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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. About the cloud storage
  4. About Microsoft Azure cloud storage API type
  5. Microsoft Azure storage type requirements
Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

Microsoft Azure storage type requirements

Table: Microsoft Azure cloud storage requirements describes the details and requirements of Microsoft Azure cloud storage in NetBackup.

Table: Microsoft Azure cloud storage requirements

Requirement

Details

License requirement

You must have a NetBackup license that allows for cloud storage.

Microsoft Azure account requirements

You must obtain a Microsoft Azure storage account and at least one storage access key (primary access key or secondary access key).

Container names

Veritas recommends that you use NetBackup to create the container that you use with NetBackup.

The following are the NetBackup requirements for container names:

  • Container names must be from 3 through 63 characters long.

  • Container names must start with a letter or number, and can contain only letters, numbers, and the dash (-) character.

  • Every dash (-) character must be immediately preceded and followed by a letter or number; consecutive dashes are not permitted in container names.

  • All letters in a container name must be lowercase.

You can refer to the following link:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd135715.aspx

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