Veritas CloudPoint Administrator's Guide
- Getting started with CloudPoint
- Section I. Installing and configuring CloudPoint
- Preparing for installation
- 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
- HPE RMC plug-in configuration notes
- NetApp plug-in configuration notes
- Hitachi plug-in configuration notes
- InfiniBox plug-in configuration notes
- About CloudPoint plug-ins and assets discovery
- Configuring the on-host agents and plug-ins
- Oracle plug-in configuration notes
- 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
- Managing your assets
- About snapshot restore
- Single file restore requirements and limitations
- Additional steps required after a SQL Server snapshot restore
- Monitoring activities with notifications and the job log
- Protection and disaster recovery
- Section IV. Maintaining CloudPoint
- CloudPoint logging
- Troubleshooting CloudPoint
- Working with your CloudPoint license
- Managing CloudPoint agents and plug-ins
- Upgrading CloudPoint
- Uninstalling CloudPoint
- Section V. Reference
CloudPoint EC2 instance configuration details
When you deploy a CloudPoint stack using the CloudFormation template, the following configuration is created on the EC2 instance where CloudPoint is deployed:
A disk is attached to the instance and a file system of type
ext4
is created on the disk.The file system is mounted as a folder mount at
/cloudpoint
.CloudPoint is installed and the specified user account is configured as the CloudPoint administrator.
The CloudPoint AWS plug-in is configured with the Source Account configuration. The IAM role that is attached to the CloudPoint instance is used for the plug-in configuration.
A CloudPoint snapshot policy by the name backupsnapmgr is created.
The policy is assigned to the file system that is mounted at
/cloudpoint
.This is a built-in protection policy that is automatically assigned to the CloudPoint instance in the cloud. This policy takes periodic snapshots of the CloudPoint metadata. The policy schedule and retention options are fully configurable. The policy protects the CloudPoint instance assets in the background, even though the protected assets do not appear in the CloudPoint UI. If the original CloudPoint instance fails to respond, the latest snapshot created by this policy is used to create a new CloudPoint instance in the cloud.
Note that this built-in protection policy is created to protect Snapshot Manager metadata. Ensure that you do not use this policy for protecting any other assets. If you assign this policy to other assets, then there is a possibility that the CloudPoint instance protection cycles might get missed if the policy execution is disrupted due to issues in those other assets.
Note:
You must add an appropriate CloudPoint license to the CloudPoint configuration for the policy to take effect. The policy does not trigger file system snapshots until a valid license is installed.