Configuring a disk pool for cloud storage
Use the NetBackup Disk Pool Configuration Wizard to create a disk pool for cloud storage. If you create encrypted storage and NetBackup KMS is configured, you must enter a pass phrase for each selected volume that uses encryption. The pass phrase creates the encryption key for that volume. If you create encrypted storage and external KMS is configured, you do not need to enter pass phrase for each selected volume.
To configure a cloud storage disk pool by using the wizard
- If the Disk Pool Configuration Wizard was launched from the Storage Server Configuration Wizard, go to step 5.
Otherwise, in the NetBackup Administration Console, select either NetBackup Management or Media and Device Management.
- From the list of wizards in the right pane, click Configure Disk Pool.
- On the Welcome panel, the types of disk pools that you can configure depend on the types of storage servers that exist in your environment.
The following is an example of the wizard panel:
Read the information on the welcome panel of the wizard. Then, select the appropriate storage server type and click Next.
The Storage Server Selection panel appears.
- On the Storage Server Selection panel, the storage servers that you configured for the selected storage server type appear.
The following is an example of the wizard panel:
Select the storage server for this disk pool.
After you select the cloud storage server, click Next. The Volume Selection wizard panel appears.
- The Volume Selection panel displays the volumes that have been created already under your account within the vendor's cloud storage.
Note:
The following properties do not apply to cloud storage disk pools: Total available space, Total raw size, Low water mark, and High water mark.
All these values are derived from the storage capacity, which cannot be fetched from the cloud provider.
The following is an example of the wizard panel:
To add a volume, click Add New Volume. A dialog box appears that contains the information that is required for a volume for your cloud vendor. In that dialog box, enter the required information. Use the following link to find the information about the requirements for the volume names.
See About the cloud storage vendors for NetBackup.
To select a volume, click the check box for the volume. You can select one volume only.
After you select the volume for the disk pool, click Next. The behavior of the wizard depends on whether you configured encryption for the storage server, as follows:
No encryption
If you selected a volume on a storage destination that does not require encryption, the Additional Disk Pool Information panel appears.
Go to the next step, step 6.
Encryption
If you selected a volume on a storage destination that requires encryption and NetBackup KMS is already configured, a Settings dialog box appears in which you must enter an encryption pass phrase. The pass phrase is for the key group key for this storage volume and storage server combination.
If you have selected a volume on a storage destination that requires encryption and external KMS is configured for the storage server, you do not need to provide an encryption pass phrase. Encryption keys are not created in case of external KMS at the time of disk pool configuration using the Disk Pool Configuration Wizard. You need to ensure that a key with a custom attribute with value of key group name already exists on the external KMS server.
See About external KMS for encryption of NetBackup cloud storage.
After you enter a pass phrase and then click OK in the Settings dialog box, the dialog box closes. Click Next in the Volume Selection wizard panel to continue to the Additional Disk Pool Information wizard panel.
Continue to the next step, step 6.
- On the Additional Disk Pool Information panel, enter or select the properties for this disk pool.
The following is an example of the wizard panel:
See Cloud storage disk pool properties.
After you enter the additional disk pool information, click Next. The Summary panel appears.
- On the Summary panel, verify the selections.
If the summary shows your selections accurately, click Next.
It is recommended that you save the KMS key group name and the KMS key name. They are required to recover the keys.
See Saving a record of the KMS key names for NetBackup cloud storage encryption.
- After NetBackup creates the disk pool, a wizard panel describes the successful action.
The following is an example of the wizard panel:
After NetBackup creates the disk pool, you can do the following:
Configure a storage unit
Ensure that Create a storage unit using the disk pool that you have just created is selected and then click Next. The Storage Unit Creation wizard panel appears. Continue to the next step.
Exit
Click Close.
You can configure one or more storage units later.
- On Storage Unit Creation wizard panel, enter the appropriate information for the storage unit.
The following is an example of the wizard panel:
See Cloud storage unit properties.
After you enter or select the information for the storage unit, click Next to create the storage unit.
You can use storage unit properties to control your backup traffic.
- After NetBackup configures the storage unit, the Finished panel appears. Click Finish to exit from the wizard.
More Information
About NetBackup KMS for encryption of NetBackup cloud storage