Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Fibre Channel Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.3.0.1, 3.2)
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.  
      About the NetBackup 5230 rear panel configurations
    2.  
      NetBackup 5240 Appliance I/O configuration options
    3.  
      NetBackup 5240 Appliance total I/O on-board and PCIe ports
    4.  
      NetBackup 5250 Appliance rear panel I/O configuration options
    5.  
      NetBackup 5330 Appliance compute node PCIe slot I/O configuration options
    6.  
      Available NetBackup 5340 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
    7.  
      Available NetBackup 5350 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations
  7. About the HBA port mode configuration
    1.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 5230 appliances
    2.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configuration for the NetBackup 5240 appliances
    3.  
      Supported Fibre Channel configurations for the NetBackup 5250 appliance
    4.  
      Supported Fibre Channel port configurations for the NetBackup 53xx appliances
    5.  
      About the factory default port mode configuration
    6.  
      Default port mode configuration for FTMS, optimized duplication, and Auto Image Replication
  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.  
      About Fibre Transport media server verification
    2.  
      Guidelines for changing NetBackup appliance FT target ports to receive data streams from multiple SAN Client FC initiator ports
    3. 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.  
        How to configure two NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliances in different domains for MSDP replication
  11.  
    Index

Available NetBackup 5340 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations

The rear panel of the Veritas NetBackup contains three PCIe riser card assemblies. PCIe riser card assemblies 1 and 2 each support three standard PCIe cards, while PCIe riser card assembly 3 supports two low profile PCIe cards. The slots are labeled 1 to 8. Slots 1, 2, and 3 are located in PCIe riser card assembly 2. Slots 4, 5, and 6 are located in PCIe riser card assembly 1, while slots 7 and 8 are located in PCIe riser card assembly 3.

Figure: NetBackup 5340 Appliance rear panel riser assembly locations and PCIe slot number assignments

NetBackup 5340 Appliance rear panel riser assembly locations and PCIe slot number assignments

The 5330 Appliance supports multiple PCIe-based I/O configurations. The following table shows the standard I/O configurations that are available with a 5330 Appliance.

Note:

A 5340 appliance high availability (HA) configuration must use two identical 5340 compute nodes with regard to model number and hardware configuration.

For example, you can use two 5340 compute nodes with configuration D. However, you cannot use one 5340 Appliance compute node with configuration D and one 5330 Appliance compute node with configuration B.

This requirement applies to all of the I/O configurations for each model.

Table: Available NetBackup 5340 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configurations

I/O configuration option

Slot

1 *

Slot

2

Slot

3

Slot

4 *

Slot

5

Slot

6

Slot

7

Slot

8

A †

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

Reserved

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

B ††

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE2562

8Gb FC HBA3

Reserved

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

C ††

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2562

8Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2562

8Gb FC HBA3

Reserved

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

D ††

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2562

8Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2562

8Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2562

8Gb FC HBA3

Reserved

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

E ††

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2562

8Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2562

8Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2562

8Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2562

8Gb FC HBA3

Reserved

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

F †††

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

Reserved

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

G ††††

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

Reserved

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

H ††††

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

Reserved

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

J †††

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

QLogic QLE2692

16Gb FC HBA3

Reserved

QLogic QLE8442

10GbE NIC 1, 3

(iSCSI capable)

Note:

QLE2692 16Gb HBA cards for PCIe slots other than slot 1 and slot 4 are available as add-on options after a 5340 appliance is purchased.

* The 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA ports in slots 1 and 4 are used to connect the Veritas &aModel; Appliance compute node to the Veritas 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf.

†Available with both NetBackup Appliance software release 3.1 and later, and Flex Appliance software release 1.0 and later.

†† Available only with NetBackup Appliance software release 3.1 and later.

††† Available only with NetBackup Appliance software release 3.1.1 and later.

†††† Available with both NetBackup Appliance software release 3.1.1 and later, and Flex Appliance software release 2.0 and later.

PCIe card cable connection types:

1 Direct-Attach copper cable (also called a Twinaxial cable or Twinax)

2 Standard copper

3 Fiber optic cable