Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Overview
- About NetBackup appliances
- About the Primary Server role
- About the media server role
- About accessing the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About appliance console components
- About the NetBackup Appliance Web Console login page
- NetBackup appliance home page
- Common tasks in NetBackup appliance
- About the NetBackup appliance documentation
- Monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About hardware monitoring and alerts
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup appliance
- Managing a NetBackup appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the Manage views
- About storage configuration
- Manage > Storage
- Manage > Storage > Shares
- About Universal Shares
- Manage > Storage > Universal Shares
- Checking partition details
- Resizing a partition
- Resize dialog
- Troubleshooting resize-related issues
- Moving a partition
- Move dialog
- Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
- Scanning storage devices from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- Adding the storage space from a newly available disk
- Removing an existing storage disk
- Monitoring the progress of storage manipulation tasks
- Scanning storage devices using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About Optimized Shares and the Optimized Share Reserve
- Creating a Share
- Editing a Share
- Deleting a Share
- Moving a Share
- Creating the Optimized Share Reserve
- Deleting the Optimized Share Reserve
- Viewing Share information from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- NFS export options
- Mounting a Universal Share
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About storage email alerts
- About appliance supported tape devices
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance
- Manage > Appliance Restore
- Manage > License
- About the Migration Utility
- Software release updates for NetBackup Appliances
- About installing EEBs
- About installing NetBackup Administration Console and client software
- Manage > Additional Servers
- Manage > Certificates
- Manage > File Manager
- Manage > High Availability
- Managing NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Expanding the bandwidth on the NetBackup appliance
- About configuring the maximum transmission unit size
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- Running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Creating a NetBackup touch file from the NetBackup appliance
- About NetBackup operating system commands
- Best practices for running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Known limitations of running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Viewing NetBackup administrator user accounts
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- About Auto Image Replication between appliances
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- About high availability configuration
- About data erasure
- Understanding the NetBackup appliance settings
- About modifying the appliance settings
- Settings > Notifications
- Settings > Network
- VLAN configuration for NetBackup Appliances
- Settings > Network > Network Settings
- Settings > Network > Fibre Transport
- Settings > Network > Host
- About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
- Settings > Date and Time
- Settings > Authentication
- About configuring user authentication
- About authorizing NetBackup appliance users
- Settings > Authentication
- Settings > Authentication > LDAP
- Adding an LDAP server configuration
- Importing an LDAP server configuration
- Setting the SSL certification
- Exporting an LDAP configuration
- Unconfiguring LDAP user authentication
- Enabling the LDAP server configuration
- Disabling the LDAP server configuration
- Deleting LDAP configuration parameters
- Adding LDAP configuration parameters
- Adding an LDAP attribute mapping
- Deleting an LDAP attribute mapping
- Settings > Authentication > Active Directory
- Settings > Authentication > Kerberos-NIS
- Settings > Authentication > User Management
- Settings > Password Management
- Troubleshooting
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
- Index
Configuring Fibre Transport settings
This topic describes how to configure an appliance media server for the following Fibre Transport (FT) options:
Configure Fibre Transport target mode (FTMS or MSDP) for NetBackup SAN client, optimized duplication, and Auto Image Replication over Fibre Channel (FC) to other NetBackup appliances.
Configure any available HBA Fibre Channel (FC) ports for Target (FTMS), Target (MSDP), or Initiator.
Fibre Transport Target Service (or FTMS) is supported for NetBackup Appliance HA setups. FTMS operates in the A/P (active/passive)mode only. Therefore, FTMS is available only on the node where MSDP is running (active node), while it is disabled on the partner node (passive node). Whenever you perform an HA switchover operation, the FTMS state changes on each node automatically as is appropriate to reverse the operation of the nodes. Perform the FTMS configuration only on the node where MSDP is running (active node). The configuration steps are the same as for a single appliance media server.
The following procedures describe how to configure FT settings from the appliance interfaces.
To configure Fibre Transport media server settings from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- Log in to the NetBackup Appliance Web Console.
- Click Settings > Network, then select Fibre Transport.
- To enable the feature, click the check box for Enable Fibre Transport target mode (FTMS or MSDP) on media server.
- To keep the current port configuration, skip this step.
To change the port modes on the appliance, do the following:
In the Port Mode column, click on the current port mode of a port.
From the drop-down menu, select Initiator, Target (FTMS), or Target (MSDP) to configure the port mode. Repeat this for every port that you want to change.
The port mode changes appear in the diagram on the right of the page.
To restore the customized port configuration to the factory default settings, click Restore FactoryDefaults.
- After you have made all changes, click Save to apply the changed settings.
- Restart all of the appliances in the FC zones where a port mode change has occurred.
To configure Fibre Transport media server settings from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Log in to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.
- To enable Fibre Transport Deduplication and NetBackup SAN Client features, run the following commands:
To administer the use of Fibre Transport features on other appliances:
Main > Settings > FibreTransport Initiator
To administer Fibre Transport features on this appliance:
Main > Settings > FibreTransport Target
- To configure the port modes, go to the Main > Manage > FibreChannel view and run the following commands:
For FTMS target:
Configure FTMStarget HBAportid
Where HBAportid is HBA card slot number 1 - 6 and HBA port number 1 - 2. For example, to set port 2 on the HBA card in slot 5 for FTMS target, enter the following: Configure Target 5:2
For Initiator:
Configure Initiator HBAportid
Where HBAportid is HBA slot number 1 - 6 and HBA port number 1 - 2. For example, to set port 1 on the HBA card in slot 5 for initiator, enter the following: Configure Initiator 5:1
For MSDP target:
Configure MSDPtarget HBAportid
Where HBAportid is HBA slot number 1 - 6 and HBA port number 1 - 2. For example, to set port 1 on the HBA card in slot 6 for MSDP target, enter the following: Configure MSDPtarget 6:1
- To verify that all changed settings are correct, run the following command:
Main > Manage > FibreChannel > Show
- Restart all of the appliances in the FC zones where a port mode change has occurred.