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NetBackup™ Marketplace Deployment on AWS

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Product(s): NetBackup (11.0)
  1. NetBackup marketplace deployment on AWS
    1.  
      About Cohesity NetBackup Marketplace Deployment on AWS
    2.  
      Before you begin the deployment
    3.  
      Network configuration
  2. Deploying NetBackup on AWS Cloud using the marketplace offer
    1.  
      Deploying NetBackup on AWS Cloud using the marketplace offer
  3. Deployment options (Delivery methods) for NetBackup on AWS cloud
    1.  
      Deployment options (Delivery methods) for NetBackup on AWS cloud
    2.  
      Option 1: Primary server only
    3.  
      Option 2: Media server only
    4.  
      Option 3: Primary and Media servers
    5.  
      Option 4: Cloud Recovery server only
  4. NetBackup configuration parameters
    1.  
      NetBackup configuration parameters
    2.  
      Instance configuration parameters
    3.  
      VPC and Subnet details for deployment in existing VPC
    4.  
      VPC and Subnet configuration for deployment in new VPC
    5. NetBackup installation parameters for the primary server
      1.  
        IAM role required for the primary server
    6.  
      NetBackup installation parameters for Media server
    7. NetBackup installation parameters for Cloud Recovery server
      1.  
        IAM role required for Cloud Recovery Server
  5. Deploying Snapshot Manager
    1. Deploying Snapshot Manager server using the marketplace offer
      1. Prerequisites for using the Snapshot Manager template
        1.  
          Configuring AWS permissions for Snapshot Manager
      2.  
        Resources created by the Snapshot Manager template
      3.  
        Snapshot Manager EC2 instance configuration details
      4.  
        Instance failures and Auto Scaling Group behavior
      5. NetBackup installation parameters for Snapshot Manager server
        1.  
          IAM role required for Snapshot Manager instance
        2.  
          AWS endpoints used by Snapshot Manager
  6. Encryption enabled NetBackup primary server
    1.  
      Additional steps on CRS if encryption is enabled NetBackup primary server
  7. Accessing the NetBackup servers
    1.  
      How to access the NetBackup servers
  8. Upgrade NetBackup Snapshot Manager from AWS Marketplace
    1.  
      Upgrade NetBackup Snapshot Manager from AWS Marketplace
    2.  
      Upgrade Snapshot Manager deployment using new AWS CloudFormation stack
  9. Troubleshooting section
    1.  
      Troubleshooting
    2.  
      Deployment Logs

Deployment Logs

Table: Deployment logs for NetBackup and Snapshot Manager

Product name

Path

NetBackup

The NetBackup installation logs can be found at/root/NBSetup/userdata.log on the appliance.

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While the installation is going on, one can SSH to the server with ec2-user and check the logs using command tail -f /var/log/userdata.log.

Snapshot Manager

Path for log failures - "/var/log/cfn-init-cmd.log These are explicit log failures required while deploying Snapshot Manager through cloud formation template.