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
- 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/MSDP
- 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
About Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication between appliances
For a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance, Fibre Transport (FT) provides high-speed traffic to another NetBackup appliance that supports FT. The traffic can be for optimized duplication or Auto Image Replication.
For optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FT, the source and target appliance must be a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance.
Note:
On the NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliances, the support for optimized duplication or Auto Image Replication over FT depends on the HBA configuration of each appliance.
See Fibre Channel feature support for appliance HBA configurations.
To use FT for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication, you must complete different FT settings on the source and the target appliances.
On the source appliance, you must enable FT for optimized duplication and replication to other appliances.
On the target appliance, you must enable FT for use as the target for optimized duplication and replication. You can customize the port configuration on the source and the target appliance. Note that the target mode and ports are different than those for SAN Client Fibre Transport media server (FTMS).
Note:
When you perform duplication or replication jobs from the NetBackup Administration Console, you can monitor the jobs by using the Activity Monitor. But in the Detailed Status tab, the Transport Type field always reports LAN for jobs over FC. To see the correct transport type, refer to the details in the Status box.