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  2. NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
  3. Deploying NetBackup for OpenStack
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  5. System requirements NetBackup for OpenStack VM
NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

System requirements NetBackup for OpenStack VM

The NetBackup for OpenStack VM gets delivered as a qcow2 image, which gets attached to a virtual machine.

Veritas supports only KVM-based hypervisors.

Note:

The NetBackup for OpenStack VM is not supported as instance inside NetBackup for OpenStack.

The recommended size of the VM for the NetBackup for OpenStack Appliance is:

Resource

Value

vCPU

4

RAM

24 GB

The qcow2 image itself defines the 40GB disk size of the VM.

In the rare case of the NetBackup for OpenStack VM database or log files getting larger than 40GB disk, contact or open a ticket with Veritas customer support to attach another drive to the NetBackup for OpenStack VM.

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