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
- Creating an instance or preparing the physical host to install CloudPoint
- Installing Docker
- Creating and mounting a volume to store CloudPoint data
- Verifying that specific ports are open on the instance or physical host
- Deploying CloudPoint using the Docker image
- CloudPoint cloud plug-ins
- CloudPoint storage array plug-ins
- How to configure the CloudPoint storage array plug-ins?
- NetApp plug-in configuration notes
- Nutanix Files plug-in configuration notes
- Dell EMC Unity array plug-in configuration parameters
- Pure Storage FlashArray plug-in configuration notes
- HPE RMC plug-in configuration notes
- Hitachi plug-in configuration notes
- InfiniBox plug-in configuration notes
- Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) 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
- MongoDB 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
- About snapshot restore
- Restore requirements and limitations for Microsoft SQL Server
- Restore requirements and limitations for Oracle
- Restore requirements and limitations for MongoDB
- 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 a MongoDB snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after an Oracle snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after restoring an AWS RDS database instance
- Protecting assets with CloudPoint's agentless feature
- Volume Encryption in NetBackup
- Preparing for CloudPoint installation
- Section II. CloudPoint maintenance
- CloudPoint logging
- Troubleshooting CloudPoint
- Restarting CloudPoint
- Troubleshooting CloudPoint logging
- CloudPoint agent fails to connect to the CloudPoint server if the agent host is restarted abruptly
- CloudPoint agent registration on Windows hosts may time out or fail
- Disaster recovery when DR package is lost or passphrase is lost
- Agentless log file name changed
- Upgrading CloudPoint
- Uninstalling CloudPoint
Downloading and installing the CloudPoint agent
Download and install the appropriate CloudPoint agent depending on the application that you wish to protect. Whether you install the Linux-based agent or the Windows-based agent, the steps are similar.
Before you perform the steps described in this section, do the following:
Make sure that you have administrative privileges on the application host on which you want to install the agent.
If a non-admin user attempts the installation, the installer displays the Windows UAC prompt where the user must specify the credentials of an admin user.
Complete the preparatory steps and install all the dependencies for the respective agent.
To download and install the agent
- Sign in to the NetBackup Web UI.
- From the left navigation pane, click Cloud and then select the CloudPoint servers tab.
All the CloudPoint servers that are registered with the master server are displayed in this pane.
- From the desired CloudPoint server row, click the actions button on the right and then select Download agent.
- On the Download agent dialog box, click Download.
This launches a new browser window.
Do not close the existing Download agent dialog box on the NetBackup Web UI as yet. When you configure the agent, you will return to this dialog box to get the authentication token.
- Switch to the new web page browser window and from the Download Agent section, click on the download link to download the desired CloudPoint agent installation package.
The web page provides separate links to download the Linux and Windows agents.
- If necessary, copy the downloaded agent package to the application host on which you want to install the agent.
- Install the agent.
For the Linux-based agent, type the following command on the Linux host:
# sudo yum -y install <cloudpoint_agent_rpm_name>
Here, <cloudpoint_agent_rpm_name> is the name of the agent rpm package you downloaded earlier.
For example:
# sudo yum -y install VRTScloudpoint-agent-8.3.0.8549-RHEL7.x86_64.rpm
For the Windows-based agent, run the agent package file and follow the installation wizard workflow to install the agent on the Windows application host.
Note:
To allow the installation, admin users will have to click Yes on the Windows UAC prompt. Non-admin users will have to specify admin user credentials on the UAC prompt.
The installer installs the agent at
C:\Program Files\Veritas\CloudPointby default and the path cannot be modified.Alternatively, you can also install the Windows-based agent in a silent mode by running the following command on the Windows host:
msiexec /i <installpackagefilepath> /qn
Here, <installpackagefilepath> is the absolute path of the installation package. For example, if the installer is kept at
C:\temp, then the command syntax is as follows:msiexe /i C:\temp\VRTScloudpoint-agent-8.3.0.8549-Windows.x64.msi /qn
In this mode, the installation package does not display any UI and also does not require any user intervention. The agent is installed at
C:\Program Files\Veritas\CloudPointby default and the path cannot be modified.The silent mode of installation is useful if you want to automate the agent installation using a third-party deployment tool.
- This completes the agent installation. You can now proceed to register the agent.
