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  2. NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
  3. Introduction
  4. NetBackup for OpenStack Architecture
  5. Main Components
NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

Main Components

Figure: NetBackup for OpenStack architecture overview

NetBackup for OpenStack architecture overview

NetBackup for OpenStack has four main software components:

  1. NetBackup for OpenStack ships as a QCOW2 image. User can instantiate one or more VMs from the QCOW2 image on standalone KVM boxes.

  2. NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) is a python module that is installed on all OpenStack controller nodes where the nova-api service is running.

  3. NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover (NBOSDM) is a python module that is installed on every OpenStack compute nodes

  4. NetBackup for OpenStack horizon plug-in is installed as an add-on to horizon servers. This module is installed on every server that runs horizon service.

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