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  2. NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) Cluster
  3. Managing MSDP Scaleout
  4. Adding data volumes
NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) Cluster

Adding data volumes

You can add the data volumes by updating the CR.

To add the data volumes by updating the CR YAML file

  1. Open the CR YAML file to edit.
  2. Append the new data volume specifications in the spec.dataVolumes field.
  3. Apply new CR YAML to update the CR in the Kubernetes environment.

    kubectl apply -f <your-cr-yaml>

To add the MSDP engine using the kubectl command directly

  • Run the following command to append new data volume specifications in the spec.dataVolumes field.

    kubectl -n <sample-namespace> edit msdpscaleout <your-cr-name> [-o json | yaml]

In the MSDP engine pod, the first data volume is mounted on /msdp/data/dp1/pdvol. Nth data volume is mounted on /msdp/data/dp1/${N-1}pdvol. For example, 2nd data volume is mounted on /msdp/data/dp1/1pdvol.

Each MSDP engine can support up to 16 data volumes.

It is recommended that you use the same data volume size if you add multiple volumes.

Note:

Due to some Kubernetes restrictions, MSDP operator restarts the engine pods for attaching the existing and new volumes, which can cause the short downtime of the services.

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