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Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide

Last Published: 2022-03-28

Product(s): NetBackup (10.0)

Deciding where to run CloudPoint

You can deploy CloudPoint in the following ways:

Deploy CloudPoint in a cloud and manage assets in that cloud.
Deploy CloudPoint in a cloud and manage assets in multiple clouds.

Veritas recommends that you deploy CloudPoint on cloud to protect your cloud assets. If you wish to protect assets in a cloud, deploy the CloudPoint host instance in the same cloud environment. Similarly, if you wish to protect on-premise assets, deploy the CloudPoint host in the same on-premise environment.

You can deploy CloudPoint in a NetBackup media server, but not in a NetBackup primary server.

If you install CloudPoint on multiple hosts, we strongly recommend that each CloudPoint instance manage separate resources. For example, two CloudPoint instances should not manage the same AWS account or the same Azure subscription. The following scenario illustrates why having two CloudPoint instances manage the same resources creates problems:

CloudPoint instance A and CloudPoint instance B both manage the assets of the same AWS account.
On CloudPoint instance A, the administrator takes a snapshot of an AWS virtual machine. The database on CloudPoint instance A stores the virtual machine's metadata. This metadata includes the virtual machine's storage size and its disk configuration.
Later, on CloudPoint instance B, the administrator restores the virtual machine snapshot. CloudPoint instance B does not have access to the virtual machine's metadata. It restores the snapshot, but it does not know the virtual machine's specific configuration. Instead, it substitutes default values for the storage size configuration. The result is a restored virtual machine that does not match the original.

If you host the CloudPoint server and media server in the same host, do the following for proper functioning of the backup from snapshot jobs:

Assign distinct IPs and NBU client names to the CloudPoint server and the media serve so that they can obtain different NetBackup Certificates. This is required so as have different NetBackup host ID certificates for communication. Use the following configuration:
- Configure host with two network adapters
- Edit the /etc/hosts file and make entry as mentioned in the example below:
```
<IP Address MediaServer Host1>  < MediaServer Host1>
<IP Address CloudPoint Host2>  <CloudPoint  Host2>
```
- Provide the MediaServer Host1 which is mentioned in the/etc/hosts file during the Media server installation for Media server name.
- Similarly select the CloudPoint Host 2 from the /etc/hosts file during the CloudPoint installation with non-default port other than 443.
- Start CloudPoint and Media services and register it with NetBackup primary server.
Once the CloudPoint server is registered, ensure that it has a different HOST DB entry.
Before performing the backup from snapshot jobs, perform the following optimization: DISABLE SHM and NOSHM. See: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100016170

This will ensure that NetBackup does not use shared memory for communicating between NetBackup data mover processes.