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
- Zoning the FC SAN
- About the Fibre Transport page on the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- Configuring Fibre Transport on the appliance
About the factory default port mode configuration
All Fibre Channel (FC) HBA ports on the NetBackup 52xx and 53xx appliance default to the standard initiator mode. However, to use the appliance as a target for hosting backup images from SAN clients or from another appliance, you need to use the ports in target mode.
The NetBackup appliance provides a predefined target port configuration for the following features:
When you enable the FC features for the first time, the predefined port configuration is applied. However, if you have customized the port configuration used by a feature before you enable the feature, the customized port configuration is used instead.
The default port configuration may not use all of the available FC HBA cards.
If you have changed the port configuration, the customized port configuration takes effect. However, you can restore the default port configuration.
Note:
In the predefined configuration, Port 2 on each card is used as a target port. Port 1 stays in the standard initiator mode, but is not used until you enable Fibre Transport on the appliance as a source.
See Default port mode configuration for FTMS, optimized duplication, and Auto Image Replication.