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
Microsoft SQL plug-in configuration notes
You can configure the CloudPoint plug-in for Microsoft SQL to discover SQL application instances and databases and protect them using disk-level snapshots. After you configure the plug-in, CloudPoint automatically discovers all the file system assets, SQL instances and databases that are configured on the SQL server host. The discovered SQL assets then appear in the NetBackup user interface (UI) from where you can protect the assets by subscribing them to a protection plan or by taking snapshots manually.
Before you configure the plug-in, ensure that your environment meets the following requirements:
This plug-in is supported in Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS environments.
A supported version of Microsoft SQL server is installed on the Windows instance.
The SQL server instances that you want to protect must be running on a non-system drive.
CloudPoint also does not support SQL server instances that are installed on a mount point.
CloudPoint uses the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
Ensure that you configure VSS to store shadow copies on the same drive (the originating drive) where the database resides.
See Configuring VSS to store shadow copies on the originating drive.
Note:
CloudPoint does not support discovery, snapshot, and restore operations for SQL databases that contain leading or trailing spaces or non-printable characters. This is because the VSS writer goes into an error state for such databases. Refer to the following for more details: