Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide

• Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 Server LTS

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.5, 8.4 and 7.x

  Note:

  CloudPoint deployment for RHEL 8.5 and 8.4 over IPV6 is not supported.

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP2

• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type: t3.large

• vCPUs: 2

• RAM: 8 GB

• Root disk: 64 GB with a solid-state drive (GP2)

• Data volume: 50 GB Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume of type GP2 with encryption for the snapshot asset database; use this as a starting value and expand your storage as needed.

• Virtual machine type: D2s_V3 Standard

• CPU cores: 2

• RAM: 8 GB

• Root disk: 64 GB SSD

• Data volume: 50 GB Premium SSD for the snapshot asset database; storage account type Premium_LRS; set Host Caching to Read/Write.

• Register the RHEL instance with Red Hat using Red Hat Subscription Manager

• Extend the default LVM partitions on the RHEL instance so that they fulfil the minimum disk space requirement

• Virtual machine types:

  • DS2_v2 Standard - CPU cores 2, RAM 7 GB

  • DS3_v2 Standard - CPU cores 4, RAM 14 GB

• Root disk: 64 GB SSD

• Data volume: 50 GB Premium SSD for the snapshot asset database; storage account type Premium_LRS; set Host Caching to Read/Write.

• Register the RHEL instance with Red Hat using Red Hat Subscription Manager

• Extend the default LVM partitions on the RHEL instance so that they fulfil the minimum disk space requirement

• Virtual machine type: n2-standard-4

• vCPUs: 2

• RAM: 16 GB

• Boot disk: 64 GB standard persistent disk

• Data volume: 50 GB SSD persistent disk for the snapshot asset database with automatic encryption

  Note:

  To support LVM indexing, ensure that the Multipath service is disabled on CloudPoint host.

• Virtual machine type: 64-bit with a CloudPoint supported operating system

• vCPUs: 8

• RAM: 16 GB or more

• Root disk: 64 GB with a standard persistent disk

• Data volume: 50 GB for the snapshot asset database

• Operating system: A 64-bit CloudPoint supported operating system

• CPUs: x86_64 (64-bit), single-socket, multi-core, with at least 8 CPU count

• RAM: 16 GB or more

• Boot disk: 64 GB

• Data volume: 50 GB for the snapshot asset database

• File systems

  • Linux native file systems: ext3, ext4, and XFS

  • Microsoft Windows: NTFS

• Microsoft SQL 2014, SQL 2016, SQL 2017, SQL 2019

  See Microsoft SQL plug-in configuration notes.

• Windows Server 2022 and 2019

• Oracle 12c, Oracle 12c R1, Oracle 18c, Oracle 19c

  Single node configurations are supported.

  See Oracle plug-in configuration notes.

Notes:

• Oracle database applications are not supported in a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud environment.

  This is a limitation imposed by the companies owning these products and services, and is currently outside the scope of CloudPoint.

• CloudPoint does not support application-consistent snapshots on ext2 file systems.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.x

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.2, 8.4 and 8.5

• Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 and 2022

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  If you wish to protect applications, the applications must be hosted on a t2.large or a higher specification AWS instance type. CloudPoint currently does not support applications that are running on t2.medium or a lower instance type.

  The t2 series instances are supported only if the device naming conventions recommended by AWS are followed.

  For more details, refer to the following links:

  • Windows: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/device_naming.html

  • Linux: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/device_naming.html

  For protecting Microsoft Windows-based applications, use t2.xlarge or t3.xlarge or a higher specification instance type.

• Microsoft Azure

  If you wish to protect applications, the applications must be hosted on a D2s_V3 Standard or a higher specification Azure virtual machine type.

  For protecting Microsoft Windows-based applications, use B4ms or D4s_V3 or a higher specification virtual machine.

  Note:

  The CloudPoint Azure plug-in supports disks of type Premium_LRS, Standard_LRS, and StandardSSD_LRS.

  All other disk types are defaulted to Standard_LRS during snapshot restore operations.

• Microsoft Azure Stack Hub (2008 and later)

  If you wish to protect applications, the applications must be hosted on a DS2_v2 Standard or a higher specification Azure Stack Hub virtual machine type.

  See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/user/azure-stack-vm-sizes?view=azs-2008

  Note:

  The CloudPoint Azure Stack Hub plug-in supports disks of type Premium_LRS, Standard_LRS, and StandardSSD_LRS.

  All other disk types are defaulted to Standard_LRS during snapshot restore operations.

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

  If you wish to protect applications, the applications must be hosted on a n2-standard-4 or a higher specification GCP virtual machine type.

• NetApp storage arrays

  See NetApp plug-in configuration notes.

• Dell EMC Unity arrays

  See Dell EMC Unity array plug-in configuration parameters.

• HPE storage arrays

  See HPE RMC plug-in configuration notes.

• Pure Storage FlashArray

  See Pure Storage FlashArray plug-in configuration notes.

• Hitachi storage arrays

  See Hitachi plug-in configuration notes.

• InfiniBox enterprise arrays

  See InfiniBox plug-in configuration notes.