Dell EMC NetWorker Installation Guide - Dell Technologies

Dell EMC NetWorker

Version 19.2.x

Installation Guide

Rev 02 March, 2020

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CONTENTS

Figures

9

Tables

11

Preface Chapter 1

Chapter 2 Part 1

13

Introduction

17

About the NetWorker product..................................................... 18

NetWorker Components............................................................. 18

NetWorker Authentication Service.............................................. 19

NetWorker Server...................................................................... 19

NetWorker Server databases............................................................................20

NetWorker Message Queue Adapter ............................................21

NetWorker Block-Based Backups................................................ 21

NetWorker Base Client (NetWorker Client) ................................. 21

NetWorker Extended Client package............................................21

NetWorker Storage Node........................................................... 22

NMC Server.............................................................................. 22

NetWorker Management Web UI................................................. 22

Datazone.................................................................................. 22

NetWorker REST API................................................................. 22

NMC Client............................................................................... 23

NetWorker Daemons.................................................................. 23

Dell EMC Licensing Solution....................................................... 24

Front-end Capacity Estimation................................................... 24

Software Requirements

25

NetWorker Authentication Service.............................................. 26

NMC Server Features and System Requirements......................... 26

Multi-locale Datazone Requirements........................................... 26

General multi-locale considerations...................................................................27

Windows requirements for multiple locales....................................................... 28

UNIX requirements for multiple locales............................................................. 28

Data Domain System Requirements.............................................29

TCP/IP Requirements................................................................ 29

NetWorker Management Web UI Browser Requirements...............29

NMC Browser and JRE Requirements..........................................30

Linux Installation

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Chapter 3

CentOS, OEL, SuSE and RHEL Installation

33

Road Map for Installing the NetWorker Software............................................. 34

Determining the initialization system.................................................................34

Preparing the Linux Target Host....................................................................... 34

Linux x64 Installation Package Requirements ......................................35

RHEL 7 and later and CentOS Package Requirements......................... 35

SuSE Package Requirements............................................................... 35

Default Directory Locations................................................................. 36

Changing the Default Directory Locations............................................37

Installing the NetWorker Software....................................................................37

Installing the NetWorker Client software............................................. 37

Installing the software NetWorker Storage Node.................................39

Installing the NetWorker Server Software........................................... 42

Silent Installation of the NetWorker Server Software.......................... 45

Install the NetWorker Management Web UI software on the NetWorker

server...................................................................................................48

Install the NetWorker Management Web UI software without the

NetWorker server................................................................................ 49

Deploying a VMware template for the host.......................................... 50

Post-installation consideration for st tape devices............................... 51

Installing the NMC server.................................................................................. 51

NMC server requirements.................................................................... 51

Installing the NMC Server software..................................................... 52

Configuring the NMC Server Software................................................ 54

Silent Configuration of the NMC Server Software...............................55

Uninstalling the NetWorker software................................................................58

Chapter 4

Debian and Ubuntu Installation

61

Road map for installing the NetWorker client software.....................................62

Preparing the Linux Target Host....................................................................... 62

Linux x64 Installation Package Requirements ......................................62

Default Directory Locations................................................................. 63

Installing the NetWorker Storage Node and Client Packages............................64

Deploying a VMware template for the host.......................................................65

Uninstalling the NetWorker software................................................................66

Chapter 5

Fedora client installation

67

Road map for installing the NetWorker client software.....................................68

Preparing the Linux Target Host....................................................................... 68

Linux x64 Installation Package Requirements ......................................68

Default Directory Locations................................................................. 69

Installing the NetWorker client packages.......................................................... 70

Deploying a VMware template for the host........................................................71

Uninstalling the NetWorker software................................................................ 72

Part 2

Windows Installation

73

Chapter 6

Microsoft Windows Installation

75

Road map for installing the NetWorker and NMC software on Windows...........76

Reviewing the NetWorker requirements for Windows.......................................76

General considerations.........................................................................76

Package disk space requirements........................................................ 76

Location and disk space requirements.................................................. 77

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Part 3 Chapter 9

Contents

Windows 2012 considerations...............................................................77 NetWorker server and storage node tape device requirements............ 78 Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to JRE 1.8.........................78 Installing the NetWorker software.................................................................... 78 Installing the NetWorker Server software.........................................................80 Installing the NetWorker Storage Node software..............................................83 Installing the NetWorker base client................................................................. 84 Installing the NetWorker Extended Client............................................ 88 Installing the NMC server software on Windows...............................................88 Installing the NMC Server software with the NetWorker Client or Storage Node software........................................................................ 88 Installing the NMC Server software with the NetWorker Server software...............................................................................................92 Install the NetWorker Management Web UI software....................................... 95 Adjusting antivirus software settings ............................................................... 97 Deploying a VMware template for the host....................................................... 98 Uninstalling the software.................................................................................. 98 Uninstalling the NetWorker and NMC Server software on Windows.... 98 Uninstalling the NetWorker Base Client and Extended Client............. 100 Uninstalling the software by using the installation file on Windows Core Server.................................................................................................102

Microsoft Windows Silent Installations

103

Installing the NetWorker Server software by using silent install...................... 104

Uninstalling the NetWorker software by using silent uninstallation..................109

Using SMS to install or uninstall the NetWorker software............................... 109

Changing the NetWorker installation type or moving to another

installation type

111

Installation type and features management...................................................... 112

Changing the installation type for a NetWorker base client................. 112

Changing a NetWorker Server, NMC Server, or NetWorker Storage

Node into a NetWorker Client............................................................. 113

Changing an NMC server or a NetWorker Storage Node into a

NetWorker server................................................................................115

Changing the NMC server or NetWorker server to a NetWorker storage

node.................................................................................................... 116

Changing the NetWorker server, NetWorker Storage Node or

NetWorker Client to an NMC server....................................................117

Post installation steps...................................................................................... 119

UNIX Installation

121

HP-UX installation

123

Road map for installing the NetWorker software on HP-UX............................ 124

Reviewing NetWorker requirements for HP-UX.............................................. 124

General requirements......................................................................... 124

Package disk space requirements....................................................... 125

HP-UX 11iv3 requirements.................................................................. 125

HP-UX 11iv2 requirements.................................................................. 125

HP-UX on PA-RISC requirements.......................................................126

Default directory locations.............................................................................. 126

HP-UX: Installing the NetWorker client and storage node software................ 126

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