Universal share scale out
The universal share scale out feature enables you to use all the disk storage in a clustered environment. The universal share cluster distributes the file system operations across all the nodes or engines in the cluster environment, where each engine or node can access the data from a cluster. You can use any host name to mount the universal share and access the data. This feature also provides the ability to control the access permission for the NFS/SMB server on the NetBackup Web UI. The data can be used directly on the object bucket or the local disk storage.
The regular single node universal share can coexist with the universal share cluster. It does not support an upgrade or conversion to a universal share cluster. If you upgrade to the current NetBackup version, there is no change in the regular single node universal share.
NetBackup Cloud Scale
NetBackup Flex Scale
Some files may not be accessible if they are in the middle of a failover operation, which is triggered for an engine or node. The files are accessible after the failover operation is completed.
The feature does not support multiple vpfsd instances.