Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Fibre Channel Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (4.0)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  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 5240 Appliance total I/O on-board and PCIe ports
    4.  
      NetBackup 5250 Appliance rear panel I/O configuration options
    5.  
      NetBackup 5330 Appliance compute node PCIe slot I/O configuration options
    6.  
      Available NetBackup 5340 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
    7.  
      Available NetBackup 5350 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
  7. About the HBA port mode configuration
    1.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 5230 appliances
    2.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configuration for the NetBackup 5240 appliances
    3.  
      Supported Fibre Channel configurations for the NetBackup 5250 appliance
    4.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx appliances
    5.  
      About the factory default port mode configuration
    6.  
      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.  
        Configuring Fibre Transport settings
      3.  
        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.  
        About Fibre Transport target mode verification (model 5350 only)
      5.  
        How to configure two NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliances in different domains for MSDP replication
  11.  
    Index

How to configure Fibre Transport media server for SAN Client

The information in this section pertains only to NetBackup 52xx, 5330, and 5340 appliances with software versions 4.0 or earlier.

Table: FT media server configuration process provides an overview of how to configure the Fibre Transport media server(FTMS) on the appliance.

Table: FT media server configuration process

Step

Action

Description

Step 1

Determine whether your appliance HBA configuration supports FTMS.

Identify your appliance HBA configuration.

See About the NetBackup 5230 rear panel configurations.

See NetBackup 5240 Appliance I/O configuration options.

See NetBackup 5330 Appliance compute node PCIe slot I/O configuration options.

Determine whether your appliance HBA configuration supports FTMS.

See Fibre Channel feature support with appliance HBA configurations.

Step 2

Learn about SAN Client and FTMS for NetBackup appliance.

See About NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport.

Step 3

Learn about HBA port reservation and default port mode for FTMS.

See About the factory default port mode configuration.

Step 4

Create Fibre Transport (FT) backup zones.

Select HBA ports and learn about zoning best practices.

See About zoning the SAN for NetBackup appliances.

Determine the appliance HBA WWPNs for zoning.

See How to determine appliance HBA WWPNs.

Step 5

Enable FTMS on the appliance.

To use FT for backups to the appliance, you must enable FTMS on the appliance.

See Configuring Fibre Transport media server settings.

More Information

About Fibre Transport paths for NetBackup appliances