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NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

About instant access for object storage in cloud

The following table describes the platforms supported by instant access for object storage in cloud.

Table:

Supported platforms

Description

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

This platform is supported and enabled by default.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

This platform is supported and enabled by default.

VM in Azure or AWS (Cloud Build-Your-Own, BYO-In-Cloud)

This platform is supported. You must manually enable this option.

The instant access for object storage in the cloud feature is enabled by default on the AKS/EKS platforms. For the cloud virtual machines to use instant access, you must manually perform the following steps to enable this feature:

  1. Add the instant-access-object-store = 1 option into the /etc/msdp-release file on storage server.

  2. On the master or media server, run the following commands to verify that the IA_OBJECT_STORE name is in the extendedcapabilities option.

    Example:

    nbdevconfig -getconfig -stype PureDisk 
    -storage_server your_storage_server_name 
    |grep IA_OBJECT_STORE
  3. On the master or media server, run the following commands to reload the storage server attributes:

    nbdevconfig -getconfig -stype PureDisk 
    -storage_server your_storage_server_name > /tmp/flags
    nbdevconfig -setconfig -stype PureDisk 
    -storage_server your_storage_server_name -configlist /tmp/flags

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