Veritas™ Appliance iSCSI Guide

iSCSI is supported on configuration H of the 5240 appliance and in all configurations of the 5340 compute node.

Configuration H of the NetBackup 5240 appliance always functions as an initiator.

See NetBackup 5240 appliance I/O configuration H.

The 5340 configurations function as initiators.

See NetBackup 5340 compute node I/O configurations.

iSCSI supports VMware backups only. It supports the NetBackup for VMware feature.

See About NetBackup for VMware.

For this release, the iSCSI functionality commands are available on the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.

iSCSI supports IPv4 addresses only. iSCSI connections over IPv6 are not supported.

In addition, the initiator and the target must be on the same Layer 2 network (L2).

iSCSI supports Dynamic Multipathing (DMP). You can connect by multiple paths to the same target. The backups or restores over iSCSI can continue as long as one path is available.

Using an iSNS server (Internet Storage Name Service) for discovering targets is supported.

See About iSNS.

A VLAN can be configured on either the network interface or the iSCSI interface. If VLAN is configured on both the network and iSCSI interface, the VLAN for the network interface is effective on both the interfaces. Note that when VLAN is configured on both the network and iSCSI interface on different subnets, the configuration is not supported.

Only a QLogic Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) module is supported in the 10Gb Ethernet/iSCSI card. You receive an alert if an unsupported SFP module is detected in the 10Gb Ethernet/iSCSI card (if alerts are configured).