Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Fibre Channel Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.3.0.1, 3.2)
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 for 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 5240 Appliance total I/O on-board and PCIe ports
    4.  
      NetBackup 5250 Appliance rear panel I/O configuration options
    5.  
      NetBackup 5330 Appliance compute node PCIe slot I/O configuration options
    6.  
      Available NetBackup 5340 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
    7.  
      Available NetBackup 5350 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
  7. About the HBA port mode configuration
    1.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 5230 appliances
    2.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configuration for the NetBackup 5240 appliances
    3.  
      Supported Fibre Channel configurations for the NetBackup 5250 appliance
    4.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx appliances
    5.  
      About the factory default port mode configuration
    6.  
      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.  
      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.  
        How to configure two NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliances in different domains for MSDP replication
  11.  
    Index

About the HBA port mode configuration table

The port mode configuration table shows the details of the HBA ports that can be used for Fibre Transport Deduplication.

Fibre Transport Deduplication is a feature that enables you to use an appliance as a target host for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication.

You can configure an HBA port in the table to be in target mode or standard initiator mode.

Table: HBA port mode configuration describes the HBA port mode configuration table.

Table: HBA port mode configuration

Column Name

Description

Slot

This column shows the slot number of the HBA card on this appliance.

Port

This column shows the port number of the HBA ports.

Link Status

This column shows whether the HBA port is connected to a fabric switch or another port.

The link status on an HBA port can be the following:

  • up - connected

  • down - not connected

World Wide Name (WWN)

This column shows the port WWN. You can use the port WWN to identify a port on the appliance.

Port Mode

This column shows the configured port mode of an HBA port.

The available options for HBA port mode are the following:

  • Initiator - Standard initiator mode

  • Target (MSDP) - Target mode for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication

You can click on the current port mode, and then change the port mode configuration. If you change the port mode, you can see the new port mode with a red earmark.

You can click on the Restore FactoryDefaults option to restore the port configuration to the factory default state.

More Information

About the factory default port mode configuration

Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 5230 appliances

Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx appliances