Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Fibre Channel Guide

Last Published:
Product(s): Appliances (4.0)
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 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. How to configure Fibre Transport media server for SAN Client
      1.  
        Configuring Fibre Transport media server settings
      2.  
        Configuring Fibre Transport settings
      3.  
        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.  
        About Fibre Transport target mode verification (model 5350 only)
      5.  
        How to configure two NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliances in different domains for MSDP replication
  11.  
    Index

About Fibre Transport paths for NetBackup appliances

Table: Appliance Fibre Transport targets shows the backup, restore, and duplication paths for NetBackup Fibre Transport (FT) for NetBackup appliances. It also shows the FT settings from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console that enable a functionality.

FT requires the following appliance software versions:

  • NetBackup 52xx and 53xx appliances must use software version 2.7.3 and later on both the source host and the target host to duplicate data.

Table: Appliance Fibre Transport targets

Function

From

To

Backups

NetBackup SAN client.

NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance.

The appliance is the backup server and the storage host.

Restores

NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance.

The appliance is the restore server and the storage host.

NetBackup SAN client.

Duplication

NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance.

NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance.

About appliance duplication paths

Figure: Appliance duplication paths between 52xx or 53xx appliances shows the duplication paths from a 52xx or 53xx appliance to another NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance.

Figure: Appliance duplication paths between 52xx or 53xx appliances

Appliance deduplication path diagram between 52xx or 53xx appliances

The following items describe the Fibre Transport path for duplication:

  • Duplication from the 52xx or 53xx appliance over FT to the other 52xx or 53xx appliance.

    The duplication source and destination must both be MSDP. The operation is optimized duplication and only the unique deduplicated segments are transferred.

The following describes the resiliency available for FT jobs:

  • Multiple FT paths can exist between hosts.

  • Back up, restore, and duplication jobs failover to other FT paths if they exist. If no other FT paths are available, jobs fail.

  • Optimized duplication jobs failover to other FT paths if they exist. If no other FT paths are available, they failover to the Ethernet network. If no FT connection or IP connection exists, optimized duplication jobs fail.

  • If no FT connections exist, NetBackup uses an IP connection for new jobs.

About SAN client backup and restore paths

Figure: SAN client backup and restore paths shows the possible backup and restore paths for a NetBackup SAN client.

Figure: SAN client backup and restore paths

SAN client backup and restore paths

The following items describe the paths in Figure: SAN client backup and restore paths:

  • FT between the client and the 52xx or 53xx appliance. The backups reside on disk storage on the appliance. You can use FT both for backups to deduplication storage and backups to AdvancedDisk storage.

  • FT between the client and a 52xx or 53xx appliance, and then FC between the appliance and the tape library. The traffic travels through two different SAN zones. The backups are not deduplicated.

About LAN client backup and restore paths

Figure: LAN client backup and restore paths shows the possible backup and restore paths for a NetBackup client over a LAN.

Figure: LAN client backup and restore paths

LAN  client backup and restore paths

The following items describe the paths in Figure: LAN client backup and restore paths:

  • Ethernet between the client and the 52xx or 53xx appliance. The backups reside on either deduplicated storage or AdvancedDisk storage on the appliance.

  • Ethernet between the client and the 52xx or 53xx appliance, and then FC between the appliance and the tape library. The backups are not deduplicated.