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  2. NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Cloud Install and Upgrade Guide
  3. Section I. NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud installation and configuration
  4. Configuration for protecting assets on cloud hosts/VM
  5. Protecting assets with NetBackup Snapshot Manager's on-host agent feature
  6. Configuring the NetBackup Snapshot Manager application plug-in
  7. Microsoft SQL plug-in
  8. Microsoft SQL plug-in configuration requirements
NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Cloud Install and Upgrade Guide

Microsoft SQL plug-in configuration requirements

Before you configure the plug-in, ensure that your environment meets the following requirements:

  • This plug-in is supported in Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS environments.

  • A supported version of Microsoft SQL server is installed on the Windows instance.

    See Meeting system requirements.

  • The SQL server instances that you want to protect must be running on a non-system drive.

    NetBackup Snapshot Manager also does not support SQL server instances that are installed on a mount point.

  • NetBackup Snapshot Manager uses the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

    Ensure that you configure VSS to store shadow copies on the same drive (the originating drive) where the database resides.

    See Configuring VSS to store shadow copies on the originating drive.

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