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

Settings > Network > Fibre Transport

The Fibre Transport (FT) options let you set up the appliance for FT use with SAN Clients or for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication. By default, the FT options are disabled and the configuration of one option does not affect the other one.

The following describes the FT options:

Table: FT option descriptions

FT option

Description

Enable Fibre Transport target mode (FTMS and MSDP) on the media server

This option lets you enable Fibre Transport target mode as follows:

  • FTMS Target

    You must configure at least one SAN Client target port before you can enable FTMS Target mode.

  • MSDP Target

See Configuring Fibre Transport settings.

Enable Fibre Transport for replication to other NetBackup Appliances

This option lets you enable Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication to other NetBackup appliances that are used as target hosts.

By default, this option is disabled and the appliance cannot communicate with a target appliance over FC.

Note:

To use this option, you must enable FC communication on the associated target NetBackup appliance.

If you plan to use a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance as the target, see the following for configuration.

See Configuring Fibre Transport to other NetBackup appliances.

For more information about SAN Client and Fibre Transport support on NetBackup appliance, see the NetBackup Appliance Fibre Channel Guide.

More Information

How to configure Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication over FC

Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx appliances

Supported Fibre Channel port configuration for the NetBackup 5240 appliances

Supported Fibre Channel configurations for the NetBackup 5250 appliance