Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Fibre Channel Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.0)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. About NetBackup Fibre Transport and SAN Client
    1.  
      About NetBackup Fibre Transport
    2. About NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport
      1.  
        About the SAN Client license key
  2. About optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FC
    1.  
      About Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication between appliances
  3. About backup to tape support
    1.  
      About backup to tape support for NetBackup appliances
  4. VMware support
    1. About NetBackup Appliance as a VMware backup host
      1.  
        NetBackup Appliance as backup host: component overview
      2.  
        Notes on NetBackup Appliance as a VMware backup host
    2.  
      About appliance dynamic multi-pathing for VMware backups with SAN transport
  5. Supported Fibre Channel features on NetBackup appliances
    1.  
      About supported Fibre Channel features on NetBackup appliances
    2.  
      Fibre Channel feature support with appliance HBA configurations
    3.  
      Supported data transfer methods for NetBackup appliances
    4.  
      About Fibre Transport paths for NetBackup appliances
  6. NetBackup Appliance rear panel configurations
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 5230 rear panel configurations
    2.  
      NetBackup 5240 Appliance I/O configuration options
    3.  
      NetBackup 5330 Appliance compute node PCIe slot I/O configuration options
    4.  
  7. About the HBA port mode configuration
    1.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 5220 and 5230 appliances
    2.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configuration for the NetBackup 5240 appliances
    3.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx appliances
    4.  
      About the factory default port mode configuration
    5.  
      Default port mode configuration for FTMS, optimized duplication, and Auto Image Replication
  8. Zoning the FC SAN
    1.  
      How to determine appliance HBA WWPNs
    2.  
      About zoning the SAN for NetBackup appliances
    3.  
      About HBA link status on the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
  9. About the Fibre Transport page on the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
    1. Settings > Network > Fibre Transport
      1.  
        About the HBA port mode configuration table
  10. Configuring Fibre Transport on the appliance
    1. How to configure Fibre Transport media server for SAN Client
      1.  
        Configuring Fibre Transport media server settings
      2.  
        About Fibre Transport media server verification
    2.  
      Guidelines for changing NetBackup appliance FT target ports to receive data streams from multiple SAN Client FC initiator ports
    3. How to configure Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FC
      1. Configuring Fibre Transport to other NetBackup appliances
        1.  
          About the Fibre Transport chunk size
      2.  
        Configuring Fibre Transport on a target appliance for optimized duplication and replication
      3.  
        About Fibre Transport Deduplication target mode port verification
      4.  
        How to configure two NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliances in different domains for MSDP replication

About Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication between appliances

For a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance, Fibre Transport (FT) provides high-speed traffic to another NetBackup appliance that supports FT. The traffic can be for optimized duplication or Auto Image Replication.

For optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FT, the source and target appliance must be a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance.

Note:

On the NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliances, the support for optimized duplication or Auto Image Replication over FT depends on the HBA configuration of each appliance.

See Fibre Channel feature support with appliance HBA configurations.

To use FT for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication, you must complete different FT settings on the source and the target appliances.

  • On the source appliance, you must enable FT for optimized duplication and replication to other appliances.

  • On the target appliance, you must enable FT for use as the target for optimized duplication and replication. You can customize the port configuration on the source and the target appliance. Note that the target mode and ports are different than those for SAN Client Fibre Transport media server (FTMS).

Note:

When you perform duplication or replication jobs from the NetBackup Administration Console, you can monitor the jobs by using the Activity Monitor. But in the Detailed Status tab, the Transport Type field always reports LAN for jobs over FC. To see the correct transport type, refer to the details in the Status box.