NetApp Cloud Backup(AltaVault) with Veritas NetBackup (OST)

NetApp has launched a cloud backup product range called AltaVault – essentially a rebranded version of Riverbed’s SteelStore, which it acquired in October 2014.

AltaVault enables customers to securely back up their data to the cloud through physical, virtual and cloud-based appliances featuring inline deduplication and compression – something that can reduce the bandwidth and storage requirements by as much as 90 percent.

AltaVault physical appliances AltaVault physical appliances are among the industry’s most scalable cloud-integrated storage appliances, with capacities ranging from 32TB up to 384TB of usable local cache. Enterprises often deploy AltaVault physical appliances in their data centers to protect large volumes of data. These datasets typically require the highest levels of performance and scalability available. AltaVault physical appliances are built on a scalable and efficient hardware platform that is optimized to reduce data footprints and rapidly stream data to the cloud.

It is simple to set up the AltaVault appliance. You can start moving data to the cloud in as little as 30 minutes; setting up tape or other disk replication infrastructures can take days. By leveraging industry-leading deduplication, compression, and WAN optimization technologies, AltaVault appliances shrink dataset sizes by 10 to 30 times. They also substantially reduce cloud storage costs, accelerate data transfers, and store more data within the local cache, speeding recovery.


Security is provided by encrypting data on site, in flight, as well as in the cloud using 256-bit AES encryption and SSL v3/TLS v1. AltaVault appliances provide a dual layer of encryption that prevents any data moved into the cloud from being compromised, and it creates a complete end-to-end security solution for cloud storage.

Login to Altavault.
Select Configure--> Setup wizard

Now setup the cloud settings.

Select the provider first.

If private cloud like openshift then user the provider as openshift.

Once you provide all the required credentials and Tenant details, then it will connect to cloud.

Now check the cloud information details (status --- connected).

Now create OST storage.

select Configure --> OST

Add OST share now.

Select the type is Regular or Cloud.

Create a OST user also.

Now login to Netbackup Admin console and configure the Disk storage servers.

Select the Open Storage.

Provide the Storage server type and OST share name with user credentials.

Successfully created OST storage server.

Then create Disk Pools. (Replication Source).

Successfully Disk Pool created then create a storage unit.

Creating a storage unit.

Successfully Disk Pool and Storage unit created.

Same as create another disk pool, for Replication Target.

Create OST cloud type share in Altavault and use this space as Target.

Successfully Disk pool and Storage Unit created.

Now create a Storage Life Cycle POlicy (SLP) for backup and Duplication.

Add SLP name and operation as backup and add one more operation for Duplication in replication Target.

Create a policy to take a backup using SLP.

Run a manual backup.

Backup process is active and begin writing to OST source storage in Altavault.

Backup done successfully.

After the successful backup, the Duplication process started and it stores the data in replication target from openshift container.

Now do a restore test, open BAR and select the image to restore.

Restore to its original location.

Check in the Activity Monitor, the restore process successfully completed.