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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
- Preparing the SAN
- About zoning the SAN for Fibre Transport
- About zoning the SAN for Fibre Transport for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- About HBAs for SAN clients and Fibre Transport media servers
- About the 16-gigabit target mode HBAs for SAN clients and Fibre Transport media servers
- When selecting the HBA ports for SAN Client
- About supported SAN configurations for SAN Client
- Licensing SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Overview of 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
- Start nbhba mode
- Mark the Fibre Transport media server HBA ports
- Configure the media server Fibre Transport services
- Configure the media server Fibre Transport services for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- Display the FTMS state for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- Identify the HBA ports for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- Configuring SAN clients
- Configuring SAN clients in a cluster
- About configuring Fibre Transport properties
- Configure Fibre Transport properties
- Fibre Transport properties
- Configure SAN client usage preferences
- 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
- View the Fibre Transport logs
- About unified logging
- Stop and start the Fibre Transport services
- Stop and start the Fibre Transport services for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- Backups failover to LAN even though Fibre Transport devices available
- Kernel warning messages when Cohesity 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 not active
- No Fibre Transport devices discovered
- Appendix A. AIX specific configuration details
- AIX Reference Information
- Before you begin configuring NetBackup on AIX
- About AIX persistent naming support
- About configuring robotic control device files in AIX
- About device files for SAN Clients on AIX
- About non-QIC tape drives on AIX
- About no rewind device files on AIX
- Create AIX no rewind device files for tape drives
- Disable the AIX dynamic tracking
About FC attached devices
In nbhba mode, all devices that are attached to QLogic ISP2312 and ISP24xx HBA ports are unavailable. If disk or tape devices are attached to QLogic HBAs, those devices become unavailable. They remain unavailable until you exit nbhba mode on that computer.
Warning:
Do not configure HBAs on a computer that has a start device that is attached to a QLogic ISP2312 or ISP24xx port. If you do, the computer may become unbootable. If any critical file systems are mounted on any devices that are attached to a QLogic HBA, the computer also may become unbootable. Before you begin HBA configuration, dismount any file systems that are attached to a QLogic HBA.
To determine if devices are attached to QLogic HBAs, you should examine your devices and your mounted file systems.
You can configure the QLogic HBAs on a different NetBackup media server that does not contain a QLogic HBA connected start device. Then, you can install them in the NetBackup FT media servers and configure the FT services. Afterward, you should remove the nbhba driver from the media server on which you configured the HBAs.
The process also ends nbhba mode on that computer.
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