Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Getting started
- Managing network settings
- Managing users
- Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Upgrading application instances
- About Flex Appliance upgrades and updates
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Flex Appliance 2.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
The following list describes the new features, enhancements, and changes in the Flex Appliance 2.1 release:
During an upgrade to this release, if you choose not to restart the node when prompted, the command to restart it manually has changed. You must now enter the following command to complete the upgrade:
system restart apply-upgrade
If you run the system restart command without the apply-upgrade option, the node starts on the older version instead of completing the upgrade. If you have a multi-node appliance, both nodes must be restarted with the apply-upgrade option.
EEB packages are now supported on application instances. In addition, the add-on installation procedure has been updated to check for conflicts between add-ons and alert you to them before installation.
You can now set a sign-in banner that appears before a user signs in to the Flex Appliance Console and the Flex Appliance Shell.
You can now forward the appliance system logs (syslogs) and the audit logs to an external log management server.
See Forwarding logs.
You can now update the appliance firmware from the Flex Appliance Console.
Flex appliances are now supported on the Appliance Management Console.
See the Veritas Appliance Management Guide for details.
External certificates are now supported for host communication.
You can now generate an API access token to provide access to the appliance for external monitoring or support. For this release, you can generate a metrics token to use with a third-party analytics application like Grafana, or a support token to provide access to Veritas Technical Support.
You can now configure Call Home and email alerts from the Flex Appliance Console. In addition, this release introduces support of SNMP alerts.
See Configuring alerts.
SAN client backups over Fibre Channel are now supported for NetBackup 9.1.0.1 and later application instances.
When you connect an Active Directory domain, you can now choose between the following connection types:
Plain text
Plain text + TLS (encrypted)
SSL (encrypted)
See Connecting a remote user domain to the Flex Appliance Console.
The Data Collect log package now offers additional options to include more detailed debugging information.
See Gathering logs.
You can now delete generated log packages from the Flex Appliance Console.
See Gathering logs.
To conform with the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), the Flex Appliance Shell now supports only the following ciphers and message authentication codes (MACs):
Ciphers:
aes256-ctr
aes192-ctr
aes128-ctr
MACs:
hmac-sha2-512
hmac-sha2-256
The appliance I/O configuration no longer displays when you first log in to the Flex Appliance Shell. To see the I/O configuration, run the show hardware-health node component=Product command.
The supported browser versions for the Flex Appliance Console have been changed to the following:
Google Chrome version 94 or later recommended (minimum version 80 or later)
Mozilla Firefox version 93 or later recommended (minimum version 80 or later)
The Appliance updates tab of the repository now indicates whether an update release supports rollback.
A precheck now runs before an appliance upgrade and alerts you of any issues.
The
/log
directory has moved to/var/log
.The following commands in the Flex Appliance Shell have changed in this release, as part of an effort to create greater consistency across the Veritas appliance products:
Command in previous release
New command in version 2.1
system hardware-health node node_component=<component>
show hardware-health node component=<component>
system hardware-health primaryshelf primaryshelf_component=<component>
show hardware-health primaryshelf component=<component>
system hardware-health expansionshelf expansionshelf_component=<component>
show hardware-health expansionshelf component=<component>
system hardware-health storageshelf storageshelf_component=<component>
show hardware-health storageshelf component=<component>
set appliance clear-fault service_group=<service>
system ha-service clear-fault service=<service>
set appliance online node_name=<hostname> service_group=<service>
system ha-service restart service=<service> node=<hostname>
set appliance migrate node_name=<hostname> service_group=<service>
system ha-service migrate service=<service> node=<hostname>
set appliance offline node_name=<hostname> service_group=<service>
system ha-service stop service=<service> node=<hostname>
system restart
system restart to do a normal restart or system restart apply-upgrade to restart and complete an upgrade.
system service restart name=<service>
system os-service restart service=<service>
system service stop name=<service>
system os-service stop service=<service>
system service status name=<service>
system os-service status service=<service>
set autosupport log-level loglevel_component=<INFO or DEBUG>
support log-level autosupport level=<INFO or DEBUG>
system data-collect
support data-collect
system hardware-errors
show hardware-errors
system beacon HDD slot=<number> operation=start or stop
set beacon HDD slot=<number> operation=start or stop
system beacon UID duration=<seconds>
set beacon UID duration=<seconds>
system set-DNS
set network dns
show date current-ntp, show date current-timezone, and show date current-date
show date (the three older commands have been combined)
show storage df
support shell > df -h
show storage volumes
support shell > vxdisk list
show storage volumes-extended
support shell > vxprint -ht
show appliance status
support shell > hastatus -sum
show appliance status service_groups
support shell > hagrp -state
show appliance status group_resources
support shell > hares -state