Install Portworx Backup

Portworx Backup can be installed on-premises or on the cloud. Follow the steps in the section below based on your deployment location.

🗃Support matrices

These matrices outline the supported configurations for different components when deploying Portworx Backup in an on-prem environment.

🗃Install prerequisites

This topic outlines the necessary hardware and software prerequisites for installing Portworx Backup, ensuring optimal performance and support for various backup workloads. It covers requirements for different backup scales.

📄️Plan for installation

This topic outlines the key considerations and steps for planning the installation of Portworx Backup using Helm.

📄️Health check

The PXB 2.8.3 release enhances the installation and upgrade processes with robust validations, ensuring compatibility, performance, and reliability. As part of the Health check, it proactively verifies Kubernetes versions, namespace quotas, storage classes, and stale resources, offering actionable insights. Key updates include pre-upgrade health checks, streamlined frontend upgrades via Helm, warning aggregation, and support for diverse environments.

🗃Configure Prometheus

Configure your own Prometheus and Portworx Backup Prometheus for monitoring your clusters

🗃Install Portworx Backup

Learn how to prepare your clusters, whether they are internet-connected or in an air-gapped environment, before installing Portworx Backup.

🗃Install from cloud marketplaces

This topic provides guidance on how to get started with Portworx Backup by installing it from cloud marketplaces. It offers instructions for various cloud providers, allowing users to quickly deploy Portworx Backup directly from their chosen cloud marketplace.

🗃Apply Licenses

This topic explains the different types of licenses available for Portworx Backup and what each license type offers.

🗃Upgrade Portworx Backup

This topic provides a detailed guide for upgrading Portworx Backup to the most recent version. It explains the supported upgrade paths, including how to handle phased upgrades.

📄️Scale components

Scale up or Scale down Portworx Backup components, stateful sets, deployments

📄️Uninstall Portworx Backup

Uninstall Portworx Backup