Cloud Scale enhancements and deployment updates
In this release of NetBackup11.2, Cloud Scale Technology includes changes related to enhancements and deployment updates. For more information, refer to Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Manual Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters.
MSDP-C now supports using local NVMe storage on Kubernetes worker nodes as cloud cache for MSDP engine pods. This enhancement improves performance and helps reduce cloud storage costs in cloud-backed MSDP deployments. You can configure this capability by specifying annotations on the MSDP Scaleout custom resource (CR) and updating the cloud cache configuration to use NVMe-backed mount points.
Certificate management in NetBackup Cloud Scale Kubernetes deployments has been enhanced to improve reliability and visibility. The updated certificate distribution mechanism removes dependency on shared NFS storage, ensuring more consistent certificate availability across pods. These improvements also provide better visibility into certificate-related errors and simplify recovery from issues that affect pod communication and startup.
NetBackup introduces a debug tool container that provides a dedicated, ephemeral environment for troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments. This container can be dynamically attached to running pods or nodes using the kubectl debug command, without modifying existing NetBackup container images.