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

Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 5230 appliances

Note:

Before you start configuring a particular FC feature on the appliance, make sure that it is supported with your appliance HBA configuration.

See Fibre Channel feature support with appliance HBA configurations.

NetBackup 5230 FC HBA slots and ports

The NetBackup 5230 Appliance can be preinstalled with up to five PCIe 8 Gb Fibre Channel HBA cards.

On a NetBackup 5230, slots 2 - 6 support FC.

Figure: NetBackup 5230 FC HBA slots and ports describes the supported FC HBA slot locations and the port order for the installed FC HBA cards.

Figure: NetBackup 5230 FC HBA slots and ports

NetBackup 5230 FC HBA slots and ports

See About the NetBackup 5230 rear panel configurations.

Summary of supported NetBackup 5230 FC port options

Note:

Veritas does not support reconfiguring the FC HBA cards in the appliance rear panel. Do not switch cards in different slots or install a used card from another appliance without contacting Veritas Technical Support.

Table: Summary of supported NetBackup 5230 FC options provides a summary of the supported NetBackup 5230 FC options for each port.

Table: Summary of supported NetBackup 5230 FC options

FC HBA slot

Supported options and required port configuration

Slot 2

Note:

This slot is populated with an FC HBA card on HBA configurations D and E.

Port 1

  • Tape out - initiator

  • NetBackup for VMware - initiator

Port 2

  • Optimized duplication - initiator

  • Auto Image Replication - initiator

  • Tape out - initiator

  • NetBackup for VMware - initiator

Use only one option on each port.

Slot 3

Note:

This slot is populated with an FC HBA card on 5230 HBA configuration E.

Port 1

  • Optimized duplication - initiator or target

  • Auto Image Replication - initiator or target

  • Tape out - initiator

  • NetBackup for VMware - initiator

Port 2

  • Optimized duplication - initiator or target

  • Auto Image Replication - initiator or target

  • Tape out - initiator

  • NetBackup for VMware - initiator

Use only one option on each port.

Slot 4

Note:

This slot is populated with an FC HBA card on 5230 HBA configurations B, C, D and E

Port 1

  • Optimized duplication - initiator or target

  • Auto Image Replication - initiator or target

  • Tape out - initiator

  • NetBackup for VMware - initiator

Port 2

  • Optimized duplication - initiator

  • Optimized duplication - target

  • Auto Image Replication - initiator

  • Auto Image Replication - target

  • Tape out - initiator

  • NetBackup for VMware - initiator

Use only one option on each port.

Slots 5 - 6

Note:

The slots 5 - 6 are each populated with an FC HBA card on 5230 HBA configurations D and E.

The slots 5 -6 are reserved for FTMS. If you enable SAN Client FTMS with those two configurations, Port 1 is changed to target mode for SAN Client by default.

Port 1

  • SAN Client - target

  • Tape out - initiator

  • NetBackup for VMware - initiator

Port 2

  • SAN Client - target

    Note:

    If Port 1 is in the initiator mode, Port 2 cannot be set to the target mode. Port 2 can only be configured for the target mode when the 4 target port Fibre Channel connection option is selected.

  • Optimized duplication - initiator

  • Auto Image Replication - initiator

  • Tape out - initiator

  • NetBackup for VMware - initiator

Use only one option on each port.

See About NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport.

See About Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication between appliances.

See How to determine appliance HBA WWPNs.

See About Fibre Transport paths for NetBackup appliances.

See Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx appliances.

See Supported Fibre Channel port configuration for the NetBackup 5240 appliances.