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

About appliance dynamic multi-pathing for VMware backups with SAN transport

NetBackup appliances support dynamic multi-pathing (DMP) in a SAN environment for VMware backups. DMP enhances I/O performance by distributing requests across all available paths. DMP on the Appliance can distinguish between the active paths and passive paths and make use of the active paths.

In a failover scenario, inputs and outputs are rerouted to healthy data paths. The failed paths are restored automatically when they become healthy. DMP also reduces the complexity of managing thousands of I/O paths in case they need to be temporarily disabled for array maintenance.

Figure: NetBackup appliance components for DMP on SAN

NetBackup appliance components for DMP on SAN

For more information on whether your system supports this function, see the Hardware Compatibility List at the following link:

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100040093

See Notes on NetBackup appliance as a VMware backup host.

See the NetBackup VMware Guide for more information about VMware.