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NetBackup™ SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (11.1)
  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.  
      Supported systems and periphials
  2. Planning your deployment
    1.  
      Planning your SAN Client deployment
    2.  
      SAN Client operational notes
    3. 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
    4.  
      How to choose SAN Client and Fibre Transport hosts
    5.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client support for agents
    6.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client support for clustering
    7.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client support for Windows Hyper-V Server
    8.  
      About NetBackup SAN Client unsupported restores
    9.  
      About Fibre Transport throughput
    10.  
      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 zoning the SAN for Fibre Transport for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
    4.  
      About HBAs for SAN clients and Fibre Transport media servers
    5.  
      About the 16-gigabit target mode HBAs for SAN clients and Fibre Transport media servers
    6.  
      When selecting the HBA ports for SAN Client
    7.  
      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
    3.  
      When upgrading SAN Client and Fibre Transport
  5. Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      Overview of 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.  
        Start nbhba mode
      8.  
        Mark the Fibre Transport media server HBA ports
      9.  
        Configure the media server Fibre Transport services
      10.  
        Configure the media server Fibre Transport services for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
      11.  
        Display the FTMS state for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
      12.  
        Identify the HBA ports for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
    3. Configuring SAN clients
      1.  
        About configuring firewalls for SAN clients
      2.  
        SAN client driver requirements
      3.  
        Configure the SAN Client Fibre Transport service
    4. Configuring SAN clients in a cluster
      1.  
        Register a SAN client cluster virtual name
      2.  
        Setting NetBackup configuration options by using the command line
    5.  
      About configuring Fibre Transport properties
    6.  
      Configure Fibre Transport properties
    7. Fibre Transport properties
      1.  
        About Linux concurrent FT connections
    8.  
      Configure SAN client usage preferences
    9.  
      SAN client usage preferences
  6. Managing SAN clients and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      Enable or disable the Fibre Transport services
    2.  
      Enable or disable the Fibre Transport services for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
    3.  
      Rescan for Fibre Transport devices from a SAN client
    4.  
      View the SAN client Fibre Transport job details
    5.  
      View the Fibre Transport traffic
    6.  
      Delete a SAN client
  7. Disabling SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      Disable a SAN client
    2.  
      Disable a Fibre Transport media server
    3.  
      Disable a Fibre Transport media server for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
  8. Troubleshooting SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    1.  
      About troubleshooting SAN Client and Fibre Transport
    2.  
      SAN Client troubleshooting tech note
    3.  
      View the 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.  
      Stop and start the Fibre Transport services
    6.  
      Stop and start the Fibre Transport services for a 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
    7.  
      Backups failover to LAN even though Fibre Transport devices available
    8.  
      Kernel warning messages when Cohesity modules load
    9.  
      SAN client service does not start
    10.  
      SAN Client Fibre Transport Service validation
    11.  
      SAN client does not select Fibre Transport
    12.  
      Media server Fibre Transport device is not active
    13.  
      No Fibre Transport devices discovered
  9. Appendix A. AIX specific configuration details
    1.  
      AIX Reference Information
    2.  
      Before you begin configuring NetBackup on AIX
    3.  
      About AIX persistent naming support
    4.  
      About configuring robotic control device files in AIX
    5.  
      About device files for SAN Clients on AIX
    6.  
      About non-QIC tape drives on AIX
    7.  
      About no rewind device files on AIX
    8.  
      Create AIX no rewind device files for tape drives
    9.  
      Disable the AIX dynamic tracking

Start nbhba mode

Before you mark HBA ports, you must start nbhba mode, which binds the ql2300_stub driver to the QLogic HBA ports.

To start nbhba mode, see the following:

You must be the root user.

To start nbhba mode on Linux

  1. Ensure that the HBAs are not connected to the SAN.
  2. Invoke the nbftsrv_config -nbhba command and option. The computer enters nbhba mode. The following is an example; output on your system may differ:
    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbftsrv_config -nbhba
Installing nbhba driver.
Are you sure you want to unload QLogic driver: qla2300? [y,n] 
(y)
  3. Answer y to unload the QLogic driver. The process continues as follows:

    Removing qla2300

    Note:

    For Linux operating systems, warning messages may be displayed in the console or the system log when the ql2300_stub driver is loaded into the kernel.

    See Kernel warning messages when Cohesity modules load.

  4. Continue by marking the HBA ports.

    See Mark the Fibre Transport media server HBA ports.

To start nbhba mode on Solaris

  1. Ensure that the HBAs are not connected to the SAN.
  2. Invoke the nbftsrv_config -nbhba command and option. The computer enters nbhba mode. The following is an example; output on your system may differ:
    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbftsrv_config -nbhba
Installing nbhba driver.
Waiting for driver references to ql2300_stub to free up (this 
may take some time).
The following driver aliases need to be removed:
qlc "pci1077,2312.1077.10a"
Would you like to run update_drv to remove these now? [y,n] (y)
  3. Answer y to remove any driver aliases. The process continues as follows:
    /usr/sbin/update_drv -v -d -i "pci1077,2312.1077.10a" qlc
Done copying driver into system directories.
Done adding driver.
MUST REBOOT TO COMPLETE INSTALLATION.
  4. Restart the host.
  5. Continue by marking the HBA ports.

    See Mark the Fibre Transport media server HBA ports.