Symantec NetBackup, Manual

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About the Nirvanix storage pool
Use only one Nirvanix storage pool for each NetBackup backup domain. Storage
pool names must be unique among all users of Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network.
You must use NetBackup to create the Nirvanix storage pool for your NetBackup
backups. The storage pools that NetBackup creates contain a required Symantec
Partner Key. If you use the Nirvanix Management Portal to create the storage
pool, it does not contain the partner key. Consequently, that storage pool cannot
accept data from NetBackup.
When you create the storage server and then set its properties, NetBackup creates
the storage pool and the first child account.
Caution:
Never change the name of your Nirvanix storage pool after you configure
Nirvanix storage in NetBackup.
Note: Nirvanix uses the terms application and storage pool interchangeably in
their documentation.
About Nirvanix child accounts
A Nirvanix child account represents storage on the Nirvanix Storage Delivery
Network. In the Nirvanix SDN, a child account is subordinate to a storage pool.
NetBackup creates a child account when you configure Nirvanix storage in
NetBackup. You can create additional child accounts for your storage pool. Each
child account must have a unique name.
Note:
The password for each child account you create must be the same as its
name. For the child account NetBackup creates, NetBackup uses the child account
name for the password.
A child account is exposed to NetBackup as a single volume through the
OpenStorage API. If a Nirvanix storage pool has more than one child account,
each is exposed as a volume. You add the volume or volumes to a NetBackup disk
pool.
See “About OpenStorage disk pools” on page 63.
If you use encryption, each Nirvanix child account you use for NetBackup storage
requires a key group and a key record.
See “About the Nirvanix storage pool” on page 73.
See “About multiple Nirvanix child accounts” on page 74.
73 Planning your deployment
About Nirvanix cloud storage