Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Fibre Channel Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (4.1)
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 for 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.  
      NetBackup 5240 Appliance I/O configuration options
    2.  
      NetBackup 5240 Appliance total I/O on-board and PCIe ports
    3.  
      NetBackup 5250 Appliance rear panel I/O configuration options
    4.  
      NetBackup 5330 Appliance compute node PCIe slot I/O configuration options
    5.  
      Available NetBackup 5340 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
    6.  
      Available NetBackup 5350 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
  7. About the HBA port mode configuration
    1.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configuration for the NetBackup 5240 appliances
    2.  
      Supported Fibre Channel configurations for the NetBackup 5250 appliance
    3.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx appliances
    4.  
      About the factory default port mode configuration
    5.  
      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.  
      Configuring Fibre Transport settings
    2.  
      About Fibre Transport media server verification
    3.  
      Guidelines for changing NetBackup appliance FT target ports to receive data streams from multiple SAN Client FC initiator ports
    4. 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.  
        About Fibre Transport target mode verification
      3.  
        How to configure two NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliances in different domains for MSDP replication
  11.  
    Index

About the factory default port mode configuration

All Fibre Channel (FC) HBA ports on the NetBackup 52xx and 53xx appliance default to the standard initiator mode. However, to use the appliance as a target for hosting backup images from SAN clients or from another appliance, you need to use the ports in target mode.

The NetBackup appliance provides a predefined target port configuration for the following features:

  • Enable Fibre Transport target mode (FTMS or MSDP) on the media server

  • Enable Fibre Transport for replication to other NetBackup Appliances

When you enable the FC features for the first time, the predefined port configuration is applied. However, if you have customized the port configuration used by a feature before you enable the feature, the customized port configuration is used instead.

About the default port configuration for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication

  • The default port configuration may not use all of the available FC HBA cards.

  • If you have changed the port configuration, the customized port configuration takes effect. However, you can restore the default port configuration.

    Note:

    In the predefined configuration, Port 2 on each card is used as a target port. Port 1 stays in the standard initiator mode, but is not used until you enable Fibre Transport on the appliance as a source.

About the factory default port mode configuration for the 5350

All Fibre Channel (FC) HBA ports on the 5350 appliance default to the standard initiator mode.

You can change the default configuration as follows:

  • NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu

    Configure any available HBA Fibre Channel (FC) ports (1-6) for Target (FTMS), Target (MSDP), or Initiator modes.

  • NetBackup Appliance Web Console

    Configure Fibre Transport target (FTMS) for NetBackup SANClient, Fibre Transport target (MSDP) for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over Fibre Channel (FC), or Fibre Transport initiator for duplication or replication to other NetBackup appliances.

    See Configuring Fibre Transport settings.

See Default port mode configuration for FTMS, optimized duplication, and Auto Image Replication.