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 NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport
SAN Client is a NetBackup optional feature that provides high-speed backups and restores of NetBackup clients.
Note:
If you plan to use the SAN Client feature with your appliance and you have SLES 10 clients with QLogic FC HBA cards, a driver update is required. Before you proceed with backups of any SLES 10 clients, it is recommended that you first upgrade the QLogic driver in all SLES 10 clients to version 8.03.07.03.10.3-k or later.
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. For example, a database host can benefit from high-speed backups and restores. Fibre Transport is the name of the NetBackup high-speed data transport method that is part of the SAN Client feature.
The backup and restore traffic occurs over Fibre Channel (FC), and the NetBackup server and client administration traffic occurs over the LAN.
For a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance, Fibre Transport also provides high-speed traffic to a NetBackup 5000 series appliance that supports Fibre Transport. The 5000 series appliance functions as the storage host for SAN client backups.
Figure: A SAN Client configuration shows a SAN Client configuration.
For more information about SAN Client and Fibre Transport, see the NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide from the NetBackup Documentation set at the following link: