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 HBA link status on the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu

The HBA link status on a Fibre Chanel (FC) HBA port shows the current FC link status on the port. By monitoring the link status, you can know whether a port is correctly connected or whether it is ready for work.

To monitor the HBA link status, run the Main > Manage > FibreChannel > Show [Ports] command from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu. The output shows the link status of all the HBA ports.

The following list shows the possible status of a port in the standard initiator mode:

  • Online

    • The initiator port is connected to an FC switch.

    • The initiator port is directly connected to a target port for SAN Client Fibre Transport media server (FTMS).

  • Offline

    The initiator port is connected to an FC switch but the negotiation has failed.

  • Linkdown

    The initiator port has no FC connection

The following list shows the possible link status of a port working in the target mode:

  • Online

    The target port is connected to an FC switch.

  • Offline

    The target port is connected to an FC switch but the negotiation has failed.

  • Linkdown

    The target port has no FC connection.

  • Unknown

    This is a transitional state when configuring a FTMS target port.

    Note:

    When a port is configured as a FTMS target port, the port enters into the Unknown state first. It may take up to 50 minutes for the Unknown state to become Online. For more information, refer to Tech Note 100043291.

  • Diagnostics

    This is a transitional state when configuring a FTMS target port.

To monitor the link status of the ports that are used to duplicate data between two 52xx or 53xx appliances, you can also use the NetBackup Appliance Web Console. The Settings > Network > FibreTransport page displays a simplified status of up or down for those ports.

More Information

About the HBA port mode configuration table