NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

Spinning up the NetBackup for OpenStack appliance

After the cloud-init image is created, you can spin up the NetBackup for OpenStack appliance on the desired KVM server.

The following example command shows how to spin up the NetBackup for OpenStack appliance using the virsh command-line and the created ISO image.

virt-install -n nbosvm  --memory 24576 --vcpus 8 \
--os-type linux \ 
--disk nbos-appliance-os-3.0.154.qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=40 \
--network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \
--network bridge=virbr1,model=virtio \
--graphics none \
--import \
--disk path=nbos-firstboot-config.iso,device=cdrom

For KVM server - RHEL version 9 and later:

virt-install -n nbosvm --memory 24576  --vcpus 8 \
--osinfo rhel8-unknown \
--disk nbos-appliance-os-3.0.154.qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=40 \
--network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \
--network bridge=virbr1,model=virtio \
--graphics none \
--import \
--disk path=nbos-firstboot-config.iso,device=cdrom

You can spin up the NetBackup for OpenStack appliance without a cloud-init iso-image. It spins up with default values.