Veritas™ Appliance iSCSI Guide
- Overview
- Understanding the appliance configurations
- Understanding NetBackup for VMware
- Configuring iSCSI
- Configuring the appliance for iSCSI
- Setting the IQN for the initiator
- Viewing the interface properties
- Configuring the interface properties
- Removing and resetting the interface properties
- About CHAP authentication
- Discovering targets by using the portal address
- About iSNS
- Discovering targets by using iSNS
- Connecting to a target
- Disconnecting the sessions with a target
- Viewing the targets
- Troubleshooting iSCSI issues and some best practices
NetBackup 5240 appliance I/O configuration H
The rear panel of the NetBackup 5240 appliance contains three PCIe riser card assemblies. PCIe riser assemblies 1 and 2 each support three standard PCIe cards, while PCIe riser card assembly 3 supports two low profile PCIe cards. The slots are labeled 1 to 8. The following graphic shows the riser assemblies and the slot numbers.
The NetBackup 5240 appliance supports multiple PCIe-based I/O configuration options. The following table shows the configuration H option that has the iSCSI card in slot 2.
Table: NetBackup 5240 appliance configuration H
I/O configuration option | Slot 1 * | Slot 2 | Slot 3 | Slot 4 | Slot 5 | Slot 6 | Slot 7 ** | Slot 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
H | - | 10 GbE NIC 1, 2 (iSCSI) | 10 GbE NIC 1, 2 | - | 8 Gb FC HBA 2 | 8 Gb FC HBA 2 | - | - |
* Slot 1 contains a factory installed PCIe RAID 6 controller when at least one NetBackup 5240 Storage Shelf is purchased with the NetBackup 5240 appliance. Otherwise, slot 1 is not populated. ** Slot 7 contains the NetBackup 5240 Appliance's internal PCIe raid controller. This RAID controller is used to create the RAID 1 Array for the disk drives on which the appliance operating system is installed. The operating system drives are located in slots 0 and 1 of the front panel. PCIe card cable connection types: 1 Direct-Attach copper cable (also called a Twinaxial cable or Twinax) 2 Fiber optic cable | ||||||||
See the NetBackup Appliance Product Description Guide for more details.