Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Fibre Channel Guide
- About NetBackup Fibre Transport and SAN Client
- About optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FC
- About backup to tape support
- VMware support
- Supported Fibre Channel features on NetBackup appliances
- NetBackup Appliance rear panel configurations
- About the HBA port mode configuration
- Zoning the FC SAN
- About the Fibre Transport page on the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- Configuring Fibre Transport on the appliance
- How to configure Fibre Transport media server for SAN Client
- How to configure Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FC
- Configuring Fibre Transport to other NetBackup appliances
How to configure Fibre Transport media server for SAN Client
Table: FT media server configuration process provides an overview of how to configure the Fibre Transport media server(FTMS) on the appliance.
Table: FT media server configuration process
Step | Action | Description |
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Step 1 | Determine whether your appliance HBA configuration supports FTMS. | Identify your appliance HBA configuration. See About the NetBackup 5230 rear panel configurations. See NetBackup 5240 Appliance I/O configuration options. See NetBackup 5330 Appliance compute node PCIe slot I/O configuration options. Determine whether your appliance HBA configuration supports FTMS. See Fibre Channel feature support with appliance HBA configurations. |
Step 2 | Learn about SAN Client and FTMS for NetBackup appliance. | |
Step 3 | Learn about HBA port reservation and default port mode for FTMS. | |
Step 4 | Create Fibre Transport (FT) backup zones. | Select HBA ports and learn about zoning best practices. See About zoning the SAN for NetBackup appliances. Determine the appliance HBA WWPNs for zoning. |
Step 5 | Enable FTMS on the appliance. | To use FT for backups to the appliance, you must enable FTMS on the appliance. |
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