Veritas NetBackup™ OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk
- Introducing disk appliance storage solutions
- Planning your deployment
- Planning your OpenStorage deployment
- About OpenStorage requirements and limitations
- About OpenStorage storage servers for backups
- About OpenStorage server credentials
- About OpenStorage data movers for backups
- About the OpenStorage plug-in
- About OpenStorage disk pools for backups
- About OpenStorage optimized duplication and replication
- About OpenStorage optimized synthetic backups
- About storage unit groups for OpenStorage
- About OpenStorage direct to tape
- Provisioning the storage
- Licensing OpenStorage
- Configuring OpenStorage in NetBackup
- Configuring OpenStorage disk appliance storage
- Configuring an OpenStorage storage server for backups
- Configuring an OpenStorage disk pool for backups
- Configuring an OpenStorage storage unit
- Configuring OpenStorage optimized synthetic backups
- Configuring OpenStorage direct to tape
- Configuring optimized duplication to an OpenStorage device within the same NetBackup domain
- Configuring replication to an OpenStorage device in a different domain
- About storage lifecycle policies
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Creating a storage lifecycle policy
- Creating a backup policy
- Adding OpenStorage functionality to an existing environment
- Managing OpenStorage
- Managing OpenStorage storage servers
- Viewing OpenStorage storage servers
- Determining OpenStorage storage server state
- Changing OpenStorage storage server properties
- Setting OpenStorage storage server attributes
- Removing OpenStorage storage server attributes
- Updating an OpenStorage storage server to reflect plug-in updates
- Deleting an OpenStorage storage server
- Managing OpenStorage server credentials
- Managing OpenStorage data movers
- Managing OpenStorage disk pools
- Viewing OpenStorage disk pools
- Determining OpenStorage disk pool state
- Changing OpenStorage disk pool state
- Determining OpenStorage disk volume state
- Changing OpenStorage disk volume state
- Changing OpenStorage disk pool properties
- Setting OpenStorage disk pool attributes
- Removing OpenStorage disk pool attributes
- Adding volumes to an OpenStorage disk pool
- Merging OpenStorage disk pools
- Removing a volume from an OpenStorage disk pool
- Updating an OpenStorage disk pool to reflect plug-in updates
- Deleting an OpenStorage disk pool
- Monitoring OpenStorage storage capacity and usage
- Viewing OpenStorage disk reports
- Reporting on Auto Image Replication jobs
- About catalog backups to OpenStorage devices
- About restoring from OpenStorage backup copies
- About restoring from a backup at a target master domain
- Managing OpenStorage storage servers
- Troubleshooting
About the OpenStorage plug-in
A software plug-in must reside on every NetBackup media server that moves backup data to the storage server. The plug-in must conform to the Veritas OpenStorage API specification. The vendor exposes the storage capabilities to NetBackup through the plug-in.
To determine a disk appliance's capabilities, NetBackup uses the plug-in to query the storage appliance. Capabilities can include deduplicated storage, optimized off-host duplication, and so on.
If a vendor updates their plug-in, you must update NetBackup with the new or changed capabilities exposed by the plug-in.
See Updating an OpenStorage storage server to reflect plug-in updates.
For disk appliance storage, the appliance vendor provides the plug-in. The vendor should provide information about how to install the plug-in.