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
About the factory default port mode configuration
All Fibre Channel (FC) HBA ports on the NetBackup 52xx and 53xx appliance default to the standard initiator mode. However, to use the appliance as a target for hosting backup images from SAN clients or from another appliance, you need to use the ports in target mode.
The NetBackup Appliance provides a predefined target port configuration for the following features:
Fibre Transport media server (FTMS) for SAN client backup and restore
Optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FC
When you enable the FC features for the first time, the predefined port configuration is applied. However, if you have customized the port configuration used by a feature before you enable the feature, the customized port configuration is used instead.
Note:
Two FC HBA cards are reserved for FTMS. Only the reserved cards are used for FTMS.
On an appliance that supports FTMS, target port option can be set to either of the following:
When you enable this feature, the default option is
, and Port 1 on both of the two cards is changed to the target mode. This option always uses Port 1 on both of the FC HBA cards.The
always uses Port 1 and Port 2 on both of the reserved FC HBA cards.The default port configuration may not use all of the available FC HBA cards. For example, the FC HBA card in slot 4 on 5230 E configuration is not used.
When you assign initiator ports for the appliance as a source host, you can use any HBA port as initiators except those ports that default to FTMS target ports (Port 1 on the FTMS-reserved FC HBA cards). This is because the appliance only turn those HBA ports from the standard initiator mode to the target mode when the feature is working.
If you have changed the port configuration, the customized port configuration takes effect. However, you can restore the default port configuration.
Note:
In the predefined configuration, Port 2 on each card is used as a target port. Port 1 stays in the standard initiator mode, but is not used until you enable Fibre Transport on the appliance as a source.
See Configuring Fibre Transport media server settings.
See Configuring Fibre Transport on a target appliance for optimized duplication and replication.
See Default port mode configuration for FTMS, optimized duplication, and Auto Image Replication.