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Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2021-06-07

Product(s): NetBackup (9.1)

OpenStack Swift storage type requirements

The following table provides links to the details and requirements of OpenStack Swift compatible cloud.

Table: OpenStack Swift compatible cloud storage requirements

Requirement	Details
License requirement	You must have a NetBackup license that allows for cloud storage.
Storage account requirements	You must obtain the credentials required to access the cloud storage account. If you use authentication V1, only the user name and password are required to validate the user to access the cloud storage. If you use authentication version Identity V2, the user name, password, and either tenant ID or tenant name is required to validate the user to access the cloud storage.
Containers	The containers for OpenStack Swift compliant cloud providers cannot be created in NetBackup. You must use the native cloud tools to create a container. The container names must conform to the following requirements: The container name must be between 3 and 255 characters. Any of the 26 lowercase (small) letters of the International Standards Organization (ISO) Latin-script alphabet. These are the same lowercase (small) letters as the English alphabet. Any integer from 0 to 9, inclusive. Any of the following characters (you cannot use these as the first character in the container name): Period (.), underscore (_), and dash (-). Exception: If you use SSL for communication, you cannot use a period. By default, NetBackup uses SSL for communication. See NetBackup cloud storage server connection properties. Note: Only those containers are listed in NetBackup that follow these naming conventions.

Requirement

Details

License requirement

You must have a NetBackup license that allows for cloud storage.

Storage account requirements

You must obtain the credentials required to access the cloud storage account.

If you use authentication V1, only the user name and password are required to validate the user to access the cloud storage.

If you use authentication version Identity V2, the user name, password, and either tenant ID or tenant name is required to validate the user to access the cloud storage.

Containers

The containers for OpenStack Swift compliant cloud providers cannot be created in NetBackup. You must use the native cloud tools to create a container.

The container names must conform to the following requirements:

The container name must be between 3 and 255 characters.
Any of the 26 lowercase (small) letters of the International Standards Organization (ISO) Latin-script alphabet. These are the same lowercase (small) letters as the English alphabet.
Any integer from 0 to 9, inclusive.
Any of the following characters (you cannot use these as the first character in the container name):
Period (.), underscore (_), and dash (-).
Exception: If you use SSL for communication, you cannot use a period. By default, NetBackup uses SSL for communication.
See NetBackup cloud storage server connection properties.

Note:

Only those containers are listed in NetBackup that follow these naming conventions.