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Prepare the Distributed Storage Proxies

Prepare the Distributed Storage proxies, by installing the OS, assigning hostnames, and configuring the network settings.

Install the Commvault MediaAgent software in the Distributed Storage proxies.

Important

  • All the Distributed Storage servers and the proxies must have static IP addresses, and the mapping from IP to hostname be updated in /etc/hosts even if DNS resolution is available.

  • Storage proxies are configured with 2 ethernet interfaces and run as an HA pair (except for storage proxies that are used for object storage). For failover to work correctly, a public VIP address and a private VIP address are required for the ethernet interfaces.

Procedure

On each Distributed Storage proxy:

  1. Create a mirrored volume (RAID-1) on the two SSD’s meant for the OS on each of the nodes. All HDD’s are to remain in the pass-through or JBOD mode. (The NVMe’s will be used for cache or DDB partitions as required.)

  2. Mount the downloaded ISO as a virtual media and reboot the server.

  3. Once the server boots from the mounted ISO, select the following options:

    • RAID-1 volume as the destination to install the OS

    • Perform a fresh install (do not preserve old partitions or data).

    Provide the root user password (hedvig by default) twice while the OS packages are installed. This step could take up to 30 minutes after which the server needs to be rebooted.

  4. Once the OS is installed, set the hostname, stop Firewall and Network Manager processes, and make the changes persistent using the following commands:

    hostnamectl  set-hostname  <private_hostname>  --static
systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl stop NetworkManager
chkconfig firewalld off
chkconfig NetworkManager off

  5. Edit the /etc/sysconfig/selinux file and disable SELinux as follows:

    SELINUX=disabled

  6. Edit /etc/hosts to reflect entries for each proxy in the environment.

    The configuration shown in the following example, reflects 3 storage servers and 2 proxies with their respective private IP’s and hostnames.

    Note

    Assign hostnames to each of the proxies based on the private storage network. This can be managed through the /etc/hosts files on all servers, including the Deployment server. The Client facing data-protection IP on each proxy may be assigned through DNS.

    Setting Up the Hedvig Cluster Nodes (3)

  7. Navigate to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory, and configure network port bonding for resilience of both the private storage and data-protection VLAN’s. As there is ingest from the data-protection VLAN and writes to the shared storage space, both bonds - bond0 and bond1 - must be implemented using 4x 10G physical ports, as shown in the following examples:

    • The bond0 configuration files on a proxy for the data-protection interfaces (eno3 and enp134s0f0 in the following example) are as follows:

      Setting Up the MediaAgent and Hedvig Storage Proxy(s) (1)

    • The bond1 configuration files on the proxy for the private storage network for the interfaces (eno4 and enp134s0f1 in the following example) are as follows:

      Setting Up the MediaAgent and Hedvig Storage Proxy(s) (2)

  8. Reboot the server for the above changes to take effect.

  9. If RHEL is used as the OS, enable RHEL subscription to download software and updates using the following command:

    subscription-manager register --username=<USER_NAME> --password=<PASSWORD> --auto-attach

  10. Install the MediaAgent software.

    For more information about installing the MediaAgent software, see MediaAgent Installations.

    The MediaAgents will be setup as proxy(s) later in this process.

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