Veritas CloudPoint Administrator's Guide
- Getting started with CloudPoint
- Section I. Installing and configuring CloudPoint
- Preparing for installation
- About the deployment approach
- Deciding where to run CloudPoint
- 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
- Deploying CloudPoint in the AWS cloud
- Using plug-ins to discover assets
- Configuring off-host plug-ins
- AWS plug-in configuration notes
- Google Cloud Platform plug-in configuration notes
- Microsoft Azure plug-in configuration notes
- Dell EMC Unity array plug-in configuration notes
- Pure Storage FlashArray plug-in configuration notes
- HPE RMC plug-in configuration notes
- NetApp plug-in configuration notes
- Hitachi plug-in configuration notes
- InfiniBox plug-in configuration notes
- Configuring an off-host plug-in
- About CloudPoint plug-ins and assets discovery
- Configuring the on-host agents and plug-ins
- About agents
- Oracle plug-in configuration notes
- MongoDB plug-in configuration notes
- Microsoft SQL plug-in configuration notes
- About the installation and configuration process
- Preparing to install the Linux-based on-host agent
- Preparing to install the Windows-based on-host agent
- Downloading and installing the on-host agent
- Configuring the Linux-based on-host agent
- Configuring the Windows-based on-host agent
- Configuring the on-host plug-in
- Configuring VSS to store shadow copies on the originating drive
- Protecting assets with CloudPoint's agentless feature
- Preparing for installation
- Section II. Configuring users
- Section III. Protecting and managing data
- User interface basics
- Indexing and classifying your assets
- Protecting your assets with policies
- Tag-based asset protection
- Replicating snapshots for added protection
- About snapshot replication
- About cross-account snapshot replication in the AWS cloud
- Requirements for replicating snapshots
- Cross-account snapshot replication support matrix
- Cross-account snapshot replication limitations
- Configuring replication rules
- Editing a replication rule
- Deleting a replication rule
- Managing your assets
- Creating a snapshot manually
- Displaying asset snapshots
- Replicating a snapshot manually
- About snapshot restore
- About single file restore (granular restore)
- Single file restore requirements and limitations
- Restoring a snapshot
- Additional steps required after restoring disk-level snapshots
- Additional steps required after a SQL Server snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after an Oracle snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after a MongoDB snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after restoring an AWS RDS database instance
- Restoring individual files within a snapshot
- Deleting a snapshot
- Monitoring activities with notifications and the job log
- Protection and disaster recovery
- Section IV. Maintaining CloudPoint
- CloudPoint logging
- Troubleshooting CloudPoint
- Restarting CloudPoint
- Docker may fail to start due to a lack of space
- CloudPoint installation fails if rootfs is not mounted in a shared mode
- Some CloudPoint features do not appear in the user interface
- Off-host plug-in deletion does not automatically remove file system and application assets
- Disk-level snapshot restore fails if the original disk is detached from the instance
- Snapshot restore for encrypted AWS assets may fail
- Error while adding users to CloudPoint
- CloudPoint fails to revert restored snapshots if indexing, classification, or restore operations fail
- SQL snapshot or restore and SFR operations fail if the Windows instance loses connectivity with the CloudPoint host
- Troubleshooting CloudPoint logging
- Swagger UI-based authorization for CloudPoint REST API calls may fail
- Policy retention count is not honored for file system and application assets if there is an issue with the CloudPoint plug-in
- Working with your CloudPoint license
- Managing CloudPoint agents and plug-ins
- Upgrading CloudPoint
- Uninstalling CloudPoint
- Section V. Reference
Understanding your CloudPoint license
Your CloudPoint license determines the CloudPoint features you can use, the amount and kind of data you can protect, and the time for which you can continue to protect that data. CloudPoint offers various licensing options to choose from depending on your requirement.
If you want to explore CloudPoint features and functionality, the following options are available:
Freemium
The Freemium license is a perpetual free license that does not expire and gives you a chance to try out a subset of the CloudPoint features in your on-premise or preferred cloud environment. This license lets you protect up to 10 TB of front-end terabyte data (FETB).
Evaluation
The Evaluation license is a time-bound license that is valid for 60 days and allows you to try out all of the CloudPoint features in your on-premise or preferred cloud environment. This license lets you protect up to 1024 TB of front-end terabyte data (FETB).
After installing CloudPoint when you perform the initial CloudPoint configuration, you are presented with a choice to activate one of these licensing options. You must pick one of the licenses to complete the configuration and begin using CloudPoint.
If you need more advanced features, you can upgrade the Freemium or Evaluation license to a suitable paid license and unlock the bundle that is right for you. CloudPoint offers the following types of paid licenses:
Enterprise
The Enterprise edition is a fully-featured offering that is available as a perpetual as well as a subscription-based license. This license allows you to use all of the CloudPoint features in your preferred on-premise or cloud environments. This license includes features such as application-consistent snapshots of your Oracle database, SQL Server, or MongoDB workloads, indexing, and classification.
On-prem
The on-prem edition is a subset of the Enterprise edition and is available as a perpetual as well as a subscription-based license. This license enables you to discover the storage arrays and take crash-consistent snapshots of the on-premise assets.
This license is created specifically for CloudPoint deployments that are integrated with Veritas NetBackup. You can use this license to leverage your existing NetBackup license entitlement and perform snapshot-based data protection in your on-premise environment.
Install a perpetual or subscription-based license depending on the NetBackup license. Unlike the Enterprise license, you cannot use this license to protect assets in your cloud environment.
In-cloud
The in-cloud edition is also a subset of the Enterprise edition and is available as a perpetual as well as a subscription-based license. This license enables you to connect and discover the assets in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure cloud environments and take application-consistent snapshots of the workloads running on them.
Install this license if you want to use the entitled CloudPoint features in your preferred cloud environment. Unlike the Enterprise license, you cannot use this license to protect assets in your on-premise environment.
More about perpetual and subscription licenses
All the paid licenses are available in both perpetual and subscription-based options. The perpetual licenses do not expire and are metered based on the FETB storage capacity. If the storage utilization reaches the maximum entitled capacity, you have to upgrade the license and expand the storage capacity to continue protecting newer assets.
Subscription-based licenses are time-bound and have to be renewed (or upgraded in case of an Evaluation license) at the end of their expiry date. Time-bound licenses are metered based on the amount of FETB storage capacity and the subscription validity period. If the license expires or the storage utilization has reached the maximum entitled limit, you have to renew or upgrade the license and expand the storage capacity to continue protecting newer assets.
The Enterprise edition (both perpetual and subscription-based license) is also available based on the number of workload instances that you want to protect.
If you are integrating CloudPoint with Veritas NetBackup, the existing CloudPoint licenses and the corresponding features will work as is. A separate license is not required.
The licensing options and feature entitlements described here are indicative and are subject to change. For the latest information on CloudPoint licensing, pricing, and procurement, contact your Veritas sales representative or refer to the following:
https://www.veritas.com/product/backup-and-recovery/cloudpoint/buy