Veritas NetBackup™ SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide
- Introducing SAN Client and Fibre Transport
- Planning your deployment
- Planning your SAN Client deployment
- 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
- Preparing the SAN
- About zoning the SAN for Fibre Transport
- About zoning the SAN for Fibre Transport for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- About HBAs for SAN clients and Fibre Transport media servers
- About the 16-gigabit target mode HBAs for SAN clients and Fibre Transport media servers
- When selecting the HBA ports for SAN Client
- About supported SAN configurations for SAN Client
- 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 the media server Fibre Transport services for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- Displaying the FTMS state for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- Identifying the HBA ports for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- 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
- Enabling or disabling the Fibre Transport services
- Enabling or disabling the Fibre Transport services for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- Rescanning for Fibre Transport devices from a SAN client
- Viewing SAN Client Fibre Transport job details
- Viewing Fibre Transport traffic
- Adding a SAN client
- Deleting a SAN client
- 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
- Stopping and starting Fibre Transport services for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- 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
- Appendix A. AIX Specific Configuration Details
- Appendix B. HP-UX Specific Configuration Details
- HP-UX Reference Information
- Before you begin configuring NetBackup on HP-UX
- About HP-UX device drivers for legacy device files
- About legacy robotic control device files
- About legacy tape drive device files
- About legacy pass-through paths for tape drives
- Creating device files for SAN Clients on HP-UX
- About configuring legacy device files
- Index
Media server Fibre Transport device is offline
If NetBackup shows that a media server FT device is offline, the selected SAN client cannot detect the target mode driver on that media server. FT device status appears in the Media and Device Management > Devices > SAN Clients window of the NetBackup Administration Console. (An FT device represents the HBA target mode driver on a media server.)
An FT device may be offline because of the following:
The nbfdrv64 service on a media server is down. The nbfdrv64 service manages the target mode drivers; if it is down, the FT device is not available.
The physical connections between the SAN client and the SAN switch fail or were changed.
SAN zoning changes removed either the media server or the SAN client from the zone.
The SAN client failed the FT service validation.
If all media server FT devices for a client are offline, troubleshoot in the following order:
Verify that the SAN client FT service validation passes.
Verify that the physical connections from the SAN client to the SAN switch are correct.
Verify that the SAN zones are correct.
Verify that the nbfdrv64 service is active on each media server.
To determine if the nbfdrv64 service is down, use the operating system process status command to examine the processes on the media server. Both nbftsrvr and nbfdrv64 should be active.
If the services do not start, examine the log files for those services to determine why they do not start.