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  2. NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) Cluster
  3. Monitoring NetBackup
  4. Allocating static PV for Primary and Media pods
NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) Cluster

Allocating static PV for Primary and Media pods

When you want to use a disk with specific performance parameters, you can statically create the PV and PVC. You must allocate static PV and PVC before deploying the NetBackup server for the first time.

To allocate static PV for Media and Primary pods

  1. Create storage class in cluster.

    See How does the Config-Checker utility work.

    This newly created storage class name is used while creating PV and PVC's and should be mentioned for Catalog, Log, Data volume in the environment CR mediaServer section at the time of deployment.

    For more information on creating the storage class, see Storage class.

    For example,

    kind: StorageClass
    apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
    metadata:
      name: gp2-reclaim
    provisioner: kubernetes.io/aws-ebs
    reclaimPolicy: Retain
    allowVolumeExpansion: true
    volumeBindingMode: Immediate
    parameters:
      fsType: ext4
      type: gp2
    

    For more information about the static provisioning for EFS, see Static Provisioning.

  2. Calculate number of disks required.

    The following persistent volumes are required by Media pods:

    • Data and Log volume disk per replica of media server.

    Use the following format to form PVC names.

    For primary server:

    For media server

    • data-<resourceNamePrefix_of_media>-media-<media server replica number. Count starts from 0>

    • logs-<resourceNamePrefix_of_media>-media-<media server replica number. Count starts from 0>

    Example 1

    If user wants to deploy a media server with replica count 3.

    Name of the Media PVC assuming resourceNamePrefix_of_media is testmedia.

    For this scenario, you must create total 8 disks, 8 PV and 8 PVCs.

    6 disks, 6 PV and 6 PVCs for media server.

    For data of PrimaryServer:

    For logs:

    • logs-testprimary-primary-0

    Following will be the names for media server volumes

    For data:

    • data-testmedia-media-0

    • data-testmedia-media-1

    • data-testmedia-media-2

    For log:

    • logs-testmedia-media-0

    • logs-testmedia-media-1

    • logs-testmedia-media-2

    Example 2

    If user wants to deploy a media server with replica count 5

    Names of the Media PVC assuming resourceNamePrefix_of_media is testmedia.

    For this scenario, you must create 12 disks, 12 PV and 12 PVCs

    10 disks, 10 PV and 10 PVCs for media server.

    Following will be the names for primary server volumes

    For data:

    For logs:

    Following will be the names for media server volumes

    For data:

    • data-testmedia-media-0

    • data-testmedia-media-1

    • data-testmedia-media-2

    • data-testmedia-media-3

    • data-testmedia-media-4

    For log:

    • logs-testmedia-media-0

    • logs-testmedia-media-1

    • logs-testmedia-media-2

    • logs-testmedia-media-3

    • logs-testmedia-media-4

  3. Create the required number of AWS EBS volumes and save the VolumeId of newly created volumes.

    For more information on creating EBS volumes, see EBS volumes.

    (For Primary Server volumes) Create the required number of EFS. User can use single EFS to mount catalog of primary. For example, VolumeHandle in PersistentVolume spec will be as follows:

    <file_system_id>:/catalog

  4. Create PVs for each disks.

    To create the PVs, specify the created storage class and VolumeId (ID of the EBS volumes received in step 3). The PV must be created using the claimRef field and provide PVC name for its corresponding namespace.

    For example, if you are creating PV for catalog volume, storage required is 128GB and namespace is test. PVC named catalog-testprimary-primary-0 is linked to this PV when PVC is created in the namespace test.

    apiVersion: v1
    kind: PersistentVolume
    metadata:
      name: catalog
    spec:
      accessModes:
      - ReadWriteMany
      awsElasticBlockStore:
        fsType: xfs
        volumeID: aws://us-east-2c/vol-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      capacity:
        storage: 128Gi
      persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
      storageClassName: gp2-retain
      volumeMode: Filesystem
      claimRef:
        apiVersion: v1
        kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
        name: catalog-testprimary-primary-0
        namespace: test
    
  5. Create PVC with correct PVC name (step 2), storage class and storage.

    For example,

    apiVersion: v1
    kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
    metadata:
    name: catalog-testprimary-primary-0
    namespace: test
    spec:
      storageClassName: gp2-retain
    accessModes:
      - ReadWriteMany
    resources:
      requests:
      storage: 128Gi
    
  6. Deploy the Operator.
  7. Use previously created storage class names for the volumes in primary section and mediaServers section in environment CR spec and deploy environment CR.

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