Veritas NetBackup™ SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.1, 8.1)
  1. Introducing SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    2.  
      About Fibre Transport
    3.  
      About Fibre Transport media servers
    4.  
      About SAN clients
    5.  
      About the Fibre Transport Service Manager
    6.  
      About NetBackup Release Notes
  2. Planning your deployment
    1.  
      Planning your SAN Client deployment
    2.  
      About SAN Client best practices
    3.  
      SAN Client operational notes
    4. About SAN Client storage destinations
      1.  
        About SAN Client disk storage destinations
      2. About SAN Client tape storage destinations
        1.  
          SAN Client tape storage limitations
    5.  
      How to choose SAN Client and Fibre Transport hosts
    6.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client support for agents
    7.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client support for clustering
    8.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client support for Windows Hyper-V Server
    9.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client unsupported restores
    10.  
      About Fibre Transport throughput
    11.  
      Converting a SAN media server to a SAN client
  3. Preparing the SAN
    1.  
      Preparing the SAN
    2.  
      About zoning the SAN for Fibre Transport
    3.  
      About HBAs for SAN clients and Fibre Transport media servers
    4.  
      When selecting the HBA ports for SAN Client
    5.  
      About supported SAN configurations for SAN Client
  4. Licensing SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      About SAN Client installation
    2.  
      About the SAN Client license key
    3.  
      When upgrading SAN Client and Fibre Transport
  5. Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    2. Configuring a Fibre Transport media server
      1.  
        About the target mode driver
      2.  
        About nbhba mode and the ql2300_stub driver
      3.  
        About FC attached devices
      4.  
        How to identify the HBA ports
      5.  
        About HBA port detection on Solaris
      6.  
        About Fibre Transport media servers and VLANs
      7.  
        Starting nbhba mode
      8.  
        Marking the Fibre Transport media server HBA ports
      9.  
        Configuring the media server Fibre Transport services
    3. Configuring SAN clients
      1.  
        About configuring firewalls for SAN clients
      2.  
        SAN client driver requirements
      3.  
        Configuring the SAN client Fibre Transport service
    4. Configuring SAN clients in a cluster
      1.  
        Registering a SAN client cluster virtual name
      2.  
        Setting NetBackup configuration options by using the command line
    5.  
      About configuring Fibre Transport properties
    6.  
      Configuring Fibre Transport properties
    7. Fibre Transport properties
      1.  
        About Linux concurrent FT connections
    8.  
      About SAN client usage preferences
    9. Configuring SAN client usage preferences
      1.  
        SAN client usage preferences
  6. Managing SAN clients and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      Enabling or disabling the Fibre Transport services
    2.  
      Rescanning for Fibre Transport devices from a SAN client
    3.  
      Viewing SAN Client Fibre Transport job details
    4.  
      Viewing Fibre Transport traffic
    5.  
      Adding a SAN client
    6.  
      Deleting a SAN client
  7. Disabling SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      About disabling SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    2.  
      Disabling a SAN client
    3.  
      Disabling a Fibre Transport media server
  8. Troubleshooting SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      About troubleshooting SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    2.  
      SAN Client troubleshooting tech note
    3.  
      Viewing Fibre Transport logs
    4. About unified logging
      1.  
        About using the vxlogview command to view unified logs
      2.  
        Examples of using vxlogview to view unified logs
    5.  
      Stopping and starting Fibre Transport services
    6.  
      Backups failover to LAN even though Fibre Transport devices available
    7.  
      Kernel warning messages when Veritas modules load
    8.  
      SAN client service does not start
    9.  
      SAN client Fibre Transport service validation
    10.  
      SAN client does not select Fibre Transport
    11.  
      Media server Fibre Transport device is offline
    12.  
      No Fibre Transport devices discovered

Converting a SAN media server to a SAN client

Table: How to convert from a SAN media server to a SAN client provides an overview of how to convert a SAN media server to a SAN client. The computer host name remains the same. This procedure assumes that all NetBackup server run a release that supports the SAN Client feature.

Table: How to convert from a SAN media server to a SAN client

Step

Task

Instructions

Step 1

Delete the SAN media server

Do the following:

  • In the NetBackup Administration Console, in the left pane, select Media and Device Management > Devices > Media Servers.

  • Select the host.

  • Select Actions > Enterprise Media Manager Database > Remove Device Host.

Step 2

Uninstall the SAN media server software

See the NetBackup Installation Guide for UNIX and Windows:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Step 3

Prepare for Fibre Transport

Prepare the SAN for Fibre Transport and install the HBAs on the Fibre Transport hosts and SAN client hosts.

See Preparing the SAN.

Step 4

Connect the storage to the FT media server host

Connect the SAN media server storage device to the FT media server for the new SAN client. For disk storage, mount the storage if necessary.

See Preparing the SAN.

Step 5

Install the NetBackup media server software

Install the media server software on the hosts to function as Fibre Transport media servers.

See the NetBackup Installation Guide for UNIX and Windows:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Step 6

Configure the FT media servers

See Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport.

Step 7

Install the NetBackup client software

Install the client software on the host that was the SAN media server.

See the NetBackup Installation Guide for UNIX and Windows:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Step 8

Configure the SAN client

See Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport.

Step 9

Configure alternate server restore

Because the current host is no longer a media server, configure an alternate server restore and specify the FT media server as the Restore server. NetBackup then uses the FT media server to restore the images that were associated with the SAN media server.

See Media host override in the General Server properties of the Master Server Host Properties.

After all of the images that were associated with the SAN media server expire, you can unconfigure the alternate server restore.