Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Fibre Channel Guide
- About NetBackup Fibre Transport and SAN Client
- About optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FC
- About backup to tape support
- VMware support
- Supported Fibre Channel features on NetBackup appliances
- NetBackup Appliance rear panel configurations
- NetBackup 5240 Appliance I/O configuration options
- NetBackup 5240 Appliance total I/O on-board and PCIe ports
- NetBackup 5250 Appliance rear panel I/O configuration options
- NetBackup 5330 Appliance compute node PCIe slot I/O configuration options
- Available NetBackup 5340 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
- Available NetBackup 5350 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
- About the HBA port mode configuration
- Supported Fibre Channel port configuration for the NetBackup 5240 appliances
- Supported Fibre Channel configurations for the NetBackup 5250 appliance
- Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx appliances
- About the factory default port mode configuration
- Default port mode configuration for FTMS, optimized duplication, and Auto Image Replication
- Zoning the FC SAN
- About the Fibre Transport page on the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- Configuring Fibre Transport on the appliance
- Configuring Fibre Transport settings
- About Fibre Transport media server verification
- Guidelines for changing NetBackup appliance FT target ports to receive data streams from multiple SAN Client FC initiator ports
- How to configure Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FC
- Index
Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx appliances
Note:
Before you start configuring a particular FC feature on the appliance, make sure that it is supported with your appliance HBA configuration.
See Fibre Channel feature support for appliance HBA configurations.
NetBackup 53xx appliances contain six populated PCIe card slots. Each slot contains either a Fibre Channel (FC) HBA card or an Ethernet card.
Figure: NetBackup 5330 PCIe slot locations and FC HBA port order shows the PCIe slot locations and the port order for the installed FC HBA cards.
Note:
NetBackup 5340 appliance has the same FC HBA configuration and HBA port order as a NetBackup 5330 appliance.
Note:
Veritas does not support reconfiguring the FC HBA cards in the appliance rear panel. Do not switch cards in different slots or install a used card from another appliance without contacting Veritas Technical Support.
Table: Supported NetBackup 5330 and 5340 PCIe card slot configurations and FC options (software versions 4.0 and earlier) describes the supported card type for each slot and the supported FC options.
Table: Supported NetBackup 5330 and 5340 PCIe card slot configurations and FC options (software versions 4.0 and earlier)
Card slot | Supported FC options |
|---|---|
Slot 1 | Reserved exclusively for attachment to external storage (Primary Storage Shelf). |
Slot 2 | Note: This slot is populated with an FC card on 5330 HBA configurations D and E. This slot is populated with an FC card on 5340 HBA configurations D, E, H, and J. Ports 1, 2
Use only one option on each port. |
Slot 3 | Note: This slot is populated with an FC card on 5330 HBA configuration E. This slot is populated with an FC card on 5340 HBA configuration E, and J. Ports 1, 2
Use only one option on each port. |
Slot 4 | Reserved exclusively for attachment to external storage (Primary Storage Shelf). |
Slot 5 | Note: This slot is populated with an FC card on 5330 HBA configurations C, D and E. This slot is populated with an FC card on 5340 HBA configurations C, D, E, G, H, and J. Ports 1, 2
Use only one option on each port. |
Slot 6 | Note: This slot is populated with an FC card on 5330 HBA configurations B, C, D and E. This slot is populated with an FC card on 5340 HBA configurations B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and J. On 5330 HBA configurations C, D, and E, this slot is reserved for FTMS. If you enable SAN Client FTMS with those three configurations, Port 1 is changed to target mode for SAN Client by default. On 5340 HBA configurations C, D, E, G, H, and J, this slot is reserved for FTMS. If you enable SAN Client FTMS with those configurations, Port 1 is changed to target mode for SAN Client by default. Ports 1, 2
Use only one option on each port. |
Table: Supported NetBackup 5350 PCIe card slot configurations and FC options
Slot | Supported FC options |
|---|---|
Slots 4, 5, and 6 as follows: 5350 A configuration: slot 6 5350 B configuration: slots 5, 6 5350 C configuration: slots 4, 5, 6 | Ports 1, 2
Use only one option on each port. |
See About NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport.
See About Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication between appliances.
See How to determine appliance HBA WWPNs.
See About Fibre Transport paths for NetBackup appliances.
See Supported Fibre Channel port configuration for the NetBackup 5240 appliances.