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 supported Fibre Channel features on NetBackup appliances
The appliances are rack-mount servers that run on the Linux operating system. NetBackup Enterprise Server software is already installed and configured to work with the operating system, the disk storage units, and the robotic tape device.
To use the NetBackup Enterprise Server software on the NetBackup appliance with the supported Fibre Channel (FC) features, you must configure the appliance FC settings first.
The NetBackup 52xx and 53xx appliances support the use of FC with some or all of the following features depending on hardware configuration:
SAN Client
Optimized duplication
Auto Image Replication
NetBackup for VMware
Tape out
Note:
NetBackup appliance supports the use of the DD Boost plug-in and its capabilities.
This feature provides high-speed backups and restores of NetBackup clients. A SAN client is a special NetBackup client that can back up large amounts of data rapidly over a SAN connection rather than a LAN. The backup and restore traffic occurs over FC, and the NetBackup server and client administration traffic occurs over the LAN.
You must enable the Fibre Transport media server (FTMS) feature on the NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance to use it for backing up SAN clients.
Note:
Optimized duplication over FC is only supported with NetBackup appliance products, and not supported with non-appliance NetBackup servers.
Optimized duplication copies the deduplicated backup images between appliances within the same domain.
For optimized duplication over FC, the duplication source must be a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance. The duplication destination can be a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance.
The source and the destination must use the same NetBackup primary server. The optimized duplication operation is more efficient than normal duplication because only the unique, deduplicated data segments are transferred. Optimized duplication reduces the amount of data transmission over your network and is a good method to copy your backup images off-site for disaster recovery.
You must configure appliances at both the source and the destination for optimized duplication over FC.
See How to configure Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FC.
Note:
In the Activity Monitor from the NetBackup Administration Console, the Transport Type field in the Detailed Status tab always reports LAN for duplication jobs over FC. To see the correct transport type, refer to the details in the Status box.
Note:
Auto Image Replication over FC is only supported with NetBackup appliance products, and not supported with non-appliance NetBackup servers.
The backups that are generated in one NetBackup domain can be replicated to storage in one or more target NetBackup domains. This process is referred to as Auto Image Replication.
You must configure appliances at both the source and the destination for Auto Image Replication over FC.
You can use a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance as the replication destination.
See How to configure Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FC.
For information about Auto Image Replication, see the NetBackup Deduplication Guide.
Note:
In the Activity Monitor from the NetBackup Administration Console, the Transport Type field in the Detailed Status tab always reports LAN for duplication jobs over FC. To see the correct transport type, refer to the details in the Status box.
This feature provides backup and restore of the VMware virtual machines that run on VMware ESX servers. NetBackup for VMware takes advantage of VMware vStorage APIs for data protection. The backup process is off-loaded from the ESX server to a VMware backup host.
For information about how to configure a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx as a VMware backup host, refer to the following topics:
See About NetBackup appliance as a VMware backup host.
See Notes on NetBackup appliance as a VMware backup host.
For complete details about NetBackup for VMware and how to configure VMware policies, see the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.
NetBackup appliance supports backups to tape so that you can connect one or more tape libraries to them with FC. An FC host bus adapter (HBA) provides for connection to a TLD tape storage device.
For information about how to configure a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx for backups to tape, refer to the following topic:
See About backup to tape support for NetBackup appliances.
See Fibre Channel feature support for appliance HBA configurations.