Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Fibre Channel Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.1.1, 3.1)
  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 5330 Appliance compute node PCIe slot I/O configuration options
    4.  
      Available 5340 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
  7. About the HBA port mode configuration
    1.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 5220 and 5230 appliances
    2.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configuration for the NetBackup 5240 appliances
    3.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx appliances
    4.  
      About the factory default port mode configuration
    5.  
      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.  
        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.  
        How to configure two NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliances in different domains for MSDP replication

About the factory default port mode configuration

All Fibre Channel (FC) HBA ports on the NetBackup 52xx and 53xx appliance default to the standard initiator mode. However, to use the appliance as a target for hosting backup images from SAN clients or from another appliance, you need to use the ports in target mode.

The NetBackup appliance provides a predefined target port configuration for the following features:

  • Fibre Transport media server (FTMS) for SAN client backup and restore

  • Optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FC

When you enable the FC features for the first time, the predefined port configuration is applied. However, if you have customized the port configuration used by a feature before you enable the feature, the customized port configuration is used instead.

About the FTMS target port configuration

Note:

Two FC HBA cards are reserved for FTMS. Only the reserved cards are used for FTMS.

On an appliance that supports FTMS, target port option can be set to either of the following:

  • 2 target port Fibre Channel connection

  • 4 target port Fibre Channel connection

When you enable this feature, the default option is 2 target port Fibre Channel connection, and Port 1 on both of the two cards is changed to the target mode. This option always uses Port 1 on both of the FC HBA cards.

The 4 target port Fibre Channel connection always uses Port 1 and Port 2 on both of the reserved FC HBA cards.

About the default port configuration for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication

  • The default port configuration may not use all of the available FC HBA cards. For example, the FC HBA card in slot 4 on 5230 E configuration is not used.

  • When you assign initiator ports for the appliance as a source host, you can use any HBA port as initiators except those ports that default to FTMS target ports (Port 1 on the FTMS-reserved FC HBA cards). This is because the appliance only turn those HBA ports from the standard initiator mode to the target mode when the feature is working.

  • If you have changed the port configuration, the customized port configuration takes effect. However, you can restore the default port configuration.

    Note:

    In the predefined configuration, Port 2 on each card is used as a target port. Port 1 stays in the standard initiator mode, but is not used until you enable Fibre Transport on the appliance as a source.

See Configuring Fibre Transport media server settings.

See Configuring Fibre Transport on a target appliance for optimized duplication and replication.

See Default port mode configuration for FTMS, optimized duplication, and Auto Image Replication.