Veritas NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

Set up an external database

NetBackup for OpenStack allows the use of an external MySQL or MariaDB database.

This database needs to be prepared by creating the empty workloadmgr database, creating the workloadmgr user and setting the right permissions. An example command to create this database would be:

create database workloadmgr_auto;
CREATE USER 'nbos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON workloadmgr_auto.* TO 'nbos'@'10.10.10.67' 
IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Provide the connection string to the NetBackup for OpenStack configurator.

mysql://nbos:password@10.10.10.67/workloadmgr_auto?charset=utf8

This value can only be set upon an initial configuration of the NetBackup for OpenStack solution.

When the Cluster has been configured to use the internal database, then the connection string will not be shown in the next configuration attempt.

In case of an external database, the connection string is shown but is not editable.