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Expanding our Object First OOTBI Cluster - adding nodes and VBR space


HunterLAFR
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Hi everyone

Some days ago I posted this entry:

This is a follow up, or part 2.

I hope you like it.

 

Expanding our Object First OOTBI Cluster – adding nodes and VBR space

 

We will add an extra node to the «Single Node Cluster» to become a multi-node one.

The steps are straightforward, let’s see them via screenshots with comments:

First of all, we need to deploy the OOTBI VSA which will be added to the cluster,
follow the guide from the previous entry, ending after the deployment (don’t create the Cluster again).

Select the Option Join To Cluster

Configure your NIC

The VSA will check for updates

Updates found, let´s update it

updating…
After the update, you will be pushed to the initial menu, go over it again, and the data (NIC config) will remain, just go forward and continue

NTP / NTS

OK, now, add your OOTBI CLUSTER IP ADDRESS,
The one we used/created in the previous entry, and the objectfirst user password we created.

BOOM!

Node Added to the cluster

Now you see the first two options blurry, and the cluster endpoint IP Address (Bottom left) is the same as the previous cluster.

There we have it, 2 NODES, 2TB FREE

Nodes View

IMPORTANT

Now, that our Cluster setup is done, we need to update the information in our VBR to get the space and the cluster working fine.
In the picture below you can see that the S3 bucket from the cluster remains at 1TB.

If we do the rescan repository it will give us an error like so.

Please Right click into the Repo, and re-run the setup wizard,
next, next, finish.

The thing that will happen is that, when extending the cluster, the certificate has changed, so now the VBR needs to grab it again from our OOTBI Cluster to work properly.

Running and ending the setup (properties) wizard again to update the certificate

Boom!
As you can see, after the re-config, the VBR sees 2TB of Storage, so the cluster has been updated!

Following the guide, I will add one more node, so we will have a 3TB Cluster!
Follow the same steps from before, and now, we will see the 3 Nodes and the 3TB storage!

IMPORTANT
Once again, run the setup (properties) wizard for the Repo once again to get the certificate updated!

In the picture, you can see the wizard updating the cert and the bucket now shows 3TB Free instead of 2TB.

 

https://lfconsulting.org/expanding-our-object-first-ootbi-cluster-adding-nodes-and-vbr-space

cheers!

11 comments

Chris.Childerhose
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  • November 27, 2024

Great post Luis.  Also note that you can add multiple NICs to the VSA devices to get better throughput.  I have done this so each has 2 x 10GB VMXNET3 network adapters.  Mind you my network is only 1GB for most so I can pretty much max it out.  😎


dloseke
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  • November 27, 2024

Great post Luis.  This is something I wanted to test, and I’m glad you called out about the cert changing as I had not expected that.


Geoff Burke
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  • November 27, 2024

Thanks Luis!


Iams3le
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  • November 27, 2024

This is a great and detailed article which covers all the needed steps. Thank you for sharing ​@HunterLAFR


HunterLAFR
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  • November 28, 2024
Chris.Childerhose wrote:

Great post Luis.  Also note that you can add multiple NICs to the VSA devices to get better throughput.  I have done this so each has 2 x 10GB VMXNET3 network adapters.  Mind you my network is only 1GB for most so I can pretty much max it out.  😎

Indeed!
For Lab setup, 1 nic is enough
But for heavy testing I will add one extra nic per node, and stress it a bit with tasks.

cheers.


AndrePulia
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  • November 28, 2024

Very useful article. thank you!


Michael Melter
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Thanks, ​@HunterLAFR. Very helpful.

Did you use the NFR license provided to V100? Does this 1TB license scale to clusters already? It didn’t in the first place. At least that’s what I heard. 


Chris.Childerhose
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  • December 6, 2024
Michael Melter wrote:

Thanks, ​@HunterLAFR. Very helpful.

Did you use the NFR license provided to V100? Does this 1TB license scale to clusters already? It didn’t in the first place. At least that’s what I heard. 

You need to ask for a cluster license which they have now.  The original was just one node 1TB.  Each node is still 1TB but you can have three now.


HunterLAFR
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  • December 6, 2024
Michael Melter wrote:

Thanks, ​@HunterLAFR. Very helpful.

Did you use the NFR license provided to V100? Does this 1TB license scale to clusters already? It didn’t in the first place. At least that’s what I heard. 

Right, the Veeam VBR is licensed with the NFR, the OOTBI Cluster is licensed with an special 3 nodes license provided by Object First for lab propuse, is up to 3 1TB nodes.

if you have any questions, ping me to forward your issues / questions to them, 
@Geoff Burke  😉

cheers.


Michael Melter
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PM’ed ​@Geoff Burke. Thanks, guys.


Geoff Burke
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  • December 6, 2024

Hi ​@Michael Melter will pm you back now cheers :)