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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring cloud storage in NetBackup
  4. Cloud installation requirements
Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

Cloud installation requirements

When you develop a plan to implement a NetBackup Cloud solution, use Table: Cloud installation requirements to assist with your plan.

Table: Cloud installation requirements

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NetBackup media server platform support

For the operating systems that NetBackup supports for cloud storage, see the NetBackup operating system compatibility list available through the following URL:

http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility

When you install the NetBackup media server software on your host, ensure that you specify the fully-qualified domain name for the NetBackup server name.

Cloud storage provider account

You must have an account created with your preferred cloud storage provider before you configure NetBackup Cloud Storage. Please refer to the list of available NetBackup cloud storage providers.

You can create this account in the Cloud Storage Configuration Wizard.

See About the cloud storage vendors for NetBackup.

NetBackup cloud storage licensing

NetBackup cloud storage is licensed separately from base NetBackup.

The license also enables the Use Accelerator feature on the NetBackup policy Attributes tab. Accelerator increases the speed of full backups for files systems.

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