Veritas NetBackup™ SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide
- Introducing SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Planning your deployment
- Planning your SAN Client deployment
- About SAN Client best practices
- SAN Client operational notes
- About SAN Client storage destinations
- How to choose SAN Client and Fibre Transport hosts
- About NetBackup SAN Client support for agents
- About NetBackup SAN Client support for clustering
- About NetBackup SAN Client support for Windows Hyper-V Server
- About NetBackup SAN Client unsupported restores
- About Fibre Transport throughput
- Converting a SAN media server to a SAN client
- Preparing the SAN
- Licensing SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Configuring a Fibre Transport media server
- About the target mode driver
- About nbhba mode and the ql2300_stub driver
- About FC attached devices
- How to identify the HBA ports
- About HBA port detection on Solaris
- About Fibre Transport media servers and VLANs
- Starting nbhba mode
- Marking the Fibre Transport media server HBA ports
- Configuring the media server Fibre Transport services
- Configuring SAN clients
- Configuring SAN clients in a cluster
- About configuring Fibre Transport properties
- Configuring Fibre Transport properties
- Fibre Transport properties
- About SAN client usage preferences
- Configuring SAN client usage preferences
- Managing SAN clients and Fibre Transport
- Disabling SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Troubleshooting SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- About troubleshooting SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- SAN Client troubleshooting tech note
- Viewing Fibre Transport logs
- About unified logging
- Stopping and starting Fibre Transport services
- Backups failover to LAN even though Fibre Transport devices available
- Kernel warning messages when Veritas modules load
- SAN client service does not start
- SAN client Fibre Transport service validation
- SAN client does not select Fibre Transport
- Media server Fibre Transport device is offline
- No Fibre Transport devices discovered
About the target mode driver
On NetBackup FT media servers, QLogic Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) ports connect to the NetBackup SAN clients. Veritas provides a special target mode driver for the ports on those HBAs. Those ports must operate in target mode; the target mode driver replaces the default, initiator mode driver. Target mode applies only to QLogic HBAs; the target mode configuration process affects only QLogic HBA ports.
After the target mode driver binds to the HBA ports, those ports appear as two ARCHIVE Python tape devices during SCSI inquiry. However, they are not tape devices and do not appear as tape devices in NetBackup device discovery. Each port appears as two tape devices because operating systems allow only one data stream per port. Two pseudo tape devices for each port increases throughput.