Share images from an on-premises location to the cloud
You can share images from an on-premises location to the cloud. Set up a cloud recovery server on demand and then share the images to that server.
Use the information from the following topic from the NetBackup Deduplication Guide to set up a cloud recovery server: About image sharing using MSDP cloud.
Before you begin, ensure that you have the required permissions in the web UI to import the image, restore, convert, and access the AMI ID or VHD.
To import the images
- Open the NetBackup web UI.
- On the left, click Storage > Disk storage.. Then click the Disk pools tab.
- Select the volume pools that contain the images that you want to share.
- In the Disk pool options, locate the disk pool name and click Actions > Fast Import.
Note:
The fast import option is an import operation that is specific to image sharing. You can import the backed-up images from the cloud storage to the cloud recovery server that is used for image sharing. After a fast import, you can restore the images. For AWS cloud provider, you can also convert the VM image to an AWS AMI. For Azure cloud provider, you can convert the VM image to VHD.
- In the Fast import images page, select the backup images that you want to import and click Import.
- Verify the activity completion status in the Activity monitor.
To convert the VM images to AWS AMI or VHD in Azure
- On the left, click Workloads > VMware. Then select the imported VMware image to convert.
- On the Recovery point tab, select the recovery date.
- For the recovery point date, choose the required recovery point. Click Actions > Convert.
For Veritas Alta Recovery Vault, it may take time to get the disk volume and the credentials information.
Provide the credentials of Azure general-purpose storage accounts or AWS account with IAM and EC2 related permissions.
For more information on the permission, see Recover the VM as an AWS EC2 AMI or VHD in Azure topic of the NetBackup Deduplication Guide.
- After the conversion is complete, an AMI ID or VHD URL is generated.
- Use the AMI ID to locate the image in AWS and then use the AWS console to start the EC2 instance. Or use VHD URL to create a virtual machine.