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  2. NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
  3. Deploying NetBackup for OpenStack
  4. Spinning up the NetBackup for OpenStack VM
  5. Spinning up the NetBackup for OpenStack appliance
NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

Spinning up the NetBackup for OpenStack appliance

After the cloud-init image has been created the NetBackup for OpenStack appliance can be spun up on the desired KVM server.

Following example command shows how to spin up the NetBackup for OpenStack appliance using virsh and the created ISO image.

virt-install -n nbosvm  --memory 24576 --vcpus 8 \
--os-type linux \ 
--disk nbos-appliance-os-3.0.154.qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=40 \
--network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \
--network bridge=virbr1,model=virtio \
--graphics none \
--import \
--disk path=nbos-firstboot-config.iso,device=cdrom

You can spin up the NetBackup for OpenStack appliance without a cloud-init iso-image. It spins up with default values.

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