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 paths for NetBackup appliances
Table: Appliance Fibre Transport targets shows the backup, restore, and duplication paths for NetBackup Fibre Transport (FT) for NetBackup appliances. It also shows the FT settings from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console that enable a functionality.
FT requires the following appliance software versions:
NetBackup 52xx and 53xx appliances must use software version 2.7.3 and later on both the source host and the target host to duplicate data.
Table: Appliance Fibre Transport targets
Function | From | To |
|---|---|---|
Backups | NetBackup SAN client. | NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance. The appliance is the backup server and the storage host. |
Restores | NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance. The appliance is the restore server and the storage host. | NetBackup SAN client. |
Duplication | NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance. | NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance. |
Figure: Appliance duplication paths between 52xx or 53xx appliances shows the duplication paths from a 52xx or 53xx appliance to another NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance.
The following items describe the Fibre Transport path for duplication:
Duplication from the 52xx or 53xx appliance over FT to the other 52xx or 53xx appliance.
The duplication source and destination must both be MSDP. The operation is optimized duplication and only the unique deduplicated segments are transferred.
The following describes the resiliency available for FT jobs:
Multiple FT paths can exist between hosts.
Back up, restore, and duplication jobs failover to other FT paths if they exist. If no other FT paths are available, jobs fail.
Optimized duplication jobs failover to other FT paths if they exist. If no other FT paths are available, they failover to the Ethernet network. If no FT connection or IP connection exists, optimized duplication jobs fail.
If no FT connections exist, NetBackup uses an IP connection for new jobs.
Figure: SAN client backup and restore paths shows the possible backup and restore paths for a NetBackup SAN client.
The following items describe the paths in Figure: SAN client backup and restore paths:
FT between the client and the 52xx or 53xx appliance. The backups reside on disk storage on the appliance. You can use FT both for backups to deduplication storage and backups to AdvancedDisk storage.
FT between the client and a 52xx or 53xx appliance, and then FC between the appliance and the tape library. The traffic travels through two different SAN zones. The backups are not deduplicated.
Figure: LAN client backup and restore paths shows the possible backup and restore paths for a NetBackup client over a LAN.
The following items describe the paths in Figure: LAN client backup and restore paths:
Ethernet between the client and the 52xx or 53xx appliance. The backups reside on either deduplicated storage or AdvancedDisk storage on the appliance.
Ethernet between the client and the 52xx or 53xx appliance, and then FC between the appliance and the tape library. The backups are not deduplicated.