NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Cloud Install and Upgrade Guide

For Service Account configuration

• The Project ID parameter is required for configuration of projects other than the NetBackup Snapshot Manager installed project:

  Project ID: The ID of the project from which the resources are managed. Listed as project_id in the JSON file.

• Provide the Region in which the plug-in operates.

• Click Save.

For Credential configuration

• Select the Credential type as Credential and provide the values for the following parameters:

  NetBackup Snapshot Manager configuration parameter	Google equivalent term and description
  Project ID	The ID of the project from which the resources are managed. Listed as project_id in the JSON file.
  Client Email	The email address of the Client ID. Listed as client_email in the JSON file.
  Private Key	The private key. Listed as private_key in the JSON file. Note: You must enter this key without quotes (neither single quotes nor double quotes). Do not enter any spaces or return characters at the beginning or end of the key.

• Provide the Region in which the plug-in operates.

• Click Save.

• If you are creating multiple configurations for the same plug-in, ensure that they manage assets from different Regions. Two or more plug-in configurations should not manage the same set of cloud assets simultaneously.

• When multiple accounts are all managed with a single NetBackup Snapshot Manager, the number of assets being managed by a single NetBackup Snapshot Manager instance might get too large and it would be better to space them out.

• To achieve application consistent snapshots, on-host agent network connections between remote VM instance and NetBackup Snapshot Manager is required.

• If a region is removed from the GCP plug-in configuration, then all the discovered assets from that region are also removed from the NetBackup Snapshot Manager assets database. If there are any active snapshots that are associated with the assets that get removed, then you may not be able perform any operations on those snapshots.

  Once you add that region back into the plug-in configuration, NetBackup Snapshot Manager discovers all the assets again and you can resume operations on the associated snapshots. However, you cannot perform any restore operations on the associated snapshots.

• Missing permission exception during discovery: By default, while adding a new GCP provider plug-in configuration, no permission check would be done for GCP cloud related operations. To enable permission check during GCP provider plug-in configuration, add skip_permissions_check = "no" parameter under the GCP section in flexsnap.conf file.

• The maximum attachment points on GCP instances are 128 and NetBackup Snapshot Manager host uses 2 attachment points, which leaves 126 attachment point for backup/restore jobs. So at any point in time NetBackup Snapshot Manager can backup/restore instance as long as attachment points are available (which is 126 attachment points). If all the attachment points are used, backup/restore jobs start failing with following error message:

  Failed to attach disk.

• The maximum number of labels that can be attached to GCP instances are 64 and NetBackup Snapshot Manager uses 2 labels. If any instance has more than 62 labels, backup/restore may fail.

• Reconfiguration of Service Account based GCP provider plug-in configuration with same/overlapping regions and different credential type is not supported.