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  2. Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Deploying Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup
  4. Pre-deployment requirements
  5. Deployment checklist
Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide

Deployment checklist

Use the following checklist to track deployment readiness and progress.

  • Confirm that all hardware is provisioned and available.

  • Verify that operating systems are installed and updated.

  • Configure physical IP addresses on all nodes.

  • Validate network connectivity between all components.

  • Verify that required firewall ports are open.

  • Validate that supported versions of NetBackup, Direct-IO plug-in, and Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup.

  • Create required NetBackup access keys.

  • Validate access key connectivity from all nodes. Verify forward and reverse DNS

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