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

Fibre Channel feature support for appliance HBA configurations

Fibre Channel (FC) feature support depends on the particular HBA configuration of each appliance. This section describes what FC features are supported with different appliance HBA configurations.

Table: NetBackup 5240 Appliance FC support

Configuration

Supported FC features

A, J

Not supported

B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, V, W, X

  • SAN Client FTMS (Target)

  • Optimized Duplication (Initiator or Target)

  • Auto Image Replication (Initiator or Target)

  • Tape out (Initiator)

  • NetBackup for VMware (Initiator)

Table: NetBackup 5250 Appliance FC support

Configuration

Supported FC features

A

Not supported.

B, C, D, E, F

  • SAN Client FTMS (Target)

  • Optimized Duplication (Initiator or Target)

  • Auto Image Replication (Initiator or Target)

  • Tape out (Initiator)

  • NetBackup for VMware (Initiator)

Table: NetBackup 5330 Appliance FC support

Configuration

Supported FC features

A

Not supported

B, C, D, E

Note:

These configurations do not support FC for ports on HBA cards in slots 1 and 4.

  • SAN Client FTMS (Target)

  • Optimized Duplication (Initiator or Target)

  • Auto Image Replication (Initiator or Target)

  • Tape out (Initiator)

  • NetBackup for VMware (Initiator)

Table: NetBackup 5340 Appliance FC support

Configuration

Supported FC features

A

Not supported

B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J

Note:

These configurations do not support FC for ports on HBA cards in slots 1 and 4.

  • SAN Client FTMS (Target)

  • Optimized Duplication (Initiator or Target)

  • Auto Image Replication (Initiator or Target)

  • Tape out (Initiator)

  • NetBackup for VMware (Initiator)

Table: NetBackup 5350 Appliance FC support

Configuration

Supported FC features

A, B, C

  • SAN Client FTMS (Target)

  • Optimized Duplication (Initiator or Target)

  • Auto Image Replication (Initiator or Target)

  • Tape out (Initiator)

  • NetBackup for VMware (Initiator)

If you do not know what HBA configuration you have on the appliance model, refer to the following topics for the appliance rear panel configuration:

See NetBackup 5240 Appliance I/O configuration options.

See NetBackup 5250 Appliance rear panel I/O configuration options.

See NetBackup 5330 Appliance compute node PCIe slot I/O configuration options.

See Available NetBackup 5340 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations.

See Available NetBackup 5350 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations.