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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 SAN clients
A NetBackup SAN client is a NetBackup client on which the Fibre Transport service is activated. The SAN client is similar to the NetBackup SAN media server that is used for the Shared Storage Option; it backs up its own data. However, the SAN client is based on the smaller NetBackup client installation package, so it has fewer administration requirements and uses fewer system resources.
Usually, a SAN client contains critical data that requires high bandwidth for backups. It connects to a NetBackup media server over Fibre Channel.
The NetBackup SAN Client Fibre Transport Service manages the connectivity and the data transfers for the FT pipe on the SAN clients. The SAN client FT service also discovers FT target mode devices on the NetBackup media servers and notifies the FT Service Manager about them.