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
About CloudPoint deployment in the AWS cloud
A common deployment approach for CloudPoint is to set up a CloudPoint instance in the cloud and then configure it to protect and manage all the assets in the AWS cloud. You can set up the same CloudPoint instance to manage assets spread across multiple AWS accounts and regions.
Here's how you can deploy CloudPoint in the AWS cloud:
CloudPoint is distributed as a Docker image that you load and run and then use Docker commands to install the CloudPoint services as individual containers in the Docker network.
With this method, you first configure an EC2 instance that meets the CloudPoint requirements, download and load the CloudPoint Docker image on the instance, and then install and configure CloudPoint on that instance. This method provides a manual deployment workflow and is the same as when you are deploying CloudPoint on an on-premise physical or a virtual host.
CloudPoint is also available on the AWS Marketplace online store in the form of an AWS CloudFormation Template (CFT).
With this method, you simply sign in to the AWS Console and use the CloudPoint template to launch a CloudPoint CloudFormation stack. This method provides a much more faster and automated deployment workflow that is fully integrated with the AWS tools and services. Veritas recommends that you use the template to deploy CloudPoint in your AWS cloud environment.