Veritas CloudPoint Administrator's Guide
- Getting started with CloudPoint
- Section I. Installing and configuring CloudPoint
- Preparing for installation
- Deploying CloudPoint
- Deploying CloudPoint in the AWS cloud
- Using plug-ins to discover assets
- Configuring off-host plug-ins
- AWS plug-in configuration notes
- Google Cloud Platform plug-in configuration notes
- Microsoft Azure plug-in configuration notes
- HPE RMC plug-in configuration notes
- NetApp plug-in configuration notes
- About CloudPoint plug-ins and assets discovery
- Configuring the on-host agents and plug-ins
- Oracle plug-in configuration notes
- Protecting assets with CloudPoint's agentless feature
- Preparing for installation
- Section II. Configuring users
- Section III. Protecting and managing data
- User interface basics
- Indexing and classifying your assets
- Protecting your assets with policies
- Tag-based asset protection
- Replicating snapshots for added protection
- Managing your assets
- About snapshot restore
- Single file restore requirements and limitations
- Additional steps required after a SQL Server snapshot restore
- Monitoring activities with notifications and the job log
- Protection and disaster recovery
- Section IV. Maintaining CloudPoint
- CloudPoint logging
- Troubleshooting CloudPoint
- Working with your CloudPoint license
- Upgrading CloudPoint
- Uninstalling CloudPoint
- Section V. Reference
Microsoft Azure plug-in configuration notes
The Microsoft Azure plug-in lets you create, delete, and restore snapshots at the virtual machine level and the managed disk level.
Before you configure the Azure plug-in, complete the following preparatory steps:
Use the Microsoft Azure Portal to create an Azure Active Directory (AAD) application for the Azure plug-in.
Assign the service principal to a role to access resources.
For more details, follow the steps in the following Azure documentation:
Table: Microsoft Azure plug-in configuration parameters
CloudPoint configuration parameter | Microsoft equivalent term and description |
---|---|
Tenant ID | The ID of the AAD directory in which you created the application. |
Client ID | The application ID. |
Secret Key | The secret key of the application. |
Consider the following before you configure the Azure plug-in:
The current release of the plug-in does not support snapshots of blobs.
CloudPoint currently only supports creating and restoring snapshots of Azure-managed disks and the virtual machines that are backed up by managed disks.
CloudPoint does not support restore for Azure-managed Standard Solid State Drive (SSD) disks that are configured with the Locally redundant storage (LRS) redundancy option.
CloudPoint does not support disk-based protection for applications that store data on virtual disks or storage spaces that are created from a storage pool. While taking snapshots of such applications, the disk-based option is not available.
CloudPoint does not support snapshot tagging for assets in the Azure cloud environment. Even though Azure supports a maximum of up to 15 tags per snapshot, you cannot assign tags to snapshots, either manually using the APIs or via a protection policy, using CloudPoint.
If you are creating multiple configurations for the same plug-in, ensure that they manage assets from different Tenant IDs. Two or more plug-in configurations should not manage the same set of cloud assets simultaneously.
CloudPoint currently does not block you from creating such a configuration. If there is an overlap of cloud assets between plug-in configurations, you may have to resolve the configuration issue by deleting such plug-in configurations and adding them again, ensuring that there are no overlapping assets.
However, CloudPoint does not allow you to delete a plug-in configuration if there are any snapshots associated with the assets in that configuration.
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