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  3. NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Data Center Administrator's Guide
  5. Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center installation
  7. Installing container platform (Docker, Podman)
NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Data Center Administrator's Guide

Installing container platform (Docker, Podman)

Table: Installing container platform

Platform

Description

Docker on Ubuntu

Supported version: Docker 18.09 and later

For detailed instructions on installing the Docker on Ubuntu, see Install Docker Engine on Ubuntu.

Docker on RHEL 7.x

Supported version: Docker 1.13.x and later

Use the following process to install Docker on RHEL.

  • Enable your subscriptions:

    # sudo subscription-manager register --auto-attach --username=<username> --password=<password>

    # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-extras-rpms

    # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

  • Install Docker using the following command:

    # sudo yum -y install docker

  • Reload the system manager configuration using the following command:

    # sudo systemctl daemon-reload

  • Enable and then restart the docker service using the following commands:

    # sudo systemctl enable docker

    # sudo systemctl restart docker

For detailed instructions on installing Docker on RHEL, see Getting Docker in RHEL 7.

If the docker is using the default storage driver (overlay2 or overlay) on XFS backed file system, then ensure that XFS FS has the ftype option set to 1. Use xfs_info to verify. For details, see Use the OverlayFS storage driver. Otherwise, you can use a different storage driver. For details, see Docker storage drivers.

Podman on RHEL 9, 8.6 and 8.4

Supported version: Podman 4.0.2 and later

Notes:

  • Enable your subscriptions:

    # sudo subscription-manager register --auto-attach --username=<username> --password=<password>

  • SELinux Enforcing mode is supported from Snapshot Manager for Data Center 10.4 onwards.

Ensure that the following services are enabled and running:

# systemctl enable podman-restart

# systemctl start podman-restart

# systemctl enable podman.socket

# systemctl start podman.socket

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