Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Fibre Channel Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (5.3)
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 5250 Appliance rear panel I/O configuration options
    3.  
      Available NetBackup 5340 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
    4.  
      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/MSDP
  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

Configuring Fibre Transport settings

This topic describes how to configure an appliance media server for the following Fibre Transport (FT) options:

  • Configure Fibre Transport target mode (FTMS and MSDP) for NetBackup SAN client, optimized duplication, and Auto Image Replication over Fibre Channel (FC) to other NetBackup appliances.

  • Configure any available HBA Fibre Channel (FC) ports for Target or Initiator

About Fibre Transport support for high availability (HA) setups

Fibre Transport Target Service (or FTMS) is supported for NetBackup Appliance HA setups. FTMS operates in the A/P (active/passive)mode only. Therefore, FTMS is available only on the node where MSDP is running (active node), while it is disabled on the partner node (passive node). Whenever you perform an HA switchover operation, the FTMS state changes on each node automatically as is appropriate to reverse the operation of the nodes. Perform the FTMS configuration only on the node where MSDP is running (active node). The configuration steps are the same as for a single appliance media server.

The following procedures describe how to configure FT settings from the appliance interfaces.

To configure Fibre Transport media server settings from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console

  1. Log in to the NetBackup Appliance Web Console.
  2. Click Settings > Network, then select Fibre Transport.
  3. To enable the feature, click the check box for Enable Fibre Transport target mode (FTMS and MSDP) on media server
  4. To keep the current port configuration, skip this step.

    To change the port modes on the appliance, do the following:

    • In the Port Mode column, click on the current port mode of a port.

    • From the drop-down menu, select Initiator or Target to configure the port mode. Repeat this for every port that you want to change.

    • To restore the customized port configuration to the factory default settings, click Restore FactoryDefaults.

  5. After you have made all changes, click Save to apply the changed settings.

To configure Fibre Transport media server settings from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu

  1. Log in to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.
  2. To enable Fibre Transport Deduplication and NetBackup SAN Client features, run the following commands:

    • To administer the use of Fibre Transport features on other appliances:

      Main > Settings > FibreTransport Initiator

    • To administer Fibre Transport features on this appliance:

      Main > Settings > FibreTransport Target

  3. To configure the port modes, go to the Main > Manage > FibreChannel view and run the following commands:

    • For FTMS and MSDP target:

      Configure Target HBAportid

      Where HBAportid is HBA card slot number 1 - 8 and HBA port number 1 - 2. For example, to set port 2 on the HBA card in slot 5 for Target, enter the following: Configure Target 5:2

    • For Initiator:

      Configure Initiator HBAportid

      Where HBAportid is HBA slot number 1 - 8 and HBA port number 1 - 2. For example, to set port 1 on the HBA card in slot 5 for initiator, enter the following: Configure Initiator 5:1

  4. To verify that all changed settings are correct, run the following command:

    Main > Manage > FibreChannel > Show