Chapter 1 Introducing Fibre Channel support on NetBackup
Appliance ......................................................................... 6
About Fibre Channel supported features on NetBackup Appliance
............................................................................................. 6
About NetBackup Fibre Transport ...................................................... 9
About NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport ................................ 9
About the SAN Client license key ............................................... 11
About Fibre Transport for optimized duplication and Auto Image
Replication between appliances ................................................ 11
Supported data transfer methods for NetBackup appliances .................. 12
About Fibre Channel feature support with appliance HBA
configurations .................................................................. 14
About the NetBackup 5230 rear panel configurations ..................... 18
NetBackup 5240 Appliance I/O configuration options ..................... 20
NetBackup 5330 Appliance compute node PCIe slot I/O
configuration options ......................................................... 23
Available 5340 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations ................ 24
About Fibre Transport paths for NetBackup appliances ........................ 27
Chapter 2 About the HBA port mode configuration ..................... 32
About FTMS reserved HBA ports and the factory default port mode
configuration ......................................................................... 32
Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 5220
and 5230 appliances ............................................................... 37
Supported Fibre Channel port configuration for the NetBackup 5240
appliances ............................................................................ 43
Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx
appliances ............................................................................ 47
Chapter 3 Zoning the FC SAN ........................................................... 51
How to determine appliance HBA WWPNs ........................................ 51
About zoning the SAN for NetBackup appliances ................................ 51
About HBA link status on the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu ............. 56
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