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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide
  3. Section I. CloudPoint installation and configuration
  4. Preparing for CloudPoint installation
  5. CloudPoint host sizing recommendations
  6. CloudPoint sizing recommendations for cloud platforms
Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide

CloudPoint sizing recommendations for cloud platforms

Note the following important points considering the standard sizing configurations:

  • 20% of instances connected to CloudPoint host and performing granular restore and application consistent snapshots.

  • Each protected instance has 3 disks of 100GB size attached.

  • Protection cycle is twice daily with retention period of 3 months.

  • /cloudpoint volume size is 50 GB or more for 400 instances and volume size is 100 GB or more for 500 instances.

  • Based on cloud platform and instance types, if applicable, ensure appropriate CPU credits are available for selected instance types.

The following table provides configuration examples for the CloudPoint host:

Table: Google Cloud Platform

CloudPoint host

vCPU

Memory

Instances

  • n1-standard-2

  • n2-standard-2

2

8

200

  • n1-standard-4

  • n2-standard-4

4

16

400

  • n1-standard-16

  • n2-standard-16

8

32

500

Table: Amazon Web Services

CloudPoint host

vCPU

Memory

Instances

  • t2.large

  • t3.large

  • m4.large

2

8

200

  • t2.xlarge

  • t3.xlarge

  • t3a.xlarge

4

16

400

  • m5.4xlarge

  • m4.4xlarge

8

32

500

Table: Microsoft Azure

CloudPoint host

vCPU

Memory

Instances

  • Standard_B2ms

  • Standard_D2s_v3

  • Standard_D2_v4, standard_D2s_v4

  • Standard_D2d_v4, Standard_D2ds_v4

2

8

200

  • Standard_B4ms

  • Standard_D4s_v3

  • Standard_D4_v4, standard_D8s_v4

  • Standard_D4d_v4, standard_D4ds_v4

4

16

400

  • Standard_B16ms

  • Standard_D16s_v3

  • Standard_D16_v4, standard_D16s_v4

  • Standard_D16d_v4, Standard_D16ds_v4

8

32

500

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