage | Rackspace Cloud Storage | OST |
| Advanced Disk Targets | VTL | |
Cloud Storage - Vendor Compatibility
| Contents (for details click on the checkbox) | ||
|---|---|---|
| ACP | Alibaba | Amazon |
| AT&T | China Mobile | China Telecom |
| Chunghwa Telecom | Cloudian | Datish Systems (OpenDedup) |
| Dell EMC | Deutsche Telekom | Fujitsu |
| HGST | Hitachi | |
| IBM | Infoniqa | Iron Mountain |
| Kingsoft | Microsoft | NEC |
| NetApp | NooBaa | Nutanix |
| Oracle | Orange Business Services | Quantum |
| Rackspace | Red Hat | SandStone |
| Scality | StorReduce | SUSE |
| SwiftStack | Telefonica | Veritas |
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| OST Storage Servers for Media Server | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Virtual Tape Libraries Compatibility List for Media Server | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
| NDMP Devices Compatibility List for Media Server | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Tape Libraries Compatibility List for Media Server | Back to top |
- Tape library support information is listed below. This information is organized by vendor and provides information on the inquiry string (vendor ID + product ID), the method(s) of controlling the robot, and any other important notes about the hardware and its compatibility.
Tape Libraries - Considerations
| Subject | Notes |
| Support assumptions | For details on supported operating systems, please refer to the
"NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List"
.
1. The tables in this section show robotic support only, not tape drive support. Refer to the Tape Drives section of this document to ensure that the specific drive used in the library is supported on the desired OS platform(s). The library vendor must also support the library and drive combination. 2. Firmware versions are not listed in this section. Veritas recommends using the most recent version of firmware available when you configure the library with NetBackup. When a minimum firmware version is required, it will be listed in the Notes column. If a firmware version is causing a problem, Veritas will work with the hardware vendor to resolve the problem. Veritas and most hardware vendors listed are members of TSANet. 3. ACS robots are supported with NetBackup Enterprise Server only. ACS robots are not supported with NetBackup Server. 4. For ACS robots the "Inquiry String" column is intentionally left blank. 5. Where support is shown for "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" it also means that CentOS and Oracle Linux are supported. |
| Configuration considerations | 1. Library partitioning is supported unless noted otherwise.
2. Library expansion modules are supported unless noted otherwise. 3. On IBM AIX, use of the IBM Atape driver is required with IBM tape libraries. The Atape driver's multi-path feature must be disabled. |
| Operating system support dropped |
1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1 and later.
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. 3. CentOS 5 is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1 and later. 4. CentOS 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. 5. Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP-UX (all versions) is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. For information on migrating HP-UX master and media servers to other platforms, see the "NetBackup Master Server Migration Guide" and the "NetBackup Media Server Migration Guide" . 6. IBM AIX (all versions) is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. For information on migrating AIX master and media servers to other platforms, see the "NetBackup Master Server Migration Guide" and the "NetBackup Media Server Migration Guide" . 7. Oracle Linux 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. |
Tape Libraries - NetBackup Robot Types
- These tables list operating system platform support for each NetBackup robotic daemon type. For more information about configuring robot types, see the "NetBackup Device Configuration Guide".
| Contents (for details click on the checkbox) | ||
|---|---|---|
| ACS - Oracle Automated Cartridge System - Supported Operating Systems | ACS - Oracle Automated Cartridge System - Supported Drive Types | ACS - Oracle Automated Cartridge System - Supported Media Types |
| TLD - Tape Library DLT - Supported Operating Systems | ||
Tape Libraries - Legend
- The following table describes terms and symbols used in the Tape Libraries - Vendor Compatibility tables.
Tape Libraries - Legend
| Value | Meaning |
| Multi LUN | The device is a Multi-LUN based library. |
| SCSI ID | The device is a SCSI ID based library. |
| ^ | Character used to denote a space in the INQUIRY STRING. |
Tape Libraries - Vendor Compatibility
| Contents (for details click on the checkbox) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Dell EMC | Fujitsu | H3C |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Hitachi | IBM |
| NEC | Oracle | Overland Storage |
| Qualstar | Quantum | Spectra Logic |
| Tandberg | ||
| Tape Drives Compatibility List for Media Server | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
| Fibre Transport Media Server HBAs Compatibility List for Media Server | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Encryption and Security Solutions for Media Server | Back to top |
- Encryption and security solution support information is listed below, organized by solution type.
- The following listings do not include specific operating system compatibility. For a list of supported NetBackup Media Server platforms, refer to the "NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List".
- NOTE: The Media Server Encryption Option (MSEO) section has been removed from this document since this feature is no longer supported.
NetBackup Key Management Service (KMS)
- The NetBackup Key Management Service (KMS) feature is intended to support any tape drive with built-in hardware encryption capability that conforms to the SCSI T10 encryption standard. Each drive model listed in the following table has been tested in Veritas labs to verify that it works with NetBackup correctly, so Veritas recommends using only listed drives with the KMS feature. Refer to the Tape Drives section in this document for the list of platforms and interfaces on which each of the following drives is supported.
- Note: KMS is supported on any tape library supported by NetBackup, provided the library vendor supports that library with any of the encryption-capable drives listed in the table below.
NetBackup KMS - Supported Devices
| Manufacturer | Model | Notes |
| Dell EMC | PowerVault LTO4-120 | |
| Dell EMC | PowerVault LTO5-140 | |
| Dell EMC | PowerVault LTO-6 | |
| Dell EMC | PowerVault LTO-6 HH | |
| Dell EMC | PowerVault LTO-7 | |
| Dell EMC | PowerVault LTO-7 HH | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Ultrium 1760 LTO4 | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Ultrium 1840 LTO4 | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Ultrium 3000 LTO5 | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Ultrium 3280 LTO5 | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Ultrium 6250 LTO6 | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Ultrium 6650 LTO6 | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Ultrium 15000 LTO7 | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Ultrium 15750 LTO7 | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Ultrium 30750 LTO8 | |
| IBM | System Storage TS1040 Ultrium 4 | Requires firmware version 7BG2 or later. |
| IBM | System Storage TS1050 Ultrium 5 | |
| IBM | System Storage TS1060 Ultrium 6 | |
| IBM | System Storage TS1070 Ultrium 7 | |
| IBM | System Storage TS1120 (3592 Model E05) | Requires firmware version 1C15 or later. |
| IBM | System Storage TS1130 (3592 Model E06) | Requires firmware version 2480 or later. |
| IBM | System Storage TS1140 (3592 Model E07) | |
| IBM | System Storage TS1150 (3592 Model E08) | |
| IBM | System Storage TS1155 (3592 Model 55F) | |
| IBM | System Storage TS2240 Ultrium 4 Half Height | |
| IBM | System Storage TS2250 Ultrium 5 Half Height | |
| IBM | System Storage TS2260 Ultrium 6 Half Height | |
| IBM | System Storage TS2270 Ultrium 7 Half Height | |
| IBM | System Storage TS2280 Ultrium 8 Half Height | |
| IBM | System Storage TS2340 Ultrium 4 | Requires firmware version 7BG2 or later. |
| IBM | System Storage TS2350 Ultrium 5 | |
| IBM | System Storage TS2360 Ultrium 6 | |
| IBM | System Storage TS2370 Ultrium 7 | |
| IBM | System Storage TS2380 Ultrium 8 | |
| IBM | Ultrium 4 (OEM) | Requires firmware version 7BG2 or later. |
| IBM | Ultrium 4 Half Height (OEM) | |
| IBM | Ultrium 5 (OEM) | |
| IBM | Ultrium 5 Half Height (OEM) | |
| IBM | Ultrium 6 (OEM) | |
| IBM | Ultrium 6 Half Height (OEM) | |
| IBM | Ultrium 7 (OEM) | |
| IBM | Ultrium 7 Half Height (OEM) | |
| IBM | Ultrium 8 (OEM) | |
| IBM | Ultrium 8 Half Height (OEM) | |
| Oracle StorageTek | T10000B | Requires firmware version 1.41.211 or later. |
| Oracle StorageTek | T10000C | Requires firmware version 1.53.311 or later. The drive needs manual setup including obtaining the data path key management (DPKM) encryption license from Oracle. |
| Oracle StorageTek | T10000D | |
| Quantum | LTO-4 HH | Requires firmware version 2190 or later. |
| Quantum | LTO-5 FH | |
| Quantum | LTO-5 HH | |
| Quantum | LTO-6 HH | |
| Quantum | LTO-7 HH | |
| Quantum | LTO-8 HH | |
| Tandberg | HH LTO 5 |
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Third Party Encryption Solutions for Media Server | Back to top |
- Support information for vendor-supplied encryption solutions is listed below, organized by vendor. Under each vendor there is a table showing tested solutions, firmware versions tested with that solution, and other important notes about the solution and its compatibility.
- The firmware listed in these tables is the firmware that has been tested. Firmware versions newer than those listed are also supported.
- Support for specific storage devices such as tape drives, libraries, and virtual devices is not listed in this section. NetBackup will support any hardware that is supported both by the encryption provider and Veritas. Please refer to the other sections of this document for Veritas' support of these storage devices.
- Please Note:
- The firmware listed on this page is the firmware that has been tested. All firmware versions newer than what is listed are also supported.
Third-Party Encryption Solutions - Vendor Compatibility
| Contents (for details click on the checkbox) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Brocade | Cisco Systems | Decru |
| Fujitsu | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | IBM |
| NEC | Quantum | SafeNet |
| Sun StorageTek | Thales (NeoScale) | |
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| SAN Media Server/SAN Client/FT Media Server for Media Server and Client | Back to top |
- • Unless otherwise noted the minimum NetBackup level for SAN Client support is NetBackup 6.5 GA.
- SAN style backups via SAN Media Server
-
SAN media servers are NetBackup media servers that back up their own data. SAN
media servers cannot back up data that resides on other clients.
SAN media servers are useful for certain situations. For example, a SAN media
server is useful if the data volume consumes so much network bandwidth that it
affects your network negatively.
• Enables LAN-free data protection with high performance access to shared resources.
• Can share tape resources with NetBackup Master and Media Servers.
• Can only back itself up, not other clients.
• Software is installed stand-alone on each cluster node and linked to the virtual host via an application cluster.
• When you define a backup policy for a SAN media server, add only the SAN media server as the client.
• The NetBackup Shared Storage Option is able to use NetBackup SAN media servers.
• There is no platform restriction regarding SAN Media Servers - any Media Server can be a SAN Media Server. The only difference is in the license authentication mechanism. Application and DB Agents are supported with the SAN Media Server.
- SAN style backups via SAN Client
-
A NetBackup SAN client is a NetBackup client on which the Fibre Transport service
is activated. The SAN client is similar to the SAN media server that is used for the
Shared Storage Option; it backs up its own data. However, the SAN client is based
on the smaller NetBackup client installation package, so it has fewer administration
requirements and uses fewer system resources.
• It connects to a NetBackup media server over Fibre Channel.
• The NetBackup SAN Client Fibre Transport Service manages the connectivity and the data transfers for the FT pipe on the SAN clients. The SAN client FT service also discovers FT target mode devices on the NetBackup media servers and notifies the FT Service Manager about them.
• Requires SAN connectivity with a Media Server running Fibre Transport Services (reference additional information below in regards to the FT Media Server).
SAN client does not support the following types of backup:
• SharePoint
• Enterprise Vault
• Exchange DAG or CCR backups through a passive node of an Exchange cluster
• All other application and database agents are supported with the SAN Client.
Note: SAN client does support the use of FlashBackup but all restores from FlashBackup backups will use the LAN connection, not the SAN connection.
- SAN client and NetBackup Deduplication
-
• SAN Client is a NetBackup optional feature that provides high speed backups and restores of NetBackup clients. Fibre Transport is the name of the NetBackup high-speed data transport method that is part of the SAN Client feature. The backup and restore traffic occurs over a SAN.
• SAN clients can be used with the deduplication option; however, the deduplication must occur on the media server, not the client. Configure the media server to be both a deduplication storage server (or load balancing server) and an FT media server. The SAN client backups are then sent over the SAN to the deduplication server/FT media server host. At that media server, the backup stream is deduplicated.
• Do not enable client deduplication on SAN Clients. The data processing for deduplication is incompatible with the high-speed transport method of Fibre Transport. Client-side deduplication relies on two-way communication over the LAN with the media server. A SAN client streams the data to the FT media server at a high rate over the SAN.
- FT Media Server
- A NetBackup FT media server is a NetBackup media server on which the Fibre Transport services are activated. NetBackup FT media servers accept connections from SAN clients and send data to the storage units. The host bus adapters (HBAs) that accept connections from the SAN clients use a special NetBackup target mode driver to process FT traffic. The media server FT service controls data flow, processes SCSI commands, and manages data buffers for the server side of the FT pipe. It also manages the target mode driver for the host bus adaptors.
- Reference the HCL document Fibre Transport Media Server HBAs section for supported Operating Systems and HBAs. http://www.veritas.com/docs/000025228
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| Infrastructure Used for Testing for Media Server | Back to top |
- The NetBackup Shared Storage Option (SSO) hardware support model for Storage Area Network (SAN) components is an open model. In other words, all Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapters (CNA), Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBA), switches, bridges, and routers are supported in a SAN environment. This means that if a FCoE or FC component is causing a problem, Veritas will work with the component vendor in an attempt to resolve the problem, but resolution is not guaranteed. Veritas and most hardware vendors listed are members of TSANet.
Infrastructure - Considerations
| Subject | Notes |
| Vendor support considerations | 1. To ensure compatibility, the device manufacturers and the operating system vendor must support the combination of SAN components. |
CNAs
- This list of SAN components represents equipment that has been used during NetBackup qualification testing of devices listed in previous sections of this document. It is not intended to be a list of supported components.
CNAs - Considerations
| Subject | Notes |
| Support assumptions | For details on supported operating systems, please refer to the
"NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List"
.
1. Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition" it also means that the other editions of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are supported. Only the x64 (64-bit) editions of the OS are supported as a NetBackup Media Server. Server Core Installation Option is not supported as a NetBackup Media Server. 2. Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2012 Datacenter" it also means that the other editions of Windows Server 2012, Windows Storage Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 are supported. 3. Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2016 Datacenter" it also means that the other editions of Windows Server 2016 and Windows Storage Server 2016 are supported. 4. Where support is shown for "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on x86-64" it also means that CentOS 5 and Oracle Linux 5 are supported. 5. Where support is shown for "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on x86-64" it also means that CentOS 6 and Oracle Linux 6 are supported. 6. Where support is shown for "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on x86-64" it also means that CentOS 7 and Oracle Linux 7 are supported. |
| Vendor support considerations | 1. Consult the hardware vendor's web site for current firmware and driver updates (where applicable). |
| Configuration considerations | 1. All like CNAs within a SAN should use the same firmware, BIOS and driver revision as recommended by CNA vendors. |
| Operating system support dropped |
1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1 and later.
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. 3. CentOS 5 is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1 and later. 4. CentOS 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. 5. Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP-UX (all versions) is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. For information on migrating HP-UX master and media servers to other platforms, see the "NetBackup Master Server Migration Guide" and the "NetBackup Media Server Migration Guide" . 6. IBM AIX (all versions) is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. For information on migrating AIX master and media servers to other platforms, see the "NetBackup Master Server Migration Guide" and the "NetBackup Media Server Migration Guide" . 7. Oracle Linux 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. |
HBAs
- This list of SAN components represents equipment that has been used during NetBackup qualification testing of devices listed in previous sections of this document. It is not intended to be a list of supported components.
HBAs - Considerations
| Subject | Notes |
| Support assumptions | For details on supported operating systems, please refer to the
"NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List"
.
1. Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition" it also means that the other editions of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are supported. Only the x64 (64-bit) editions of the OS are supported as a NetBackup Media Server. Server Core Installation Option is not supported as a NetBackup Media Server. 2. Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2012 Datacenter" it also means that the other editions of Windows Server 2012, Windows Storage Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 are supported. 3. Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2016 Datacenter" it also means that the other editions of Windows Server 2016 and Windows Storage Server 2016 are supported. 4. Where support is shown for "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on x86-64" it also means that CentOS 5 and Oracle Linux 5 are supported. 5. Where support is shown for "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on x86-64" it also means that CentOS 6 and Oracle Linux 6 are supported. 6. Where support is shown for "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on x86-64" it also means that CentOS 7 and Oracle Linux 7 are supported. |
| Vendor support considerations | 1. All like HBAs within a SAN should use the same firmware, BIOS and driver revision as recommended by HBA vendors.
2. Consult the hardware vendor's web site for current firmware and driver updates (where applicable). |
| Operating system support dropped |
1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1 and later.
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. 3. CentOS 5 is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1 and later. 4. CentOS 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. 5. Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP-UX (all versions) is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. For information on migrating HP-UX master and media servers to other platforms, see the "NetBackup Master Server Migration Guide" and the "NetBackup Media Server Migration Guide" . 6. IBM AIX (all versions) is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. For information on migrating AIX master and media servers to other platforms, see the "NetBackup Master Server Migration Guide" and the "NetBackup Media Server Migration Guide" . 7. Oracle Linux 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. |
Bridges/Routers
- This list of SAN components represents equipment that has been used during NetBackup qualification testing of devices listed in previous sections of this document. It is not intended to be a list of supported components.
Infrastructure - Considerations
| Subject | Notes |
| Vendor support considerations | 1. To ensure compatibility, the device manufacturers and the operating system vendor must support the combination of SAN components.
2. Consult the hardware vendor's web site for current firmware. |
Infrastructure - Routers/Bridges Used In Testing
| Contents (for details click on the checkbox) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Bridges/Routers | ||
Switches
- This list of SAN components represents equipment that has been used during NetBackup qualification testing of devices listed in previous sections of this document. It is not intended to be a list of supported components.
Infrastructure - Considerations
| Subject | Notes |
| Vendor support considerations | 1. To ensure compatibility, the device manufacturers and the operating system vendor must support the combination of SAN components.
2. Consult the hardware vendor's web site for current firmware. |
Infrastructure - Switches Used In Testing
| Contents (for details click on the checkbox) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Switches | ||
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Devices Retiring Soon for Media Server | Back to top |
- The devices in this section will not be listed in the Hardware Compatibility List for the next major NetBackup release after NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x. Many of these devices are end-of-life products that are no longer supported by the manufacturer.
Virtual Tape Libraries
| Manufacturer | Device |
| Dell EMC | CDL300 Series |
| Fujitsu | ETERNUS CS800 S2, ETERNUS CS800 S3 |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | D2D4000 Series Backup System, D2D4100 G2 Series Backup System, D2D4100 Series Backup System, D2D4112fc Backup System, D2D4300 G2 Series Backup System, D2D4312 G2 Backup System, VLS 12000 EVA Gateway, VLS 12200 EVA Gateway, VLS 9200 Series |
Tape Libraries
| Manufacturer | Device |
| Dell EMC | PowerVault 160T |
| Fujitsu | ETERNUS LT120, ETERNUS LT130, ETERNUS LT160, ETERNUS LT20, ETERNUS LT210 (T16A), ETERNUS LT210 (T16A2), ETERNUS LT220 (T16A), ETERNUS LT220 (T16A2), ETERNUS LT230 (T40A), ETERNUS LT230 (T40A2), ETERNUS LT250, ETERNUS LT270, ETERNUS LT40, ETERNUS LT60, FibreCAT TX08, FibreCAT TX24, FibreCAT TX48, FibreCAT TX48 S2 |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | EML E-Series, EML E-Series 103e, EML E-Series 245e, EML E-Series 348e, EML E-Series 375e, EML E-Series 442e, EML E-Series 469e, EML E-Series 505e, EML E-Series 71e, ESL E-Series, ESL E-Series 322e, ESL E-Series 712e |
| Hitachi | L18/500 |
| IBM | 33614LX, 33622LX, 3607 1x16, StorageSmart SL7, StorageSmart SL72, StorageSmart SL7500 |
| NEC | iStorage T180, iStorage T40, iStorage T700, iStorage T80, LL0101H, SL0101H, T100A, T100A2, T16A, T16A2, T40A, T40A2, T700A, T700A2 |
| Oracle | Sun STK SL3000 |
| Overland Storage | ARCvault series, NEO 100s 2nd Generation, NEO 2000e, NEO 200s, NEO 200s 2nd Generation, NEO 4000e, NEO 400s, NEO 400s 2nd Generation, NEO 8000, NEO series |
| Qualstar | RLS-6000 (S)DLT series, RLS-8000 LTO series, RLS-8000D LTO series, RLS-85120, TLS-6000 DLT series, TLS-6220, TLS-8000 LTO series, XLS-8000 |
| Quantum | PX720, Scalar 50 (SCALAR50), Scalar i2000 |
| Tandberg | StorageLibrary T40, StorageLibrary T48, StorageLoader 2U LTO, SuperLoader DLT 1280L, SuperLoader SDLT 3520L, SuperLoader SDLT 5120L |
Tape Drives
| Manufacturer | Device |
| Dell EMC | PowerVault 110T LTO2 (Gen2 IBM), PowerVault 110T SDLT320, PowerVault 110T VS160, PowerVault 160T LTO2 |
| Quantum | DLT-S4, SDLT 320, SDLT 600 |
| Tandberg | SDLT 320 |
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Software Compatibility List (SCL) for Client | Back to top |
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NetBackup is supported on all editions (Advanced, Base, DC, etc.) and on all vendor GA updates (n.1, n.2, etc.) or service packs (SP1, SP2, etc.) unless stated otherwise in the tables below.
IBM POWER 8 platform is supported only with Little Endian hardware architecture.
For Red Hat Security Enhanced Linux considerations refer to https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH76714 .
Red Hat Enterprise Linux - NetBackup Client
| OS | CPU Architecture | OS Bits | NetBackup Client | NetBackup Bits | NBAC | SAN Client | Minimum NetBackup Level |
| Enterprise Linux 7 | z/Architecture | 64 | Y | 64 | Y | 8.0 |
| System Requirements for Client | Back to top |
NetBackup Binary Size
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Approximate binary size of the NetBackup client software for an initial install.
| OS - All Versions | CPU Architecture | 32-bit client | 64-bit client | Notes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | z/Architecture | 946MB | Media server or client compatibility only. |
Client Physical Memory Requirement
| OS/Version | CPU Architecture | Minimum Memory Requirement |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | z/Architecture | 512 MB |
Temporary Disk Space Requirement for Install or Upgrade
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After downloading the software, temporary disk space is required for the installation process on almost all platforms. For local installs or remote (push) installs using the rsh or ssh method, you may designate where this temporary space is located via use of environment variables, NB_TMPDIR or TMPDIR on the client. NB_TMPDIR is used if set, TMPDIR next if set, otherwise /tmp. For ftp or sftp remote installs, the client software is moved to /tmp on the client and during the install environment variables NB_TMPDIR or TMPDIR are used as mentioned previously. For details, consult the Installation Guide.
For local installs, you will need approximately 388 MBs of temporary disk space during the install.
For remote installs, you will need approximately 1090 MBs for placement of the client software and, then, for the install.
If using Live Update, you will need 4.5 GBs of temporary disk space. The location of the temporary disk space is designated in the 'workdir' setting in the /usr/openv/netbackup/nblu.conf file with /tmp being the default.
Valid Characters in Host Names Requirement
-
NetBackup requires host names to comply with RFC-1123, meaning only ASCII characters "a" thru "z", case insensitive, and digits "0" thru "9" and the hyphen character.
- NetBackup Documentation References:
- NetBackup 8.1 Release Notes
- NetBackup 8.1 Self Service Release Notes
| Bare Metal Restore File System/Volume Manager Support for Client | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| Client Selections for Backup Policies for Client | Back to top |
- The information in the Client Selection column of the table below is the client type that should be selected when installing NetBackup as a client on the Operating System/Version and Architecture listed in this table.
-
Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2008" or "Windows Server 2008 R2" it is implied that Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, and Web Edition are supported.
Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2012" or "Windows Server 2012 R2" it is implied that Standard Edition, Datacenter Edition, Essentials Edition, and Foundation Edition are supported.
- NetBackup 8.1.2 and later will require Linux Kernel version 2.6.32 or higher
| OS | CPU Architecture | NetBackup 8.0 Client Selection |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | z/Architecture | Linux-s390x,IBMzSeriesRedHat2.6.18 |
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| Deduplication Supported Operating Systems for Client | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| Database and Application Agent Compatibility for Client | Back to top |
- This Software Compatibility List (SCL) document describes the supported database and application agents for Veritas NetBackup 8.0 through 8.x
- For all other NetBackup compatibility lists, refer to http://www.veritas.com/docs/000033647
- IPV6 and Dual Stack environments are supported from NetBackup 8.1.1 onwards with few limitations, refer technote for additional information http://www.veritas.com/docs/100041420
- Database and application patch support: Major versions of database software have been qualified in Veritas Labs and are listed in the tables below. NetBackup supports minor versions, service packs, and patches of database software unless otherwise noted, with the exception of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server.
- Linux support: For Linux distributions shown in the tables below, NetBackup is supported on all "editions" and on all vendor GA updates (n.1, n.2, etc.) or service packs (SP1, SP2, etc.) unless otherwise noted in this document or in the NetBackup OS Compatibility List, http://www.veritas.com/docs/100032808
- Database Appliances: 3rd party database hardware appliances are supported if the appliance OS/architecture and database software are listed in the Veritas NetBackup OS compatibility list http://www.veritas.com/docs/100032808 and in the Database and Application Agent compatibility list (this document). For example, some Oracle Exadata and Exalogic models are supported based upon this support statement. Please consult the vendor documentation to identify the embedded software versions.
- End of life information: More information is available about certain NetBackup features, functionality, 3rd-party product integration, Veritas product integration, applications, databases, and OS platforms that Veritas intends to replace with newer and improved functionality, or in some cases, discontinue without replacement. Please see the SORT widget titled "NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans" at https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup.
Database Agents
- The sections below contain information that is related to specific database agents and OS platforms.
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SAP
The NetBackup SAP Agent protects SAP Oracle environments by integrating with SAP BR*Tools. SAP BR*Tools may have a separate version from the SAP Kernel. Reference Technical Solution 51094 for details http://www.veritas.com/docs/000033132.
SAP environments based on Microsoft SQL or DB2 databases are supported via the NetBackup Microsoft SQL and DB2 agents respectively.
SAP supports Oracle and MAX-DB base environments.
-
Windows Server 2008
When using a 32-bit OS on a x64 CPU the DB Agent is supported if the x86 CPU is listed in this compatibility list.
| Contents (for details click on the checkbox) | ||
|---|---|---|
| IBM DB2 | Oracle Database | |
- NetBackup Database and Application Agent Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Database and Application Agent Compatibility List (last updated on March 04, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x Database and Application Agent Software Compatibility List Updates
| Snapshot Client - General Information for Client | Back to top |
- This section contains Snapshot Client compatibility information for Veritas NetBackup 8.x.x. It covers NetBackup Server (which includes Enterprise Server and Server), Client, and Snapshot Client.
- Veritas supports standard unaltered kernel/Operating System levels. Should an issue arise on a revised kernel, Operating System, or virtual system environment, Veritas support may request the recreation of the problem with the standard operating environment distribution.
- Veritas InfoScale / Storage Foundation Compatibility
- Veritas InfoScale/Storage Foundation file system and volume manager are supported as the Snapshot Client stack based on Operating System requirements of the InfoScale/Storage Foundation product. For specific OS compatibility information regarding InfoScale/Storage Foundation, please see "Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)".
- FlashBackup policy limitation: The NetBackup FlashBackup policy is not supported on Veritas File System (VxFS) layout versions 8 and beyond, versions 7 and earlier are supported.
- Third-Party Products
- When a problem may be related to product(s) from a third-party vendor with whom Veritas has a cooperative or collaborative relationship on such product(s), then Veritas will work with that vendor in an attempt to resolve the problem, but resolution is not guaranteed. When Veritas does not have such a support relationship in place with the third-party vendor, or when the vendor ceases to support such product(s), then our ability to support Veritas Licensed Software operating with such vendor's product(s) may be limited, affected, or prevented (and such third party product(s) may cease to be part of Veritas-supported configuration(s)). Veritas support may be limited by the hardware or software vendor due to their support lifecycle. Should a vendor announce End of Support for a product, Veritas support may be limited.
- Oracle Agent Support
- Oracle ASM Environment is not supported.
Snapshot Client - Considerations
| Subject | Notes |
| Support assumptions | For details on supported operating systems, please refer to the
"NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List"
.
1. Where support is shown for "Windows Server" it also means that the other editions of Windows Server and Windows Storage Server are supported, unless noted otherwise. Windows Server 2008 Core Installation is not supported as a NetBackup Media Server. Windows 2012 Core and 2012 R2 Core are supported as a NetBackup Media Server. |
| Operating system support dropped |
1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1 and later.
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. 3. CentOS 5 is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1 and later. 4. CentOS 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. 5. Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP-UX (all versions) is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. For information on migrating HP-UX master and media servers to other platforms, see the "NetBackup Master Server Migration Guide" and the "NetBackup Media Server Migration Guide" . 6. IBM AIX (all versions) is not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. For information on migrating AIX master and media servers to other platforms, see the "NetBackup Master Server Migration Guide" and the "NetBackup Media Server Migration Guide" . 7. Oracle Linux 6 GA through Update 7 are not supported as a media server with NetBackup 8.1.2 and later. |
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Snapshot Client - Array-based Snapshot Methods for Client | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Snapshot Client - Software-based Snapshot Methods for Client | Back to top |
This feature is not supported on this platform.
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| Encryption and Security Solutions for Client | Back to top |
- NetBackup Client Encryption is compatible with all disk storage units (DSU), tape drives, tape libraries, and virtual tape libraries supported by NetBackup.
- Note: Any DSU type supported by NetBackup can be used with client encryption, although encryption prevents deduplication by Media Server Dedupe, OpenStorage devices, or VTLs.
- NetBackup Client Encryption is supported on all NetBackup client platforms except OpenVMS, and is not supported with BMR or SAN client.
Symantec Security Information Manager
- NetBackup Client is supported with Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM) v4.8 and later.
- For more information on SSIM, see https://support.symantec.com/en_US/dpl.52517.html
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
| File System Compatibility for Client | Back to top |
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NetBackup supports backing up file data on all POSIX compliant file systems. The table below represents the platform configurations that have been tested for compatibility with ACLs and other extended attributes. Unless otherwise noted in the table below, ACLs and other extended attributes are not supported.
NetBackup has improved its integration with the Veritas File System (VxFS) product to ensure interoperability on all compatible VxFS versions. If you run a VxFS version that is older than VxFS 4.0 then you need to install new VxFS libraries on the client to back up the systems that run VxFS. You can search and download the appropriate VxFS libraries to your system from Patch Central on the Veritas Support Web site. See, https://sort.veritas.com/patch/finder
Note :
• For Linux Operating Systems, the backup and restore of extended attributes set by the chattr command on XFS, ZFS, BTRFS etc. is not supported
• Cross platform restore of extended attributes is not supported.
| File System | ACL | Other Extended Attributes or Named Data Streams | Notes / Exceptions |
| Ext2, Ext3 | No | Yes |
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| NetBackup OpsCenter Web Browser Requirements | Back to top |
| Web Browser | Versions | Notes |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | - 7.x, 8.x, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
- 32-bit and 64-bit | - IE 7.0 and later versions may display a security certificate warning page when you access OpsCenter. Reference "Disabling security certificate warnings permanently from browsers" instructions in the NetBackup OpsCenter Administrator's Guide.
- It may not be possible to view reports, jobs, or audit data when exporting from IE 9.0. Alternatively, IE 9.0 may show a "Internet Explorer Cannot Download" error when exporting reports, jobs, or auditing data from OpsCenter. - Reference "Exporting OpsCenter reports or data with IE 9.0" instructions in the NetBackup OpsCenter Administrator's Guide. - Extra steps are required to access the OpsCenter console using Internet Explorer version 7 or 8 on a 32-bit Windows computer. For more information, see "About web browser considerations" in the NetBackup OpsCenter Administrator's Guide. - NetBackup 7.7.2 and later support OpsCenter with IE 11 - The NetBackup OpsCenter Administrator's Guide and other Guides are available by selecting the appropriate NetBackup version link at http://www.veritas.com/docs/000003214 |
| Mozilla Firefox | - 3.0, 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 9.0.1 and above for OpsCenter 7.0 to 7.5.
- 15.0 and later versions for OpsCenter 7.6 and later. - 32-bit and 64-bit - 27.0 and later versions for OpsCenter 8.0 and later | - Mozilla Firefox may display an Untrusted Connection page when you access OpsCenter. Reference "Disabling the Untrusted Connection page in Mozilla Firefox" instructions in the Veritas OpsCenter Administrator's Guide. |
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| NetBackup OpsCenter Backup Product Support | Back to top |
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There are two OpsCenter products: Veritas NetBackup OpsCenter and Veritas NetBackup OpsCenter Analytics.
OpsCenter does not require any license and is included with the NetBackup Enterprise Server and Server products. OpsCenter provides single deployment configuration and user interface for monitoring, alerting, and reporting functionality. It provides monitoring, management and administration capabilities for NetBackup as well as operational reporting for other products as designated in the following table.
OpsCenter Analytics is the licensed version of OpsCenter. In addition to the features available in the unlicensed OpsCenter version, Analytics offers report customization, chargeback reporting and support for third-party data protection products as designated in the following table. The primary objectives of this product are to help organizations assess their compliance with business standards, e.g., service level agreements, and assist in effective business planning, e.g., future backup requirements via backup trend analysis.
Listed in the table below are the backup and archiving products and versions supported by OpsCenter and OpsCenter Analytics.
| Backup Product | Version | Support Level | Analytics License Required |
| Veritas NetBackup | 7.7 and higher versions | All supported NetBackup platforms by Remote Agent.
Native OpsCenter agent for Windows 2008 (SP2 and R2) and Solaris 10 and 11. BCS customer are entitled to receive support for the legacy products until 2019. Refer to https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/business-critical-services/support-extensions-program.html | No |
| Veritas NetBackup Appliance | See NetBackup Hardware Compatibility List for Appliance support information.
http://www.veritas.com/docs/000025228 | Data collection happens automatically by NBSL | No |
| Veritas NetBackup PureDisk | 6.2, 6.2.2, 6.5, 6.5.1, 6.5.1.2, 6.6, 6.6.0.1, 6.6.0.2, 6.6.0.3, 6.6.1, 6.6.1.2, 6.6.3a, 6.6.5 | PureDisk supported platform (PDOS) by the OpsCenter integrated Agent. You do not need a separate Agent to collect data from PureDisk. You can use the inbuilt Agent of the OpsCenter Server for data collection.
To create or configure the data collector, select the Agent that is installed as Integrated Agent. | No |
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| NetBackup OpsCenter Operating System Requirements | Back to top |
NetBackup OpsCenter Physical Memory Requirement
| OS/Version | CPU Architecture | Minimum Memory Requirement |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | z/Architecture | 8 GB |
Valid Characters in Host Names Requirement
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NetBackup OpsCenter requires host names to comply with RFC-1123, meaning only ASCII characters "a" thru "z", case insensitive, and digits "0" thru "9" and the hyphen character.
- Software compatibility and release notes documentation is contained in:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
- NetBackup 8.1 Release Notes
- NetBackup 8.1 Self Service Release Notes
| NetBackup Administration Consoles | Back to top |
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The NetBackup Java Administration Console is an interface to configure and manage NetBackup installed on the same machine. The interface can run on any NetBackup Java-capable system.
The Backup Archive and Restore (BAR) console is an interface to the NetBackup client. The Backup, Archive, and Restore utility performs backups and archives for the system on which it is installed and restores for this system and other clients.
For information on how to install the consoles mentioned above reference the NetBackup Installation Guides. And for information on usage reference the NetBackup Administrator's Guides.
The table below is a list of the platforms that support the NetBackup-Java Administration Console and the Backup Archive and Restore Interface.
Note: If a supported NetBackup client is not listed in the table below the client is supported for backup and restore, but it does not support any of the available graphical interfaces.
- Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2008" or "Windows Server 2008 R2", it is implied that Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, and Web Edition are supported.
- Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2012" or "Windows Server 2016" it is implied that Standard Edition, Datacenter Edition, Essentials Edition, and Foundation Edition are supported.
- Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2019" it is implied that Standard Edition, Datacenter Edition, Essentials Edition are supported.
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Administrative consoles for supported versions of NetBackup are included in the NetBackup installation packages.
Starting at version 8.1, console versions are installed for all versions of NetBackup that are not beyond their End of Support Life (EOSL).
For information on supported versions of NetBackup see https://sort.veritas.com/eosl.
| OS | CPU Architecture | NetBackup-Java Administration Console | Backup, Archive, and Restore Interface |
| Red Hat 6, 7, 8 | z/Architecture | Y | Y |
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| NetBackup in the Cloud | Back to top |
- NetBackup now supports cloud-based Master Servers and Media Servers as part of extending data protection into workloads in the cloud. For more information, see the "360 Data Management" page.
NetBackup in the Cloud - Considerations
| Subject | Notes |
| Support assumptions | 1. NetBackup is supported on any cloud infrastructure environment that meets NetBackup's minimum resource requirements.
For details on operating systems supported by NetBackup, please refer to the
"NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List"
.
For details on NetBackup minimum resource requirements, please refer to the
"NetBackup Installation Guide"
.
2. Veritas does not certify the cloud compute layer or the cloud block storage layer. They are assumed to work as similar physical resources do. 3. NetBackup-certified cloud object storage support is listed in the vendor tables in the Cloud Storage Solutions section of this HCL. 4. NetBackup deployment templates are available for some operating systems and cloud infrastructure solutions. Supported templates are listed in the vendor tables below. For a quicker and easier NetBackup deployment, Veritas strongly recommends using these templates for deploying NetBackup instead of doing a manual NetBackup installation. For examples, see Setting up NetBackup CloudCatalyst in AWS and NetBackup in the Cloud - Guidelines for AWS Deployments . |
NetBackup in the Cloud - Links to Solution Information
- NetBackup is supported on any cloud infrastructure environment that meets NetBackup's minimum resource requirements. Solution briefs have been created for the cloud infrastructures listed in the table below.
NetBackup in the Cloud - Deployment Templates
Amazon
- This solution deploys a NetBackup Master or Media Server in an Amazon Web Services EC2 instance, using the AWS CloudFormation feature.
Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for NetBackup
| Operating System | NetBackup template file | NetBackup Master Server support | NetBackup Media Server support | Supported Locales / Regions |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Veritas NetBackup for AWS (BYOL) | Yes | Yes | Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), China (Beijing), China (Ningxia), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon) |
Microsoft
- This solution deploys a NetBackup Master or Media Server in a Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine, using an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template.
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) for NetBackup
| Operating System | NetBackup template file | NetBackup Master Server support | NetBackup Media Server support | Supported Locales / Regions |
| Microsoft Windows Server | Veritas NetBackup on Azure Marketplace | Yes | Yes | All Locales |
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.1.x Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (last updated on February 20, 2020)
- NetBackup Hardware Compatibility Documentation: Introduction
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- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
| End of Life (EOL) announcement and platforms no longer supported by NetBackup | Back to top |
- The following Operating System and Application Versions/Architectures in the 8.x.x versions of NetBackup will be End of Life.
| Platform and Application Versions | CPU Architecture | OS Bits | NetBackup | Last NetBackup Release Supported |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | z/Architecture | 64 | Media Server | 8.2 |
| VMware vSphere 5.5 | x86-64 | 64 | VMware Agent | 8.1.2 |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP-UX (All Versions) | IA64 | 64 | Master and Media Server | 8.1.1 |
| IBM AIX (All Versions) | POWER | 64 | Master and Media Server | 8.1.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 or older | x86-64 | 64 | Master, Media and Client | 8.1.1 |
| CentOS 6.7 or older | x86-64 | 64 | Media and Client | 8.1.1 |
| Oracle Linux 6.7 or older | x86-64 | 64 | Media and Client | 8.1.1 |
- NetBackup Software Compatibility Documentation:
- NetBackup 8.0 - 8.x.x Operating System Software Compatibility List (last updated on January 13, 2020)
- 8.0 - 8.x.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates
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Product Documentation
- - NetBackup Documentation Landing Page (Including links for all PDFs individually, and PDFs in a single .zip file)
- NBU 8.1 Document Landing Page
- NetBackup 8.1 Add-in for Microsoft SCVMM Console Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Administrator's Guide, Volume I
- NetBackup 8.1 Administrator's Guide, Volume II
- NetBackup 8.1 AdvancedDisk Storage Solutions Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Backup, Archive, and Restore Getting Started Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Bare Metal Restore Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Cloud Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Clustered Master Server Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Commands Reference Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Deduplication Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Device Configuration Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Emergency Engineering Binary Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for DB2 Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for Enterprise Vault Agent Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for Informix Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for Lotus Notes Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for NDMP Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for Oracle Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for SAP Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for SQL Server Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for Sybase Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 for VMware Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Getting Started Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 in Highly Available Environments Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Installation Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 LiveUpdate Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Logging Reference Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Network Ports Reference Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk
- NetBackup 8.1 Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Replication Director Solutions Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Security and Encryption Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Self Service Configuration Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Self Service Installation Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Self Service PDFs in one .zip file
- NetBackup 8.1 Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Status Codes Reference Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Troubleshooting Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Upgrade Quick Start Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 Vault Operator's Guide
- NetBackup 8.1 WebSocket Service (NBWSS) Reference Guide
- NetBackup Add-in for Microsoft SCVMM Console Guide
- NetBackup in Highly Available Environments Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup OpsCenter 8.1 Administrator's Guide
- NetBackup OpsCenter 8.1 Reporting Guide
- NetBackup Vault Administrator's Guide
- Veritas Service and License Agreements
Installation/Upgrade Documentation
- How to perform a consistency check of the NetBackup EMM and BMR databases
- NetBackup 8.1 Upgrade Guide
- NetBackup 8.x Upgrade Portal
- NetBackup Replication Director Tools for NetApp Storage Systems
- What's new in NetBackup and NetBackup Appliance releases
- NetBackup 8.1 Release Notes
- NetBackup 8.1 Self Service Release Notes
- Veritas Download Center
Late Breaking News
Compatibility Lists
Performance and Tuning Guidelines
- ERROR CODE: error 26 bpbrm jobs failing with status 26
- How to estimate the number of master servers needed
- How to estimate the number of media servers needed
- Information on resource allocation within NetBackup
- Insufficient system file descriptors can cause performance issues and possible growth in the EMM_DATA.db file
- Minimum O/S ulimit settings on UNIX platforms
- NetBackup OpsCenter 8.1 Performance and Tuning Guide
- NetBackup pre-install check detects insufficient space to perform upgrade
- Recommended NetBackup 7.5 *NIX semaphore tuning values (Linux/Solaris/HP-UX/AIX)
Product End of Life Information
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