Veritas NetBackup™ SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide
- Introducing SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Planning your deployment
- Planning your SAN Client deployment
- SAN Client operational notes
- About SAN Client storage destinations
- How to choose SAN Client and Fibre Transport hosts
- About NetBackup SAN Client support for agents
- About NetBackup SAN Client support for clustering
- About NetBackup SAN Client support for Windows Hyper-V Server
- About NetBackup SAN Client unsupported restores
- About Fibre Transport throughput
- Converting a SAN media server to a SAN client
- Preparing the SAN
- Licensing SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Configuring a Fibre Transport media server
- About the target mode driver
- About nbhba mode and the ql2300_stub driver
- About FC attached devices
- How to identify the HBA ports
- About HBA port detection on Solaris
- About Fibre Transport media servers and VLANs
- Starting nbhba mode
- Marking the Fibre Transport media server HBA ports
- Configuring the media server Fibre Transport services
- Configuring SAN clients
- Configuring SAN clients in a cluster
- About configuring Fibre Transport properties
- Configuring Fibre Transport properties
- Fibre Transport properties
- About SAN client usage preferences
- Configuring SAN client usage preferences
- Managing SAN clients and Fibre Transport
- Disabling SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Troubleshooting SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- About troubleshooting SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- SAN Client troubleshooting tech note
- Viewing Fibre Transport logs
- About unified logging
- Stopping and starting Fibre Transport services
- Backups failover to LAN even though Fibre Transport devices available
- Kernel warning messages when Veritas modules load
- SAN client service does not start
- SAN client Fibre Transport service validation
- SAN client does not select Fibre Transport
- Media server Fibre Transport device is offline
- No Fibre Transport devices discovered
- Appendix A. AIX Specific Configuration Details
- Appendix B. HP-UX Specific Configuration Details
- HP-UX Reference Information
- Before you begin configuring NetBackup on HP-UX
- About HP-UX device drivers for legacy device files
- About legacy robotic control device files
- About legacy tape drive device files
- About legacy pass-through paths for tape drives
- Creating device files for SAN Clients on HP-UX
- About configuring legacy device files
- Index
About legacy pass-through paths for tape drives
Although NetBackup requires the /dev/rmt device files to configure tape drives, NetBackup uses pass-through device files for drive access.
On media servers, NetBackup automatically creates pass-through device files if the appropriate/dev/rmt tape drive device files exist. NetBackup creates the pass-through device files in the /dev/sctl directory.
NetBackup does not modify or delete any existing pass-through paths.
NetBackup does not detect the type of adapter cards that are installed in the system. Therefore, NetBackup creates pass-through paths for tape drives connected to the adapter cards that do not support pass through. These pass-through paths do not cause problems.
Although NetBackup uses the pass-through device files during tape drive operations, you specify the /dev/rmt device files when you configure the drives in NetBackup. NetBackup then uses the appropriate pass-through device files.
Usually, you do not have to create pass-through paths for drives. However, instructions to do so are provided for reference.
NetBackup SAN clients require legacy pass-through device files.
Note:
Pass-through paths are not supported on HP-PB adapters such asHP28696A - Wide SCSI or HP 28655A - SE SCSI.