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  3. NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) Cluster
  5. Deploying NetBackup
  7. Recommendations of NetBackup deployment on EKS
NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) Cluster

Recommendations of NetBackup deployment on EKS

Note the following recommendations:

  • Use AWS Premium storage for data volume in media server CR.

  • Use AWS Standard storage for log volume in media server CR.

  • For primary server volume (catalog), use Amazon EFS as storage type. For media server, primary server volumes, log and data volumes use Amazon EBS as storage type.

  • Do not delete the disk linked to PV used in primary server and media server CR deployment. This may lead to data loss.

  • Ensure that in one cluster, only one NetBackup operator instance is running.

  • Do not edit any Kubernetes resource created as part of primary server and media server custom resource. Update is supported through custom resource update only.

  • Detailed primary server custom resource deployment and media server custom resource deployment logs are retrieved from NetBackup operator pod logs using the kubectl logs <netbackup-operator-pod-name> -c netbackup-operator -n <netbackup operator-namespace> command .

  • Deploy primary server custom resource and media server custom resource in same namespace.

  • Ensure that you follow the symbolic link and edit the actual persisted version of the file, if you want to edit a file having a symbolic link in the primary server or media server.

  • In case of upgrade and during migration, do not delete the Amazon elastic files linked to the old PV which is used in primary server CR deployment until the migration is completed successfully. Else this leads to data loss.

  • Specify different block storage based volume to obtain good performance when the nbdeployutil utility does not perform well on Amazon elastic files based volumes.

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