Meeting system requirements
Table: Operating system, processor, and package requirements for NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center host
Category | Requirement |
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Operating system | See the NetBackup Snapshot Manager Software Compatibility List (SCL) for details. |
Processor architecture | See the NetBackup Snapshot Manager Software Compatibility List (SCL) for details. |
Packages on NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center host | Following are the operating system-specific respective required packages to be installed on the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center host:
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Note:
The single host name or FQDN for NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center has limit of 64 characters which is required at the time of installation. Snapshot Manager does not support multiple aliases. You cannot install Snapshot Manager 10.3 with NetBackup primary server 10.2 or earlier.
Table: System requirements for the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center host
Host on which NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center is installed | Requirements |
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VMware VM |
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Physical host (x86_64 / AMD64) |
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Note:
NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center is not fully FIPS-compliant.
NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center uses the following file systems on the host to store all the container images and files during installation:
/(root file system)/var
The /var file system is further used for container run times. Ensure that the host on which you install or upgrade NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center has sufficient space for the following components.
Table: Space considerations for NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center components
Component | Space requirements |
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NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center containers | Minimum 10 GB free space (30 GB recommended). |
NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center agents and plug-ins | 350 MB free space, for every NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center plug-in and configured agent. |
Additionally, NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center also requires a separate volume for storing NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center data. Ensure that you create and mount this volume to /cloudpoint on the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center host.
Table: Space consideration for NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center data volume
Volume mount path | Size |
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| 50 GB or more |
The /cloudpoint directory should have a minimum size of 50 GB.
When you enable the Vendor Change Tracking (VCT) option, or perform snap diff operations, additional space is required in the /cloudpoint directory to store the snapshot diff records. Allocate extra space based on the expected number of snapshot diff records. For every 1,000,000 snapshot diff records, approximately 2 GB of additional space is required. These records include file or directory changes such as Added, Removed, and Modified.
See Host sizing recommendations.
Ensure that the time zone settings on the host where you want to deploy NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center are as per your requirement and synchronized with a public NTP server.
By default, NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center uses the time zone that is set on the host where you install NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center. The timestamps for all the entries in the logs are as per the clock settings of the host machine.
If the instance on which you are deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center is behind a proxy server, that is, if the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center instance connects to the internet using a proxy server, you must specify the proxy server details during the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center installation. The NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center installer stores the proxy server information in a set of environment variables that are specific to the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center containers.
The following table displays the environment variables and the proxy server information that you must provide to the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center installer. Make sure that you keep this information ready; you are required to provide these details during the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center installation.
Table: Proxy server details required by NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
Environment variables created by the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center installer | Description |
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VX_HTTP_PROXY | Contains the HTTP proxy value to be used for all connections. For example, |
VX_HTTPS_PROXY | Contains the HTTP proxy value to be used for all connections. For example, |
VX_NO_PROXY | Contains the hosts that are allowed to bypass the proxy server. For example, |
NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center services that need to communicate externally by a proxy server, use these predefined environment variables that are set during the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center installation.