Veritas NetBackup™ SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.1, 8.1)
  1. Introducing SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    2.  
      About Fibre Transport
    3.  
      About Fibre Transport media servers
    4.  
      About SAN clients
    5.  
      About the Fibre Transport Service Manager
    6.  
      About NetBackup Release Notes
  2. Planning your deployment
    1.  
      Planning your SAN Client deployment
    2.  
      About SAN Client best practices
    3.  
      SAN Client operational notes
    4. About SAN Client storage destinations
      1.  
        About SAN Client disk storage destinations
      2. About SAN Client tape storage destinations
        1.  
          SAN Client tape storage limitations
    5.  
      How to choose SAN Client and Fibre Transport hosts
    6.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client support for agents
    7.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client support for clustering
    8.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client support for Windows Hyper-V Server
    9.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client unsupported restores
    10.  
      About Fibre Transport throughput
    11.  
      Converting a SAN media server to a SAN client
  3. Preparing the SAN
    1.  
      Preparing the SAN
    2.  
      About zoning the SAN for Fibre Transport
    3.  
      About HBAs for SAN clients and Fibre Transport media servers
    4.  
      When selecting the HBA ports for SAN Client
    5.  
      About supported SAN configurations for SAN Client
  4. Licensing SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      About SAN Client installation
    2.  
      About the SAN Client license key
    3.  
      When upgrading SAN Client and Fibre Transport
  5. Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    2. Configuring a Fibre Transport media server
      1.  
        About the target mode driver
      2.  
        About nbhba mode and the ql2300_stub driver
      3.  
        About FC attached devices
      4.  
        How to identify the HBA ports
      5.  
        About HBA port detection on Solaris
      6.  
        About Fibre Transport media servers and VLANs
      7.  
        Starting nbhba mode
      8.  
        Marking the Fibre Transport media server HBA ports
      9.  
        Configuring the media server Fibre Transport services
    3. Configuring SAN clients
      1.  
        About configuring firewalls for SAN clients
      2.  
        SAN client driver requirements
      3.  
        Configuring the SAN client Fibre Transport service
    4. Configuring SAN clients in a cluster
      1.  
        Registering a SAN client cluster virtual name
      2.  
        Setting NetBackup configuration options by using the command line
    5.  
      About configuring Fibre Transport properties
    6.  
      Configuring Fibre Transport properties
    7. Fibre Transport properties
      1.  
        About Linux concurrent FT connections
    8.  
      About SAN client usage preferences
    9. Configuring SAN client usage preferences
      1.  
        SAN client usage preferences
  6. Managing SAN clients and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      Enabling or disabling the Fibre Transport services
    2.  
      Rescanning for Fibre Transport devices from a SAN client
    3.  
      Viewing SAN Client Fibre Transport job details
    4.  
      Viewing Fibre Transport traffic
    5.  
      Adding a SAN client
    6.  
      Deleting a SAN client
  7. Disabling SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      About disabling SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    2.  
      Disabling a SAN client
    3.  
      Disabling a Fibre Transport media server
  8. Troubleshooting SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      About troubleshooting SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    2.  
      SAN Client troubleshooting tech note
    3.  
      Viewing Fibre Transport logs
    4. About unified logging
      1.  
        About using the vxlogview command to view unified logs
      2.  
        Examples of using vxlogview to view unified logs
    5.  
      Stopping and starting Fibre Transport services
    6.  
      Backups failover to LAN even though Fibre Transport devices available
    7.  
      Kernel warning messages when Veritas modules load
    8.  
      SAN client service does not start
    9.  
      SAN client Fibre Transport service validation
    10.  
      SAN client does not select Fibre Transport
    11.  
      Media server Fibre Transport device is offline
    12.  
      No Fibre Transport devices discovered

SAN client Fibre Transport service validation

The SAN Client Fibre Transport Service (nbftclnt) validates the client system's kernel and driver stack when it starts and during device discovery. Validation verifies that the kernel and the drivers are at supported levels.

If validation succeeds, the SAN client supports FT pipe transfers; FT pipe transfer can occur. If validation fails, FT pipe transfer cannot occur.

To manage the validation failure, the following occurs:

  • The SAN Client Fibre Transport Service writes check driver messages in its log file.

  • NetBackup sets the FT device status to offline for all FT target devices in the client's SAN zone. (For other clients in the zone that pass the validation, the FT devices are online.)

To see the FT device status from the client, select the client in the Media and Device Management > Devices > SAN Clients window in the NetBackup Administration Console.

The check driver messages in the nbftclnt log file are similar to the following:

VerifyCheckConditions:failed on <OS Device Name> - check driver
VerifyCheckConditions:failed on <OS Device Name>; <System Error 
Message>

The following describes the variables in the messages:

  • OS Device Name is the device name the SAN Client uses to open the OS device driver.

  • System Error Message can be any OS-dependent system error message for a failure that is associated with the request.

If validation fails, install the correct operating system version, operating system patches, or driver version.

For supported kernel and driver levels, see the NetBackup Release Notes.