Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
You can manage some aspects of your application instances from the System topology page of the Flex Appliance Console. To access your existing instances, click on the box on the home page or the icon in the left-side navigation bar, then navigate to the Application instances section.
Under Application instances, you can perform the following tasks, depending on the features that you have configured:
Create a new instance.
Create a replica.
See Creating a replica.
Use the Actions menu to the right of an instance to:
Relocate it to another node if you have a multi-node appliance.
Stop or start it.
Note:
When you start an instance, Flex Appliance automatically determines which node to start it on for optimal load balancing. Therefore, it may not start on the same node that it was located on when it was stopped. If you want the instance to run on a specific node, you can relocate it after it starts.
Delete it.
Resize the storage.
See how its volumes are allocated across the appliance LUNs.
Move one of its volumes to another LUN.
Upgrade it.
Install add-ons.
Clear a configuration error status.
See Clearing a configuration error status on an application instance.
Pause or resume replication.
Change the replication role.
Unlink it from its active or replica instance.
Click on an existing instance to:
View the instance details.
Edit the network settings, including IP address and interface pairs.
Manage add-ons.
Manage the assigned Fibre Channel ports.
You can also view performance metrics of all of the instances on your appliance from the Home page or the Flex Appliance Shell. See Viewing performance metrics.
Note:
Flex Appliance does not support adding local directories or manually editing most files on application instances. If you create a local directory or manually edit a file and the instance is relocated or stopped for any reason, the changes are not maintained when the instance restarts.
However, if you must store a small amount of critical data on an instance, you can store it in the /mnt/nblogs directory. Note that this directory has 250GB of storage space that cannot be resized. If you use too much storage space, the instance may be affected.
See the NetBackup Application Guides for specific details.