Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide
- Section I. CloudPoint installation and configuration
- Preparing for CloudPoint installation
- About the deployment approach
- Deciding where to run CloudPoint
- About deploying CloudPoint in the cloud
- Meeting system requirements
- CloudPoint host sizing recommendations
- CloudPoint extension sizing recommendations
- Creating an instance or preparing the host to install CloudPoint
- Installing container platform (Docker, Podman)
- Creating and mounting a volume to store CloudPoint data
- Verifying that specific ports are open on the instance or physical host
- Preparing CloudPoint for backup from snapshot jobs
- Deploying CloudPoint using container images
- Deploying CloudPoint extensions
- Before you begin installing CloudPoint extensions
- Downloading the CloudPoint extension
- Preparing to install the extension on a VM
- Installing the CloudPoint extension on a VM
- Preparing to install the extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (AKS) in Azure
- Preparing to install the extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS) in AWS
- Install extension using the Kustomize and CR YAMLs
- Installing the CloudPoint extension on Azure (AKS)
- Installing the CloudPoint extension on AWS (EKS)
- Managing the extensions
- CloudPoint cloud plug-ins
- CloudPoint storage array plug-ins
- How to configure the CloudPoint storage array plug-ins?
- NetApp plug-in configuration notes
- ACL configuration on NetApp array
- Nutanix Files plug-in configuration notes
- Configuring ACL for Nutanix array
- Dell EMC Unity array plug-in configuration notes
- FUJITSU AF/DX plug-in configuration notes
- NetApp NAS plug-in configuration notes
- Dell EMC PowerStore plug-in configuration notes
- Dell EMC PowerStore NAS plug-in configuration notes
- Dell EMC PowerFlex plug-in configuration notes
- Dell EMC XtremIO SAN plug-in configuration notes
- Pure Storage FlashArray plug-in configuration notes
- Pure Storage FlashBlade plug-in configuration notes
- IBM Storwize plug-in configuration notes
- HPE RMC plug-in configuration notes
- HPE XP plug-in configuration notes
- Hitachi plug-in configuration notes
- Hitachi (HDS VSP 5000) plug-in configuration notes
- InfiniBox plug-in configuration notes
- Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) plug-in configuration notes
- Dell EMC PowerMax and VMax plug-in configuration notes
- Qumulo plug-in configuration notes
- CloudPoint application agents and plug-ins
- Microsoft SQL plug-in configuration notes
- Oracle plug-in configuration notes
- About the installation and configuration process
- Preparing to install the Linux-based agent
- Preparing to install the Windows-based agent
- Downloading and installing the CloudPoint agent
- Registering the Linux-based agent
- Registering the Windows-based agent
- Configuring the CloudPoint application plug-in
- Configuring VSS to store shadow copies on the originating drive
- Creating a NetBackup protection plan for cloud assets
- Subscribing cloud assets to a NetBackup protection plan
- Restore requirements and limitations for Microsoft SQL Server
- Restore requirements and limitations for Oracle
- Additional steps required after an Oracle snapshot restore
- Steps required before restoring SQL AG databases
- Recovering a SQL database to the same location
- Recovering a SQL database to an alternate location
- Additional steps required after a SQL Server snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after restoring SQL AG databases
- SQL snapshot or restore and granular restore operations fail if the Windows instance loses connectivity with the CloudPoint host
- Disk-level snapshot restore fails if the original disk is detached from the instance
- Additional steps required after restoring an AWS RDS database instance
- Protecting assets with CloudPoint's agentless feature
- Volume Encryption in NetBackup CloudPoint
- CloudPoint security
- Preparing for CloudPoint installation
- Section II. CloudPoint maintenance
- CloudPoint logging
- Upgrading CloudPoint
- Uninstalling CloudPoint
- Preparing to uninstall CloudPoint
- Backing up CloudPoint
- Unconfiguring CloudPoint plug-ins
- Unconfiguring CloudPoint agents
- Removing the CloudPoint agents
- Removing CloudPoint from a standalone Docker host environment
- Removing CloudPoint extensions - VM-based or managed Kubernetes cluster-based
- Restoring CloudPoint
- Troubleshooting CloudPoint
NetApp NAS plug-in configuration parameters
Before you configure the NetApp plug-in, verify the following:
Ensure that the NetApp storage arrays have the NetApp licenses to perform snapshot operation.
Ensure that a supported ONTAP version is installed on the NetApp array.
CloudPoint supports the following:
Minimum supported ONTAP version for ZAPI is 8.3.
Minimum supported ONTAP version is for REST 9.10
Minimum supported ONTAP version for SnapDiff is 9.4 for NetApp NAS Volume snapshots.
For NAS-based storage deployments, ensure that the NetApp shares are configured using an active junction path.
Ensure that the NetApp user account that you will use to configure the plug-in has the privileges to perform the following operations on the NetApp array.
Create snapshot
Delete snapshot
Restore snapshot
Ensure that the NetApp user account used for plug-in configuration must have HTTP and ONTAPI access.
Ensure that the NetApp user account includes the following roles assigned.
Default: read-only
Volume snapshot: all
vserver export-policy: all
Ensure that the export policy of the NAS share must not be default. There must be a policy having the host configuration of either NFS or SMB or both.
For more information on how to create users, roles, and assign permissions, refer to the NetApp documentation.
Specify the following details when you configure the NetApp array:
Table: NetApp plug-in configuration parameters
CloudPoint configuration parameter | Description |
|---|---|
Plugin ID | Provide a name for the plugin. |
FQDN/ IP Address | A cluster management IP address or a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the NetApp storage array or filer. |
Username | A user account that has permissions to perform snapshot operations on the NetApp storage array or filer. |
Password | A password for the user account. |
REST support is started from array version 9.6.
While registering the plug-in, it selects the APIs based on the array version. NetApp Ontap array version 9.10 onwards NetBackup uses the REST APIs and for version below 9.10 the ZAPI is used.
NetApp NMSDK supports existing functions of all current versions. But it do not support new functions from version 9.8 onwards.
NetApp NAS-based volume snapshots are exposed to NetBackup over NAS protocols. NetBackup reads these snapshots using any available Data LIF on the respective SVM. If required, you can configure a Data LIF that is dedicated to the NetBackup access.
While configuring a Data LIF, use the prefix nbu_nas_ in the interface name of the SVM. If a Data LIF exists, NetBackup automatically uses only that LIF for accessing the snapshots.
Note:
This is an optional step. If your configure the Data LIF, the backup reads are restricted via the dedicated LIF. If not configured, volume snapshots are accessed via any available DATA LIF of the corresponding SVM.
If old snapshot is selected during restore(PIT), all new snapshots created after that snapshot are deleted automatically from array.
The export operation fails if the volume is attached only to the "default" export policy on NetApp. You must assign the NAS volume to a non-default export policy.
A snapshot cannot be exported multiple times.
An exported snapshot cannot be deleted.
Snapshot auto delete option must be disabled from the NAS volume configuration. If enabled the older snapshots are deleted automatically and the PIT snapshot cannot be restored.
Minimum supported ONTAP version for ZAPI is 8.3
Minimum supported ONTAP version is for REST 9.10
Minimum supported ONTAP version for SnapDiff is 9.4 for NetApp NAS Volume snapshots till ONTAP 9.9.